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Both the Schrodinger equation and inflationary cosmology predict alternate worlds filled with alternate yous. MWI refers to the former. The author of this piece is talking about the later.

If anyone is looking for a simple introduction to the Everett interpretation I'll point you to this short lecture by James Ladyman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgXVEeL9tzM
Gwern's comments rarely take the time to lay out every step in his reasoning. Mix in his typical snark and you've got a recipe for misunderstanding. I'll spell it out.

When it comes to disadvantaged and struggling students, tutoring has been tried countless times. As the article points out, it typically fails. What is Chicago's Match program doing differently? If the answer is, "not much", we should expect it to fail. In that case, the initial indications of success could be a statistical fluke, an uncorrected selection effect, or even biased researchers "juking" the stats.

It took some digging, but I found a paper on the pilot study.[1] This preceded the one mentioned by the NYT, and had just 106 students. I don't see any glaring errors, but I don't spend a ton of time reading academic papers. They at least admit potential issues with scaling (the program relies on volunteers to keep costs low) and the poor statistical power of their study. Figures 5 through 8 are particularly damning.

I'd love it if this program worked, but I'm not optimistic.

1. http://www.matcheducation.org/s/Crime-Lab-pilot-study-paper_...
I too like my Lumia more than any previous phone I've had.

Unfortunately there's one key problem which means I won't be getting another one - I have no way of getting an offline copy of my phone backups.

I didn't realise for a while after purchase and it's not such an issue to make me immediately want to get a new phone, but I refuse to relinquish that control by choice.
The context is also highly political. The results can be misconstrued and used to fit a storyline. The author states it has a huge societal impact, which is true - but I feel like climate change models are more important to politians than the majority of citizens.
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A B C D is necessarily equal to A(B,C,D) in C-family syntax due to the precedence rules, there is no ambiguity.

The reason whitespace is more elegant is because your functions can return other functions, which due to function currying and partial application is equivalent to your function simply taking more arguments.

I'll use Python as an example.

def flip(f): return lambda a,b : f(b,a)

That is, it's a function that takes a function of two arguments, and returns a function that does the same thing, but with the argument order flipped.

To use these function, it would look like:

flip(f)(a,b)

In Haskell, a direct translation with the lambda would be:

flip f = \a b -> f b a

The type of which could be written as:

flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> (b -> a -> c)

That is, a function which takes one argument, that argument is a function that takes two arguments of types a and b and yields a value of type c, and returns a function that takes two arguments of types b and a and yields a value of type c.

We could use this function like:

(flip f) a b

But due to function precedence we could use

flip f a b

This segues into an equivalent (and arguably better) way to write the function taking advantage of partial application and currying:

flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c
flip f a b = f b a

Which would be used the exact same way:

flip f a b

This illustrates the elegance of currying.

a -> b -> c

Is equivalent to

a -> (b -> c)
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Many Worlds is one concept; this is another and quite different.
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This is covered on page 43.

It's too bad the OP is off the front-page already - this is the best thing I've seen on HN in about 6mo. But you're right - we still need better ways of thinking about application design. Bret Victor gets it, because it's a visualization problem, and a pedagogy problem, and a tooling problem, not really a "computer science problem" (a la Scott Aaronson).

This paper ignores "application construction" as a problem, but the existence of Light Table, Swift, Go, React, and so forth underscore the need for better developer tools. (React is particularly interesting as I don't know of anything that good even outside of the web. It's interesting that app design in the browser is eclipsing traditional methods in many ways! I think that's cool.)
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It sounds like the stories are rather unrelated. The similarities are what, a female astronaut in space has problems? The film is basically a dumb action movie about a woman jumping around the world, while the book is supposedly about a medical issue.

Even if the director had saw her book and thought "cool setup, a woman in space", why should that be legally enforceable? Even the author admits there's no copyright claim involved.
Hash trees are pretty cool. For some fancier uses, see the Peer to Peer Streaming Protocol (PPSP), which is authored by the libswift/tribler guys.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ppsp/documents/

Basically, instead of the stream source having to sign every single new chunk (so peers can verify that they're getting the right data), the source signs subtree hashes of the new data and slowly builds up a larger hash tree. Once the stream is over, the complete hash tree is instantly seedable by anybody in the original stream.
We should just let the math gender gap go until it counteracts the gender gap in STEM employment.
This offer sounds great!

