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Cool, updated the profile.

(The reason Google has an office here is because Urs Hölzle studied at ETH at knew people here.)

FWIW: I am a 2nd-time entrepreneur. I bootstrapped a company in Germany from 2004-2011, and sold it to Google then. As part of that I moved to Switzerland. I started another compan…

Man, thank you for writing the last paragraph. I looked at Rust, I quite like the language, I think it gets a million things right and is a substantial improvement over existing la…

Yeah, the (ro)BDD comparison really is missing; those would be the default data structure I'd reach for for such a problem.

s/cherry picking/showing an example with interesting properties that is different from France/g So this is actually where the discussion should go: What properties does the Swiss w…

Perhaps notable: Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%), and there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland or startups b…

There are also cultural factors about how you present your work. GC Rota wrote about the mathematics culture in the 50's that European and US researchers worked similar amounts, bu…

When speaking about "competitiveness", what measures aside from current account balance and share of global exports is better suited? Not to be snarky, but you can't do any reading…

The "reduces their ability to compete"-argument does not hold water considering the data, though. One useful measure of a countries competitiveness is the size of their exports (be…

While I am also walking down memory lane -- writing recursive SoftICE macros so that one could make SoftICE single-step 50k times and write the log to a file.

For those that like the history of the Cracking scene - there was a set of binary-patching SoftICE extensions called "nticedump" and "icedump". They were pretty nuts, too - one rev…

Perhaps this is a stupid question, and someone please enlighten me - but would not the vast majority of JVM deployments be on either CentOS or Debian-derived base images with good …

Given that the last layer of a NN is a logistic regression, they are in fact well-calibrated probabilities under the assumption disjoint classes. The issue at hand is training them…

Given the intense regulatory pressure (especially in the EU) that Google is finding itself under, this is unsurprising. The TPP would greatly help in easing 3 strategic concerns, w…

The EU under their new data protection regulation: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-implications-for-s...

You may wish to try both single- and double-sided hammering. If you hit the right row size it is significantly more effective: https://github.com/google/rowhammer-test/blob/master/…

Single-sided or double-sided hammering?

Remember that there is a github repo with code you can use to test your specific Hardware. Why not run it & post results?

Seconded. In theory, a manager could veto a 20% project, but I have never heard of it happen. I personally think "managerial approval" is just for 3 things: 1) If someone decides t…

I'd rephrase this: "Social is the more general form of PageRank". If you think about PageRank in it's original form, it harnessed a social signal (linking to a site) to provide bet…