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vignesh_m··on Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)
Its actually pretty hard for even humans to eyeball a graph and figure it out. For example, the wiki article on the peterson graph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph) has a few drawings that you cant easily say are the same graph.
vignesh_m··on FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA
Not really a good rebuttal. The only reason for not getting our DNA is depending on criminals having repeat offenses?
vignesh_m··on Poverty leaves a mark on our genes
Yeah they do nothing to even hint at possible correlation without causation
vignesh_m··on Moving to GitLab
there are some features in pro version, but yeah its mostly open source
vignesh_m··on Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think
I would think adding more salt would only worsen the problem. Adding soluble salts are used to precipitate other salts (e.g common ion effect). Not sure how valid that is here tho.
vignesh_m··on Why are conversations limited to about four people?
Behind a paywall :/
vignesh_m··on The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
This is almost identical to the study of combinatorial species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_species)
vignesh_m··on Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
firefox containers work great for precisely this use case
vignesh_m··on The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist
Wow TIL
vignesh_m··on The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist
Yes the Russians do it, but I remember the US doing the same thing multiple times. I guess no country wants their citizens to be tried elsewhere.
vignesh_m··on The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist
Would alternative control by the private sector be better? There are tons of cases where private control of public services has been bad for the people (jails, schools etc).
vignesh_m··on The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist
Idk why you're being downvoted when you're right. I guess people are incorrectly thinking you support this behaviour instead of simply stating how it is capitalist.
vignesh_m··on FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations
Yeah was at least hoping for an equation solver e.g. find radius given area
vignesh_m··on Georgia Has a Coast?
ive seen a few shows filmed there, they have a made in Georgia segment at the credits
vignesh_m··on The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands
gnu is unix
vignesh_m··on The moving sofa problem
Somewhat related, but more counterintuitive and "solved": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set
vignesh_m··on Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach
I think op's problem is different than the one normally studied - he wants to design a halting program and find the class of programs for which it works.

This is typically not very popular as these statements depend a lot on the program, and the representations of programs unlike the halting problem computability statement.

vignesh_m··on Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach
Turing machines output yes/no or indefinitely go on, so that might be like your possible outputs of halts/doesn't halt/don't know. I'm not really sure how much to assume you know, so the [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) might help
vignesh_m··on Unexpected hanging paradox
The main issue is the definition of surprise for perfectly rational entities. Your argument doesn't really add much as you can just fix that time of day when all executions occur, and you've just restated the paradox.
vignesh_m··on AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches
I saw the site on page 3 after googling for "polygraph"

Although searching for "the lie behind the lie detector" gives the first result as the correct one from anitpolygraph.

Is it possible google didn't really do anything shady?

vignesh_m··on Crypto Coin Graveyard Fills Up Fast as ICOs Meet Their Demise
Using blazing fast JavaScript deep learning techniques of course.
vignesh_m··on Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
You are right, but Tesla itself pushes Musk as the face of the company.
vignesh_m··on Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
Seems like it is, considering its a twitter replacement and the op is kinda anti-twitter
vignesh_m··on Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018
TIL, thanks
vignesh_m··on GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
They had a 5 person contributor limit for free repos which REALLY pissed me off.
vignesh_m··on GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
Whoa, those are some pretty big features I assumed were "core".Static pages, fast-forward merges, Git hooks - aren't these core reasons to use a git website instead of just git+remote
vignesh_m··on Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges
Yeah, that article was all over the place. The only thing I could get from a first reading was that Facebook did something wrong - just using the anti-facebook sentiment I guess
vignesh_m··on The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
Our "original" definition of seconds was in term of our earth's rotation so it is exactly OPs number. We just changed our definition to a more constant second that slightly varies from our old definition.
vignesh_m··on The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
Lol. Its just because its a highly divisible number. Saying basic multiplication is "esoteric" shows how little you expect of ancient civilisations. They estimate the circumference of the fuckin earth and you say its "esoteric" to think 108 is holy.
vignesh_m··on The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
3.1536 - thats way to inaccurate to be of any interest imo. Even 22/7 is a way better approximation
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