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The reasons presented in favor of a mathematical universe read somewhat like rehashed arguments used by deists/theists.

> For something to be physical it must be present at some time and place within the universe, and for something to be abstract it must exist outside of space and time.

No. He is redefining words here. 'Physical' is not usually defined as "exists in space and time". Abstract thoughts or concepts do not exist outside of space and time. Abstract thoughts are the results of the modeling capabilities of brains and exist very much in the physical world. It isn't even known whether "existing outside of space and time" is a coherent concept.

> but if the universe is a mathematical object, it needs no creator (on Platonism at least),

Firstly, this is the Kalam argument all over again. It isn't clear at all that the Universe needs a beginning or whether the 'beginning of the Universe' is a coherent concept at all.

Secondly, even assuming mathematical platonism is true, and even if 'creation' was a prerequisite for the universe, mathematical platonism has no construct to go from 'describing a universe' to 'creating a universe'. That seems to be quite an important thing to miss.

> Our universe is fine-tuned because it is one which has the ability to support conscious thought selected from an infinite multitude of mathematical structures, most of which are lifeless.

This is very problematic. Once you start thinking about "different mathematics", you lose all foundations upon which you can reason. Logic does not work anymore. Even if it were true at all, no human could possibly have meaningful thoughts about it. Besides, if we abandon the concept of our 'mathematical structures' in other universes, what do the words true and false itself even mean?

There's lots of handwaving with (very) incoherent concepts and dubious logic in this post to make the argument for a mathematical universe.
You're right, it does address it, but mostly by a bunch of handwaving. It does not address my central point of why employers aren't luring away these highly producing yet underpaid workers, or why more businesses aren't being started to employ them if there's a surplus of them.

Furthermore, their argument continues to assume that the increasing productivity of an entire business can be assigned more or less equally across all of its employees. However, this is not true by inspection - how did the janitorial staff's productivity improve? The productivity increase of the entire business may be the result of the efforts of a very small number of the employees, such as one who improved the manufacturing process.

And lastly, it assumes that being better educated means more productive. This is not necessarily true if one is in a job that does not make use of that education. For example, it's hard to see how having a degree makes one a more productive cashier.
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Try numba in python. Its usually fortran fast and often faster than Julia.
> If you made a business decision with that prediction you'd have felt a severe sting.

I somehow feel that this would depend on the decision you made.
> the nuclear bomb by preventing major countries from going to war with each other is a good contender for most impactful technology of the 20th century.

It didn't prevent the superpowers from having wars with each other. It just shifted the battle fronts, so now the superpowers fight through proxy wars, and the deaths all happen in distant, "developing" countries.
That also makes grepping for all occurrences of "flags" more useful, when it's p_flags or d_flags.
The HPACK spec [1] remarks on this. Google carefully used DEFLATE in earlier SPDY versions [2] but HTTP/2 decided to be less clever.

Interestingly, SLZ's page comments on lack of history as a way to avoid CRIME attacks, which is one of the things the HTTP/2 people worried about. That seems like something it'd be easy for an implementation to screw up though (just add some buffering somewhere before the compressor...)

[1] https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html#rfc.sect...
[2] https://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dr...
"Although marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens and cocarcinogens, findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway cancer from light or moderate use, although evidence is mixed concerning possible carcinogenic risks of heavy, long-term use."

That seems hardly conclusive.
How dare someone provide a service for remuneration!
I think mathematics and physics sets the bar higher then subjective relevance when formulating descriptions. If you did manage to create a description that would accurately predict every response of a person then you would have a hard time (if not impossible) discerning the difference between the two agents.
This is the licensing model that's used now, not the new one introduced in November.
The human brain will not 'evolve' in any meaningful sense in the next 100 years.
what languages and frameworks do you know?
But buzzwords matter. MIT, Stanford, FB, Google all things that make a resume look better. Would you want Java on your resume or JS and React right now? The candidate was absolutely right in the analysis even though it should not have been shared in public.
That's what people do already; why nant is a thing.
Something like Cake (http://cakebuild.net/), Bau (https://github.com/bau-build/bau) or Psake (https://github.com/psake/psake) are much better than using MSBuild.
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What kind of sw dev are you? Feel free to drop me an email -- ryan@moat.com
If you're a webserver and want to serve clients which support gzip encoding, you need to be DEFLATE compatible.

