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Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:49AM (#15378111)
Working in the field I rather have the feeling that it is slowly but surely falling asleep.

One of Voevodsky's views was that all the foundation for a dependently typed formalization of maths is already there, and that it mainly needs to be organized in a better way (cf his unimath project).

Re:Germany’s hidden hunger on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:52PM (#15305317)
Let's say you're on Hartz IV. The $10 have to be accounted for at the social security system, and if you earn to many of them $10's, you don't get to keep them.
There's also ground transportation by tram, no batteries needed.
I think volume is the key here... The hackers induced harmonics in the audible range but at a volume that was only perceivable by the microphone and not by the bystanders. So to me it seems that it's possible to prevent this by require a higher threshold of volume to activate.
Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona on Saturday August 19, 2017 @03:50PM (#15055229)
How did Chomsky respond to these developments? Did he downplay them or encourage Maduro's authoritarian reaction to the protest?
Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:32AM (#15016222)
As far was most mathematicians and computer scientists would go, ZF and predicate logic together with a fixed definition of turing machines.
Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:57PM (#14833790)
I think for some parts the problem is not really specific to tech people. It's just very difficult to integrate milieus that differ that much in income. People living on six figure annual income just have different needs than people trying to get by with magnitudes less.
Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:23PM (#14833010)
Wow, this article really doesn't even at least mention some of the problems this new boom bring. Maybe ask long time residents of neighborhoods like East Liberty, Bloomfield, or Lawrenceville how happy they are that they got driven out by rising rents due to rich techies? The "revitalization" of Pittsburgh might benefit some, most of them relatively new to the city, but gentrification will hurt lots of its populace who will then be forced to live in the sprawl ghettos around the city where crime is already a big problem.
Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:53AM (#14496249)
Did you actually read the description of the language?
Re:A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet on Monday May 01, 2017 @06:40AM (#14236637)
No but they could if they wanted to. Maybe I don't even like their power, even without thinking that it's realistic that they'd do it.
Re:Announcing Open Source Guides on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:10PM (#13653499)
But freedom of speech is a political concept which only makes sense for states. Any smaller community can add rules to the ones that hold by law. Be it you bowling team or software company. That's why clubs have by-laws/charters.
Re:Facebook is terrifying on Saturday February 04, 2017 @03:10PM (#13568784)
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
I don't think he says that people start paying for it but more people will help cover news that aren't covered now.
Well, normally one makes the thesis concrete by saying that lambda calculus and Turing machines yield an equivalent notion of computability.
Re:ChineseSkill – teach yourself mandarin with ease on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:28PM (#9314298)
This is the spirit. Why should there be anything for free?
Re:The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license on Thursday March 26, 2015 @06:14PM (#9273504)
One of the main devs of Z3, Leonardo de Moura, is acutally working on a new, dependently typed, theorem prover called "Lean": http://leanprover.github.io/
Re:Why we are saying “uh” less and 'um' more on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:31AM (#9017471)
Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that they used double quotation marks for "uh" and single quotation marks of "um" in the headline?
Re:Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:49AM (#8583749)
That could be true, I won everytime I played the purple stones in Go.
Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:26PM (#8499444)
> they all look like they're full of semi-corrupt liberals

What? Sweden and Finland and the Baltic states?