cxseven

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by cxseven 2mo ago
1. Some of the "AI" proofs applied existing human work from lesser-known papers. AI proofs could solve the long-standing problem in math of almost all attention concentrating on less than 1% of authors. Human effort from the other
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by cxseven 3y ago
Engineers would win many more arguments if that was their full-time job. Who has the energy after completing a blitz to solve a highly technical problem by deadline to debate a PM who has spent months cooking up a product story?
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by cxseven 6y ago
Who are the geniuses / slimeballs at Microsoft who snatched the JEDI contract away from AWS for dubious reasons, and who partnered with Duck Duck Go, the most visible complainant about Google's search dominance, and central to the
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by cxseven 6y ago
Wow, none of my AP teachers back in '97 offered anything close to this advice. I wonder if that was normal for the time, or if I just experienced the low end of the variance of preparation.
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by cxseven 7y ago
I believe this is the truest interpretation: > In the days of the PDP-1 only one person could use the machine, at the beginning at least. Several years later they wrote a timesharing system, and they added lots of hardware for it. But in
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by cxseven 7y ago
JWZ draped camouflage netting around his desk to make an ad-hoc "Tent of Doom": https://www.jwz.org/tent-of-doom/ . Maybe an actual tent would be even better. Surrounding yourself by whiteboards might also al
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by cxseven 7y ago
I think he meant the airport employees on the tarmac who wear giant ear muffs.
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by cxseven 8y ago
The median Googler works there for about a year, too, so I guess they have little interest or ability to understand existing code.
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by cxseven 8y ago
That would be useful information, but it would also need some way to judge how biased (or not) the promotions are. There's also another likely contribution to higher pay for women: a shorter supply of them, and Google bidding to hire&#
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by cxseven 8y ago
The Bible Belt is running out of notches
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by cxseven 8y ago
Location with respect to what?
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by cxseven 8y ago
Serious question, ignoring the other environmental impacts of logging old growth forest: Is logging carbon negative?
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by cxseven 8y ago
You'd probably find that ancient humans, just like many animals, formed cooperative groups that weren't limited to family, with children not infrequently cared for by nonfamily. A social safety net is nearly as ancient as life its
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by cxseven 8y ago
If they blanket an area with cameras, as China does, they can use multiple vantage points to get more accurate measurements and, when a positive ID is made, they can persistently track that person crossing from one field of view to another.
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by cxseven 8y ago
This could be the product of sharing course materials they already mostly had, at a low additional cost.
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by cxseven 8y ago
Update: It looks like on October 2nd, Facebook clarified that 50 million users actually had their login credentials stolen, and an additional 40 million were unconfirmed but known to have been touched by the buggy "view as" feat
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by cxseven 8y ago
> But people always forget that the way to build a platform is to start by nailing a niche use case and then expanding. The median Googler works there for something like 1.1 years, and gets recruited straight out of college. Combine this
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by cxseven 8y ago
I always wondered why Facebook didn't just syndicate its site, i.e. allow people to congregate on differently-themed sites as they wish, while using the same infrastructure underneath.
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by cxseven 8y ago
Just possible. Similarly, the recent FB hack didn't actually penetrate 50 million accounts -- that was just an upper bound estimate based how many accounts were "exposed to the risk" of being compromised, probably because the
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by cxseven 8y ago
I don't understand how that follows. Google doesn't need to fix its purported usability problems. It can let the non-corporate users enjoy the fruit of their labors at keeping Google+ running for corporate users at almost no addit
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by cxseven 8y ago
What's the point, then? Google will (or should) spend just about as much effort keeping it live for enterprise users as it would for the rest of us. I don't use it often, but occasionally find useful communities there, especially
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by cxseven 8y ago
There's not going to be anything more hospitable than Earth for a long time, long enough for the warnings here to come true and then some.
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by cxseven 8y ago
Windows 10 Education also lets you do this, and is a lot less expensive than Pro. Sometimes it's free to members of certain organizations.
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by cxseven 8y ago
For the Kepler Conjecture, human mathematicians first found a way to show that it could be proved by checking a finite (but long) list of computer-verifiable claims. Here Scholze is saying that part of the proof simply hasn't been writ
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by cxseven 8y ago
The no-context Linus quotes and the outlining of how he gets paid made this article seem like somewhat of a hatchet job meant to milk clicks out of the #MeToo movement, which I otherwise have no problem with.
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by cxseven 8y ago
The problem is that the death of Reader also inflicted a death blow to blogs in general. Aggregation was entirely forfeited to Facebook, and clickbait became the norm for driving eyeballs, not fascinating writing that Readers shared and lov
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by cxseven 8y ago
They have convictions, too. The more salient differentiator is probably extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivations, i.e. the need for a church to be a place to show off or enforce virtues
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by cxseven 8y ago
If you're talking about one of the few US cities like New York where the vast majority of people use public transportation, then that's why it's not going to match other people's experiences where public transportation i
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by cxseven 8y ago
If this is all that's done and companies stop paying for insurance, I would expect employers to use the opportunity to pocket most of the savings and only pass on a pittance to their employees. Also, uninformed consumers will opt for c
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by cxseven 8y ago
Also, imagine the joules saved worldwide if known key names didn't have to be sent each time, or, better yet, data was packed in a format that optimized for size and processing speed rather than readability. I mean, I enjoy the idea of

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