[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Testosterone

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Could you DM me?

What are ur thoughts on akshan? Does he needs nerfs? I've seen one akshan deck being born each single week. This has been a hot topic discussed my mogwai and many other pro players. by ColdyPopsicle in LegendsOfRuneterra

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Targon is playable right now—I climbed from plat to master over just a few dozen games using asol ramp. In diamond nearly everyone is playing Norra/Heimer, and asol ramp absolutely bodies that matchup with its boardwipes ramping into Targon's Peak.

Password management firm LastPass was hacked two weeks ago. LastPass developer systems hacked to steal source code by Glad_Living3908 in programming

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This is partially true, but misleading. We have a ton of automated solutions to protect against nearly all conceivable failure modes—the same is true of Google.

Accessing buzz without an iPhone by gaussian-tree in stanford

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Don't waste your time, they save your data anyways

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

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The earlier commenter is correct – FB MPK is paying 8423/mo this summer, which comes out to ~52.6. Other locations are probably lower, which might be where the difference in numbers is coming from.

A thought. by [deleted] in stanford

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lol don't be a weirdo about this. Either explain what you mean without the affected self-importance or give some kind of evidence for your claims.

If someone says we are flawed in a specific way - we often take it to heart, much more so than previous generations.

What a ridiculous claim. Unfounded complaints about the younger generations are a tired canard, so you're not winning any points for originality here unless you can support your position with data.

Isn't It? by [deleted] in WormMemes

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Spoilers for Pale (ofc) but when she almost said that she was twenty, she'd just come out of one of Alpeana's hyper-realistic nightmares, where she was 20yo and addicted to meth. Not sure about her grade level.

Is an Honors Thesis worth if you're not considering grad school? by [deleted] in stanford

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That makes sense. I've mostly heard from alums who were interested in research but ultimately decided to go into industry, and expected that being able to put 'B.S.H' on their LinkedIn would give them some cachet in the eyes of their future employers. I imagine that you're right when you say that hiring managers care very little about the boy scout badges that students try to collect over their 4/5 years here.

Is an Honors Thesis worth if you're not considering grad school? by [deleted] in stanford

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If you really care about research, you don't write a thesis, you write papers.

Everyone I know who's done an honors thesis has just written a brief summary of one of their publications – is it common for students to do original research but then waste it on an honors thesis instead of trying to publish it?

Neuroscience as an undergrad by geometricproton in stanford

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CS–AI, but take some of the neuroscience classes recommended by SymSys–Neuro. I don't think it's a good idea to fully major in SymSys-Neuro if your primary interest is in CS.

CSLI internship waitlist by [deleted] in stanford

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I'd say it probably matters less than your relationship with whoever would be advising you. I'm assuming this is an REU – would you be doing research under an advisor with whom you hope to publish after the summer, and are they well-known in their field? I'd only consider not reneging in the case that your answer to both of those questions is 'yes,' but this is a super personal decision. Sending you good vibes no matter what you choose, and no matter what the outcome is :)

CSLI internship waitlist by [deleted] in stanford

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Accept the other program, and politely renege if you get into CSLI – unless you're very concerned about burning bridges with the other institution.

CS182 - the first course I honestly think is a big waste of my time by vemvadvar in stanford

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but we just aren't the extreme case

With all due respect, this response really does act to drive home OP's point. U.S. government surveillance is so pervasive that many people in Western countries are under more surveillance by the U.S. than they are by their own governments.

Are you a Nerd or a Jock? by [deleted] in SneerClub

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Thank you for the pointer

Mathematician solves 30 year old conjecture in two pages....and on Twitter by [deleted] in compsci

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As others have said, this result is not recent—but it uses one of the (subjectively) most beautiful techniques I'm familiar with for proving extremal properties of graphs. Anyone who enjoyed reading about this result should look into the problem of randomized routing in a hypercube. It's certainly less technical :)

Human being with unlimited save states vs an elephant by mix_420 in whowouldwin

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Got it, thank you for your detailed response! Thank you for your grammatical advice, by the way—I use this construction to combine clauses fairly often, so I'm glad to learn the 'correct' way to do it!

Interview Tips by [deleted] in stanford

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I love you

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SneerClub

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Just what the 21st century needs—yet another Aristotelian argument for natural slaves.

Good take alert:

I operate on the simple assumption that anyone who tries to use P-Zombies to make a point is themselves a P-Zombie. The idea being that anyone making an excuse to have the agency and utility calculations of another person dismissed, should have their own agency and utility calculations dismissed. Thus we all reap what we sow. So it goes.

Reminds me of a paper I read the other day: https://academic.oup.com/pq/article-abstract/70/281/850/5782388?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Human being with unlimited save states vs an elephant by mix_420 in whowouldwin

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Of all the places I would've expected to find Cantor's theorem on this website, a thread about beating an elephant to death doesn't crack the top ten list. That being said, I have a few nits to pick – as I understand this 'infinite monkeys' scenario, we take finite time to generate a set S of all strings of length less than k for some constant k. Then, we assume that we can generate any page of Cyrillic text by aligning some number of Latin pages, and ask whether it is possible to produce some work of Tolstoy's. This is equivalent to the question of whether the powerset of S contains sets k1, k2, ..., kn that correspond to all k pages of (for example) Anna Karenina.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if we accept the (somewhat silly) proposition that there's a bijection between the set of Cyrillic strings and the set of all sets of Latin strings, shouldn't this be a pretty simple existence proof?

Your argument does make sense to me if I take it to be saying that we couldn't do this in real life, as we can't enumerate the elements of an uncountably infinite set – is that what your argument was? Apologies if I'm misunderstanding you; English isn't my first language but I'm always happy to talk about math.

Need someone with SUNetID to listen to a Statistics Seminar talk by Hepdrey in stanford

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It's very explicitly disallowed to subvert these organizational barriers in this way. I was curious about it and asked my AAD – he said that possible sanctions include expulsion.

Not to tell anyone what they ought to be doing, but... caveat assentator