cynicaldevil

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Richard Stallman's computing habits(stallman.org)
1 points by cynicaldevil 9y ago|0 comments
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
You're really twisting what happened here. It wasn't so much "yanked" as it was "replaced". I was initially against the idea, but soon got around to it. It was a very risky and daring move by the government, bu
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
"Reflections on Trusting Trust": https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
Not exactly, there exist various approximations for some problems which give a better solution than brute force.
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
I don't understand this, AFAIK a problem is NP-Hard or NP-Complete (or P) in _general_, that is, over all instances. But not so for a specific instance. Wouldn't these games count as just one specific instance of the problem?
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India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the country's history(businessinsider.com)
130 points by cynicaldevil 9y ago|47 comments
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
How did you learn these topics? Did you solve problems for each of them?
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
Oh they still have the charts, I always check it before boarding :)
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
If someone wants a more detailed explanation about the gates mentioned in the blog, consider reading the introductory chapter to 'Quantum Computation and Quantum Information' by Neilsen and Chuang.
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
I don't think the author necessarily means being a CEO is an unworthy line of work. What he wants us to understand from this is that it's futile deriving one's worth from the fact that he's the CEO and that he has the ab
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/303/
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by cynicaldevil 9y ago
Dunno if trolling or actually serious...
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Wow this feels tailor made for people like me. I want to do further studies in deep learning after I graduate, but I'm not really keen on spending 4/5 years of my life on it. I'll be keeping an eye on this....
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
What I learnt on 1v1 was that you should keep travelling towards the opposite corner of the map, forming one or two very thin attack lines, to surprise them in the beginning itself. Sometimes I used the first, weaker one as a recon team, so
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Really addictive game! Definitely a great game to kill time!
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
I'd read a few articles from your blog some time ago and I must say I really liked it! Especially those about automata and Turing Machines. I'll definitely consider buying your book!
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Also; "The Last Question" by the same author. Its a short story with a similar premise.
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Is it possible to read the book without reading the first two parts beforehand?
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Where did you get that notion? At least among people working in the tech sector, it is widely believed that we will achieve AGI one day, and that too with the the help of Turing machines. Except for Roger Penrose's argument against th
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Usually people begin by contributing to projects which they already use. For a beginner, it might be better to start contributing to a project which is mainly written in the language which they're familiar with. Also, try to find a pro
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Same here. Except I use 'myfork' as the name for my remote repo. Origin/upstream always got me confused when I first started learning Git, so I created my own naming conventions.
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
If I'm right, one of the advantages of this move is that llvm will finally switch over to using Git as its main version control system, and get rid of svn altogether.
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
I'm probably not as old as you; I turned 20 a couple of days ago, and I most certainly do not want to become an entrepreneur, but here's something about how I keep myself motivated: Each day; at least once, I try to read/thin
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
I remember my friend mentioning this when I told him I had just started web development and wanted to learn a new framework. I even selected the features I thought I should have, hit the download button, and was surprised to see an empty fo
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Weird...I'm on a linux desktop and the scrolling is just awful.
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
This here is a very good example of how NOT to make a webpage.
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
The totalitarian authority in 1984 actually has the exact opposite goal. They wanted to control creativity, self expression, and thinking of new ideas as much as possible, and one of the methods to achieve this goal was to try to reduce the
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
Evolutionarily beneficial to eat your own children? Could you explain how?
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
The hardest part here is not the actual generation of code, but to analyze the problem first and to determine what data structures/algorithms are best suited to tackle it. Also, there are a lot of real world examples used in these prob
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by cynicaldevil 10y ago
But I argue that those are pictures of the same cat, and most of the images will be very, very similar. Of those thousands of pictures, only a few, noticeably different pictures would matter.

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