For something like virtual memory where you'd control both the compressor and decompressor, there's little point in clever DEFLATE-compatible compressors. Instead, just pick any compressor which has the compression/CPU tradeoff you want.
Actually only 52 :D

But yeah, I agree about googling part: I remember having Googled "tilde javascript" and "pipe javascript".. :)

Tilde is useful with indexOf:

if (~array.indexOf(item)) {}

..equals to:

if (array.indexOf(item) > -1) {}
It's speculation, right? Either it had an overwhelming effect OR it had little if any effect. We'll never know -- thank goodness. We do know that penicillin, clean drinking water, vaccines, and the bicycle had enormous effects all over the world.
But one of them wouldn't be something anyone would call an 'agent.' One would be a description of an agent, or a recipe for producing one—but at the end of the day, one is meat and the other is a set of symbols.
IMHO: The #1 way to avoid burnout is to do work you love.

Do you find job your satisfying? Do you feel like you're making a difference? Does it give your life meaning? These are the qualities that enable you to get up and come to work day after day.

Every job sucks after a while (or on certain days, weeks, etc). But if it's truly work you love, you'll have a good reason to tough it out.
I do know of some programmers making million dollar plus salaries. I think it is safe to assume that they are creating huge value for their employers. And we all know of certain programmers that are negatively productive :-)
These came to mind:

http://kx.com/q/c/c/k.h

http://kx.com/q/c/c/c.c

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum
I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people--even here--"remember" a number of Apple's biggest wins as being inevitable from Day One. In fact, as you say, the iPhone didn't become a must have smartphone until 3G/3GS timeframes. Similarly, until the 4th gen iPod with the click wheel, the iPod was pretty much just another reasonably well-regarded, albeit pricey, MP3 player.
let me know if you still need one
Everybody needs a “thing”
I'm not sure about this, e.g. concurrent data structures are a form of shared state concurrency and "worker pools" may or may not use shared state, it seems orthogonal.
'Notes..' is my all time favourite book. I have a 10 year old, well worn, note riddled copy that I take with me on every holiday :)
Well there's a world class university there...
This is the heart of it. People like to paint this as a regulatory problem--the FDA keeping all these potentially useful drugs off the market due to its bureaucracy. But he fact is that 85-90% of drugs that hit early Stage I clinical testing don't make it through approval. That means the science is bad at predicting what will work and what won't work, and spectacularly so. That's a science problem, not a regulatory.

People bring up the "more harm than good" issue, but they're only thinking of one kind of harm: drugs that actually hurt people. But having ineffective drugs on the market also has a cost, and it's probably the bigger one. The market for effective drugs is almost certainly not efficient given the difficulty of ascertaining efficacy and the information asymmetries involved. Thus, there is a real risk of people dying because the inefficient market selects for drugs with good marketing over ones that work.
Source? That sounds intersting
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I'm looking to purchase some Bitcoin but I don't have much idea about the best place to buy them. I've had a look at Coinbase but they seems to have so many negative reviews. Can anyone make any recommendations? I'm UK based if that makes a difference.
Possible to develop social network without popularity metrics?
Voleon | www.Voleon.com | Berkeley, CA | Senior Researcher - Machine Learning

Voleon Capital Management LP is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques. We are looking for an exceptional researcher.

We are a science-driven systematic trading firm, built on the principle that statistical machine learning provides the best solutions to the scientific problems we must solve.

We are looking for a PhD-level scientist to join us in developing predictive models and other components of automated trading systems. You will apply modern statistical machine-learning methods to large, high-dimensional data sets. The work will range from data preparation to model development to production software implementation.

We are successful and growing. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential.

We hire on the basis of exceptional talent. If you excel in a technical field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or operations research, then we encourage you to contact us.

The following criteria, while not all requirements, illustrate the demands of this role: + Background in modern statistical methods / machine learning

+ Evidence of strong mathematical abilities, e.g. publication record, graduate coursework, or competition placement

+ Substantial programming experience and interest in software development techniques

+ Competence in solving large-scale computing problems

+ Track record as an applied researcher

+ Demonstrable clarity of thought (not optional)

Interest in financial applications is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary factor in our hiring.

