Bakkot
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Not really here anymore.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bakkot; my proof: https://keybase.io/bakkot/sigs/sX5pEib_QojhhLoU5OS9fpJaxDq_gvgNcXTq9HO626Q ]
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bakkot; my proof: https://keybase.io/bakkot/sigs/sX5pEib_QojhhLoU5OS9fpJaxDq_gvgNcXTq9HO626Q ]
Re: reading level: do give the Simple English Wikipedia a try!
Not really. A lot of people at Google are on Macs. I think it's more that the Chrome team doesn't prioritize Java support, which I think shows their priorities are pretty much in order.
I don't know. This is admittedly not something I know much about, but from poking around a bit, it looks like the Gather-Apply-Scatter model - or any other vertex-centric model - is not well suited to finding cycles of…
Regulations are only possible because the technology to "transfer dollars electronically", as you say, requires lots of infrastructure and trust - the entire banking system, basically. If I want to send you a dollar…
Well, I'm not going to have a compact answer for you, but to do so you need to develop some kind of self-reference. (Like Godel!) If you like thinking about this sort of thing, Raymond Smullyan has a lot of great…
Did you miss the bit in the OP where one of the coins has heads on both sides? The coin may or may not be biased, and the results of flipping it give you information about whether or not it is biased. Explaining the bit…
The coin is the coin, but your information about the coin has changed. Probability is a fact about you, not a fact about the coin. Here is perhaps a more visceral example: On any given day, your car has a 10% chance of…
Wallbase is dying: see [1]. 4walled.cc is a similar if much less polished service. Also see WallHaven.cc, which some of Wallbase's staff is working to make Wallbase's new home. [1]…
I'm still required to unlock my keychain to view the passwords (on OS X).
Yeah, I'm a bit confused. To me the big news doesn't seem to be that some mathematicians wrote a book using Github. The is that there is now an expansive, informal/readable, and machine verified writeup of homotopy type…
The first batch is still scheduled to ship fall 2013, I believe. The second batch is the one shipping 2014. Per https://twitter.com/thalmic/status/339752687694405632
> If your money doesn't buy you happiness, you are spending it wrong. One of my all-time favorite papers: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right"…
Why not use the potentially exponential algorithm initially and timeout and fall back to the linear case if the sometimes-quick one has taken longer than the linear one would have? At most a 2x slowdown for complex…
... I'm sorry, how levying taxes against the Constitution?
Quantum computers have a fairly well-studied mathematical abstraction about which we can reason quite well. Algorithms for quantum computers exist which will break RSA; no similar algorithms exist to break AES. And the…
Prefacing this, I'm largely with Jason Scott on this (and most issues). That said: The deletionist argument is not and has never been been that it's going to save storage or bandwidth. (Generally, it's about it being…
The thing to ask yourself in these situations: Which is more likely - coincidence, or that all of science is wrong? Because make no mistake, nothing less is required for exorcism or homeopathy or astrology to work.…
It seems to me that creating several dozen subscription plans on Stripe is indicative of a deeper problem: that you have several dozen different prices consumers end up paying. How about instead you advertise the prices…
I assumed it was intentionally ambiguous (like a lot of problem statements in practice), to see how the interviewees respond. There are a few interesting interpretations, some of which are obviously exponential time,…
You should let Jason Scott know about this. He's been pushing a similar project for MAME. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3685
I find it interesting that they still provide payment breakdowns by platform... and that Linux and Mac OS are still so much higher than Windows. When those two were paying for games it was obvious why that should be,…
> Of course, this really only works well for numbers with prime factors drawn from the set {2, 3, 5, 7}. So express the number as a sum of numbers with factors drawn from that set, and draw a several diagrams, one…
I'm not sure, honestly: I imagine the differential of a new design varies depending on how users come across it. If when not being featured Dwellable mostly gets new installs from word-of-mouth, say, I bet that the new…
It likely didn't exist yet. These things take time.
The context on the 'maybe you shouldn't be doing it' quote is that Google is not going to disobey court orders to protect your privacy. It was never Google's responsibility. Please let's move on from this particular…