Hacker News: vignesh_m

New comment by vignesh_m in "Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)"

vignesh_m — Sat, 25 May 2019 04:16:34 +0000

Its actually pretty hard for even humans to eyeball a graph and figure it out. For example, the wiki article on the peterson graph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph) has a few drawings that you cant easily say are the same graph.

New comment by vignesh_m in "FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA"

vignesh_m — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:39:14 +0000

Not really a good rebuttal. The only reason for not getting our DNA is depending on criminals having repeat offenses?

New comment by vignesh_m in "Poverty leaves a mark on our genes"

vignesh_m — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:12:12 +0000

Yeah they do nothing to even hint at possible correlation without causation

New comment by vignesh_m in "Moving to GitLab"

vignesh_m — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 05:55:14 +0000

there are some features in pro version, but yeah its mostly open source

New comment by vignesh_m in "Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think"

vignesh_m — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:33:31 +0000

I would think adding more salt would only worsen the problem. Adding soluble salts are used to precipitate other salts (e.g common ion effect). Not sure how valid that is here tho.

New comment by vignesh_m in "Why are conversations limited to about four people?"

vignesh_m — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:02:08 +0000

Behind a paywall :/

New comment by vignesh_m in "The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types"

vignesh_m — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 10:29:33 +0000

This is almost identical to the study of combinatorial species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_species)

New comment by vignesh_m in "Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome"

vignesh_m — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:04:57 +0000

firefox containers work great for precisely this use case

New comment by vignesh_m in "The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist"

vignesh_m — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:06:28 +0000

Wow TIL

New comment by vignesh_m in "The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist"

vignesh_m — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:05:18 +0000

Yes the Russians do it, but I remember the US doing the same thing multiple times. I guess no country wants their citizens to be tried elsewhere.

New comment by vignesh_m in "The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist"

vignesh_m — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:03:31 +0000

Would alternative control by the private sector be better? There are tons of cases where private control of public services has been bad for the people (jails, schools etc).

New comment by vignesh_m in "The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist"

vignesh_m — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:01:29 +0000

Idk why you're being downvoted when you're right. I guess people are incorrectly thinking you support this behaviour instead of simply stating how it is capitalist.

New comment by vignesh_m in "FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations"

vignesh_m — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 03:49:16 +0000

Yeah was at least hoping for an equation solver e.g. find radius given area

New comment by vignesh_m in "Georgia Has a Coast?"

vignesh_m — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:42:24 +0000

ive seen a few shows filmed there, they have a made in Georgia segment at the credits

New comment by vignesh_m in "The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands"

vignesh_m — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:07:48 +0000

gnu is unix

New comment by vignesh_m in "The moving sofa problem"

vignesh_m — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:57:45 +0000

Somewhat related, but more counterintuitive and "solved": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set

New comment by vignesh_m in "Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach"

vignesh_m — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:24:58 +0000

I think op's problem is different than the one normally studied - he wants to design a halting program and find the class of programs for which it works.

This is typically not very popular as these statements depend a lot on the program, and the representations of programs unlike the halting problem computability statement.

New comment by vignesh_m in "Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach"

vignesh_m — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:20:39 +0000

Turing machines output yes/no or indefinitely go on, so that might be like your possible outputs of halts/doesn't halt/don't know. I'm not really sure how much to assume you know, so the [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) might help

New comment by vignesh_m in "Unexpected hanging paradox"

vignesh_m — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 03:16:24 +0000

The main issue is the definition of surprise for perfectly rational entities. Your argument doesn't really add much as you can just fix that time of day when all executions occur, and you've just restated the paradox.

New comment by vignesh_m in "AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches"

vignesh_m — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:11:34 +0000

I saw the site on page 3 after googling for "polygraph"

Although searching for "the lie behind the lie detector" gives the first result as the correct one from anitpolygraph.

Is it possible google didn't really do anything shady?