Benefits and compensation are highly competitive.

The above job description is just a starting point in terms of possible duties and seniority. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to Charles@Voleon.com
Concepts can indeed exist outside physical brain matter. Such as the concept of math. The idea that 1+1=2 does not need a physical human brain to exist. If humans never existed the concept of math would still exist "beyond space and time". Abstract thoughts cannot exist outside space and time for human comprehension but those same concepts do not need humans to exist.
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Languages :

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Technologies :

Spring, DropWizard, maven,
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Databases
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Experience lies heavily in the Big Data, performance, high availability world.

Other :
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Voleon | www.Voleon.com | Berkeley, CA | Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Voleon Capital Management LP is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques. We are looking for an exceptionally capable software engineer. You will architect & implement new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems.

We seek candidates with a proven track record of writing correct, well-designed software, solving hard problems, and delivering complex projects on time. You should preferably have experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience with building large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems, or latency-sensitive programs is a bonus.

Required experience: - Go/C/C++/Python in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness. - TCP/IP networking, multi-threading, and server development. - Common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.). - architecting and designing highly available systems. - architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure. - Large codebases and building modular, manageable code.

Preferred experience.: - Debugging/performance profiling, use of tools (strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc.) - Build and test automation tools. - work with well-defined change management processes. - diagnosing RDBMS performance problems, exploiting indexing, using EXPLAIN PLAN, optimizing at the code layer, etc. - working with messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) as well as distributed caching systems.

Interest finance is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary hiring factor. Benefits and compensation are highly competitive. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to Charles@Voleon.com.
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In terms of data volume, the Google Search store alone might move the scale substantially.

I'd probably measure by how much programmer time is spent working in each kind of DB.
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I moved to the US when I was 19. Now I am 34. I have been thinking hard for the past few years about living briefly in Eastern Europe, then somewhere "desertic" in the Middle East, and a full year or more in Southern America (Hello Costa Rica). Living somewhere for a few years in another country is something every man* should do.

*I say man because I think it will be hard for safety reasons for women to just pick up and live anywhere. They tend to get harassed a little more frequently.
> Consider the DNA to be the basic hardware of life ... there has to be software layers that control how, when, where and how much information is to be decoded from the DNA.

That analogy seems kind of backwards from the usual and more natural formulation: DNA is the software (or, rather, the DNA is a storage medium, the information encoded by the base-pair sequences in the DNA is the software -- RNA is another such storage medium), the various bits of biological machinery that take action based on the DNA/RNA coding are the hardware on which that software is run.
If the universe was "made of mathematics," then there would necessarily exist a Grand Unified Theory. But, Hawking asserts that Gödel's Theorems imply that not only does a Grand Unified Theory not exist, but that the formulation of one is impossible (http://www.hawking.org.uk/godel-and-the-end-of-physics.html).

The author stresses that all of reality is mathematical in structure, but this is at odds with the fact that all mathematical systems containing self-reference are necessarily incomplete. Physics is a self-referential system.

If the structure of the universe is mathematical, it is probably a very different math than humans are used to. Insert your favorite flavor of metaphysics here!
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Yes, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Amazingly, the eye also evolved 50 to 100 times independently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye).
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Keep in mind also that as a patient you're allowed to take basically any drug you want, companies just aren't allowed to sell those drugs to other people and claim they treat a specific disease without FDA approval. So this whole article is basically just shilling for even less stringent requirements to market a drug as being effective, even though that hurdle is already trivially easy to overcome in these cases.
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Hey Ryan,

Mainly, I code in Java

But I also have a ton of experience in the following :
C, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP

Some frameworks and technologies I am familiar with are :
Spring, DropWizard, maven,
CodeIgniter, Laravel Angular,Node,

Databases that I have experience with are :
SQL, Mongo

Experience lies heavily in the Big Data, performance, high availability world (due to a financial past)

Other : FIX Protocol, Sharepoint development, Continuous integration & Unit testing, Environment automation
> Is there any other benefit to purchase a HyperDrive over an SSD?

