Why is proving P
The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is ok as far as it goes.
The second step is to disregard that which can’t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading.
The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured easily really isn’t important. This is blindness.
The forth step is to say that what can’t be measured really doesn’t exist. This is suicide.
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Ek fakir bheek maangne ke liye masjid ke baahar baitha tha
Sab namaazi aankh bacha kar chale gaye
usey kuch na mila
Woh phir church gaya ,
Phir mandir
Aur phir gurudware.
Lekin usko kissi ne kuch na diya.
Aakhir ek maikhane ke bahar aakar baith gaya
Jo sharabi nikalta, Woh uske katorey mein kuch daal deta.
Uska katora noton se bhar gaya … faqir bola,
“Wah mere khuda!
Rahtey kahaan ho, aur address kahaan ka dete ho!”
“If a tiger had sex with a tornado and then their tiger-nado baby got married to an earthquake, their offspring would be Rajinikanth.” — SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth!: The biggest movie star you’ve probably never heard of. - By Grady Hendrix - Slate Magazine
Proofs, Proofs, Who Needs Proofs? -
I have recently spoken to a number of reporters, as you might expect Some were from the on-line media and some from the print media. Both types of reporters asked good questions and in general we had an interesting discussion. But one or two asked a question that I really had trouble answering. The question was not an obvious ones like: what is polynomial time, or what is NP. The question was:
Why is proving P
The trouble I had is simple: if most believe that P
My title must seem like a contradiction. What can solitude have to do with leadership? Solitude means being alone, and leadership necessitates the presence of others—the people you’re leading.
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But it seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself.
Can a machine accumulate enough information about your patterns of communication to create an effective digital doppelgänger? Could we use the data left behind on Google’s servers and our own hard disks to effectively replace ourselves with an artificial intelligence born and bred of our online conversations and quirks? What might it be like to have a conversation with a past representation of ourselves, what would a hypothetical exchange between two digitally-reconstructed individuals look like?
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The goal was to build an autonomous chat bot that would draw from the content of our logs to construct an infinite stream of back-and-forth conversation between our younger selves. Ideally, these conversations should be reasonably cogent and reflect whatever personality / themes we left behind in our logs.
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Breaking Provably Secure Systems
VMWare Guest to Host Escape Story (pdf) -
Presented at Black Hat USA 2009
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.” — Buddhist proverb
Security Assessment of the IPv4 -
This document contains a security assessment of the IETF specifications of the Internet Protocol version 4, and of a number of mechanisms and policies in use by popular IPv4 implementations.
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