However, I must ask -- what's their business model?

Even as great as the offer is, this is akin to the free sample... Because once you deploy the https:// address scheme, there is no going back. On the other hand, this would have been perfect if there was opportunistic encryption within HTTP.
I will try to give an example. During recent Charlie Hebdo incident, I wanted to find their address. If you search for "charlie Hebdo Paris Address" the first page and many subsequent pages are all dominated by media outlets. (http://imgur.com/3nyjURA) I should go to "maps" tab to get the address

This happens very often. Media outlets dominate search results.
Yeah, there's a difference between factual errors and implicit scope of reference in commonly used phrases.

Don't be a jackass.
A lot of more of the same 'Peek beyond the veil' of this reality type writing. Obviously a myopia exists on planet earth. Earth is a little bubble we have been floating in womb-like for aeons of years, and are aware, sometimes even at a very basic level that there's more out there. What I find awkward is that scale is seen as a scary thing. Space is often called a "final frontier", and the "last bastion of hope" and other scary things like that.

But you have to think of those first sailors who set out to discover the new worlds - they risked their lives - they were the original space monkeys. Sadly, ethical red tape won't allow a mass exodus to other stars - as the stock market would inevitably plunge, and there would be chaos.

The moment we get out of the tired economic model of scarcity, and start opting for abundance, is the moment we can leap towards other dimensions, and other worlds. But for now - we have an impotent attempt to understand the universe through a tired Hubble telescope, and a tired generation of rocket builders who read science fiction novels in secret and know there's another way out of this place.
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All Haskell functions are curried, so there's no ambiguity.
There's also EigenTrust, a competing algorithmic approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EigenTrust
I'm a big fan of my Macbook keyboard over the mechanical hype too. I find myself looking for things to type when I have to use chiclets.
Which is what the lawsuit is based upon really - that's said, the title is the same, the story is very similar, and it seems extremely likely that the author is accurate, even thus it may be difficult to prove (and easy to disprove, WB can just delete all the files where she's mentioned during the acquisition and then she just has her own word for it, emails being easy to fake and all)
Disappointed there's no integer division, or explanation of the different division operator behaviours (some languages have separate integer and float operators, some use floats if indivisible but otherwise integers, some do integer or float depending on the operand types, etc.)
Surely the date error would go the other way? If the Americans are in Hawaii and it's (say) 1 February, in the landing zone in China it would be 2 February, not 31 January. So if a mistake were made and they had said "the attack is on 1 Feb, be prepared", the Chinese strips would be ready too early, wondering where the Americans were, and then do a little math to figure out they'd be needed the next day instead.

Right?
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Actually, Hitler planned to invade Sweden on July 1st of 1943, but the attack was called off only hours before, due to events in North Africa.
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this is the kind of stuff where I want to live old enough to see super AI solve this for us ;-)
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I think it is way more likely that they never read the documentation (or at least not all of it) than that there was no documentation.

Also, that 'clip to MAXINT' choice can be a very bad choice, too, so it would have to be documented and that documentation would have to be checked before any reuse of the code in environments with the constraint that the code cannot fail. Because of that, I cannot see how that choice would help to prevent such accidents.
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The author explains exactly what he means by that in a bullet point.

"Because there are many other modeling groups, and scientific results are filtered through processes of replication, and systematic assessment of the overall scientific evidence, the impact of software errors on, say, climate policy is effectively nil."

The commenter seemed to completely ignore the explanation, and took the quote out of context. The rebuttal was answered in the original statement.
Very similar to IPFS's merkle DAG and seems like a critical element of getting content centric networking projects like Bitorrent, Inc's Project Malestrom up and running
ipfs uses exactly the same strategy to distribute content via the hash of their root merkleDAG node. http://ipfs.io
I expected this to be about Folke Bernadotte [0]. Also a Swedish diplomat, he rescued about 31,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps.

