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Other commenters are wrong in saying that the payout is different for an adversarial choice. The crux of the payout derivation is: we can only cover 1 number in step 1, 2 in step 2, 4 in step 3, 8 in step 4, and so on. You can choose your initial number in binary search randomly, and as long as you meet the above condition is met (# of possible numbers covered in each step), payout should be same as 0.2
Yes, this is addressed in the article. Please read the article before commenting.
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This is basically a turf-war between wifi (802.11) and cellular (802.22) people. I think this announcement was to pre-empt 802.22 from taking over tv white-space band and making it popular, because there is a TV-whitespace standard being developed (802.11ah) from the 802.11 folks (aka wifi folks) but is a couple of years away from production.
look up pico-cells.
"A million dollars then would be about $20 million today, which is, interestingly, $1 million a year at a 5% aftertax return."
5%?? Does anyone know what investment is he talking about?
google docs?
Though they take a lot of flak recently, patents and patent protection are crucial for the environment in which any innovator can market his/her products, without fear of the idea being copied and mass-produced by a mega-corporation.
How about doing it for ~8 hrs a day?
I never had an issue with 0.999....=1, but after seeing so many articles on internet I wonder if I'm missing something.
Google has tested their autonomous car for >10000 miles on US roads and highways over the last few years. So yes, they handle human driver traffic.
why is this droppin down so fast from frontpage?
Long shot, but has it got anything to do with real estate? Intel and McAfee HQs are located within a mile of each other... again, its a crazy angle, just putting it out there.
Hi,
I am still interested in the link to any tools that overlay wiki history.. can u point me to any of them? thanks.
could you provide links to the tools that do this?
Isn't it generalizing too much? Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's last theorem for 7 yrs in secret, nobody even knew he was working on it until he published the results.
can you pls give the (appx) breakdown similar to what's given in the article? thanks in advance.
if it doesn't exist already, its a good idea for a startup.
I agree, although life in general seems to move at a leisurely pace there, so the "urgency" factor in work is not there. OTOH, the fruit juices there do taste much better than the supermarket ones in mainland US...
Quantenna : co-founded by Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford prof)
it still faces the same problem.. a small group of members can block information if they wish.