Syzygies

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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   I kept a list of bugs one month in the 1980's. I figured this way I'd never make the same mistake twice. I found the sheet of paper years later. Last entry: Forgot to eat. Got sick.
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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   My French cooking teacher had a saying something along the lines of "Tradition is the last bad performance." He is in fact quite traditional, but he understands the basic principle: If there was a significant migration from a fame
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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   Or write in Haskell in the first place. Good Haskell code is rather fast, but that's beside the point. For many projects, the only measure of goodness should be how nimbly one can then use and experiment with one's code. In Haskel
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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   I made a list as I worked, to avoid repeating classes of errors. I found this list decades later. Last entry: Forgot to eat. Got sick.
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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   That makes sense. I'm a mathematician, and my experience is with pure computations, homogeneous across each (virtual) core.
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   by Syzygies 9y ago

   In my experience with parallel code written in Haskell, hyper-threading offers only a very mild speedup, perhaps 10%. It is essentially an illusion, a logical convenience. (How long does it take to complete a parallel task on a dedicated ma
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   by Syzygies 10y ago

   > So how do you protect yourself? We need a "kill code" on secured devices: A separate password that silently resets the device to a saved state suggesting mild use and offering nothing of substance. Alarm systems have these: A
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   by Syzygies 10y ago

   Can we get her to work for DropBox? Every time my iPad GoodReader syncs my 1,000+ papers, it has to check every file. It boggles the mind that they don't support some version of change records.
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   by Syzygies 10y ago

   http://www.filmstruck.com/ is the streaming service in question.
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    Yep, good advice, and I admire the degree of encouragement you're giving. I stopped reading when I timed out, still having no idea what the point is here, other that an exercise for the author. Make the case up front somehow, but make
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    I used to use unique middle addresses for magazine subscriptions, back when magazines were physical. I'd get credit offers with middle name "Byte". Consumer Reports used to include a false advertising hall of shame; I loved s
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    I got to know both John Nash and Silvia Nasar, through working as the math consultant for the film "A Beautiful Mind". I had about a day's notice to meet with Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman, and Todd Hallowell for my interview, a
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    This problem is fundamentally different with stereo images; there is a hope of reconstructing the exact 3D geometry of the page before flattening, rather than inferring from content. An iPhone app that did this would do well.
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    Yes. This begs for a port to Rust, to see if the fine-grained memory support there pays off. While Rust can do anything, it wants to be bare-metal Haskell.
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    My dad Bryce Bayer (Kodak Rochester) worked closely with Phil Powell (Kodak England) throughout this period. I don't know what Phil Powell specifically contributed to the 'Bayer filter'. I do know that my dad would have liked
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    by Syzygies 10y ago

    Yes
17. 737.▲
    by Syzygies 10y ago

    My dad devised the "Bayer filter" used in digital cameras, in the 1970's in the Kodak Park Research Labs. It is hard to convey now exactly how remote and speculative the idea of a digital camera was then. The HP-35 calculator