Blum is a respected mathematician who has been working in this subfield for years, [...]
That, by the way, is the only reason why this has made news this time around. Even though his purported proof was likely to be flawed, assuming that anyone in this generation is going to solve the problem, Blum is the sort of person who may be able to do it or, even if he can't, to make progress even with a flawed proof.
The only difference is that, in addition to looking for flaws in the logic, we can test a paper's assertions against data - either existing or new.
All the data suggests, very strongly, that P != NP. This is what the (known to be flawed; we've known for several days before Slashdot picked it up) paper claims. So the claim already matches the data.
Given that the author is not a crank (most P?=NP papers are crankery), the only two possibilities are that the proof is valid or the proof has a flaw. The only way to tell is to look for flaws.
"High Assurance Platform" sounds to me like it's a mode to ensure that the CPU doesn't receive SMM interrupts. This is one of the reasons why Intel is not the platform of choice for safety-critical systems that depend on hard real-time guarantees.
Class 1 substances like marijuana, LSD and Peyote? These drugs do not cause suffering.
I don't want to speak for the person you're responding to, but I think they were talking about substances like heroin and GHB which, despite being medically useful chemicals, do cause suffering. Everyone (well, everyone here) knows that some chemicals are only schedule 1 for political reasons, or because the medical applications are not yet recognised by the USFDA.
It's also worth pointing out that LSD can of course cause suffering. There are plenty of cases of PTSD caused by bad trips in an uncontrolled environment.
One more every-day feature designed to heighten people's fear of something statistically very unlike to happen to them.
I know people who live in, or are visiting, all sorts of places around the world, and I'm not alone in this. I suspect that this feature might actually help cut the paranoia.
Next time some arsehole does something violent in Rome or Melbourne or wherever, it's good to be reminded that the vast majority of people there are largely unaffected. Perhaps a little inconvenienced if they happen to be in the middle of the city, but otherwise perfectly fine.
No one had a problem with these statues and flags until the left started making it an issue in the past year or so.....
Historically, these statues tend to go up by regimes who are basically just marking territory. They come down around the time of the fall of the regime that put them up. This has been happening from at least the days of Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
How many statues of Lenin came down when the Soviet Union fell? What about the one of Saddam Hussein in 2003? Is this revisionist history? Is it damnatio memoriae? Or is it just the people reclaiming public spaces?
Probably all we're seeing here is proof that the White South regime that brought you the Confederacy, Jim Crow, Dixiecrats, and segregation has officially toppled. The fact that the alt-right white nationalists are largely ones defending those statues with slogans like "we will not be replaced" probably proves this point.
If this is a legit e-sports event, who won the cosplay competition? Pics of grown-ass employees dressed as Inori Aizawa, Clippy, and John Hodgman or GTFO.
No one had a problem with these statues and flags until the left started making it an issue in the past year or so.....
These statues and flags didn't exist until 50 years after the civil war when the "state's rights" narrative and the resurgence of the KKK (thanks, DW Griffith!) arose. So first point, their existence is itself revisionist history.
Secondly, they have indeed been consistently disputed since at least the end of segregation and Jim Crow, which is probanky the first time in history that the African-American community didn't have bigger things to concentrate on. It's only now that all the powerful segregationists are dead that there is enough political will to actually do it.
Net neutrality does indeed mean that if someone wants to create a NaziChat service the ISPs and backbone providers should not be able to shut them off.
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If you need a "hard real-time guarantee" then you wouldn't be using a micro-processor and be using a micro-controller instead.
Almost all of a time, a microcontroller IS-A microprocessor.
There is also the 50 move rule, which puts a (very crude) upper bound on the length of any chess game at 49*15 = 735 moves.
Blum is a respected mathematician who has been working in this subfield for years, [...]
That, by the way, is the only reason why this has made news this time around. Even though his purported proof was likely to be flawed, assuming that anyone in this generation is going to solve the problem, Blum is the sort of person who may be able to do it or, even if he can't, to make progress even with a flawed proof.
The only difference is that, in addition to looking for flaws in the logic, we can test a paper's assertions against data - either existing or new.
All the data suggests, very strongly, that P != NP. This is what the (known to be flawed; we've known for several days before Slashdot picked it up) paper claims. So the claim already matches the data.
