SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> In fact, I remember folks screaming at me that it would take five years to engineer a mouse, and it would cost $300 to build. I finally got fed up and went outside and found David Kelly Design... and in 90 days we had a mouse we could
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
If you say so. I own an UltraProteus with almost 500 filters and an extensive mod matrix. Pretty sure it can mangle a sample quite a lot.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Sure. But you can manipulate the sample in complex ways with filters, effects, etc. on your sampler or rompler already. I'm not saying there's no reason -- I'm just saying it's a fairly narrow and not hugely compelli
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> By allowing general architectures, Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language. Well, that's quite a tall claim.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Using genetic algorithms or other evolutionary computation methods for this purpose is pretty old. There are two versions. First, there is evolutionary resynthesis , where the system is trying to optimize a synth program to match an exis
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I didn't say "from 50 countries". I think that generally the accepted parse is the greedy one where modifiers are as close to their objects as possible. So "Banned weed killer" gets compressed to an object X. That
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Can we fix the title? It is not the original headline, and it implies that the weed killer is giving US workers in 50 countries Parkinson's. Corrected: U.S. workers say weed killer banned in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson'
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
As a former good Cantonese speaker, now terrible, let me assure you that there is no way to ask anything nicely in Cantonese. It's a rough-and-tumble, loud, crude, obnoxious gutter language. It's awesome. So much better than Ma
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Our paper was an analysis of an already established technique used nearly identically by a number of previous papers. We dug up about a dozen IIRC, including the seminal ones, but we missed his. He didn't go after us for not citing h
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
No.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
We published a paper a while back in a genetic programming conference, and before the paper had been published (only the title was announced) Schmidhuber guessed that we had not cited his work. He very publically put us through the wringer
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
The old internet is 15 years ago? I am very old I guess.
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These are iconic in the sense of "historical and influential". But I think only the Z80 and 6502 still have a big community still excited about them as 8-bit processors specifically, which I thought was the basis of the piece. I
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
??? Texas's 2021 winter disaster, which the Governor stupidly blamed on wind turbines, turned out to be largely caused by frozen natural gas delivery components.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
etymologyonline says at least 1965. Other sources date to 1950. The term was invented to distinguish the head paragraph of a story specifically because it would cause confusion with "lead", which at the time was widely used in ne
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Lede. Yes, it's an unusual word.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Every country I've ever been to except the US includes VAT in their prices and I've been to over 30. It's not just a European thing but a world thing, where the US once again is the odd one out. Only for local purchases,
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Same as it with Google, which won because they invested massively into edge nodes, winning the ping race (fastest results), not the best results. What in the world are you talking about? Internet search? I remember Inktomi. Basch&#x27
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
[Sigh] Sounds are misunderstanding what I meant by determinism, my apologies. Of course a given instance of an RNG will generate the same sequence given the same seed. That's not the issue. The issue is Java historically has guarant
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Even if its high bits go 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ... ?
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Name another language where random() is deterministic. Ask yourself why that is. As to bugs. Let's start with the famous one: http://alife.co.uk/nonrandom/ This is due to boneheaded mistakes in Sun's choic
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I guess sort of with the new proposal.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Because it permanently prevents all bugfixes for a major library class. And java.util.Random has some whopping bugs. If you need determinism, then the proper thing to do is use your own RNG. There's been a good Mersenne Twister imp
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
In Java there's just Math.random(), and it's been broken, with WONTFIX, since 1998. Java's random number generator returns exceptionally non-random values, but Sun, er, Oracle, won't fix it because of the most insane of
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This is a terrible, just terrible headline and awful data spin. Let's start with the obvious: "fringe" is a measure of size . "fastest growing" is a measure of rate . You don't go from size to rate. Next: t
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20151211215507/https://openai.co... > As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish t
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Huh, someone on Wikipedia must have seen my link to their Code Page 37 article and deleted the entire article 6 hours later. Seems pretty harsh. Wikipedia can have lists of all available Troll Dolls but it can't have an article on an
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
It's been pointed out in the article's comments that the article is wrong. EBCDIC code pages 37 and 1047 each have support for all of Latin-1. The bank just doesn't want to support it. Furthermore, UTF-EBCDIC is a thing.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Perhaps The Sun isn't the best source of information for HN.
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Would points in a simplex qualify as a coordinate system? Their dimensions would have to sum to 1. That is, so-called "normalized" barycentric coordinates maybe, as opposed to standard barycentric coordinates? https://

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