SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Y'know that's really funny.I often refer to the way lambdas only capture final variables as an example of the absolute brilliance of Java's language design. This was done not for any principled reason at all: but rather
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I can't build one right now, but one big item for me is true closures: Java lambdas are only closed over values, not over variables. Let's say you want to make a ActionListenerPair builder which sets up a writable local variable t
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Just last night I put out the latest versions of two open source tools totaling about 500K lines in Java. Sure I enforce an old style but I think I'm up to date with the latest in Java. It's funny how Java developers perceive &qu
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I use lambda and closures (in Lisp), or awful approximation hacks of it (as one-element arrays of anonymous subclasses in Java) ALL THE TIME in graphical interfaces and many other contexts. Not once have I ever used lambdas for currying.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
There is an important point to make here though. I love me some Technology Connections, and am hardly a Tesla fan (in fact just bought a non-Tesla EV). But Tesla's connectors are unquestionably superior to the hideousness that is C
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This would seem to be Myhrvold's first law in action. https://blog.codinghorror.com/software-its-a-gas/
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Because it has the exception for zero everywhere else except there. It's inconsistent. IMHO the issue is that an exception for zero exists at all. Units should be required in all places.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
If we're going for MacOS 8.5, it would have been cuter if this had been restyled as a Sherlock plugin.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Disappointed not to see anything about Blendo, a 500rpm spinner from the mid and late 90s which, despite having a poor drive system, caused so much damage that it was twice disqualified due to insurance liability. Blendo was designed by Ja
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
At least for Starship robots, the answer is yes. As I understand it, the way it works is that if the robots have any doubt about the safety of continuing, they stop and wait. If they have waited too long, they phone home and someone at th
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I have identical twin sons. When they were newborns, to quiet them down I would carry one around the Trader Joe's directly across the street from our house, walking up and down the aisles (it was cold outside). Then I'd come bac
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
When they're not actively destroying the Mississippi Delta through incompetence.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> The first is that the Fahrenheit scale wasn't built around a range of human feeling How and why Fahrenheit was developed is completely immaterial: what is material is whether and how its range is of value to its users now . >
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This sounds like trolling. Fahrenheit nearly perfectly nailed the intervals of importance in body temperature when it comes to child fevers, say. As no doubt you know well, 100 is "mild", 101 is "significant", 102 is &
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Okay, highly advantageous for body temperature and medicine, only marginally advantageous for cooking.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Nope. Have you ever used a thermometer to measure the temperature of water for boiling pasta and rice? Ask yourself why.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Celsius is better for cooking Not really. Celsius maps to the boiling and freezing points of water in Paris. Live in Denver and you're screwed. And -- this is important -- nobody measures the freezing points and boiling points
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
No. Fahrenheit really is better than Celsius regardless of your reluctance to admit it. 1. 0 Fahrenheit is close to the typical minimum temperature, and 100 close to the typical maximum temperature, which can be tolerated by humans. Celsi
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I watched it but missed this somehow.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
A screwdriver that fits custom bits . In an industry that has standardized bit design. This seems set up for failure. I understand the reason they did it. It's not a good reason.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I'm just irritated that people didn't read my original post, where I specifically laid out why I think he's making the argument. Everyone keeps replying with a misinterpretation of the headline as "the question why&quot
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
You don't need to develop GPT-3 to make major progress in deep neural networks: but in the 1990s the field had stalled due to other reasons that had nothing to do with either compute power or data set size.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I don't argue with the general claim of this article, but the following statements are just wrong: > Deep learning entered the sphere of mainstream awareness less than a decade ago, but the science is ancient. This 1986 paper in Nat
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Dylan was never on the Newton. The Newton team had two proposed products, Senior and Junior. Senior was gonna run Dylan, but they kept waiting on the Dylan team to produce something usable, and it never happened. So they gave up on Senio
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
"It's counter productive" is the argument he's making. It's not why he's making the argument. A lot of people are making this grammar error. The headline isn't saying " What Stephen Fry is argui
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
That's the argument he's making. It's not why he's making the argument.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
For an article with this headline, it's rather surprising that it never says why Stephen Fry is arguing against political correctness. Here's why, I think: because Stephen Fry is, among other things, a comedian. And comedians are
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
What would you use instead?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
We've seen this before: and it's likely wrong. He ended his experiment too soon at 24 divisions, but even a little googling should have told him to go to 31, which is more accurate than 12. The 12-note scale long predates the not
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
No. This seems to be a straightforward example of Betteridge's law.

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