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throwaway_n

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    I still remember voting for Obama because of a viral video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU Fight memes with better memes

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    Can't we just show a "This site may harm your computer" message whenever a site is recording too much timing data? The page is justifiably considered malware at that point. For exa…

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    Two minute papers: https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

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    Won't your example trigger an infinite loop of celsius/fahrenheit conversions? Especially if the floating point value is slightly off. I think your example is exactly why stuff lik…

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    If you want something more accessible, I highly recommend the BBC documentary "The Hidden Life of the Cell": https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6agslv If this course is at the same…

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    Cost per GFLOPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs Probably the clearest chart that explains why machine learning is blowing up now, despite the fact that the same…

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    I once tried to customize a rich text editor to support SVG text effects (like https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/why-the-svg-filter-... ) and damn near lost my mind. If I ha…

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    Comment #21375003

    On GCP, maybe firebase auth: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth

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    This is O(n^2) though