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by nmrm2 11y ago
TL;DR: If a student can't be openly and actively gay at your university, then you're running an indoctrination camp, not a "place to learn". > There's a stark difference between a free and voluntary association
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> TLA+ is not a model checker. It's a specification and proof language. There is a model checker that can check TLA+ specs, just as there is a proof assistant that can check TLA+ proofs. For the third (!) time, modus operandi matt
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Asking for a "safe space" where you don't have to deal with your conscience is horribly absurd. You act as if "conscience" is an objecively good thing, and not just the result of a bunch of totally arbitrary
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Yes.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> TLA+ has them, too. Like I said, modus operandi matters. If I have to perform another model checking routine (possibly on an infinite state space) to slightly generalize a theorem, then in many cases that means I never really had a u
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Is the main advantage indeed synthesizing programs from proofs? It's one major advantage, yes. And not just for the sake of software verification. Sometimes when proving a non-CS-type-math theorem you still want an efficient imp
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by nmrm2 11y ago
If you have had the equivalent of an undergraduate course on Discrete Mathematics you are probably fine; an introduction to logic course (covering e.g., soundness and completeness of propositional/first order logics) probably isn'
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by nmrm2 11y ago
My point was just that formal methods can have a tremendous positive impact even if academics are the only ones using them, as long as the output from those efforts do get used. So I'm not sure distinguishing between "using form
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This distinction is disingenious ( edit: I probably mean spurious ). The number of people in industry who use either tool is incredibly small and is likely to remain so; developers spend 20-50% of their time on test suites and STILL don
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by nmrm2 11y ago
A note for the unitiated: There is a tension between TLA+ and Coq et al. (typified by statements such as "weird computer-science math") that is similar and maybe even rooted in to the sorts of culture wars that sprout up around pr
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Exactly this. It's not that there's anything wrong with using a high-level language for safety-critical systems with real-time requirements and limited hardware. It's just that every high-level language that's remotely a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
How long would it take to cover a single paddock using more standard techniques (manned aerial or ground-based)?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
DJI is a Chinese company. I'm assuming they'll have a huge market regardless of whether US regulators move on this issue.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This introduces a coordination problem that is easy in principle (just like concurrency on a multicore machine is easy in principle).
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If you're saying mean/hateful stuff online, you deserve to have your real name attached to it. Says killface?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
In CS it's customary to stop citing papers at some point. E.g., lots of papers are published about Turing machines without citing Turing. Also, absolute limitations on page count is really common in CS, and the page counts tend to be p
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by nmrm2 11y ago
His conclusion isn't that alarmists are wrong; his conclusion is that global warming would be a net good for humanity, that CFCs don't cause ozone depletion, and that DDT is actually A Good Thing. And the last two, despite being f
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Apparently there are STILL people who think 1 is uncontroversially false -- see the slide deck posted by cpr on this page.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
In other words, nervousness.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> You know what they call the big thinker who is looking for a job with his shiny new PhD? In technical fields (which is what this article is about)? The ones who choose to stay in academia and are lucky enought to find a position are
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> one can be employed to hack on some of the most used languages and compilers without having a PhD, and these examples strengthen it. Of course. You can most anything without a degree, with very few exceptions (see: the article). Bu
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This comment completely ignores and perhaps even intentionally muddies the central thesis of my parent post, which was: there is a distinct and codified divide between "grunt work you can do with minimal training" and "seriou
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> if you studied math on your own, could you enter the actuarial field? Not sure about this one Yes (edit: accidentally said the opposite of what I meant!). What you need to be able to do is pass the exams. BUT -- plenty of people with
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Yeah, a lot of us have CS degrees or degrees in related fields, but in the end, you have to read, absorb, prototype, evaluate, adopt, or reject thousands of pages of dense material every year to stay current So do most practitioners
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Or, faster and relying on translational or post-translational stage research. If you're building a company, odds are you aren't doing fundamental research (and you might not even be doing translational research).
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This isn't fair -- the researcher's claim is that intrinsic motivations are part of R developer's motivations, and actually designed their study to determine to what role intrinsic motivations play in OSS development. Even
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The researchers focused exclusively on developers in the R language ecosystem, and as far as I can tell they scope the claims in their paper to only the R ecosystem. For whatever reason, the headline and lede instead emphasize a piece of pu
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The fact that these researchers focused exclusively on developers in a single ecosystem (the R language) is, in my mind, a death blow to the generalizability of their study. That is, their conclusions might be relevant to R developers, but
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Could the federal government set up a contracting arm that sells jamming services to state facilities? Or does non-Federal entity mean something else?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Copyright the researcher / university, and usually the latter.

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