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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I mean, the runtimes are right there in the abstract; this is pretty easy to compare. Bellman-Ford takes time Theta(|V||E|), and as best I can tell the improvements you mention don't change that, they're just constant-factor impr
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
> brainchild I have to point out that you've reversed the meaning of this word...
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
> However, this 'icons on the desktop' approach has been out of fashion since people started building X desktop environments that used the same general ideas as macOS and Windows. Both of those have always used icons on the des
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
(1982)
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I mean, I would associate the term pretty strongly with indexed color with irregular regions, not with square pixels.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The thing you're missing here is that "opinion" is a term of art in this context, and has a meaning broader than its usual one. Importantly, for these purposes, any inference is considered "opinion". So "Pro
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Yes, my point is that spelling this out is important; I didn't find it obvious what you were trying to convey at all. (And more generally that people will not find obvious the same things as you, and that it's helpful to be expli
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Rather than just being dismissive and expecting everyone to already agree with you, perhaps you could actually explain what problem you're seeing here?
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Huh, the flywheels discussed here are charged/discharged electrically. I would have assumed that part of the point of a flywheel would have been to make it mechanical rather than electrical! Is electrical more efficient? Or just eas
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Reposting my comment from /r/math: OK, section 4.2 makes no sense to me. So they have this set Q, right? Which is the set of plane graphs that can be written G=A*B*C*D, where * denotes joining at a cut vertex. Their goal is to sho
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
To be clear, this supposed etymology is absolutely false. Wikipedia has an entire page about this myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
That and https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04227 ; the article links to both of them early on, but it is perhaps easy to miss.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The code is a fixed point of a transformation, that transformation being "running it and extracting the output". Indeed, the fact that they always exist is a specialization of a more general fixed-point theorem! See: https:&#x2
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Doesn't look like the series was ever continued, unfortunately...
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
It's actually not the only attractor -- it's just the only attractor once you restrict to finite variance. If you allow infinite variance, there can be others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distributio
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Note that what the article actually says is that there will be no more leap seconds starting in 2035 . There could easily still be more before then.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Is there a non-AMP link...?
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
"Computers Are Bad" wrote more about the history of this: https://computer.rip/2021-02-20-555-500-710-etc.html
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
> I don't see why an auxiliary language needs to reflect all languages. How could it? In general, it doesn't. The claim is not that being Eurocentric makes Esperanto a bad auxlang. The claim is that being Eurocentric means th
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
You might want to read Justin B. Rye's "Learn Not to Speak Esperanto" for way more detail on all of this: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/ Edit: also, as to this > > Reality: Esperanto is overwhelmingly Eur
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
See also, Justin Rye's "Learn Not to Speak Esperanto": http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I've used JS generator functions at work. Part of it is redux-saga, which has already been mentioned, but part of it is another use. We use generators to implement functions that can make requests to the caller for more information.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Why is this an archive.org link? The page is still up: https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/2017/06/how-close-is-risc-v...
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
How does one use this on modern browers? If I paste it into the Firefox address bar, it interprets it as a search. I can get it to work by stripping off the "javascript:" prefix and pasting it into the console instead, but only
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
This is the site that does it for math: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I mean, I think Satoshi Nakamoto is notorious precisely because of his pseudonymous nature. If he'd used his real name, I doubt he'd get nearly as much attention.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Interestingly, in Ethereum smart contract languages (e.g. Solidity and Vyper), having separate types for bit vectors vs integers is common. I don't know why it's caught on there but nowhere else. Obviously those languages have a
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Hm, they do indeed use 2's-complement... sort of. In case of a negative posit, they don't apply 2's-complement to the mantissa or anything like that, but rather to the entire posit without regard to the meaning of the bits
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
IEEE754 uses sign-magnitude, not 1's-complement. It doesn't use any sort of complementation. Edit: Also, it looks like posits also use sign-magnitude and not 2's-complement? I am confused as to where you are getting this fr
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The article predates the Epic Games Store; the followup https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-... discusses it.

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