Verdex

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by Verdex 7y ago
So ... we all need to start flagging beautiful nature scenes, humorous comics, lists of health tips, and job postings for less stressful jobs that you could do if you're already qualified for being a facebook moderator? At least that w
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by Verdex 7y ago
Step 1) Buy a lot of paper. Too many ideas, concepts, and problems in programming are really really big and we have no idea how to effectively tackle them. Being able to take notes, write down your thoughts, create diagrams and pictures,
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by Verdex 7y ago
It's probably safer to misspell it. I imagine it was intentional to avoid unexpected consequences.
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by Verdex 7y ago
So much to unpack here. 1) Intelligence isn't linear. How could it be. Problems in the general sense are terrifying graphs of graphs with meta edges everywhere that are conditionally relevant depending on what "value" is at
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by Verdex 7y ago
The thing is though that the ratings are given by humans. No algorithms here. Which means there are almost definitely going to be racial disparity. Even if we assume the ultimate ideal of nobody who uses uber is a racist, cognitive biase
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by Verdex 7y ago
Maybe or maybe not. If it is then it will just kick off an arms race. Although, if Uber really knows what they're doing, then they'll allow the buying and selling of accounts and then take a percentage of the sale.
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by Verdex 7y ago
This is fantastic. If the markups are high enough, I can imagine people who have the job of just taking uber rides all day to grind up ratings for good passenger uber accounts. Reminiscent of faction grinding in MMOs. Life imitates art.
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by Verdex 7y ago
Ultimately, the people teaching young people math do not understand what it is or how to actually use it. If you took away their ability to do math, it is unlikely that anything would actually change in their life. Mathematics is the close
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by Verdex 7y ago
I have a theory that simple sets can become difficult to understand not because of anything in their nature, but because of how they are desired to be consumed. In other words, if you have a simple to understand thing, then it might become
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by Verdex 7y ago
Don't delete it. That only makes you look super guilty. And can get you in legal trouble if you start deleting after the trial begins. The evidence shows that you cancel projects that Mike tells you are unsafe. And the record shows
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by Verdex 7y ago
Mike: "Hey, boss. I think this stuff we're doing might be dangerous. I could even lose my license over it." Boss: "You know Mike, I think you might be right. We'll get Ken and Joe to take a look at it and see i
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by Verdex 7y ago
> Also: You will not get agreement on what the GAAP practices of software are. This industry isn't that mature. Hear, hear. This point cannot be overstated enough. People have been building bridges for thousands of years. Software
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by Verdex 7y ago
> Imagine you replaced "software" with "civil" and everything you said remains true. This is false. Bridges are large and have failure cases that managers and government officials understand. Software is invisible an
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by Verdex 7y ago
While I like the idea of something that helps software engineers to make the right decision due to simply self preservation (so we'll reach even the most self centered software engineer), I don't think Professional Engineering l
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by Verdex 7y ago
> When you break a method in three or four without adding REAL abstractions (a.k.a. "things you don't have to follow with the debugger to understand"), you're not making it easier to read, in fact you're making i
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by Verdex 7y ago
I'm fairly sure that we as a community can come up with an objective measure for the phrase "clever code". Something like: Exploits implicit and/or hidden details to correctly function. However, I've never seen a
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by Verdex 8y ago
Do you want the punisher (tm)? This is how we get the punisher(tm).
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by Verdex 8y ago
A couple of things have changed though. LLVM exists, we are being flooded by parser frameworks that make that whole business much more pleasant than the lex/yacc days, the llvm and Regehr blogs both spelled out some info on undefined
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by Verdex 8y ago
I'm not sure that's really feasible for two reasons. 1) How do you know it's a loophole. Sure, there's probably some instances where it's pretty obvious what you're doing is a loophole. But others require you
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by Verdex 8y ago
"type", "array", and "Natural" are all specialized computer science or mathematical terms. "My_Arr" is just as mysterious as the rest of them and unless you're familiar with variable binding, yo
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by Verdex 8y ago
Yup. If you checkout the wikipedia page on huffman coding you'll see that David Huffman got his idea while in an information theory class with Robert Fano. Fano had worked with Shannon (the inventor of information theory) to develop
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by Verdex 8y ago
This is actually a property in information theory. Often used symbols should have short representations and rarely used symbols should have long representations. People have a habit of automatically doing this. It's why pretty much e
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by Verdex 8y ago
Yeah, it probably happens all the time. It's weird when we actually hear of it. For example there is the cat that allegedly killed a species of bird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren
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by Verdex 8y ago
You setup this great analogy about messages and cells and a bunch of other stuff, but then exceptions and pointers/references show up and everything falls apart. If you have a system like ruby or java or c# then you can sort of pretend
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by Verdex 8y ago
My theory is that there are two basic ways of understanding the world around you and solving problems. Statistically and structurally. Everyone can do statistical problem solving. At least everyone who can talk. What you do is that you s
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by Verdex 8y ago
| This attitude seems to me to be rather obtuse, and a straw-man, at that. I mean, not really. My argument is simple and not particularly nuanced, but checkout what it's a response to: | Infest is not the right word to use for animals
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by Verdex 8y ago
We could write and talk in a way which is 100% factually correct and unbiased. But then it would take ages to say anything and nobody would bother reading it. | is disturbing in its human-centricity I can't help but notice that you&#x
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by Verdex 8y ago
I don't have a source, but my understanding was that deer tend to learn when it's safe to cross the road. When all of a sudden people change their driving habits by an hour, deer start to get hit by cars that they didn't exp
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by Verdex 8y ago
I actually have thought about this sort of thing for a while. Personally, I think that forcing private entities to have more responsibility as they become more powerful is the way to go. Although, I'm not a civics expert by any stret
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by Verdex 8y ago
It sounds like the error correction that we need for a lot of "general" purpose quantum functions requires a lot of qubits. However, it also sounds like we can build some special purpose machines using the 50-100 qubit machines

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