lindenr

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by lindenr 8mo ago
I agree, if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into natural language. For many statements I expect it's not po
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by lindenr 1y ago
Really interesting! It does need an explanation - took me a bit of clicking around to discover the rules (which I actually enjoyed because it turned out not to be too complicated! But some will give up early). One aspect I liked about the l
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by lindenr 3y ago
Yeah, I think it's a typo and should have been "one in every 24 million babies" - this makes sense given the numbers, with 4 million born every year but only a new president every 6 years.
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by lindenr 3y ago
If I understand you right - you could visualize in 2d space: "king" at origin, X-axis is "king"-"man", Y-axis is "king"-"woman" (or gram-schmidt if you really want orthogonal). In 3d you can
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by lindenr 5y ago
Would you be interested in working in quantitative finance in London? We're hiring (remotely for now, but you'd be expected to work in London probably later this year). We have lots of PhDs (physics, maths, etc - not exclusively t
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by lindenr 8y ago
Just spent some time playing around with that, really cool! Thank you :)
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by lindenr 8y ago
Off-topic but, was that supposed to be a haiku? I only count six syllables in the second line.
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by lindenr 12y ago
You said: "Saying "selection pressure" implies intent, determination, a collective mission, if you will. Evolution has none of those drivers. It has no objectives. It sets no goals. And it certainly does not operate in some c
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by lindenr 12y ago
Ah, I see. Could you edit your post to reflect this? As it stands it is very easy to misinterpret.
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by lindenr 12y ago
Does this mean that a 10^13 reliability has 320% chance of failure? EDIT: in any case the correct calculation should be http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281-%2810^-14%29%29^%2... which gives a 30% chance of failur
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by lindenr 13y ago
The EPR paradox was resolved a while ago, strongly in favour of Einstein's "spooky action at a distance". The first experiments were done in the 70's. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theo
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by lindenr 13y ago
I thought it meant two programs which compute the same thing but possibly using different algorithms. If they are indistinguishable then you can't infer from the improved algorithm anything you can't get from the old one.
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by lindenr 13y ago
And who told you there are "hundreds of thousands" of people who want to blow up Americans? But actually, even (very generously) at 100,000 brand-new prisoners for the USG to deal with it would certainly cope just fine (an increas
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by lindenr 14y ago
No. The escape velocity on Mars is 5 km/s, whereas on Earth it is 11 km/s. There is also a lot less of an atmosphere on Mars (though the atmosphere is smaller on Earth) and Martian gravity is significantly smaller than Earth's. It is far ea
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by lindenr 14y ago
It does seem a bit more forceful than bold to me; maybe you could have a separate 'bold' font and a 'really really bold' font?
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by lindenr 14y ago
What? In the original it was written in all caps as well.
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by lindenr 14y ago
The point as I read it was that people who aspire to management aren't really engineers in the truest sense, but engineers "only by title". That is, people working on actual engineering aren't really "engineers" if they have their eyes set
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by lindenr 14y ago
Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by lindenr 14y ago
Has the title changed since submission? It makes no mention of Windows 8 now (current title is "Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server").
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by lindenr 14y ago
It could also be that they're trying to filter out people who know "Windows support" sounds dodgy. This also fits with the fact that they still seem to all have Indian accents -- an immediate off-put to those who have heard about these scam
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by lindenr 14y ago
Really? Wow, that's cool. Can I have a reference?
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by lindenr 14y ago
You didn't answer the question. No-one ever said pirating was okay (or "not stealing"). Also, I think you're wrong: pirating a movie/book/whatever will at most result in the price of one movie/book being lost from the creators (given that
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by lindenr 14y ago
I doubt there is a conspiracy behind this; I just left the comment (too?) open to the possibility.
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by lindenr 14y ago
That's not the point. This whole case has been just testing the water for the FBI - seeing how far the public (and the NZ government) will let them go. Whether they have grand designs for after Dotcom nobody knows (conspiracy!), but this ca
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by lindenr 14y ago
For me, that is behind a login screen. I heard a little while ago about users who have a google account but aren't logged in being unable to access G+ pages; I'll edit after a cookie-clear and refresh (which may or may not help). EDIT: De-c
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by lindenr 14y ago
Googling cache:<url> gave a cached version straight away. I haven't heard of using incache:<url> before; what's the difference between that and cache:<url>?
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by lindenr 14y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... works for me.
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by lindenr 14y ago
Is it possible for the file extension to say one thing and the MIME type to say something else? So the file extension could be .jpg (reassuring the user that it is only an image) but the HTTP response says it is text/html? I think a simil
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by lindenr 14y ago
PDF link: http://youcanmakevideogames.com/YouCanMakeVideoGames.pdf
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by lindenr 14y ago
If X is the number of different characters your password can contain then the total number of possible passwords exactly 8 characters long is X^8. The number of passwords that are less than 8 characters long is X + X^2 + ... + X^7 which i

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