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by vitus 2y ago
I disagree with that argument for many reasons. > Let's start with the fact that there was no other known suspect. That's not for a jury to decide. There was no other suspect presented. > Yet there was no sign of a forced br
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by vitus 2y ago
From the paper [0]: > We state the following well-known concentration bound, Chernoff bound, for completeness. Which variant of the Chernoff bound is this? This is almost the (looser variant of the) multiplicative form, but it's not
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by vitus 2y ago
One of the key phrases I said was "(if you have to make one at all)" -- wavefunction collapse is inherently messy, since the notion of measurement is not well-defined or understood. I would argue that "don't care" i
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by vitus 2y ago
Einstein wasn't arguing just against the Copenhagen interpretation, he was arguing against the very notion of physical nondeterminism. In fact, his arguments against nonlocality were later disproven experimentally in the '80s, as
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by vitus 2y ago
> "plátano" is only commonly used in Spain The wiktionary page for "plátano" has a map illustrating how various Spanish-speaking countries refer to the banana. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pl%C3
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by vitus 2y ago
Or more recently, the run on SVB last year where everyone started panicking that the bank was no longer able to hold its deposits, just because it announced that it had taken action to generate something like $40 billion in liquidity. And t
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by vitus 2y ago
> since Google doesn't operate in China, they don't really have to respect Chinese laws. Google search may not operate in China, but that doesn't mean that we have no business or service presence in China. For instance,
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by vitus 2y ago
My experience is that more knowledge can help an algorithmic decision process make a better decision, but it can also take longer to make that decision when you're dealing with combinatorial explosion. When you inject delay into a feed
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by vitus 2y ago
There's definitely some aspect of hyperbole, just from the wording there: "the biggest problem is [...], but wait, there's an even bigger problem [than the biggest one]!" Comparatives overriding superlatives aside, I don
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by vitus 2y ago
An interesting exercise I went through while reading this article was taking these observations about centrally-managed top-down organizations and considering them in the context of centrally-controlled distributed systems. A couple of snip
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by vitus 2y ago
> If your market cap exceeds the median GDP of all African countries What does this mean? In terms of GDP, the median African country is Benin, with a GDP of about $20 billion. Maybe you want mean instead. The average GDP across the 51 c
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by vitus 2y ago
> GCP is separate from Google. While they're both Alphabet subsidiaries, the pot of money used by GCP is separate from the pot of money used by the Pixel team (within Google). > Kurien doesn't report to Pichai and vice versa
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by vitus 2y ago
Apple also buys Google Cloud products for iCloud even though there are alternatives that don't have rival mobile platforms. If Google used market research from Cloud customer usage patterns to bolster its Android products, then I would
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by vitus 3y ago
That's a good point, but I'm not sure it's quite as drastic as you think. There are about 400 million current and last-gen consoles that have been sold, all-time. I'd wager most of them spend 95% or more of their time un
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by vitus 3y ago
> If you balance your load balancers with ECMP, I don't know if you can get two client streams to the same mptcp terminating place. At Google, we do something similar with QUIC and connection migration. Our mechanism for ensuring th
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by vitus 3y ago
> Abraham broadly estimates the gaming industry produced between 3 million and 15 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2020 to create video games. That includes energy bought from local grids and used to keep the lights on and computers pow
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by vitus 3y ago
I was under the impression that the Shortest Vector Problem was NP hard (at least, in some cases). If this works even in those scenarios, that's an even bolder claim by far.
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by vitus 3y ago
Which doc and which link are you referring to? This isn't anywhere in the class action discovery documents as far as I can tell. TC reported back in 2019 on Facebook using various third-party testing services to distribute their first-
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by vitus 3y ago
> The C++ compiler today is so insanely wasteful - edit one header file and the compiler re-parses all the header files N^2 times. It should be possible to make a compiler thats way faster than any C++ compiler today. Well, yeah, that&#x
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by vitus 3y ago
> They hired Snapchat users (via a testing services provider ) to let meta observe their usage of Snapchat. > Something akin to paying someone to let a meta researcher sit by your side and observe while you use the app. Onavo Extend a
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by vitus 3y ago
I don't necessarily think that this is coming any time soon, but factoring a 5-bit integer is fundamentally different from factoring a 200-bit integer, which is why I said we probably need a breakthrough in quantum error correction or
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by vitus 3y ago
How is this not literally the same kind of monopolistic behavior (abusing dominance in one platform to gain an advantage in another) that Microsoft has gotten in trouble over in the past? Between injecting "hey edge is a perfectly good
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by vitus 3y ago
Not with quantum computers, which is the entire argument for moving to post-quantum crypto. If we can manage to solve the scaling problem and can have, say, 2000 qubits of useful computation to break ES256, then we "only" need to
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by vitus 3y ago
I recall seeing IIII in my Cicero class and expressing confusion, but being informed by the professor that said style was more common historically. The Wikipedia citation for 9 is Commentarii de bello Gallico (Julius Caesar's Commentar
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by vitus 3y ago
It was a minor point re: this claim: > Values 0-255 take up one byte, 256-65535 take two bytes If you wanted to encode more than 256 values, then at best you'd be able to specify values 0-254 taking one byte, e.g. if you used 0xff a
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by vitus 3y ago
You're missing an important detail of Huffman codes: they need to be prefix-free so you can actually tell when one value ends and another begins. A simplified example: suppose you have four letters in your alphabet that you want to rep
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by vitus 3y ago
Longstanding underfunding of the IRS, if I had to guess? It's much more expensive and time-consuming to go after wealthy tax cheats than, say, people incorrectly claiming the earned income tax credit. The ProPublica article states that
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by vitus 3y ago
He bought 1.7 million founders' shares of Paypal (then Confinity, which he cofounded and was CEO of at the time) for under $2000. These are terms you would never offer to an investor, that you'd never offer to an employee. For com
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by vitus 3y ago
You have a very narrow definition of a suburb. Indeed, some suburbs have a lot of nature. I've encountered suburbs where individual houses are in the middle of the woods, off the main road, and yet not 10 miles away are developments wh
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by vitus 3y ago
Which is why I mentioned frequency of access. For backup purposes, archival storage might be good enough, but if you're looking for an alternative for frequently accessed content (along the vein of whatever Google Photos replacement) t

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