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by a3_nm 1mo ago
A perspective as I live in France: - There was already an easy statewide system to opt-out of telemarketing calls - Having always been on that system, I still got many scam calls that sound like telemarketing So it's great to have a ba
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by a3_nm 7mo ago
I'm not sure whether I'm taking too seriously something intended as a joke, but this in fact can conceivably be useful! When studying mathematical problems, sometimes you have a number that has some special meaning in your problem
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by a3_nm 9mo ago
I think this APC system is terrible -- it's enshrining the principle that publication in ACM venues is only open to researchers in institutions that are rich enough to cover the publication cost (or be recognized as lower-middle income
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by a3_nm 3y ago
Can you be more specific about what you are referring to?
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by a3_nm 3y ago
About the 2% figure: many things are insignificant in terms of climate change if you narrow down on them. Also, this 2% figure of the share of air travel is projected to increase, because the number of revenue passenger kilometers flown is
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by a3_nm 3y ago
Interesting! It looks like this is called the "Gyárfás tree packing conjecture".
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by a3_nm 3y ago
This came from a database theory study about queries on graphs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517804.3524149 for the paywalled version, https://www.theoinf.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/documents&#x2
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by a3_nm 3y ago
Yes, ChatGPT is really bad at those things...
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by a3_nm 3y ago
The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is simple (no repeated vertices) and has length divisible
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by a3_nm 3y ago
As much as I think that Wikipedia notability guidelines are way too strict, I'm wondering -- is it necessarily a bad thing for editor communities to split off and create separate specialized wikis? As long as the other wikis are also u
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Birthday Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by a3_nm 3y ago|0 comments
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by a3_nm 3y ago
Sorry, I don't understand this discussion about gender. If someone on the internet desires to be referred to as "he" and "him", or "she" and "her", then you do it, no? How is gender identity rele
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by a3_nm 3y ago
> Bug reports or questions generally do not require mentioning your race, ethnicity, nationality or identity preferences Sure, but pronouns? If someone refers to you using the wrong pronoun (e.g., assuming you're male, which this Va
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by a3_nm 3y ago
Unfortunately it seems that "be excellent to each other" is not specific enough to be understood by everyone. E.g., "address people using the name and gender that they use to refer to themselves". You would expect this t
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by a3_nm 3y ago
> can't imagine what a "victim of harrasment" for such a thing would look like Well, Drew's article gives a concrete example of a victim. But beyond this specific article, it is not difficult to find examples of peopl
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by a3_nm 3y ago
This is not really correct -- it is not true, for example, in many of the national parks in which people typically hike.
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by a3_nm 4y ago
Not all of them do: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access which charge neither readers nor authors. In TCS, see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Methods_in_Computer_Sc..
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by a3_nm 4y ago
It looks like there are research works trying to define precisely this notion of existential risk in the context of climate change, see e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03430-y
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by a3_nm 4y ago
This is an interesting article but it contributes a bit to terminological confusion about reviewing modes. First, the article talks about "double-blind reviewing" as being "logistically hard" because reviewers can "
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by a3_nm 4y ago
There is in fact already significant industrial use of hydrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#Use_of_hyd... -- independently from the use case of replacing fossil fuels. So there is already signific
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by a3_nm 4y ago
No, there was indeed a problem in the CSS, I'm not sure what happened. It is now fixed. Sorry about that!
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by a3_nm 4y ago
The nickname is related to my real name, but I'll let you guess how. ;)
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by a3_nm 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer to https://qntm.org/tetris -- that's very relevant, I'll add it to the post.
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by a3_nm 4y ago
Further, for metric TSP, an approximation algorithm with a slightly better ratio was found, and received a best paper award at STOC'21. See the second paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofides_algorit
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Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris?(a3nm.net)
185 points by a3_nm 4y ago|38 comments
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by a3_nm 5y ago
Nice, thanks!
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by a3_nm 5y ago
I thought this could solve the following problem: when camping during a mountain hike, figure out where to set up the tent, by knowing at which time you will be woken up by sunlight. Unfortunately this app doesn't seem to take elevatio
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by a3_nm 5y ago
True, but academic journals usually try to maintain some sort of acceptance ratio, and avoid accepting every submitted article. (If they do, they will have the reputation of not being selective, which will harm their rankings and will make
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by a3_nm 5y ago
Sure, in most cases, you can ask authors for a copy of their paper. However, that's not a reasonable way to distribute science. Most research requires you to skim through many different articles, so introducing a latency of a few hours
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by a3_nm 5y ago
Yes, there is a career incentive to review, but it's much weaker than the one to publish, and comes later in career, so hopefully more people can afford it. And yes, there will probably always be people willing to do reviews for free.

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