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I'm a student of a Computer Engineering undergrad program

I agree with some of the answers already here, but here's what I think was missing (at least from my experience)

for the CS classes, I have mostly enjoyed when we actually see things being used (or use them ourselves), and see how they apply to practical use

to give you an example, when learning about SQlite, we made an application that could 'cache' some content so the application could be used offline, and also made the back-end, to see how to use two different DBMSes, their strenghts, and weaknesses, and why some producs/services would use DBMS X or Y

the CS class I liked most was given by a professor that did something similar to what you describe, he had pre-prepared material, and in class he mostly focused on answering questions (both questions he had when he was learning, and questions we asked him), and on showing us the things we were learning about in a public website, or a product (or sometimes, things other professors had made to handle their classes' paperwork)

that specific course wasn't about databases, but you could show the different ways some DBMSes implement some feature, and the trade-offs made for performance, correctness, etc. (think MySQL vs PostgreSQL for easy to use but buggy vs standard-compliant but kind of difficult to set up)

generally, when a professor shows that he not only understands the material, but can show us how it's useful, or how to think about how it intuitively solves some problem, the class is more enlightening and fun

ultimately, I think you can benefit students more if you show them stuff that gets used a lot on businesses where they might end up working, though there might be exceptions, like academic/subject fundamentals, for example, in my DB course I didn't really found relational algebra useful, because it was covered in class after using SQL, so I didn't see any benefit to learning it, maybe if I had learned it before SQL, I would have understood SQL faster or more easily, but I ended up seeing it as useless because I thought the actual useful thing was SQL, until we learned SQL optimization, so maybe the order was so people wouldn't have forgotten about relational algebra, but it seemed completely tedious, boring and useless before actually using it for something

hope this helps
I learned data modeling at an internship before my CS class. I learned by watching a guy do it, working in ERwin, while he talked out loud, discussing when to break things up, when he was using a previous pattern, etc. he would then critique my models and others’, where they made mistakes, the cost of a de-normalization to clarity, the choices for performance, cases the model didn’t handle, etc.

When I later took my database class, it was a cake walk.

He was building a time tracking + project management tool. Easy enough business case for anyone to understand. Enough complexity to drive my learning.
What was the extension? Specifically.
Yes, and we very much regret that. We're on a shared server, and our webhosting company recently added security software called Imunify360 that does this.
laser scanning (by EPA or equivalent)

Why would the EPA laser scan buildings?

The EPA handles clean air and water.

The only entities that have any business laser scanning any building are the county tax assessor and the insurance companies.
Good question. I'm willing to bet you have a different idea to me. How about you tell me what you think. I'm a professional physicist with a relatively mainstream view. But i couldn't give a comprehensive definition in the time I'm willing to take to write this comment. But i promise to write one if you do.
Do you ever get scared you could get "too good" at socializing? To the point of manipulation?
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> A prudent person might consider a cloud provider to be a domain of failure and choose a multi-cloud option, which would probably be the correct way to address this resiliency issue. However, that's not really an appropriate approach for an early stage startup, where availability is generally not that much of a concern.

If you replace "multi-cloud" with "multi-datacenter" (in the pre-cloud days), this premise is fairly unassailable. In those same days, applying it to "multi-ISP", it becomes more arguable.

Today, though, the incremental cost (money and cognitive) of the multi-cloud solution, even for an early startup, doesn't seem like it would be high enough to make the notion downright inappropriate to consider.

I'd even argue that if a cloud provider makes the lock-in so attractive or multi-cloud so difficult that that's a sign not to depend on those exclusive services.
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It just seems to me it is impossible to be surprised by a bounded random variable in this context. If the death sentence were carried out x days from now, where x is drawn from an exponential distribution, that would fulfill the surprising criterion. The source of the paradox is that the “surprising” aspect is fundamentally incompatible with the bounded nature of the sentence.
The research does get disseminated, just slowly. The transmission vector is contact with other people with firsthand knowledge of the research. It becomes an oral tradition, which makes it difficult to break into and is inefficient. I've come across many non-publishing research communities in various parts of computer science that continue to develop and share the state-of-the-art amongst themselves. The research isn't being lost, it is just compartmentalized.

For example, there is an elegant cache replacement algorithm I learned from a database kernel engineer a decade ago, one of those algorithms that is so obvious in hindsight that you can't believe it never occurred to you. It solves a key problem with the algorithms everyone knows in literature. I've used it ever since and taught a bunch of other database kernel engineers the same algorithm. I have no idea where the person I learned it from got it, but the literature still treats it like an unsolved problem. Many engineers are using it in more and more systems, and there are a few different variants in the wild, but no one has bothered to write it down AFAICT.

