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cottonseed

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    You cannot bruteforce this. Exhibiting a unknotting of K with n moves only gives you an upper bound u(K) <= n. Proving u(K) = n is an entirely different matter.

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    Those are the same. To see that, just flip over L before performing the connect sum.

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    Proteins are linear molecules consisting of sequences of (mostly) 20 amino acids. You can see the list of amino acids here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#Table_of_standa…

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    I actually prototyped a system like this, mostly as an exercise to learn about crypto. You can't feasibly host or verify proofs on-chain, so you need external trusted verifiers (e.…

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    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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    Yes. EleutherAI is doing it, probably one of many: https://www.eleuther.ai/projects/gpt-neox/ https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06745 They have a 20…

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    AllSpice might be what you're looking for? > AllSpice: A git platform for hardware engineers https://www.allspice.io/

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    Where are you losing people in your hiring process? Are you getting no initial applications? Do you give the coding exercise but they never do it? Do you give an offer but they tur…

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    Mathematician here. What do you want this for? Even if you had them, you probably wouldn't understand the definitions anyway. As others say, there is no standard, and conventions v…

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    One of the best technologists I ever worked with denied his interest in technology until he was around your age. He was a professor at a top school in CS and started some innovativ…

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    I thought this recent Hackaday article did a good job putting the current Chernobyl situation in perspective: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/14/increased-neutron-levels-at-... edit: …

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    It is pretty clear Jim Keller did something pretty remarkable at Apple and then AMD (I know less about his work at Tesla). I tried to dig into the stuff he's said and written to un…

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    You guys are getting upvotes?

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    Hail at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE, https://hail.is , https://broadinstitute.org The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was la…

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    I think it's going to largely depend on build times and how much infrastructure you need to spin up during during tests. Some discussion for the same question in a recent thread: h…

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    You might like 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, too.