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The complexity of Karatsuba's algorithm, because it's a recursive one that gets "wider" at every level, is dominated by the width of that recursion. The top level always has a smal…

Do you write things that you intend other people read? The value in that writing, one would assume, would include your education, culture, and intelligence.

That's at odds with everything I know about manufacturing robotics, having worked with people doing that work. The complexity of the environment is irrelevant because the robot is …

Sadly, American politics are so absurd now that some people won't recognize you're joking

I am only really confused about this comment. I don't see any shock here, just people discussing the same disappointing state of events you are.

The biggest source of lead exposure in indoor ranges isn't from the chunks of lead shot into targets. It's from the primers. Lead styphnate is still a common ingredient, and the pr…

I don't understand this comment. The fine article is about a proposed law that would allegedly require the implementation of half-baked censorship systems along the same lines as t…

It's also alive and well off the blockchain!

You give a damn about speech. You're publicly criticizing the foundational document of a government, and calling that government a failure. That open criticism is necessary for cha…

Eh? More for the rest of us, then!

The U.S. constitution is about the structure of the government and the things it can and cannot do. It's a remarkably short and readable document for what it is and when it was fir…

Yes, you are morally responsible for your own actions. But those actions don't happen in a vacuum. They happen in a world that you are able to observe and make predictions about, h…

Tlön is one of my favorite short stories. Weirdly (and perhaps appropriately) that's despite being unable to remember basically anything about it once I've finished reading.

Who should the unimaginative non-liberals read, and why?

This isn't a forensics class. People are allowed to point out what they think is obvious without having to explain it in detail. And it's rude to insist that they do more than you'…

I will leave aside my own judgment of the things you've listed. I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with some. My exact opinion doesn't matter here. What matters is this…

> We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or wa…

> Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. That is an obviousl…

The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech tha…

Donald Trump is currently doing immense damage to the personal liberty of some and to the free expression of all. Every one of the numerous things listed in the article is somethin…

It wouldn't be an ordinary law, it would be a constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's probably not going to happen, though. Amending the U.S. constitution is i…

Sharpening and bandwidth-limiting have the exact same effect, because the maximum sharpness of an image (like any other signal) depends on its bandwidth. There is no difference in …

I am unsurprised that the author would hold a video distribution company which supposedly pays good money for experts to a higher standard than the average hobbyist blogger. I don'…

It's the exact same phenomenon in both. Not sure where you're making the distinction.

This is what's so terrifying about uses of "AI". People's idea of accuracy being "tell me what I think is there", not "tell me what's there". The can in this image probably says "c…