Yep, a SSD will fragment sooner or later, the HyperDrive (or any RAM based drive for that matter) is time-guaranteed latency.
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Shooting first and asking question later ain't gonna make u no friends in Compton, murbard2. Wouldn't hold my breath to hear any answers...
I use `pwd -P` sometimes.
And in many of those contexts those determinations are routinely unjustified

And many contexts where they are. And 'round and 'round we go...

But, I think you answered my question, however indirectly: you believe all such rules/laws/whatever are unjustified.

I believe that's madness, but hey, we'll agree to disagree.

Have a nice day! And I wish you luck with your depression, it really is a constant challenge (my wife struggles with it, so while I can't speak from direct experience, I have an enormous amount of sympathy).
Why? The USB bus on the Pi is dead crowded with the NIC, you will suffer from latency issues.

Often enough I ask myself why the network chip couldn't be interfaced with MII like any common cellphone SoC does with WiFi and why the USB host pins of the CPU are not routed through to the MicroUSB connector :/
> It's speculation, right? Either it had an overwhelming effect OR it had little if any effect. We'll never know -- thank goodness.

By that logic, we can 'never know' anything about historical effects, ever, and it's pointless to discuss the consequences of any historical events, including the others you mentioned. But really, the effect of the nuclear bomb in shifting the battlefronts of wars to proxy wars in developing nations under hegemonic control is as clear and as accepted by historians as we can expect.

It may not be quite on par with the "theory" of evolution being all-but-proven fact, but it's in that ballpark.
The transfer of unseen magnetic force, across space, in this manner, does not constitute a "worm hole", and is clearly a "force field" instead, which is slightly less exciting.

If we were reading an X-men comic book, and Magneto's abilities were conflated as "worm holes", everyone would cry foul.

I object to the misuse of a well-known science fiction term as click-bate.
Yeah, I like the concept more than have a need for the thing presently. The OPs page talks about a custom spun ASIC so making a controller wouldn't be a huge problem if someone wanted to sink the NRE into it.
I think that's being just a wee bit unfair.

Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones that quarter. In other words - the iPhone had ~27% of the US Market sales.

That's... not a rounding error. That's an incredible and wild success. The price drop after September helped of course - but they'd already sold over 1 million iPhones by then anyhow.

By the end of the year they had a 5% market share worldwide. Nothing to sniff at for something only 6 months old.
It probably depends on the smoker. I only had 3-4 cigs per day unless I was drinking, and just one American Spirit was enough to make me feel not-so-good for half an hour or so after smoking. A pack-a-day smoker might benefit, except that the habit is just as strong as the addiction so I suspect they'll just ingest more nicotine while smoking the same number of cigarettes.

I remember reading that the nicotine levels were markedly higher, like an order of magnitude, but I'm not having any luck finding the numbers (or even the references) to substantiate it.
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Another way of saying that is "Life is a story; however, it's not Fiction"
Indeed! However, many uses of Spanner are what I would call native. It should be possible to separate out the two.
I'd love to have some evidence that such things as 'concepts' and 'ideas' can exist independent of brains. You can't just assert it and make it so. All concepts and ideas I've ever heard of were the results of brains attempting to model or describe.

By the way, I'm not talking about physical human brains. I'm talking about any brain, which includes human brains, dolphin brains, computers, and whatever other modeling machines exist in the universe.
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Alum as well. The ones I know from that list personally fit that exactly.

Pete Koomen was a Google a few years before Optimizely (the post says he got his BS in '06, but that was his MS).

Dan Kador was at Salesforce for a while as well before Keen.io.
No, a Van de Graaff generator doesn't get anywhere close to 0.xx1% charged.

As the article says, loosing 1% of electrons leads to a voltage potential of 40 exavolts. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator points out, the best a Van de Graaff generator can do is "about 25 megavolts" due to "arcing and corona discharge."

The sequence is mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-. That corresponds to 0.000,000,000,000,1% charge, though you should double check me as I'm not used to working with that many powers of ten.
I hit back and my answers weren't there. I did end up doing the second half of the survey but I was hoping my dataset would be complete.
The book was typeset by the authors, so it seems unlikely.

K&R style is clearly in evidence in source code from 1973 such as https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...