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by sidww2 12y ago
But with no legal power of enforcement I'm guessing? I mean an airlines can always choose to follow the directives of agencies from other countries that have more stringent standards. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that ther
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by sidww2 12y ago
While it's nice to think that airlines can just rely on regulators to tell them which flight paths might be unsafe, the reality is that there's no international regulatory agency governing acceptable flight paths. There's a r
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by sidww2 12y ago
"only" NP-hard? You know that NP-hard problems are equal to order harder than NP-complete ones, right?
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by sidww2 12y ago
Bill Gates and Zuckerberg didn't leave Harvard permanently though. They took a leave of absence which means they'd the option to come back if things went south. Also both (and Gates especially) were from quite well off families.
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by sidww2 12y ago
Your definition relies on the notion of probability though. So I'm not sure why you seemingly view Knuth's work as more fundamental than Kolmogorov's, etc.
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by sidww2 12y ago
I skimmed through the extract presented (didn't have time to go into detail) but I don't see a formal definition of any kind presented in the extract. Could you point me to where it is? And if it's not in the extract, then co
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by sidww2 12y ago
What? The modern definition of pseudorandomness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandomness#Pseudorandomn... ) was figured out in the 80s through the works of Blum, Goldwasser, Micali, Goldreich, etc. and is not han
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by sidww2 12y ago
Becoming a professor is hardly the only reason to do a PhD in the sciences.
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by sidww2 12y ago
In my experience Java is usually at most 50% worse than C++. This is only the case though when I write Java with minimal use of objects (so no generics for instance). Also this is in comparison to C++ code that's not too micro-optimize
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by sidww2 13y ago
ACARS is what the article seems to be saying is how they know. Last ACARS transmission was 1:07 am. Any pilots here who know whether ACARS actually transmits FMS information? Edit: And if the report is correct and ACARS sent the information
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by sidww2 13y ago
Unless you're trying to commit suicide. But then why would fly northwards instead of southwards if you want to commit suicide? I've a hard time believing the 5000 ft statement. But if it's true, then well, damn.
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by sidww2 13y ago
That's only for the Andaman and Nicobar islands though which are very far from the mainland. I'd be surprised if there's no 24/7 radar for the mainland.
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by sidww2 13y ago
This is called the Dial-a-ride problem or pickup and delivery problem with time windows in optimization literature in case anyone is interested.
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On Domain-Specific Language Usage(xrds.acm.org)
3 points by sidww2 13y ago|0 comments
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by sidww2 13y ago
Wealth is not income though. Higher wealth taxes would go a long way but then you again have the problem of the wealthy simply moving their wealth out or not bringing it to the high-tax country in the first place.
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by sidww2 13y ago
It seems to me that their must be more to this situation -- I'm doing a PhD in CS and I don't know of a single PhD I knew in undergrad (top 20 program) or grad (top tier program) who wasn't able to find a job right after grad
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by sidww2 13y ago
Xbox/Bing/Hotmail might have a hard time staying afloat w/o the profits from Windows/Enterprise/Office.
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by sidww2 13y ago
I don't think forcing potential users to compile a program is going lower the barrier much. A lot of the users could be biologists and they would likely not know how to compile the source. I do agree that the software should be open so
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by sidww2 13y ago
I'm in CompBio and the sense I get is that it's a lot easier to get someone to try your tool if all you have to do is provide them the jar which they just have to click on and it runs. Whereas with compilation, you first have to m
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by sidww2 13y ago
What would be really killer is if it could have bindings to Java. Then one could take advantage of the JVM being present everywhere w/o having to do a separate compilation for every platform.
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by sidww2 13y ago
Pittsburgh down for the past 5-10 minutes though I was able to access it twice in that time frame. EDIT: Seems to be backup. Wonder what caused the hiccup.
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by sidww2 13y ago
Maybe you were just a more distinguished candidate during graduate admissions? Also, if you're international, PhD admissions are a lot less biased against internationals compared to undergrad admissions (most top universities have 8-10
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by sidww2 13y ago
According to the programming language shootout it seems it's close to the right range -- The median speed of Java 7 is twice as slow as C++. It also meshes well with my experience -- though I can only get "close" to C++ perfo
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by sidww2 13y ago
By good, do you mean faculty positions elsewhere or is it hard in general to even get say senior jobs in the industry after being denied tenure?
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by sidww2 13y ago
In the sciences, almost everyone - domestic or international is paid a stipend. It's more accurate to think of PhDs are paid researchers rather than students. Taking classes is not the point of doing a PhD so it's not education in
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Kitchen Safe(kickstarter.com)
1 points by sidww2 13y ago|0 comments
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by sidww2 13y ago
If the product you're working on is a long term project of the company, it's likely you'll leave before it's over in which case there will be a future person who'll have to figure out your code. In such a case, docu
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by sidww2 13y ago
Usually though that product code will be worked on by many other people. The same is often not true of academic projects.
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by sidww2 13y ago
To be fair, the job of the academia is to do research. Coding is just a means to an end. If on the other hand, you're distributing your code or it's intended as an ongoing project, then good comments and architecture are important
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Java vs C++ performance(whiley.org)
2 points by sidww2 13y ago|0 comments

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