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There's some speculation about where the next breakthroughs will come from at the end of the chapter; it will be interesting to look back in 10-20 years and see if Knuth was correc…

> The US seems to have been in a cultural decline for much of the last 100 years. Can you explain what, exactly, you mean by this? Looking back 100 years, I can't help but see an e…

And in fact, if you read the article about Tide, the people who are buying Tide, no questions asked, from anyone who wants to sell it to them are committing felonies and are tracke…

I've worked with a lot of contractors. Invariably, if you bitch about guberment and then have a polite chat with the ones who make these kinds of offers, they're trying to get arou…

> (in fact, just today a contractor offered me no tax if I paid him cash...) Which means he's probably not paying tax on that himself. Which is tax evasion, pure and simple. Which …

>Those are still executed in some order. Not really. E.g. there's no ordering in function composition that isn't also in high school math. Also, you shouldn't depend on e.g. maps p…

> which incorporates the notion of time and communication of proof. Certainly constructive logics (typically) incorporate a notion of evidence/proof. But constructive logics don't …

I think the point of the bulk of the document was to demonstrate that lots of good hypotheses aren't being tested (in the US).

> i didn't get whether they were able to show an actual path of how UA could have occurred I think the answer is no -- there was never a clear demonstration of an extant buggy exec…

I believe that when the recalls occurred, at least several models of Toyota/Lexus cars were affected. Ultimately, it's impossible to know without being inside. I would imagine ther…

> Are the police allowed to act on charges and arrest individuals? Yes. Although the arrest can happen before the charge, typically a judge will issue an arrest warrant as soon as …

I think the logic goes that out of everyone at this company -- probably dozens or hundreds since OP says it's well known locally -- OP was the one that the plaintiff knew about and…

Of course if you conflate logic with just traditional first order logic then all the interesting fruit has been picked. But there are many logics that can be used to reason about s…

From the article: Situations Where A Client/Server RDBMS May Work Better... High Concurrency: SQLite supports an unlimited number of simultaneous readers, but it will only allow on…

There are Ikeas in the US. If you are not near an Ikea and can't think of an excuse to do a day road trip to the nearest one, you might consider some of the motorized/adjustable de…

He did nothing illegal, but (admittedly) acted a bit dodgy with the wrong (or right, if you want a good story) sorts of people.

Arbitrary page limits cause far more harm than good in academic writing. Dissertations and journal articles are some of the most readable and useful academic publications in comput…

3 cups of espresso would be a fantastic amount of coffee. You'd actually have a medical condition of you drank that much espresso every day: ~64 mg caffeine / ounce in espresso 64 …

It is. Typically if you publish in a respected and peer reviewed journal, you are required to disclose sources of funding in the article. Especially if those sources include for-pr…

> The research[1] says that billboards help sell stuff. So do online ads. Unfortunately there's no RL ad block for those of us who don't like ugly. > I'd argue these[2] are anythin…

Yes. And ugly.

Graduate degrees make sense almost always, as long as the prestige and quality of the graduate program is an order of magnitude better than your undergraduate alma mater. The calcu…

I tend to both agree and disagree with this assessment. Highly skilled programmers, as well as programmers whose jobs are dominated by both design and implementation, will probably…

I think the OP's point is that the phone is never going to replace cash/cards because going without an mp3 player or notebook during a night out or work day is NBD, but surviving w…

Would you consider a (perhaps accelerated) degree program? I understand this might not be possible in your situation, but if you can find an evening, on-site, accelerated program a…