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by _dps 11y ago
Disclosure / for dang: I edited the title per my interpretation of the guidelines. In context it's not misleading, but on HN I figured "The Traveling Tesla Salesman" in isolation would cause many mistaken clicks and coul
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Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde(mortada.net)
111 points by _dps 11y ago|36 comments
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by _dps 11y ago
This is an excellent point and maybe you gave me a good compact summary of the situation. Perhaps you can tell me if you agree. The kind of work I do tends to involve a small number of low-variability data types, and the ROI on complex logi
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by _dps 11y ago
I would be interested in your thoughts here because Haskell has always seemed, theoretically, a great fit for me but it has never panned out in practice. I believe you and I have a common-enough mental framework (theoretical-leaning applied
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by _dps 11y ago
You are implicitly presuming an expected utility framework (more generally, that people rank outcome distributions based solely on their long run central tendencies). This isn't the case (or even uniquely formalizable) in base (non-e.u
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by _dps 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand your requirements but might DynASM be useful? It's one component of the JIT library behind LuaJIT but many people use it for run-time code generation completely outside a JIT setting. http://lu
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by _dps 12y ago
At the risk of being perceived to move the goalposts, I think there is a real lesson to engage with: empirically, for large classes of programmers, syntax, uniformity, and absence of boilerplate actually make a larger difference in out-the
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by _dps 12y ago
> Manhattan is not the only way ... neither is it even the most unpleasant. > There are ways to build dense cities that people can afford to live in and actually enjoy living in. This is a subject that deeply interests me. I would be
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by _dps 12y ago
You touch on many things I have thought about for years :) I think the Mountain View / Palo Alto / Sunnyvale area mirrors the San Gabriel valley structure pretty closely (with Palo Alto ~= Pasadena, Menlo Park+Atherton ~= San Mar
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by _dps 12y ago
I agree broadly, but I feel obliged to stand up and defend Los Angeles here (needless to say, I am biased; I used to live there but do not currently). If you have lived in a big city but have not lived in Los Angeles, it is not reasonable t
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by _dps 12y ago
> katamari of design features Did you coin this phrase? It's a fascinating, evocative, and quite possibly accurate description of many of the systems I find most frustrating. In any case, thank you for bringing a smile to my face to
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by _dps 12y ago
> subtle text-shadows and gradients to enhance legibility (scientific reason) Honest question: can you provide citations for this claim? I have been trying to produce a compendium of all the empirically-supported claims about visual desi
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by _dps 12y ago
Does anyone know the licensing status of the TTFs?
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by _dps 12y ago
> Besides being a compiler guy, i'm an open source lawyer. Apologies for replying in-thread (I couldn't find contact in your profile). Would it be possible to ask you a few questions about a perhaps-novel compiler licensing que
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by _dps 12y ago
In my experience the "category theory" claim is imprecise but not unfounded. Without fairly serious abstract understanding of monads, functors, and applicatives (at a bare minimum), it is not possible to write Haskell code profita
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by _dps 12y ago
From the article: "It's definitely air travel. It's not exactly flying." This phrase has an Alan Kay-ish quality, and was enough to pique my interest. Anyone seriously trying to execute on a project that addresses this c
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by _dps 12y ago
I may be able to help. As a fellow Southern European (living in California), I make it a point to try to help people from that region with employment where I can. I employ people (fully remotely) all over the world, and I help several other
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by _dps 12y ago
"LuaJIT FFI is a library for Lua. It doesn't change the language at all ... " This is literally true, of course, but in my ~5 yrs using it now I can say that writing LuaJIT+FFI-data-type code is, for me, both aesthetically an
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by _dps 12y ago
I thought this may be of interest to HN since the author posts here occasionally and there has been past discussion of his book/typesetting framework [0]. I personally found "Butterick's Practical Typography" very compel
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The economics of a web-based book(practicaltypography.com)
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by _dps 12y ago
> There's no point in denying that and Go will end up like both Java and C++, both of which didn't have generics in the beginning - and so it will end up with a half-baked solution ... [I take no position on whether Go should h
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by _dps 12y ago
In context, you're right of course. But you might be underestimating the number of non-web programmers who have this reaction. I know many such people, and many have asked me "The term API predates the web; In what sense is this a
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by _dps 12y ago
At the risk of continuing to be boring, I think it's important not to mix technical concepts with social welfare concepts; they serve different goals and it is easy to get a misleading impression of one when trying to apply it in the o
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by _dps 12y ago
There's an important part of utility theory that answers this question: utility is not comparable between people, only between options available to a single person. So Yolanda-Yuppie gets more Yolanda-utility out of a lobster than she
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by _dps 12y ago
(note: this comes mostly from a background in scientific/numerical programming in C) You are certainly right if one takes "predictable" to mean something close to "deterministic"; on the other hand I think there are
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by _dps 12y ago
Because this article is highly cited, and because you strike me as a personality who would appreciate micro-detail feedback: there is a typo ("algoritms") in the first sentence that immediately threw off my attention from an other
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by _dps 13y ago
> But if we already know the generating process, all the hard work is already done. Yes, I agree completely, and I believe that so would most frequentists! The point, even among the most strident critics, is rarely one of whether Bayesia
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by _dps 13y ago
A practical way to summarize the difference is that Frequentists refuse to assign the word "probability" to anything other than the output of a formal generative model, whereas Bayesians use the word more broadly and are willing t
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by _dps 13y ago
I will add to your list of references an excellent book, "Basic Geometry of Voting" by D. Saari [1]. It covers all major alternative voting systems in an accessible mathematical framework that clearly highlights their tradeoffs (n
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by _dps 13y ago
I suspect this thread is dead but if you're still watching it I'd be happy to take it up over email :) (see my profile and shoot me a quick note).

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