Matumio

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by Matumio 12y ago
The more reasonable thing to do would be to just forget about leap seconds altogether, not to put them elsewhere. Who cares if midday happens at 12:00:00 or at 12:00:30? Those who do need to add their exact longitude anyway, and they don&#x
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by Matumio 12y ago
Caches being primed is a concern, but not when choosing between minimum and average. Neither is affected much if the first run takes longer than the other nine.
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by Matumio 12y ago
Don't forget CPU frequency, which may slowly step up during the first few runs.
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by Matumio 12y ago
Taking the average is a bad idea for performance benchmarks like this running under an operating system. The minimum is much more stable. (Easy to verify experimentally: do 10x10 runs of a short benchmark and compare the variance of 10 mini
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by Matumio 12y ago
Work is not supposed to be a religion. Try to figure out what you would be doing on this planet if you didn't have any obligations. You may find it is exactly what you are already doing, but if not, you seem to be in a good position to
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by Matumio 12y ago
Nice puzzle. Keep in mind that OP is not interested in finding all causes (like the availability of concrete or the size of the rooms), only in checking the causal link between two observed variables. I think the solution is this: to check
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by Matumio 12y ago
You can think about causality in terms of intervention. If you make an intervention that changes only the price of an apartment (e.g. you subsidize it), will the size of the apartment change because of that? Obviously not. If you make an in
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by Matumio 12y ago
pardon, I meant independent samples of course (edited)
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think we are talking about independent samples of X and Y, not about time series. If X causes Y, then you model y = f(x, u), where U is a random variable independent of X (think: unexplained, e.g. noise). I don't think there can be a
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by Matumio 12y ago
This is an excellent read, but I disagree with the title. It's a must-read for people interested in CPU architecture and for programmers who, after profiling, still consider doing micro-optimizations. E.g. if you seriously think about
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by Matumio 12y ago
Same here, but I don't even care if the person is interested maintaining it. I have observed twice now that the interest of somebody submitting an almost trivial patch flamed up after I granted push access. The project suddenly got a b
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by Matumio 12y ago
Which would remove the most obvious place to look for commits for this new fork, or for this patch that you were just about to write.
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by Matumio 12y ago
It was Zurich, not Geneva, and the (now regular, and thus higher) taxes paid by those who stayed did compensate those who left. The advantage is that ordinary people may be more willing to pay their regular taxes if the rich are paying thei
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by Matumio 12y ago
I don't think this is correct. More than 90% of the advertisements in newspapers were against, for each of the three proposals. Source: http://www.50plus1.ch/?p=547 (German, French version at bottom)
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by Matumio 12y ago
I made a similar experience. When I force myself to sit still and focus on breathing for just 7 minutes in the morning, it seems to make me more aware of what I'm doing for the rest of the day. Sometimes I continue to 40 minutes. Too o
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by Matumio 12y ago
I thought one of the main points of academia was that it isn't centered around making money.
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by Matumio 12y ago
allowing someone else to manipulate, shape, and mold my mind, without me having a choice over it [...] duped into thinking a certain way because someone else thinks it better for me I remember a time when there was always somebody telling
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by Matumio 12y ago
IMO the main problem is that the command vocabulary is a mess. Do I need a soft, mixed or hard reset? Can I use "reset" to revert a single file, or do I need "checkout" for that? After years of using and loving git, this
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by Matumio 12y ago
PSD files may contain a full resolution rendered (flat) bitmap for interoperability. It's probably enabled by default when saving. Other file formats like ODT and ORA contain a rendered thumbnail (e.g. 256x256) just for fast preview in
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by Matumio 12y ago
A similar (non-GUI) tool is scapy: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think the main benefit of an unconditional basic income, however small, is exactly to help us getting over the worst of protestant work ethic. Do we really need to make existential threats to people who don't accept the work that the
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by Matumio 12y ago
I don't think any of the BI proponents suggested to finance it by printing new money. More likely taxes, but keep in mind that they wouldn't be spent by the government. But speaking of inflation, in the eurozone, they can't s
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think you can solve that one with only three cursors, maybe even two. In some levels you don't need to open the last barrier at all. You can just wait in front of it, and if you have opened the other barriers in the right order, they
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by Matumio 12y ago
We also voted against an extra week of vacation here in Switzerland. And we decided to forbid the construction of minarets, a sad low-point in the history of our democracy. But you know what? It keeps everyone involved and engaged in politi
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by Matumio 12y ago
Collected taxes don't necessarily have to be spent by the government. Have a look at the idea of an unconditional basic income.
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by Matumio 12y ago
You are just being baited. I agree with what you say, but did you really want to burn your energy in this discussion?
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by Matumio 12y ago
XOR is fascinating. It can be understood as binary addition, discarding the carry (the higher bit of the result). It is also useful for drawing a cursor pixmap: XOR the screen with the cursor, XOR again to remove the cursor, without ever co
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by Matumio 12y ago
Depends on your background. For me Chapter 28 about "Model Comparison and Occam's Razor" in MacKay's book was an eye-opener regarding the usefulness of Bayesian methods. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk&#x2F
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by Matumio 12y ago
Do Bayesian methods imply a choice of loss function? I think it's a framework for observational statistics, not for policy making or decision theory. You can use it as a tool during policy or decision making, where you should indeed ha