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Cursuviam

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Cursuviam··on Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
Reuters maybe? They actively try for neutral coverage.

edit: But yeah, organizations of people with biases can't be perfectly neutral

Cursuviam··on Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
Erik could toss it to someone in CSAIL to monetize, if he wanted to. There was a group I worked with that collaborated with him for the math for some folding robots.
Cursuviam··on Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them
As a current student there, it's real useful to be able to hit up a mailing list of your neighbors, when you need to borrow something.
Cursuviam··on The future of education is plain text
It's my preferred reading format for sheet music.
Cursuviam··on Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
Imagine if MySpace won the war
Cursuviam··on Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance
Having read through the previous guidelines, I am not surprised at all at the actions taken. However, the changes taken will likely not change the situation much, as the policy had already been very deferential towards state regulation and self-regulation and really were mostly just guidelines.
Cursuviam··on Efficient game updates
Same, though in my case it's entirely a result of me putting off the implementation of the networking stack in my game.
Cursuviam··on Algorithms
MIT OCW Algorithms, 6.006, which is linked to elsewhere in the comments covers DP if I remember correctly.
Cursuviam··on Algorithms
The main aspects from Mathematics for Computer Scientists that it assumes is knowledge of asymptotic complexity (O(n)) and basic proof writing skills.
Cursuviam··on Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO
A protest isn't hypocritical just because something worse in the past happened that wasn't protested. Maybe some issues with a human face to rally behind receive disproportionate attention, but that doesn't invalidate the issue.
Cursuviam··on Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges
And students too. :P
Cursuviam··on Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?
That's why Libre is used instead of Free quite often
Cursuviam··on People's underestimation of AI
They can be on land now, at least on the coast, because of the destruction wrought by Katrina by having them on the gulf.
Cursuviam··on The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
It feels like that state university grad probably worked harder than me
Cursuviam··on Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future
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Cursuviam··on A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie
High level abstraction or syntax sugar?

Terrorist or freedom fighter?

Cursuviam··on Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future
What's to stop them from modifying the OS itself to spy on you? On a closed platform, you don't have peace of mind from spying.
Cursuviam··on 32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic
It's an ISA called Beta. It's based off of Alpha. See specification: https://6004.mit.edu/handouts/beta.pdf.
Cursuviam··on The Rise and Fall of Scala
"Java has surpassed Scala as the preeminent functional programming language"

Yeah, nope.

Cursuviam··on DoomRL Open Source Release
In Dwarf Fortress's case, the closed sourcedness is because the creator wants to be the sole driver of the project until it's "done."
Cursuviam··on Dumb Password Rules
Yes, if an attacker gets a dump of hashed passwords, horse will be tried much sooner than the other example.
Cursuviam··on TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
Before the Communications Decency Act, filtering could possibly be criteria for losing safe harbor protection, see Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., but because of Section 230 of said act, which was added to enable websites to engage in moderation and filtering, reddit is fine.
Cursuviam··on Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger
One of the few benefits is that the rich do well in this system.
Cursuviam··on Facebook’s Answer to Silicon Valley Housing Crunch: Build Apartments
It is a statement that doesn't indicate how much Google is trying, and the perception of whether someone is trying to do something can be an opinion sometimes. For example, if I am trying to get healthy by only eating carbs, some people might have the opinion that I'm not even trying.
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