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by _flag 6d ago
With your understanding of mathematical "slop", do you believe that Deligne and Scholze, two signatories, produced or produce mathematical slop?
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by _flag 3mo ago
Indeed. But I chose the problem in response to your comment: > But we give no indication that the questions are hard because of computational tasks and we give many indications that the problems are of theorecical nature and hard for the
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by _flag 3mo ago
I solve 034. By [1, Theorem 4.1], the Neron-Severi rank of the perfectoid cover is the same as the Neron-Severi rank of the reduction. For a product E x E' of elliptic curves, it is well known that NS(E x E') = NS(E) + NS(E')
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by _flag 3mo ago
> 1. Why do you compare it to multiplying two 1000 digit numbers and not to factorizing a 4096-bit numbers into its 2 prime factors, when not knowing any details? The objection is to phrasing "much harder". One should distingui
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by _flag 3mo ago
I don't like that you've called these problems "research-level", or your description that they are something you might give to a second-year PhD student. Some examples: - Question 093 is a word problem of the kind that I
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by _flag 12y ago
> Is computer assisted chess a thing? It was called Advanced Chess [1], now it's sometimes referred to as Centaur Chess. You can find online servers to play this kind of thing but it's mostly just a sort of curiosity. Computer-
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by _flag 12y ago
You can watch Magnus Carlsen play a chess program on his phone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNvVWeHZG00 As you can tell from his commentary, he thinks the machine is rather stupid (and he is winning after the openi
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by _flag 12y ago
It's actually not that common. Players will use chess engines to analyze positions, but they will rarely play against them because it doesn't provide realistic practice for an actual chess match. For example, it may be reasonable
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by _flag 12y ago
Summary of the paper for those who don't want to read it: So basically there are two categories of "learning" involved in this sort of research, supervised and unsupervised. In supervised learning, someone gives the computer
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by _flag 13y ago
Although I used the word "build", the entire post is talking about the investment. Regardless of whether you consider the people who "built" it to be government employees, the funding was military funding. Things like AR
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by _flag 13y ago
The entire point is that the government can invest in things that it deems valuable but not necessarily likely to make an immediate profit. The internet is an excellent example. Nobody would have predicted it would have taken off as it did,
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by _flag 13y ago
I gave an example of an automated checkout, but my point was not that the jobs I mentioned could all be automated -- my point was that they are not necessary. When I say "necessary", I don't mean that they aren't necessa
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by _flag 13y ago
> The socioeconomic world is as good as it is because most people are employed, doing something which contributes to maintenance and advancement of society & technology. Can you justify this? If we use the US as an example and look a
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by _flag 15y ago
It seems likely that someone involved with the contest is trying to use it for free advertising. Look at the "About" page on that flash app, the person apparently lives in Waterloo, and his email has "uwaterloo" in it.
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by _flag 15y ago
There is supposed to be a new version of this contest coming up soon, although it seems to be temporarily stalled as the main developers are busy with other things. You can find the beta here: http://aichallengebeta.hypertriangle.com/
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by _flag 15y ago
I don't think anyone posting about how easy it is to circumvent the paywall understands the point: it's not targeted at you. The NYT knows that if they create a completely restrictive paywall they will die, so they're trying to let just eno
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by _flag 16y ago
People using IE6 are XP users considering the default browser on Vista and Windows 7 is either IE7 or IE8, and XP doesn't support IE9.
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by _flag 16y ago
Why would they purposefully make their case inconclusive?
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by _flag 16y ago
I still don't understand why Google hasn't done the exact same test with a control variable. Run the exact same test again on a domain that isn't google.com.
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by _flag 16y ago
The Bing toolbar only sends information back to Microsoft, it doesn't decide what to do with it. For this kind of a task it would be simpler to use a packet sniffer anyway.
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by _flag 16y ago
I think one important point you're missing is that a chess engine looking to mathematically prove a victory is very different from the ones that play against grand masters. Deep Blue may have been able to calculate 6 to 8 moves in advance,
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by _flag 16y ago
There are two very big assumptions being made here. One is that this is even possible to do, and two that porn is harmful to children. I doubt either of those are true.
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NYT article on deal between Verizon and Google is inaccurate. Original source.(bloomberg.com)
67 points by _flag 16y ago|18 comments
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Show HN: Web^2, a tiling window manager for the Internet(flagcapper.com)
2 points by _flag 16y ago|1 comments
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by _flag 16y ago
Can anyone explain to me why people think he's egocentric? As far as I can see he just wants to share things with a technical community rather than with a bunch of teenage beggars. If he was so egoistic he wouldn't be closing down everythin
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by _flag 16y ago
Why do people feel the need to label news sources as either "left" or "right" wing. Why do both sides always have to have valid points? Either the news source has good reporting and its opinions are logical and supported by facts, or not. T
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by _flag 16y ago
None worth visiting I'm sure.
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by _flag 16y ago
Can you make there be a way to expand the content while staying on the same page?
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by _flag 16y ago
I really don't understand how anyone expects to stop people from downloading things for free. It's even possible to get songs directly off youtube and tv shows directly off hulu, just as it is possible to record songs directly off the radio
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by _flag 16y ago
Although I'm sure the copyright industries would love to do this, "including but not limited to" doesn't exactly translate to "ban all of it".

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