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by a-priori 11y ago
"Behind closed doors and in secret, Canada will have already agreed to make these changes." Well they can't have agreed to anything yet, seeing as Parliament is dissolved for the October election. And it's currently a de
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by a-priori 11y ago
I think the parent is actually referring to this JSX: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html
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by a-priori 11y ago
The time-smearing technique reminds me of how the Erlang platform (ERTS) adjusts its internal timekeeping to changes in the system's clock. If the system's clock jumps, then Erlang makes its internal clock tick faster or slower th
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by a-priori 11y ago
Sounds like you made the right choice. When you're weighing certain money versus 'we think this company will be a big deal someday if we slog it out', it'd be silly not to cash out. As long as it's a reasonable offe
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by a-priori 12y ago
Are you referring to the microcode updates that operating systems apply on startup? Those are binary blobs, but they're only to correct CPU errata.
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by a-priori 12y ago
Is there any legal precedent that a court will accept this stamp as evidence of ownership?
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by a-priori 12y ago
Sorry for the delayed response here. I was speaking before on a neuron-for-neuron basis. In computation-theoretic terms, I presume a spiking neural network model such as Izhikevich E.M. (2003) is equally powerful to a rate-based model such
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by a-priori 12y ago
Yes, but computation can be performed with a function approximator where each iteration is a function `f :: (state, input) -> (state', output)`. This is the basis of an architecture called a 'neural turing machine' ( http:
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by a-priori 12y ago
It exposes jurors to the risk of harassment, intimidation and violence, both during and after the case, from people who don't like their verdict. And there will always be one side who does not like their verdict. It puts them in the po
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by a-priori 12y ago
Thanks. I want to be clear here that I'm not disparaging work in rate-based artificial neural network models or deep learning. I just wanted to dispel the idea that the so-called 'large deep neural networks' that this article
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by a-priori 12y ago
This is not scientific fact since it is conceivable that real neurons are much more powerful than artificial neurons, but real neurons may also turn out to be much less powerful than artificial neurons. In any event, the above is certainly
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by a-priori 12y ago
Java can be okay for soft real-time applications, like games, as long as you're very careful about the lifetime of your objects. The most recent versions of Hotspot, the most common JVM, has two memory pools for (non-permanent) objects
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by a-priori 12y ago
Simulated annealing is gradient based. It's an extension of gradient descent and in the degenerate case (zero temperature) they're the same: it generates random neighbouring states, and if the fitness of that state is better than
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by a-priori 12y ago
Sure. I've used Dvorak about 99% of the time since about 2001-2002. Except on my phone; I use QWERTY there, because it's a completely separate skill and the different layouts don't make any difference when you're typing
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by a-priori 12y ago
I guess I'm mistaken then. I thought freedom of movement, including for work, was covered under the Schengen agreement's visa policies.
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Also, Switzerland being in the Schengen area means they can recruit from any other Schengen country -- more-or-less the EU minus Britain and Ireland, plus Iceland, Switzerland and Norway -- without needing to get work visas or any other rig
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by a-priori 12y ago
I used a similar technique about five years ago (!) when I wrote a toy compiler for a university class in Haskell. Here's the relevant bits: * Expression evaluation: https://github.com/michaelmelanson/cminus-compil
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by a-priori 12y ago
Glad to help!
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Believe it or not, this topic has come up on Hacker News before. To paraphrase my comment from then ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324897 ): while Moldovans speak a language that's very similar to Romanian, in a
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by a-priori 12y ago
In case it's interesting to people, here's a blog post I made earlier this year on the topic of what exactly transaction isolation means: http://www.michaelmelanson.net/2014/03/20/transactions/
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I've also used xip.io (a similar service) when testing a web application that did multi-tenancy via subdomains.
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It buys you a higher level of abstraction. Now, abstractions have costs and benefits, so it's up to you whether it makes sense in any particular case. But that's what this tool buys you. In this case, its benefits are that the log
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by a-priori 12y ago
I love how simple and low-tech this solution is. People have been using anchored ropes and cables of various kinds to fasten things together for millennia. People have been using harpoons at sea for whaling for centuries.
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by a-priori 12y ago
They're referring to chemical signalling of some kind when they use the word 'signal'. Chemical signalling of various kinds is very common in all kingdoms of life; examples in animals are hormones (circulated in the bloodstre
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Take all arguments that these models resemble our brain with a huge grain of salt. At best they're a metaphor. There's one critical difference between biological neural networks and the artificial models they're talking about
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News issues tend to work in a sort of priority queue, where only the top three or so get much time in the news cycle. Currently, in American media, the topics are the mid-term elections, Ebola and Islamic State (mixed with conflict in the M
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by a-priori 12y ago
Is Netflix a broadcaster? In some ways, they quack like one, so the CRTC is going to act like they are one until they're told otherwise by the courts. It's in the nature of bureaucracies to attempt to expand their jurisdiction as
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by a-priori 12y ago
Is this always one half of your field of view? Or is it one half of certain objects (e.g. your face)? If it's the first, then it sounds like damage to one visual pathway. The visual input from each eye is divided into left and right
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There's a similar phenomenon called contralateral neglect (or one of various other names), where after brain damage to one hemisphere of their brain, a person tends to ignore things on the opposite side. The effect is sometimes in reti
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They're not nearly on the same scale. There are estimates that the US has, in its entire history, produced about 56 thousand metric tonnes of high-level radioactive waste as of 2008 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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