(although the solution I would write first in LISP isn't actually what I would do in C; in C, I'd start with stack/cons-like linked list and do a slinky-queue shift)
I somehow don't get particularly nervous during important tests or interviews. I get a little nervous if it's really really important, but I somehow get over that pretty quickly. It's nothing that I earned by hard work or practice, either. Now if only I could apply that gift to talking to women...
Software engineering may be (currently) part of CS, but theoretical CS is more than just applied statistics. The halting problem, one of the most famous undecidable problems, is pure math and is CS. Lambda calculus is CS and is pure math.
Edit: I misread "is" as "could be". It's a good thing to have because it could be a good thing to use. It may be a bad thing to have enabled by default, but it's a bad thing to omit outright.
No, it's "the answer to the ultimate question of" life, the universe, and everything. Also, the question is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" (so the answer's wrong anyway)
So what we have is a timeseries of user-post pairs, and we want a good view for that, a UI that scales well to handle pathological cases. I like the idea presented in the article, but, as you mention in this comment, it is only the first step. Perhaps a library for creating good views for this model would be good, and it should have some good primitives. Then people can develop and share new views for social news. The article's suggestion would be one view, and maybe some of these views would compose (i.e., after the transformation from the article, a timeseries of user-post pairs becomes a timeseries of user-(timeseries of posts) pars, where a (timeseries of posts) is presented as the most recent post and a control with the cardinality of the timeseries as its label and a toggle-hide behavior, and that thing fits in the outer UI the way a "post" would.)
I'm not sure I see why so many people are against having a .xxx domain name. If it's opt in (like all other TLDs that aren't restricted are), then only sites that want to identify themselves as explicit pornography will be branded with it. If it's mandatory, then there will likely be both false positives and false negatives in the assessment process, and users will eventually learn that .xxx doesn't necessarily mean that a website is or isn't pornography but that it is evidence (not proof) of it. Either way, the result is more accurate information about a site right there in the site's domain name.
The halting problem isn't open to be solved. It would have been funnier to claim to have solved an open problem (maybe P=NP?) so as not to break the willful suspension of disbelief.
Either you're not just talking about how we build them or I misunderstand you, because the first thing you said was, "Mathematics is a product of the mind."
I'm not talking about how we build them. I'm talking about what they are, and what they are is as they would be whether they were built by humans or computers or nature. That the theorems follow from their axioms is not a human invention, nor could it be. There is a difference between discovering something and inventing it. Man could not invent mathematics any more than man could invent electricity. When I say physics exists, I mean that the physical world exists and follows rules. If we discover those rules, it does not mean we have invented them.
Mathematics is not a product of the mind any more than physics is. All theorems are true (or, more precisely, all theorems follow from their axioms), even the ones we haven't discovered yet. That a mind can choose an axiomatic system to explore does not mean the relationships between those axioms and their theorems are created by that mind.
I'm bad at detecting sarcasm. You realize the title truncated from ...-targeting-right-now to targeting-right, right? A lot of sites use the first few words or characters of their article titles to make the URL.
Segway is Dean Kamen's company, not the product. The product is the Human Transporter (or HT). They make other things, too, including the Segway Centaur.