GFK_of_xmaspast

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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
There's no such thing as "simply" in numerical linear algebra.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
There's a tiny little bit of a difference between 'the villains kill various members of team good' and whatever this stuff is: “Hey, Draco, you know what I bet is even better for becoming friends than exchanging secrets? Comm
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Galaxy Zoo makes labeled training data which is always good.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Isn't that consistent with a system of 'corn A / corn A / soybean B / repeat'?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The obvious first example is Draco's comments re: Luna in chapter 7, and also the whole Bellatrix stuff. (which is where I stopped reading). See also: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/ and http://
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Do you know any 'shitty mathematician' in person I certainly do.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
HPMOR is, amongst many other sins, pretty rapey.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The HP books are not always internally consistent with regards to time, but a careful reading suggests that Harry was born in 1980 and so the books take place in the early-mid 90s.
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The Barberry or Bread(apsnet.org)
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
This isn't really a "new" disease, but a new variety of Puccinia graminis. One thing about P.graminis that's useful for us is that it overwinters on barberry, where it does the sexual stage of its lifecycle, so if you ca
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Hate to be one of those guys, but a really simple integration test would have caught this 100% agree. Senior people shouldn't suddenly become junior people just because they change tools. (or rather they shouldn't stay juni
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I'll gladly whitelist things that are obviously small-time labor-of-love efforts that only have ads to help with hosting costs (also Project Wonderful).
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> America not only doesn't extord us for loot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The canon changes, as it must, with time. (To use one of your examples, 'The Art of War' didn't have an english translation until the early 20th century). There's also a class issue involved, see for example Dorothy Say
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
There's a lot of grossness in that book, here's a podcast about it: http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/12/26/071-enders...
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
While this is technically true, in the particular case John Adams was married only once, to Abigail, with whom they had six children.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Is there any level of evidence that could convince you?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
HN has those kind of people too.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Kind of interesting that John wrote 'my' instead of 'our'.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I've been doing c for almost 25 years now, and for many of those years it was my primary language, and not only would I refuse to write that kind of crazy switch construct I would refuse to allow it to pass code review.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Peter Thiel is a billionaire. In the words of Killer Mike, 'who's gonna bully me if I got a billy?'
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Anybody who cares about integer sizes in any more detail needs to use things like int32_t.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
This is a whole stack of horrible code under the banner of "might be more efficient" with no actual examination of what the code actually gets compiled into, much less any profiling.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democr...
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> retarded Quit it.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
You understand incorrectly: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000405.h...
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> didn't involve substance abuse Didn't you ever see a cabinet that had a bunch of melted plastic around the controls due to people leaving their cigarettes there?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
AKA the unix philosophy.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
This is an interesting mental model about how people work.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Even in 1970 Forman Acton was saying 'use someone else's numerical linear algebra'.

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