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You're really twisting what happened here. It wasn't so much "yanked" as it was "replaced". I was initially against the idea, but soon got around to it. It was a very risky and dar…

"Reflections on Trusting Trust": https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

Not exactly, there exist various approximations for some problems which give a better solution than brute force.

I don't understand this, AFAIK a problem is NP-Hard or NP-Complete (or P) in _general_, that is, over all instances. But not so for a specific instance. Wouldn't these games count …

How did you learn these topics? Did you solve problems for each of them?

Oh they still have the charts, I always check it before boarding :)

If someone wants a more detailed explanation about the gates mentioned in the blog, consider reading the introductory chapter to 'Quantum Computation and Quantum Information' by Ne…

I don't think the author necessarily means being a CEO is an unworthy line of work. What he wants us to understand from this is that it's futile deriving one's worth from the fact …

For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/303/

Dunno if trolling or actually serious...

Wow this feels tailor made for people like me. I want to do further studies in deep learning after I graduate, but I'm not really keen on spending 4/5 years of my life on it. I'll …

What I learnt on 1v1 was that you should keep travelling towards the opposite corner of the map, forming one or two very thin attack lines, to surprise them in the beginning itself…

Really addictive game! Definitely a great game to kill time!

I'd read a few articles from your blog some time ago and I must say I really liked it! Especially those about automata and Turing Machines. I'll definitely consider buying your boo…

Also; "The Last Question" by the same author. Its a short story with a similar premise.

Is it possible to read the book without reading the first two parts beforehand?

Where did you get that notion? At least among people working in the tech sector, it is widely believed that we will achieve AGI one day, and that too with the the help of Turing ma…

Usually people begin by contributing to projects which they already use. For a beginner, it might be better to start contributing to a project which is mainly written in the langua…

Same here. Except I use 'myfork' as the name for my remote repo. Origin/upstream always got me confused when I first started learning Git, so I created my own naming conventions.

If I'm right, one of the advantages of this move is that llvm will finally switch over to using Git as its main version control system, and get rid of svn altogether.

I'm probably not as old as you; I turned 20 a couple of days ago, and I most certainly do not want to become an entrepreneur, but here's something about how I keep myself motivated…

I remember my friend mentioning this when I told him I had just started web development and wanted to learn a new framework. I even selected the features I thought I should have, h…

Weird...I'm on a linux desktop and the scrolling is just awful.