IvoDankolov

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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Not just for the user - calling asynchronous tasks using the new C# or VB keywords is so mind-bogglingly easy that you'll just have no excuse not to do it when writing apps. Even the use cases that are not covered by the two keywords, like
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Aye, as someone who didn't have many expectations (though I didn't expect Windows 8 to be a failure either, I'm not one to rage about changing the sacred desktop look), throughout the keynote and this video they managed to pleasantly surpri
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
From what I can tell it's just a convention in their APIs for binding continuations. You do some WinRT asynchronous call and pass a func to the then method to run when it completes. Nothing more than a onFinished event. No changes to async
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
For me, it's kind of the default state of mind, building models of reality, and I can go as far as doing it unconsciously. Just a few hours ago I was in a friend's office talking to him about 3D models and through no conscious decision of m
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Interesting, though it's balanced only on average. I suppose it's possible that you can both get elements inserted in order and have the random priorities selected in decreasing order. The chance of ending in a worst case for a tree of non-
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I have no trouble with multiple outcomes, or to put it in a different way, the whole wavefunction being real. Otherwise you'd have a pretty strange time explaining interference ("oh, one thing is real, but it conside
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
And if the first photon was in some weird quantum state, where it can’t be said to have struck the atoms or not, the second photon will be both extra-delayed and not extra-delayed at the same time. Maybe it's just me, but these alwa
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Interesting - the mode bit is kind of in the lines of contract programming, only the type system is good enough so that the compiler can check them for you. I feel like there's much ground to explore in the realm of stronger guarantees. In
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Oh, first Visual Studio Python integration and now this. I really have no excuse not to learn Python. Honestly, I've been meaning to learn it for a while, but Haskell sucked out all of my "goofing around with programming" time and I'll be d
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
I had to do a double take when I saw Bayes's theorem on that illustration - "wait a second, did I read that domain name correctly"? Even more surprising is that they would use the terminology of prior and posterior probabilities and the lik
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
"Even now, mathematics students are expected to learn complicated (e- d)-proofs in analysis with no help in understanding the logical structure of the arguments. Examiners fully deserve the garbage that they get in return." Oh yes,
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
To be fair, going from a less syntactically rich syntax to an almost complete superset of it isn't too hard. Yet, to draw from that the conclusion that javascript, or any other modern language of that family is pretty much the same seems li
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Following the details link on youtube yields what wtracy found. Looking around the site, I managed to dig this [0] up, which, judging by the filename, will be used in their Siggraph talk. Unfortunately, it is still very brief and doesn't ex
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Bare in mind that you also need to somehow do a brain scan with enough resolution to map every single connection if you want something functional. Also, what are you going to do about the sensory inputs (sight, hearing, nervous system). I'm
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
I wonder whether this has any practical use. Touch screens already remove physical feedback and it's very hard to use them with your eyes closed when you can't confirm your actions in any other way than looking, unless you have accessibilit
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
This article was very painful to read. > "It actually explains a few of the trickier things about quantum physics, like why particles have an indeterminate position until they're observed." And then it goes on in the next paragraph, of
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
Since I first heard about CUDA and ran the N body simulation with hundreds of bodies in real time on a cheap GeForce 8500 I became aware of how good of a parallel processor these things are. Of course, had I learned about how the rendering
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by IvoDankolov 15y ago
I don't really don't like the wording of the author - "infinity + 1" - because it isn't. The omegas are used to describe the ordering of the set and not, in any way, the "magnitude" of the infinity. Well, I guess the catch phrase "infinity
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by IvoDankolov 16y ago
Actually, n! / (2! * (n-2)!) comes out exactly at n * (n-1)/2. It's just one form of the general formula for combinations. However, multiplying the possible situations is, of course, wrong. A case of a wrong explanation of the final result