Given that the author is not a crank (most P?=NP papers are crankery), the only two possibilities are that the proof is valid or the proof has a flaw. The only way to tell is to look for flaws.
"High Assurance Platform" sounds to me like it's a mode to ensure that the CPU doesn't receive SMM interrupts. This is one of the reasons why Intel is not the platform of choice for safety-critical systems that depend on hard real-time guarantees.
Class 1 substances like marijuana, LSD and Peyote? These drugs do not cause suffering.
I don't want to speak for the person you're responding to, but I think they were talking about substances like heroin and GHB which, despite being medically useful chemicals, do cause suffering. Everyone (well, everyone here) knows that some chemicals are only schedule 1 for political reasons, or because the medical applications are not yet recognised by the USFDA.
It's also worth pointing out that LSD can of course cause suffering. There are plenty of cases of PTSD caused by bad trips in an uncontrolled environment.
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Knobs don't belong in UIs, full stop. Use sliders instead.
Not long ago I would have agreed with you, but touchscreens are in now.
Only for Surface, though.
Do you want competent "jerk" aspies or incompetent nice people? There is a high degree of separation in typical ability.
I want the sort of people who didn't produce node.js. Which one is that?
Would you have them be forbidden to report anything you don't want?
There's a huge gap between "X is doing something wrong" and "there oughta be a law". You bridged it, but not everyone thinks that way.
One more every-day feature designed to heighten people's fear of something statistically very unlike to happen to them.
I know people who live in, or are visiting, all sorts of places around the world, and I'm not alone in this. I suspect that this feature might actually help cut the paranoia.
Next time some arsehole does something violent in Rome or Melbourne or wherever, it's good to be reminded that the vast majority of people there are largely unaffected. Perhaps a little inconvenienced if they happen to be in the middle of the city, but otherwise perfectly fine.
9. MATLAB
If I have a choice between the two, I'd prefer Mathematica.
Science reporting often smells worse than the actual science it reports.
One more thing while I think of it...
No one had a problem with these statues and flags until the left started making it an issue in the past year or so.....
Historically, these statues tend to go up by regimes who are basically just marking territory. They come down around the time of the fall of the regime that put them up. This has been happening from at least the days of Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
How many statues of Lenin came down when the Soviet Union fell? What about the one of Saddam Hussein in 2003? Is this revisionist history? Is it damnatio memoriae? Or is it just the people reclaiming public spaces?
Probably all we're seeing here is proof that the White South regime that brought you the Confederacy, Jim Crow, Dixiecrats, and segregation has officially toppled. The fact that the alt-right white nationalists are largely ones defending those statues with slogans like "we will not be replaced" probably proves this point.
Some of them could indeed be, but I don't know enough about them to know.
Any monument put up with the intention of commemorating a historical myth would count as revisionist history by my definition.
If this is a legit e-sports event, who won the cosplay competition? Pics of grown-ass employees dressed as Inori Aizawa, Clippy, and John Hodgman or GTFO.
No one had a problem with these statues and flags until the left started making it an issue in the past year or so.....
These statues and flags didn't exist until 50 years after the civil war when the "state's rights" narrative and the resurgence of the KKK (thanks, DW Griffith!) arose. So first point, their existence is itself revisionist history.
Secondly, they have indeed been consistently disputed since at least the end of segregation and Jim Crow, which is probanky the first time in history that the African-American community didn't have bigger things to concentrate on. It's only now that all the powerful segregationists are dead that there is enough political will to actually do it.
What does "BLM member" mean in this context? Did he go to any meetings? Attend any rallies?
I honestly don't know, that's why I'm asking.
On the left you have a fringe group that want to actually exterminate all whites [...]
Not saying you're wrong, there's plenty of nutcase to go around, but which group is that? I don't believe I've heard of it.
Really? I guess that's why they broke off a chunk of it and spray painted it red?
Sorry, are you saying the Charlottesville city council did that? That would be a huge story if true.
Net neutrality does indeed mean that if someone wants to create a NaziChat service the ISPs and backbone providers should not be able to shut them off.
...says the person desperately trying to equate antifa and BLM.