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by redxaxder 12y ago
Number Theorists use a different definition of "almost all" from the one you see in measure theory. They use the limit version shown in the video.
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by redxaxder 13y ago
A society with a massive surveillance dragnet that everyone has access to is not necessarily totally transparent. Public access to the dragnet data would make it easier to evade the dragnet.
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by redxaxder 13y ago
Bitcoin is also unusual for a collectible in how much it can be subdivided.
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by redxaxder 14y ago
If we want the captcha to be accessible outside the target demographic, we should scrap the whole chess thing as well.
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by redxaxder 14y ago
It bothers me that in some months, the 27th is 3 days from the end of the month, but in some months, the 27th is 4 days from the end. Could this mess up the graph? The 27th appears in every month, but the time remaining to meet your (possib
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by redxaxder 14y ago
If there really is a smaller barrier to developing for Ouya than other consoles, there will be Ouya exclusives.
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by redxaxder 14y ago
In the US, judges rewrite the law with every ruling. Since the precedent established by a case is used in future decisions, the "real" law (the one which your actions will be compared against in court) is the base law passed in congress plu
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by redxaxder 15y ago
It seems like most of the commenters here are treating the evidence of Google's wrongdoing as conclusive. It isn't. A comment on the post by Richard Wooding demonstrated how Joe Random can make requests from a Google IP address: http://web
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by redxaxder 15y ago
By rescaling the numbers, the two questions can be turned into: - "Would you pay $900 for a 90% chance to win $1000?" - "Would you pay $100 for a 10% chance to win $1000?" So the distribution of results really is different. It's not just a
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Every monad solves exactly this problem.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Between refreshes, the number of signatures needed jumped from 3 to 16. I wonder what happened.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
This power is reserved for those secure enough against legal backlash to perjure themselves. Just like DMCA takedown notices. Copyright holders with lots of resources can issue as many bogus DMCA notices as they like, safe in the knowledge
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Do We Believe Everything We're Told?(lesswrong.com)
1 points by redxaxder 15y ago|0 comments
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by redxaxder 15y ago
This was written as a series of blog posts before being compiled into a book. The original is here: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/24/fine-wine/
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by redxaxder 15y ago
At least two differences between software and music: - no malware - possible online updates or other interactions As long as these differences persist, your distribution method can easily add more value than the pirate copy.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
No more than keeping your encryption keys a secret is security through obscurity. Even if you're transparent about your overall scheme, you need to keep some execution details hidden.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
When picking a password, you don't just care about the entropy. You also care how far down the password guessing order it is. People who want to guess a password don't just brute force at random. They use a guessing order that goes through
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Finding the convex hull of a collection of points is a studied problem, so you can use an existing solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_hull_algorithms Alternatively, willvarfar's approach is faster for large n, but the polygon w
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by redxaxder 15y ago
To implement a usable if , you need to tie it to some form of logical branching. Haskell can tie it to pattern matches. C compiles them to conditional jumps in asm. The asm jump instructions are implemented in hardware. The meat of the if
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by redxaxder 15y ago
equals: other ^ PTrue new The implementation of ifTrue isn't done. The branching was just deferred to the equals function, which has to somehow choose between PTrue and PFalse. Will it take advantage of the ifTrue function you're
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Rob Walling has written about this a bit. "The 5 Minute Guide To Cheap Startup Advertising" http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/43774/The-5-Minute-Guid... 3 part series on startup marketing, although this is more about retention than adv
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by redxaxder 15y ago
People haven't started paying $2000 for it yet. It may still grow.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Project Wonderful claims they make advertising awesome. https://www.projectwonderful.com/
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by redxaxder 15y ago
> I would guess most bitcoiners are mathematically inclined people, and not super into pure gambling. Being mathematically inclined doesn't prevent someone from being into gambling. They are just less likely to treat gambling as a metho
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by redxaxder 15y ago
More info on client SSL certificates: http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-c...
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by redxaxder 15y ago
Euclid's algorithm doesn't make as much sense until you see it done at least once. It's a shame there's no example. Finding the GCD of 85 and 221: 221 = 2 * 85 + 51 85 = 51 + 34 51 = 34 + 17 34 = 2 * 17 + 0 So our GCD is 17.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
> "I am not convinced it is that useful to have explicitly targeted audiences for advertisement. It may be better to understand and interpret an ad campaign, but generally, what works best when doing statistical prediction is not what i
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by redxaxder 15y ago
It's pretty neat that category theory is seeping into more programming languages. Even if Haskell doesn't survive, the functors and monads might live on.
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by redxaxder 15y ago
As another graduate student who teaches, I can confirm jseliger's claim. Teaching difficulty drops of insanely fast. Don't think of it as making the task automatic, but rather having familiar territory off of which to base the things you sa
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by redxaxder 15y ago
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