SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Apple's been in this game a long time. NewtonScript had a powerful function called "IsHalting". See Page 23-84 of http://www.newted.org/download/manuals/NewtonProgrammerRef20...
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
My experience in Italy strongly suggests spring mattresses are the norm.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
That much is obvious. But your link is to a different replication study. I want to know why there is an asterisk at the bottom of this article.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> * A mention of the marshmallow test was removed from an early paragraph, since the circumstances there differ from those of other failed replications. I tried digging into the study webpage, but holy cow it's not organized in an e
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Wow, my book got posted to HN.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I don't think either of these is a requirement for an ES. Just truncation selection.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Sure, there's no requirement to use trees: but because trees are so common, non-programming tree-representation stuff is also typically included in the GP umbrella.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
This isn't genetic programming at all. What's being described here is a kind of sample-based stochastic optimization which, if I were pressed, is most similar to an algorithm known as a "(mu, lambda) evolution strategy".
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
These silly New Yorkers, with no sense of anything outside Manhattan. Put aside government -- which is enormous -- and DC has: - A long Internet history. MAE-East. UUNet. AOL. Equinix. Network Solutions. Microstrategy. - Let's
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal Perhaps common on Youtube comments.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and he provided none.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Is vocational training and an apprenticeship necessary to be a master carpenter? No, it is not: but it makes it far easier to become one. And that's what a PhD is: it's a vocational degree coupled with an apprenticeship. It&#x27
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> no ADC/DAC The arduino has a DAC? > no I2C Well, I'm out then. That's a big one.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
It's worth mentioning the debt Lua owes to Self and Newtonscript. An extraordinary amount of Lua's syntax and semantics is directly lifted from these languages. Newtonscript in particular seems to be a template for a great many
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
More interesting to me is the fact that many people with absolute pitch start to lose it in their 40s and 50s. This has happened to me too. What happens is that your pitch assessment often starts going sharp, so what you thought was a C
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Which compilers can rearrange fib, with two recursive calls, into being tail recursive?
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> Not sure who made Utah the name prophecy state, but that’s what it apparently is. This is not surprising at all. Utah and Idaho Mormon culture is famous for being a veritable stew of bizarre names, everything from derivatives of Book
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Me too. In the past, the IRS has been very helpful to me with suggestions for complex situations. I can only say positive things about their support. Perhaps now that they've been so defunded their support is bad, I don't know.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> But voter fraud disenfranchises everyone. What voter fraud are you referring to? The type of voter fraud that IDs would counter is "in-person" voter fraud. The amount of in-person voter fraud in the United States is extraord
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
It's not cost. The US has a long tradition of viewing required national identification documents as a violation of individual liberties.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
The current narrowest house in the United States is also a spite house. It's a small house in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, a historic suburb of the DC metro area. It fills the carriageway between two houses and was built to keep
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Forgive me if you make this clear in the text (I may have missed it), but you have various pull quotes which say: "The new R2 sequence is the only 2-dimensional low discrepancy quasirandom sequence where..." Are you saying that i
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Whether the Nazis were socialist in anything other than name is a matter of considerable debate to say the least. https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists...
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Yes. Because your licensees don't know that and they don't know you wouldn't obtain them later.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I'm not sure what the "most normal choice" means, but in this age of software patents, X/MIT (or BSD) is archaic to the point of being dangerous except for the most trivial of projects. Select a license which has a paten
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Interestingly, I just visited what I believe is generally regarded to be the first community-owned public library in the world: the Biblioteca Maletestiana in Cesena, Italy, established 1447. It had books in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, all c
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I don't understand. A whole 6/10 for the WhatsApp ant, which has only three legs? At least Samsung, missing a leg, got a proper 2/10.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be ... does this mean it runs OS X? Because for me that's all that matters. Otherwise it's nothing the MacBook Pro should be.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> Mac OS came from Mach I believe you mean OS X, not MacOS. Apple could switch OS X to entirely proprietary underpinnings and few customers would even notice. In fact, OpenStep ran just fine on top of NT. [And also on top of then-non-op
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> Getting a secure RNG right is important. Why are you bringing up secure RNGs? PCG isn't in this category. Getting a non-secure RNG right is important. There are plenty of simulation applications which rely on RNGs like these to

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