The salient point is that academia is not the only community that develops and defines the state-of-the-art in computer science, but at least they publish. Without an incentive for non-publishing research communities to publish, it becomes difficult for an outside academic to break into some fields because there isn't an obvious entry point.
Every Ethereum block contains a timestamp which smart contracts can read, so it's trivial to write code that only allows withdrawals in 1 month intervals.

There's no way to revoke a transaction but you could implement a hold so ETH could only be withdrawn from the contract x days after the charge is incurred, within such time the owner could cancel the withdrawal.

As far as notifications are concerned, there are events in Ethereum that you can subscribe to. So for example you could subscribe to a charge event, and go in and dispute it.
have yet to see a single occurrence of what you describe

How would you know? Maybe if a document had an unusual misspelling. But how would you know if DjVu munged a 3 into an 8?
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It doesn't prove they are impossible, but what it shows is if they are possible, the universe is conspiratorial. Because it restricts your free will so you don't create time travel paradoxes.
I have not tried to do what you describe, but this is my best take:

The problem isn't really the law most of the time: It's how companies are hooked up to the financial system.

The Stripes and Paypals of the world aren't really connected to all the credit card networks directly: There's layers underneath, and one of them is banks that act as intermediaries. These kind of companies start with one bank (say, Wells Fargo), and might expand to more as they want to expand to other parts of the world. Eventually, they might have dozens of banking partners that are part of the transaction processing. Even though this online processors are carrying most of the fraud risk, they still have to adhere to what their baking partners will accept, and pretty much every bank out there will tell them things that they can't sponsor past what is legal, and that almost always includes pornography, drug paraphernalia, medicines and sex toys. The bank will come knocking to their door, and they'll have to say no. This is not just down to banks disliking the businesses for image reasons, but also has to do with risk: The number of stolen credit cards used in those sites, and the amount of disputes on the charges for other reasons is pretty high compared to other lines of business.

Therefore, what you need is to form all your banking relationships with entities that have no problem with you processing cards for porn sites. So you have to find banks that will deal with this companies at all, and then convince them that your fraud protection is good enough, and your pockets deep enough, to take the risk.
PDF wasn't an open format when DjVu was first created.

Now that it is, there's probably no reason to use DjVu.
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Way more granular than at the county level. Building permits in my village at at the village level. Dozens of villages in my county.
If you've got two fans though, one in and one out would be optimal no?
Just read the whitepaper. Seems that the payer has to continuously scan the request network for requests and then the under its own will sends the money. But that means that your wallet has to be online (continuously or at least when the requestor makes the request), and this requirement of having a wallet online and having the wallet be able to automatically send money is the risk which I was pointing out that makes crypto like bitcoin or eth ill-suited for auto recurring payments. The crypto is only as safe as the computer it is on. Also as I hinted at such a scheme would require the computer holding the wallet to be online... So I'm imagining everyone would have to have the coins on a device like a home raspberry or home router or (gasp) on your smartphone you carry around. I guess these problems reduce to computer security problems, and so aren't insurmountable nor are they problems inheirent to crypto.

Honestly the whitepaper talks a little too much about how revolutionary it will be and all the things it could solve without going into enough detail of implementing the solutions.
I'm a recent grad of a good CS program. I know that I prefer written material to lectures, and my favorite professors were those who had written material (course reader format, not slides) covering lecture content.
It is much better optimized for scanned documents than PDF.
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I wonder if it might be because of how much free porn there is.

"Paying for porn is stupid. But I just have to have everything of this specific person or fetish, so I'll pay, scrape, then chargeback."

I'm skeptical that it's a lot of kids because I feel like finding free porn is pretty darn easy if you try. Why would they ever bother with all the friction that goes with charging their parents CC?