Bernadotte didn't disappear, though. As the UN Mediator in Palestine, he negotiated the ceasefire of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and was surprisingly prescient in that capacity: 'After the truce was in place, Bernadotte began to address the issue of achieving a political settlement. The main obstacles in his opinion were "the Arab world's continued rejection of the existence of a Jewish state, whatever its borders; Israel's new 'philosophy', based on its increasing military strength, of ignoring the partition boundaries and conquering what additional territory it could; and the emerging Palestinian Arab refugee problem."' [1]

For his efforts, he was assassinated by Zionist terrorists, including the later Prime Minister of Israel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War#UN_media...
I'm somewhat keen to try Ubuntu on a touch device, but I've been a Windows stickler for years. I tried to switch to OSX but Mac always remained my secondary machine. I just felt that all the 'it just works' stuff was mostly just marketing speak. Sure it was nice to have a Unix compatible shell and have all my Ruby Gems work without issue, but once I moved to Node.js as my main server-side platform, the issue basically disappeared.

There is lots of talk about Windows 10, is it 'intelligently designed'? I'm not sure, it is fixing the errors made in Windows 8, it is definitely more innovative than OSX, not sure where it falls on the innovation curve compared to Ubuntu Touch.

I think if you want to be getting a future ready desktop OS, you can't ignore the importance of touch, and with HoloLens coming, getting yourself comfortable on a Windows OS may be a good idea. I'm amazed that as Apple lead the way with touch on devices, they have ignored the benefit of touch for the desktop OS. I don't use it all the time, but it's nice to have every once in a while, and I suspect it will only become more important in the future.
I can't help but think that in 200 years time this sort of meaningless and vapid introspection about the improbability of even existing will have thankfully gone the way of theology.
I'm quite fond of differential forms, but the first time that they came up in my undergraduate math major was late in an optional second semester math analysis course (and even the first semester of of that course was more advanced than what a lot of undergraduate math programs seem to reach), and the treatment in that class was very brief.

I take it from your question that you think that there's a way to incorporate the differential forms formalism for electromagnetism into an undergraduate physics major at roughly a 2nd-year level (or maybe 3rd year). I'd be really curious to know what you have in mind: I teach physics professionally, and I have trouble imagining how to do forms justice in a way that matches the intuitive grounding of div/grad/curl (which many students already struggle with, mind you).
> apply for inclusion with the vendors (Apple/MSFT/GOOG/Mozilla/Debian etc) it will take another couple of months

Mozilla takes ~1.5 years to include a CA.

> I wonder what the total initial and running costs of starting up a CA (including WebTrust & yearly re-audit) are today...

Without including man-hours, I've estimated it to be $550k for creating and maintaining a CA for three years. The audits make up a large majority of this. Big firms like E&Y charge a lot, which is what my estimate is based off of. You also need HSMs + places to store the HSMs, a CP(S), etc. If you've ever read the WebTrust guidelines, you'll know you need a lot of accountability and security.

You could probably reduce the figure with a small auditing firm. My estimates of course are estimates. Certly got quoted $120k/yr (not including a readiness audit) for a WebTrust audit by E&Y.
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I don't know if anyone has said this but if you have any friends who are high school teachers tell them about it. I think it would really be engaging for high schoolers to use it, its fun and they also can keep up with current events. I remember back in high school a lot of my teachers in certain classes asked about current events and stuff in the news, it would be perfect for them now since they are always on their phone and teachers can make sure they are reading or doing the quizzes based on their scores.

Really cool app by the way, downloaded it and love it.
Any proof of that? Or are you just assuming that it is similar to payday loans in the US?
So if I get it right, there can't be another you because there are too much particles (and possible interactions between them) in the universe.

Perhaps there isn't a universe where every particle is the same as in ours, but we could be just concerned about the particles our galaxy for example. I might be wrong, but I think it might be theoretically possible to have the same earth in a totally different universe.

What I find somewhat counter intuitive is that, the more particles there are, the less our chances are that another version of us exist, I would have said it makes the chances bigger, or at least in our own universe.
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> It's a pity no CA besides StartCom and Comodo pick up the S/MIME market.

