adrianratnapala

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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Yep. Though admittedly it belongs to the category: names I'd have thought were exclusively women's except I heard of just this one dude. My list is: * Evelyn Waugh * Vivian Richards * Marion Barry
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Discrete fourier transforms have always been a way of doing fast polynomial multiplication -- which is also called convolution. That is we can do (a0 + a1^z + a2*z^2...) * (b0 + b1^z + b2*z^2...) As fa = DFT([a0, a1, a2..
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> One issue I see here is that time protection would need to extend to anything shared, We might see this issue as an opportunity. That is, by thinking about a concept called "time protection" we expose all these things subsys
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
I went through a similar journey a while ago, except I haf a semi-practical result to get at. I wanted to draw an fairly detailed energy-level diagram for a particular atom and I wanted the it done to scale -- except for certain fudges made
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> Basically, a manifold means something that takes the flow of gases from a one-to-many or a many-to-one. A perfectly sensible meaning given the construction of the word. There is something about mathematics and linguistics (and to some
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> "Merged" conjures an image of living peacefully side by side and interbreeding for many generations. Even when this did happen[1], the record seems to show trickles of gene-flow from these populations entering a much larger s
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
As dsfyu404ed@ points out, the UK no longer has good track-record of due process and fundamental-rights compared to the continent. In 18th and even 19th century, Britain's unwritten constitution and notions of "English liberty&quo
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> There's lots more optimizations possible with this technique, e.g. counting-sort style bucketing. :) I was going to say that since you are half re-inventing bucket-sort anyway, why not go the whole hog. Is the code three-part quic
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Perhaps they believe they have enough of a head-start that they has more to gain from a more or less patent free industry than they have from having patents, but then also having to deal with every ankle-biter who claims to have a relevant
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
I thought chess players have been doing physical fitness training since the '70s. If so, I suspect that a lot of eSports players have been doing the same for a long time without making the newspaper.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
>... but it turns out that a guess works pretty well most of time since most things you search have a similar frequency distribution.) This kind of thing is an pattern unless the benefit over Boyer-Moore huge . A small performance gain
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
The claim is not that Roman ethics was spread through popularity with the rich. The claim is that one particular strand of ethics within Roman culture did so. That said, I am not sure that Stoicism was particularly rich-friendly, nor that
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Cat pictures?
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> Instead, what we need is a simple API with opaque handles and C function calls. No fancy OOP or macro preprocessors. Simple OpenGL style. Something like the enlightenment foundation libraries might be what you want[1]. I haven't
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
That's his point. The advantage of getting through the fourth and final year is the signal that it shows you are not one of those who did worse.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> The problem is we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work. Money isn't the problem. So is the problem that there aren't enough mechanics, or not enough licenses?
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
But named-args in Python are also syntactic sugar for passing dictionaries around. Object-unpacking of the the kind described here is another one.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
While that's all pretty shocking -- it's really a variation on the same kind of problems we see with patreon et. al. cutting people of. The reactions might not be as harsh yet, because there are fewer regulators and policemen bre
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Another way of looking at this this is that society has lost sight of the forest for the trees in its desire to impede criminals.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
You are right that they have some network effect, but are also right that it's not zero. Recently the one "creator" that I funded on the platform moved to allowing direct bank transfers. I was glad to make the change: my ban
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
`ssh -X` generally disagrees with you.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> Latency matters because of all of those round-trip requests. Well then, since it's a physical impossibility to do away with them, we'd better start working on improving the speed of light.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Everything that is standard recommended practice in modern web design is Very Bad From, whether or not it is sloth.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
I have about 30 open on my phone.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
So all the landlords in Bercelona conspired to do this somehow?
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Point #3 is actually a sign of increasing authoritarianism. You can make an argument that as older forms of authority (family, church) have weakened, we have been placed at the mercy of the remaining forms (governments, employers). But in
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
> The victors of WW2 were countries that invested heavily in science and technology So were the losers. But you are right, both sides were forced to concentrate on developing new technologies by the mutual struggle. The more capable si
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Those rays are unlikely to be photons, so EM-self interaction is not likely to stop them. The articles linked in this sub-thread all speculate/assume that the cosmic rays were protons.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
And Wikipedia makes it relatively easy to do tricks like compare the different language versions.
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by adrianratnapala 8y ago
Sadly, there is no substitute for careful reading. History books will always be subtly representing the historians biases, even as the present a lot of detailed facts. The Wikipedia is no different. But it still allows the interested-amat

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