NotOscarWilde

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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
That's a bit too simplistic -- if there is a small group that really pushes things forward in a big way, then maybe not, but if this result builds upon decades of prior work, then Cook and Levin might be equally or even slightly more f
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
> If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code I think about this on the regular -- I know the answer is currently "you own the code, so you h
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
> Learning to do more with less money isn’t as bad as many people think. We are wading into philosophy here, but I believe this analogy doesn't track in this case -- my suspicion from this blog post and others is that already today,
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
I will leave the contact up for a bit longer if people want to get in touch and share their experience with the research gap of the models -- or anything, really -- but I do not think there is any need of further support. Like I said elsew
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
You're absolutely right (pun intended). An aside: It was a very nice gesture and completely unexpected by me, so even if it doesn't work out, it made my day. I personally believe that kind gestures have a lot of power. Back on top
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
Can you tell me what is the budget necessary to supply AI tools capable of substantial research assistance to all academic staff at a university? You seem to have a good estimate in your head; I definitely do not. From personal experience,
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
This requires a major "dox" of myself, but I am really grateful for the offer, so these are my academic contacts: https://pastebin.com/hNYrCjhL I probably will erase the contents in a few days. Even if you just dr
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
There is a significant gap between what academics are paid across European countries, and since most top universities here are public institutions, you are right -- Eastern European government employees tend to be on the poorer side. There
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by NotOscarWilde 4mo ago
As a TCS assistant professor from Eastern Europe, I always am a little jealous of the biggest names in math having such an easy access to the expensive, long thinking models. Paying for Pro from any of my current academic budgets is complet
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by NotOscarWilde 9mo ago
> Is the lock structuring here really deadlock safe? The model will tell you with complete confidence its code is perfect Fully agree, in fact, this has literally happened to me a week ago -- ChatGPT was confidently incorrect about its s
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by NotOscarWilde 1y ago
Hello, TCS assistant professor here: he is legitimately respected among his peers. Of course, because I am a selfish person, I'd say I appreciate most his work on convex body chasing (see "Competitively chasing convex bodies"
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by NotOscarWilde 1y ago
> Realistically there's no reason government can't use open source software and open formats especially. > Last time I had to fill out a government form in Canada (...) Without any evidence, let me argue why maybe it shouldn
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by NotOscarWilde 1y ago
> I've worked in academia - and yes, that has been in multiple countries in the EU - I've never had to utter a single word in something other than English in the workplace. I have the same trajectory as you -- multiple countrie
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
It reminds me of the fact that the "Fake Mr Beast giveaway" ads that even raised some attention here on Hacker News [1] a while ago are still around. In fact, I have seen one yesterday. Those must have been flagged as impersonatio
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
The author writes about himself: > Hi! I'm a PhD student studying computer science at Rice University. This means that we are on the same career path (I am currently an assistant professor in theoretical CS in Europe). I wish you of
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
> Isn't the problem de facto solved by matchmaking? The player that aims better will quickly win more and be elevated to the level of opponents on par with them. Matchmaking decreases the odds you meet a cheater for low rank players
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
> Too often, grad school applicants are just kids that have overachieved in academic settings and think to themselves “I’ve been good at school my whole life, why not just do school forever? Anecdotally, I did not observe this during my
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
Quickly skimming it, I found no evidence of what the future actually held, from Wikipedia [1]: > In 1981, Pizza Time Theatre went public; they lost $15 million in 1983. By early 1984, Bushnell's debts were insurmountable, resulting
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
> FYI its oral exams, not oral presentations. I was not very clear about it, but I was discussing regular semester work, as opposed to final/midterm exams. Think courses that are strongly grounded in theory but need the students to
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
Speaking as an (assistant) professor in theoretical CS, I see there are many bad approaches in the original post and mentioned in this discussion, but I strongly disagree with: > There are very simple and effective ways to teach your cla
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by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
I do not know the OP and I cannot prove or disprove any claims they make about their life, but I can indirectly attest to the following: I was competing around 2008-2010 at the regional level of the ICPC in Central Europe and indeed, our te
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
> That's not an NP type problem The comment I was referring to was talking about "decision problems and general problems" and there always being a reduction between them. Now "general problems" is a bit vague, bu
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
> Of course this ends up not mattering in practice since we can convert a problem with arbitrary (bitstring) output into a decision problem. Not always. My favorite counter-example is coloring k-colorable graphs. Consider that for some r
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
> If you need to lookup stuff in your waste of material you won‘t be able to finish everything. The time constraint was very hard. Did you enjoy this exam? I am asking as I had a very similar experience in my undergrad: Our university al
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
> > and in the end only few of them attain their goal of becoming a professor > Is that the goal? I have seen only a small slice of all the theoretical computer science PhD students in my parts of the world (Central and Western Eur
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
Clearly a click-baity premise. If you allow me an equally click-baity metaphor, the author suggests to abolish the road system because there are too many traffic jams. My suggested solution is consistent across the metaphors: Keep the roads
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
> > And convincing people to sign up for a subscription when that is objectively terrible for the consumer is marketing. > I see. So my Netflix subscription is terrible for me? The parent's sentence is a "X when Y is ma
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
Indeed there is no longer a possibility to edit or delete for me. I was careful not to include names or places, and all this information is easily searchable starting from the author's username on HN or the website name. So while I mai
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
People in this thread should take into consideration that the author submitted the post to Hacker News themselves. This is a call for the general hacker public to read it, and ultimately it cannot be undone easily. I do understand the basic
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by NotOscarWilde 4y ago
When I started being into mechanical keyboards (19 years old, late 2000s), I learned about the "classics" first -- IBM Model M, Cherry G80 3000 -- and "hacker" successors later ("Das Keyboard" is a good example

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