(Just checked, the top three Googles for "free porn" are sites with a lifetime of free porn)
You are accelerating the space which contains the wormhole. It doesn't matter if it's "stuff" or not.
If you mean, quantum computers that would exploit a nonlinear term in the Schrödinger equation to solve NP-complete and even harder problems in polynomial time (as studied by Abrams and Lloyd in 1998), then the central problem is that I don’t believe such a nonlinear term exists. Experimental searches have put more and more severe upper bounds on its size, if it did exist. But the bigger problem is that such a term would completely break the structure of quantum mechanics, in even more “basic” ways than by making NP-complete problems easy. For example, it would genetically lead to faster-than-light communication and to violations of the uncertainty principle. So while it’s interesting to think about, and even worth searching for just in case, it almost certainly belongs to the category of “what if?” physics.
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I grew up Mormon and didn't realize a morning coke was weird until I was 25. It's pretty common out here in Utah.
I feel like DjVu was never sufficiently better than PDF for me to bother using it. There are PDF readers for almost literally anything device imaginable, and often they are included with your choice of operating system. I feel like if DjVu would have more of an audience if it weren't for the fact that PDF is an open standard now.
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Djvu are often a lot smaller in size than the corresponding PDF. I have a lot of math texts in electronic form and the difference is pretty dramatic.
> France has its own MIT, it's called École Polytechnique

Is EP’s productivity (in terms of companies founded by, landmark inventions/discoveries made by or patents awarded to) comparable to MIT? I thought it was more geared towards producing future politicians.
Clang has done a really amazing job of cleaning those up. I find them super helpful these days.
I've never understood why the resolution to this paradox isn't because of his confidence he expected not to be hung, thus any hanging would be unexpected/a suprise.

Dosent seem terribly paradoxical to me.
Ask once. Ask directly. Be unambiguous about the fact that you're asking for a date, not just "want to be friends?"

"Hi Jane. Listen, I like you a lot. Would you like to go out for coffee some time? If not, no hard feelings, and I promise not to bring it up again."

Yes, it's awkward, but at work ambiguity will create problems. So will gazing longingly at your crush. If you can't work up the courage to ask, then you need to get over this crush post haste.

If she declines, then do not bring it up again. Conduct yourself towards her in a professional manner. If you can manage it from an emotional standpoint, continue to be as friendly to her as you were previously, especially if you ever work together directly (women dread retribution in the workplace for turning down romantic overtures).

Treat her exactly as you would a male colleague or a female colleague whom you found unattractive. This is also what you need to do if you decide not to ask.

If she accepts, then congratulations!

Source: I'm a woman. This is how I would prefer to be treated and also what most female friends I've spoken to about workplace romance would prefer.
When the quantum computation is finished, you suck it up and you measure. The entire point of the quantum algorithm was to set things up in such a way that, even as the measurement destroys the superposition state, the right answer is observed with a high probability (since you used constructive and destructive interference to boost its amplitude, while suppressing the amplitudes of the wrong answers).
Can you list some economists that agree with Trump something should be done about China? Most economists I've heard suggests the opposite, so a citation would be great.
>San Francisco has been trying, and mostly failing, for half a century to give African American and Latino students an education comparable to that provided to white and Asian students in the city.

At what point will it become appropriate to admit that there is a cultural problem among certain low income minorities that leads to poor outcomes in education?

Regardless of whether it is fair, is it really reasonable to force middle class minorities and whites to be exposed to drugs and violence in middle school, in a clearly failed attempt to bring up worst performers?

These policies are a net loss to society. Instead of boosting performance of the lower tail, we are only hampering the middle and, especially, upper reaches of achievement. Some problems can't be solved by money, or even celebrity apparently, according to this article.
From my own playing around figuring how I wanted to archive scanned documents, it's both smaller and much quicker to load.

But going out on a limb with a format doesn't instill confidence for long term. It's great there's one "perfect" implementation that seems to just work, but perceived lack of an ecosystem is still worrying. Not that looking through the source of say libjpeg instills confidence either! I was also considering JP2 for nicer-looking artifacts, but couldn't bring myself to go that route.

I eventually just increased my size budget (because disappearing a ream into 5GB is still damn useful!), and decided to just store lossless FLIF at 300dpi. I statically compiled the flif binary, do a test decode to make sure the bits round trip, and store checksums of the decoder binary and raw raster alongside.

I then stuff this into a zip container (aka .cbz), along with some really poor jpg thumbnails so present evince can view it. I still need to write the transcoder to .djvu - when I'm no longer buried under piles of paper!
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It's hard to get a fully multi-cloud response in a simple stack. I describe one option for a simple multi-cloud stack in this blog post: https://blog.fauna.com/survive-cloud-vendor-crashes-with-net...
I remember playing with fruit loops in highschool, they had some cute anti pirating mechanisms that were immediately defeated.
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> On the other hand, it's okay for a program to not be proven, because it can be useful even if it has bugs.

