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Is there some serious reason you need to upgrade? If so, then I think you can just unzip a fresh install and copy over the plugins you want (as .jar files) into the new directory s…

Those are pretty strange. I am using it on a Mac right now, with no serious problems. I'm not sure about the bundle creator, I never used that, but not being able to create a new f…

> Then there is the beast called Eclipse. It certainly seems like it should be able to do everything in the world... Yet it is buggy, its plugin architecture is a conflicting mess,…

Indeed, Eclipse for Java is just unbeatable. I just recently started using it for C++ and it also works surprisingly well. I find myself much more productive than in a text editor,…

That is a cool story... Though, may I add that Python (or any other modern programming language) can manipulate its own code as data - only not as gracefully as Lisp. In other word…

Agreed; unfortunately, the people that will immediately imagine hordes of terrorists entering the country pretending to be entrepreneurs form a significant portion of the electorat…

These kids are first generation Americans - they went to school in the US.

I meant intensity resolution (or color depth, as you say). Dynamic range is something else - it is the interval [darkest, brightest], or their ratio if you prefer.

That would just increase the resolution. The real problem is that the device is way too dark to display the levels of radiance you see on a bright day. Tone-mapping has to be used …

A much simpler explanation would be - people that are wealthy enough to choose where they would like to live are predominantly not African-American.

Doctors are actually very careful not to be overzealous in diagnosis. To meet the criteria for a real diagnosis, the symptoms must be "excessive, long-term, and pervasive". Similar…

Actually, it might be that doctors are quite accurate with diagnosing ADHD. The problem is that the sample of kids that they even get to examine is already biased - they may be the…

Note that I defined n as the input size...

You just painstakingly carried out the absolute analysis, which I know works. Let X be the value in the envelope you have, and Y in the other one (X and Y are both random variables…

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That's not a very good example - square matrix multiplication is O(n^1.5) (where n is the input size) and extremely fast in practice. (Though, as you say, there could still be an O…

Very good summary. Though I was just reading the synopsis, and the statistical physics part seems to be proven: "The 1RSB ansatz of statistical mechanics says that the space of sol…

Yeah, the common complaint against "P=NP would break cryptography" is "but what if the polynomial algorithm for (say) SAT is n^10000?". That is not very likely, in my opinion. Even…

I do not necessarily agree. There is a large number of open problems in computer science (especially in theory of complexity), and a correct proof of P != NP is very likely to use …

Ad 1 - Not sure what you're trying to say, all I said is that you don't know the distribution of A - if you knew it, you could make an informed decision on whether to switch. Ad 2 …

"Nothing interesting about that scenario." OK, but let's say you're not allowed to see the contents of the envelope you picked. In this case, the argument that by switching you get…

OK, now I see there are two slightly different possible formalizations of the problem: 1. You are told that the two envelopes contain amounts A and 2A, but you aren't told what A i…

Which three worlds? After you have picked one envelope, there are two possible relative outcomes - 2 and 0.5. The average is 1.25 - there is nothing wrong with the math, the only p…

"use of an impossible probability distribution" - this sounds interesting. Which exact distribution do you mean? To me it seems (though I might be wrong) that the distributions are…

Well, of course you're right, as is yanowitz. But there is something unsatisfying about this explanation. Intuitively it is obvious, but why is the relative reasoning incorrect? Th…