torinmr

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by torinmr 3y ago
BB(n) isn't computable, even given unlimited computational resources. Running all n-state machines won't work, because you may have some machines that continue indefinitely, but without repeating. (Remember that while the number o
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by torinmr 4y ago
Princeton's COS 226 covered this topic quite well when I took it. It was a good intro to both algorithms and DS content, as well as practical skills for leetcode style questions. You can check out the Syllabus for the course as taught
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by torinmr 7y ago
The point of the tax is not that the revenue will be used to reduce waste. The point is that it will increase the cost of producing waste for the polluter, ideally exactly to the point where it matches the cost to society of that waste. The
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by torinmr 8y ago
Not married, but in a long-term relationship living with my partner. I listen to them while commuting to work or while doing household chores, and consistently get through 4+ hours/week of podcasts. I don't find my listening habit
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by torinmr 9y ago
At my university CA: AQA was used as the text for the second course in computer architecture. The first course in computer architecture used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-A... . If you
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by torinmr 9y ago
It seems like there's an obvious solution to the problem of how to crack down on the types of bot your AI tries to detect, without removing legitimate boots: Give users the ability to designate their account as a self-reported bot. Acc
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by torinmr 9y ago
I would assume that there was a special policy in place for people working on teams with a requirement for that amount of RAM. I interned on Chrome in 2013, and at the time all Chrome engineers got a computer with an SSD (which I was told w
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by torinmr 9y ago
I empathize with that feeling! I recently "automated" washing dishes by upgrading to an apartment with a dishwasher, and it's an amazing quality of life improvement!
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by torinmr 9y ago
I think the parent was saying that they would buy parcels of land where they planned to build stations, and then profit when that land appreciated due to the presence of the station.
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by torinmr 9y ago
I haven't used Kotlin, but glancing over their comparison page the one that jumped out to me was that it (almost) eliminates the possibility of null pointer exceptions: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/nu
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by torinmr 9y ago
My variation on that is to only ever lock my front door or car using my keys from the outside. It's a bit less convenient than using the lock on the inside, but is guaranteed to avoid lockouts.
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by torinmr 10y ago
The courses are identical to the courses one would take if they were getting their Master's at Stanford - the only difference is that only four classes are required, while a Master's requires about 15. I'm enrolled in Stanfor
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by torinmr 10y ago
A particularly hairy case is where you use variables as features which are themselves generated through other potentially-discriminatory processes. For example, including a "has committed a felony" feature seems like a no-brainer
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by torinmr 10y ago
Could that also be related to diet? I'm guessing your grandmother practically never ate sugar if she was living on 200 grams of bread a day. I've also heard that early modern humans had fairly good teeth for their age despite the
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by torinmr 10y ago
The SRE Book ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do ) has a number of chapters on load balancing that are well worth reading. One thing that the book covers that I think this article glossed over was the fact
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by torinmr 10y ago
Where'd you get +20 miles from? The Leaf has a 108 mile range, the Bolt has a 238 mile range - that's a huge difference.
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by torinmr 10y ago
This was a pretty interesting article that hits very close to home (I'm an SRE at Google). I think the central thesis (that developers are better at running rapidly changing products because they are able to find and fix bugs more quic
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by torinmr 11y ago
It is in fact 30-80%: see page 11 of the PDF: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...
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by torinmr 11y ago
Great article, I ran into this exact problem at work today. You can also get a very similar problem if the timeseries aggregation system you're using does any pre-aggregation before you calculate the percentile - for example, if you sa
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by torinmr 11y ago
They're looking at the HTTP referer [sic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer Most newspapers don't show paywalls to users coming from a search engine, as part of a compromise with Google to prevent t
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by torinmr 11y ago
For companies that size, the really important services probably have a distributed ops team, with a team in Europe/Asia alternating 12 hour oncall shifts with a team in North America. In an emergency, the non-North American team could
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by torinmr 11y ago
What an odd mix of totally innocuous comparisons (Hong Kong Dollar vs Renminbi), fairly justified criticisms of China's government, and nationalistic drivel. I did at least find it amusing that the sentence the artist chose to contrast
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by torinmr 11y ago
According to the author, you need to know this in order to understand "how Google works," because the PageRank algorithm is described in terms of finding the principal eigenvector of a particular matrix.
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by torinmr 11y ago
Advice by sillysaurus3 on 'recommended reading' for programmers, mainly focusing on C and distributed systems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602457