A lot of CAs sell S/MIME certs, including GlobalSign and CyberTrust. They're not heavily advertised, though.
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One more note on this.. fernly and others have correctly pointed out that these did come about as different theories, but there are physicists who have come to believe they are the same thing.
Overgeneralizations? You mean "propoganda"?

Coalition? You mean "fear fueled mob"?

Not sure what you mean by a bottom up government but the buzzwords are flowing I'm assuming it involves something along the lines of privatizating everything.
> Because once you deploy the https:// address scheme, there is no going back.

Unless you send the HSTS header, that's not true. Even so, you could just set the HSTS expiry time to the certificate's expiry (which would have to be done within your code, sadly).
> Sadly, ethical red tape won't allow a mass exodus to other stars - as the stock market would inevitably plunge, and there would be chaos.

What ethical red tape are you referring too? Because I can't quite think of any. And do you mind elaborate on the stock market too?

On the topic of scarcity vs abundance, fundamentally, there might be physical constraints that will never allow us to really be "abundance": space is big, really really big.
Oops, I forgot to include language making it clear that in mid-1944 and on when Wallenberg was doing his thing it was beyond Nazi Germany's power to invade Sweden. Well, without for example stripping the forces trying to keep the US and the Commonwealth from breaking out of Normandy.
Not condoning what they did, but saying nothing seems to be par for the course, based on limited personal experience, and a lot of chatter from colleagues the past few years. Sad, but true.
State-sponsored CA perhaps?

I'd be a little suspicious of anything too free like that. I hate to be too xenophobic but I can't say the thought didn't cross my mind.
Lot's of interesting things in this article, but why will Uber be the source of Autonomous cars?

I still fail to see what the big deal about Uber is, I've never used it, don't see why I would. I've never had a problem just sticking out my hand and getting a cab. All I hear about Uber is about excessive fees, so why bother.

On the other hand, why wouldn't GM/Ford/Etc. not create their own app for hailing cars that they put on the streets? They've already got an infrastructure for maintenance, and that real-estate can be well used for charging, cleaning and servicing of their autonomous cars.

You could have an app to get you a GM car, or maybe if you prefer, you use your 'Cadillac' app for something special.
Ok you're probably right on the cost of the writeoff, and now I see your point on the size of the debts I agree with that too. Given this, the program isn't really that unique. For example, the US has a program to help out people with high mortgage debt or underwater mortgages.
The court can take notice of the fact: "the SEC filing says WB took control of New Line."[1] It can't take notice of the fact: "WB took control of New Line." Here, we care about the actual fact of the merger, but sometimes we just care about what the SEC filing said about a merger or sale. For example, if a statute of limitations is in dispute, what matters is that the SEC filing says a merger or sale happened--putting investors on notice, not the actual truth of the merger.

[1] Although at this stage, the author merely has to allege, not prove, the fact of the merger. It appears she failed to allege the relevant facts in her complaint, and tried to get them in by referring to the SEC filing. But she should just be able to amend her complaint and allege the facts directly.
The (other?) big win of pspp is the ability to stream live feeds.
I don't think you know what the word "shill" means. You can't just use it as a term for people that have a different political view than you.
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"illegal or immoral"

You can't be prosecuted for just the latter.
I'm a teacher by career. If I had the opportunity today, I'd go do an internship in SV for the experience.

But when I was in your shoes I spent 13 months living on a bicycle. I was 26 when I did that, and it's kept me grounded for the last 16 years.

Go have an adventure!
An electrical discharge does not explain the color. To be a complete explanation it needs to explain the color of the lights.
What's the key differentiator between this and logstash? Obviously logstash has this beat on the number of patterns simply because it's been around for longer. If this is truly different (superior and/or faster) than logstash's grok parser, I wonder if this could be implemented as a sort of meta-parser in logstash, possibly useful in cases where someone would have instead resorted to building a grok definition.
>Unlike C++, 1. Macros from one crate aren't imported into another unless
> the user explicitly requests that they be. 2. Macro invocations are
> clearly macro invocations. You never have to wonder if something is a
> function or a macro.

Given the reference to Boost, the author is almost certainly talking about template metaprogramming, not C macros. TMP is obviously a lot more limited in scope than Rust macros, but it could hardly be called dangerous; I doubt anyone's ever invoked it by accident.
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