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New comment by likelynew in "An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)"

likelynew — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:22:16 +0000

g3.xlarge is many times faster and spot prices are like 0.5$ per hour.

New comment by likelynew in "An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing"

likelynew — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:53:57 +0000

No, ELECTRON spin is not exactly a direction, as in 3D vector. In every direction, it can be +1 or -1. It follows different transformation than a vector(wigner matrix for j=1/2 and 1). Expressions like direction |z> and |x> are not independent in this case.

Photon spin is actually a vector, as with all spin 1 particle.

New comment by likelynew in "A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab"

likelynew — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:10:49 +0000

See this too: https://www.downthemall.net/re-downthemall-and-webextensions...

New comment by likelynew in "Quantum Computing Explained"

likelynew — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:07:04 +0000

Oh, thanks. You are correct that it is very noisy. Just a single CNOT is giving me 15% error.

New comment by likelynew in "Quantum Computing Explained"

likelynew — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:25:38 +0000

> Fortunately for 1) (I think) it currently takes 2^512 (?) operations to break the private/public algorithm which is unfeasible to brute-force on normal hardware but a QC brings it down to 2^128

Where have you got that info? Quantum computers can break ECDSA in polynomial function of 512.

> the blockchain could be changed overnight to use a new keying algorithm.

How?

New comment by likelynew in "Quantum Computing Explained"

likelynew — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:21:38 +0000

AFAIK this is a simulation, not real quantum machines.

New comment by likelynew in "Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy"

likelynew — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:00:56 +0000

Good for them that they can spend bitcoin cash without people noticing.

New comment by likelynew in "Mega Benchmark: Cost of AWS vs. GCE vs. IBM vs. Hetzner for Machine Learning"

likelynew — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:19:24 +0000

> With regards to stability, I had no issues with either AWS, Softlayer or Hetzner. However, when running a long task (the benchmark with Tensorflow-GPU) on GCE, the job abruptly stopped after a few days without showing any errors, and I couldn’t figure out why. A repeated attempt also resulted in the same failure.

I encountered same error with google cloud ML engine. No errors on warning when shutting down. Any idea why?

New comment by likelynew in "Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights"

likelynew — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 06:33:55 +0000

What? That was really not the point. The GP's point was 'As long as India periphery is culturally diverse from Hindi core, India is not going to get anywhere', which is kind of opposite of what you are saying. Also see 'India will develop unevenly Gujarat, Maharashtra, TN, AP will forge ahead' which shows kind of unhappiness from development of some areas.

New comment by likelynew in "Google for India: Building India-first products and features"

likelynew — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:31:00 +0000

Looks too good deal. Which city do you live in?

New comment by likelynew in "Google for India: Building India-first products and features"

likelynew — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:29:22 +0000

Current jio price is 459 for 84 days, 1 GB per day.

New comment by likelynew in "Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights"

likelynew — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 08:27:33 +0000

That was a racist comment. He/She was referring to Hindi belt, which contains UP, Bihar, MP, the capital Delhi and likes. Many of the regions are poorest in India. This is commonly referred to as core of India.

New comment by likelynew in "Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’"

likelynew — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:49:38 +0000

What. I didn't know that.

New comment by likelynew in "MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch"

likelynew — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:41:22 +0000

What do you mean when you say management fucked up: they don't think it's worth to invest in quality of apple software? This is a decision, not a fuck up.

New comment by likelynew in "More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked"

likelynew — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:44:04 +0000

But decreasing the average usage of customers, despite fixing maximum will mean profit. If somehow video sites get blocked, the average internet usage will very likely drop down many fold.

New comment by likelynew in "A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)"

likelynew — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:34:35 +0000

I primarily use vim for writing code. While I use a lot of standard plugins, I find many things that is not correct with them. I know it's kind of a subjective question, but is moving to spacemacs worth it? Any experiences?

New comment by likelynew in "Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code"

likelynew — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:19:45 +0000

Shadertoys' authors never fail to amaze me.

New comment by likelynew in "I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality"

likelynew — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:04:25 +0000

> But even with murder, the law doesn't stop murders before they happen, but rather only acts retroactively (and that is for good reason).

In a way the law tries to accomplish this by limiting ways like guns, bombs and sometimes doing checks randomly or based on suspicion.

New comment by likelynew in "Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market"

likelynew — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:28:48 +0000

Where is cloudflare?

New comment by likelynew in "Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten"

likelynew — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 06:21:35 +0000

I think with many small countries outside US/Europe becoming developed, one needs a shopping site with wide variety of international products and minimal shipping rate.