True, and a very important point. But... if the program has bugs, do they affect the results? Do they affect the results enough to matter? How do you know? In particular, what is your objective proof that the program does what you need it to do?

For many programs, such concerns are extreme overkill. For some, though, you have to prove that it does what you need it to.
This idea that the livelihoods of adult performers are at stake is nonsense.

Almost nobody in the industry relies on Patreon for their income, not in the least because people don't go to Patreon for adult content. Sure, some performers do set up one for their fans to support them, but practically nobody lives off of it.

Not to name any names, but there are dozens of popular sites where performers can offer their content/services. They all take a relatively big cut (on the order of 50%), but that's due to rampant fraud, chargebacks and because of money laundering. If that service could be offered substantially cheaper, it would. Case in point is that despite the issues, cryptocurrency isn't popular at all.
>I want to criticise the whole system in which people must rely upon several centralised services in order to get by with their craft.

It's sad that some people can't earn a living because their "craft" is deemed to high risk by The System, but what's the alternative? That everyone else subsidize their high risk "craft" by paying higher processing fees?
No one is going to hire someone who can’t function, as you mentioned at the end.
No, I don’t think humanity is well placed to be responsible wielders of quantum computing. But the thing is, we’re even less well-placed to be responsible wielders of nuclear weapons, or climate-destroying combustion engines, or probably even guns or fire! :-) So with all the more dangerous technologies out there, it would be weird to fret about quantum computers of all things: something that seems unlikely to do much harm (at least if we take care to upgrade our crypto), and that might even do significant good for the world, for example if quantum simulation lets us design more efficient batteries and solar cells.
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Annoyingly, the caption of the second photo seems to imply that the man is still considered a danger today. Although the article makes no mention as to why.
I think the limit may be the author, not the tool the author writes with.
I don’t remember it being that hard - I had a Tandy 1000SX and I bought a 3rd party hardrive that was mounted on an extension card so that it took up two slots.

I can still hear the sounds that disk made (sort of like a spray paint can being shook) when it was seeking and the “clunk!” it made when you ran the park command.
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Maybe you should read more widely.

And maybe you should not make generalizations based on your reading list. In particular, your reading list could be selective, thereby making generalizations worthless. Or you could misread your reading list, where they do not explicitly state that they believe in and/or depend on proof by contradiction.
As the maxim says, "relativity, causality, or FTL... pick two."

The bounds on which wormholes are possible are likely bounds which make the transmission of information (including matter) impossible, because we live in a universe in which relativity and causality exist, and cannot (as far as we know) be violated.
Sorry, the headline asks for it: net lives rebuilt here is negative given counting the chickens…
I hate the way the big-shots at all the Aerosol Velcro manufacturers get together and put different amounts of hooks and loops into the two cans, so you always have some left over. Kind of like the Hotdog Conspiracy. Well they're not ripping off this nitwit anymore!

https://www.exploratorium.edu/blogs/tangents/hotdog-conspira...
Short answer: not in any obvious way!

Longer answer: whatever I have to say about possible implications of QC for the hard problem of consciousness, you can probably find in the following lecture

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951

or in the Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine essay that’s linked below.
There’s surely a spectrum from authoritarianism to liberal democracy, but there’s also a case to be made for free vs not free countries: if you can get into a public Twitter spat with the President of your country, and not worry someone will come break your legs (or worse) the next day, I call that a free country. Everything else is not.
Take a look at the US Census Bureau's methodology page for the Building Permits Survey.[1] They statistically impute the numbers from a subset of 20,100 building permit issuing authorities, because they cannot collect all of the distinct authorities in the country with different data collection and storage policies.

Federal databases of postal addresses don't really have any reason to maintain data on the structures.

Some fire fighting authorities have building layouts for recently built buildings. They may all have their own methods for storing the data, and the coverage is confusing enough that the bodies and budget authorities responsible for fighting any long lasting wild fire frequently change.

Properties lines are usually recorded and maintained at the county level, and enforced by a county court and sheriff at their direction, but this too is not the case everywhere.

It is not outlandish to think that there are multiple federal databases that include all of the data on buildings in the US, whether at the Department of Defense, or at multiple agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. However, it seems common that only data collected as a side effect of the regular course of doing government business are released to the public, but data sets created as part of some form of security-related goals are not released to the public.

[1] https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/how_the_data_are_col...
Seems unfortunate. These are what I'd imagine to be near private transactions between consenting adults.

Where's the harm in that?
It’s certainly not a business.