guimplen | 4 months ago | on: DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
Oh wow, it almost like Yandex delivery in some districts of Moscow. Though there it is a land drone.
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guimplen | 6 months ago | on: Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
This is so blatantly wrong. On macs it became a little bit hrder very recently (you need to tick a checkmark in the system setting to allow untrusted program running) otherwise you just need to run the program once via right-click.
On most user-friendly linux distros you can just run installer of any program.
guimplen | 1 year ago | on: A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
The first example (signed integer overflow) is no longer valid in newer standards of C. Now it should use the two-complement semantics and no UB.
guimplen | 1 year ago | on: You could have invented Fenwick trees
All the references are on the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_tree
guimplen | 1 year ago | on: You could have invented Fenwick trees
While it might be ok to use colloquially the term, "Fenwick trees" since it became a common name, calling them "a Fenwick's work" and not mentioning Ryabko is a clear misattribution.
guimplen | 1 year ago | on: A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946)
The proof that e is irrational is very simple, follows from its famous expansion as a sum of inverse factorials. Non-algebraicity is a can of worms though.
guimplen | 1 year ago | on: Why No IPv6?
I thought the problem with the IPv6 is that it incorporates a lot of bloat compared to the IPv4.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]
I think the text is geared towards people with some mathematical background who want to understand learning theory. Besides it is clearly stated that this chapter is a review (so its assumed that you learned or will learn these things elsewhere).
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
He worked in Russia more than in any other country and died in St Petersburg being a Russian citizen.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
Yeah, the greatest Russian mathematician.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
In all recent US wars civilian casualties vastly outnumber military ones. In the Ukrainian war civilian casualties constitute less than 10% of overall casualties. Outstanding precision for a rusty hatchet.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)
You are being nitpicky about the names while missing the substance. The first battle was the French capture of Saarbrucken. So no, Prussia did not "attacked first".
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)
>Germany attacked France in July 1870
It was France that declared war on Germany.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
Are any of those things bad by themself or in combination?
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of Activation Lock [video]
It's no "the poor" its the thieves. Are you insinuating that all poor people are thieves?
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: The E-graph extraction problem is NP-complete
The problem is not stated clearly.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)
This universal prior is both theoretically useful and help conceptualize the real-world compression techniques.
guimplen | 2 years ago | on: Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)
This is a misconception. The main result in the Kolmogorov complexity theory that there is precisely the "universal prior" that comes simply from the notion of computability.
guimplen | 3 years ago | on: Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
A proper city has plenty of places for children to play even in its center. But maybe I'm just an outdated european.
guimplen | 3 years ago | on: Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
Your comment would be relevant if the guy written something to the devs. He has a sacred right to rant on his own page as he likes.
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