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Comment · 2 years ago
Surely, if the poles can't be deleted then which node is chosen from a bunkbed will not affect the connectedness probability, which would make it impossible to find a counterexample, right? What am I missing here?

PS Depends on what conjecture we refer to here.

Comment · 2 years ago
The paper seems to have a definition where bed posts are never deleted, i.e. they are all assigned probability 1 in which case the conjecture is obviously true.

The counterexample seems to rely on correlations between edge deletions which makes no sense because the deletions should be independent (in the definition I'm seeing on Wikipedia).

I could be wrong here because I haven't read it in detail but on first sight, it looks like there are some serious issues with mathematical rigour here.

Comment · 2 years ago
I feel like it will get worse and worse until people will actually care about privacy again and then we'll take proper measures. Although Chrome disabling cookies seems like a step in the right direction
Comment · 2 years ago
I thought this was very cool but then I realized that in Dutch it is the same. Happiness = "Geluk" = Luck. Strangely, we have no word for lucky, and we will simply say that someone often "has luck".

There's so much hidden in homonyms, it almost feels illegal to mention it.

Comment · 2 years ago
If it was only investigators using my data, I'd be much happier...
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. Are you sure it's the language and not the programming style? There doesn't seem to be a reason to prevent you from writing maintainable Python code.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, but all of these are essentially all because the existing code is already based on C(++). We should be able to move to Rust sooner than people think.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've yet to see a valid scenario where C++ is superior to Rust, Python and Go.

Use Python. If you need concurrency, then use Go. If you need even more performance, use Rust (using unsafe Rust only for the parts that need it). For the highest performance stuff, maybe consider C for critical parts only.

C++ is not safe. It's a minefield of things that compile but are memory management mistakes. And then you're like "Look, I have a map of the minefield. If we just make sure we don't step on any mines, we are completely fine."

Comment · 2 years ago
Inform me of whether the pilot can adjust their seat? What am I supposed to do with that info?
Comment · 2 years ago
Bro, where do you get your food? Do you grow it in your house? Where do you get your water from? Hell, where do you get your air from? How do you think getting a security system fixes it?
Comment · 2 years ago
It might depend on whether you do a lot of counting in your non-native tongue. Since I studied maths in English (not my native language), I also do counting in English when I'm thinking in English because to me counting in English is just as easy as in my mother tongue.
Comment · 2 years ago
So what exactly does happen when you admit you don't know a thing? And what's worse: admitting you don't know a thing or showcasing you don't know a thing by presuming the wrong thing? Intriguing stuff.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why is a random textbook so high up? And why is it on a website I've never heard of before (no starch)?
Comment · 2 years ago
My point is that perhaps there is a reason that this chromosome causes this issue when an additional copy is present. If other chromosomes do not cause the same issues, why not? Why would that same reason not hold for chromosome 21?
Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps the existence of atypical "weaker" children promotes compassion in the culture ultimately leading to better outcomes for the culture as a whole.

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