Bakkot

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by Bakkot 12y ago
Re: reading level: do give the Simple English Wikipedia a try!
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by Bakkot 12y ago
Not really. A lot of people at Google are on Macs. I think it's more that the Chrome team doesn't prioritize Java support, which I think shows their priorities are pretty much in order.
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by Bakkot 12y ago
Nah, there's several other active, established markets already - SR2 wasn't even one of the top three.
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by Bakkot 12y ago
The thing is, in the absence of collective action people choose to defect in prisoner's dilemmas. Giving people the option results in everyone defecting. Having it be preset results in everyone cooperating. Everyone cooperating is a be
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by Bakkot 12y ago
Yeah, sure, but now suppose that you're going to decide the rule that everyone's car will follow. Are you still going to choose what amounts to defecting in the prisoner's dilemma? Put it another way: this is one of those v
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by Bakkot 12y ago
I've never understood this logic, especially since you're deciding on the rule for all cars , not just your car. Shouldn't you prefer that the rule be to minimize the number of people harmed, since this is the option which (
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by Bakkot 12y ago
> Who in their right mind would get inside a car that is programmed to commit suicide in certain "ethical" circumstances? Maybe you'll find this version more interesting: suppose the car has the opportunity to save a dozen
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by Bakkot 12y ago
I don't know. This is admittedly not something I know much about, but from poking around a bit, it looks like the Gather-Apply-Scatter model - or any other vertex-centric model - is not well suited to finding cycles of specific length.
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by Bakkot 12y ago
> Also, according to your response a domestic money transfer would suffer the same problems but these seem to work just fine (at least much better than international transfers). Certainly they work better, but "just fine" is a
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by Bakkot 12y ago
Regulations are only possible because the technology to "transfer dollars electronically", as you say, requires lots of infrastructure and trust - the entire banking system, basically. If I want to send you a dollar electronically
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by Bakkot 12y ago
The answer to basically all of your questions is that to transfer money, you need to move money . This can be basically a promise of money, as with wire transfers, or physical, as you'd do by transporting bullion or cash. The problem
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by Bakkot 12y ago
... Well that's an ancient typo. Corrected, thanks.
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by Bakkot 12y ago
I did basically this in my first year of college! See [1]. (Note: code was never intended to be visible to the public, and this is old and bad. But hey, it works!) http://kevingibbons.org/doublependulum.html
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by Bakkot 12y ago
Well, I'm not going to have a compact answer for you, but to do so you need to develop some kind of self-reference. (Like Godel!) If you like thinking about this sort of thing, Raymond Smullyan has a lot of great writing - I'd rec
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by Bakkot 12y ago
One which doesn't exploit quantum-mechanical principles of computation.
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Did you miss the bit in the OP where one of the coins has heads on both sides? The coin may or may not be biased, and the results of flipping it give you information about whether or not it is biased. Explaining the bit you quoted: if you h
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by Bakkot 13y ago
The coin is the coin, but your information about the coin has changed. Probability is a fact about you, not a fact about the coin. Here is perhaps a more visceral example: On any given day, your car has a 10% chance of having blown a wheel
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Hm. Seems like it would make more sense for 'buyers' to submit btc along with the problem, which the market could then hold in escrow and release as soon as a proof passing the verifier was submitted. No need to trust anyone but t
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Wallbase is dying: see [1]. 4walled.cc is a similar if much less polished service. Also see WallHaven.cc, which some of Wallbase's staff is working to make Wallbase's new home. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/YouS
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Split second as in actually significantly under a second? I've never been able to get mine to take a picture without lighting up for very nearly a full second.
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by Bakkot 13y ago
I'm still required to unlock my keychain to view the passwords (on OS X).
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by Bakkot 13y ago
No mention of machine proof? Surely those raise the upper bound on our confidence in a new result significantly.
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Actually, that would have been way better. If they had done the study you suggest, and the result had still been significant, then he would have been entirely justified in reporting what he did. The issue is that dividing the participants a
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Imagine if we grew up in a world like the one you posit, where humanity advances only slowly because it's held back by the ideals held by people 400 years old. You propose that the best solution to this is kill everyone over 80. That w
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by Bakkot 13y ago
It's a reference to [1], not a description. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Co...
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by Bakkot 13y ago
This may have been what you're thinking of. Sadly I lack a source; it's just been kicking around my miscellaneous images folder. http://i.imgur.com/tBgQkxi.jpg
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Yeah, I'm a bit confused. To me the big news doesn't seem to be that some mathematicians wrote a book using Github. The is that there is now an expansive, informal/readable, and machine verified writeup of homotopy type the
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by Bakkot 13y ago
The first batch is still scheduled to ship fall 2013, I believe. The second batch is the one shipping 2014. Per https://twitter.com/thalmic/status/339752687694405632
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by Bakkot 13y ago
> If your money doesn't buy you happiness, you are spending it wrong. One of my all-time favorite papers: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right" http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&#
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by Bakkot 13y ago
Why not use the potentially exponential algorithm initially and timeout and fall back to the linear case if the sometimes-quick one has taken longer than the linear one would have? At most a 2x slowdown for complex cases, and substantial sp

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