an1sotropy

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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   I was naively hoping ChatGPT would totally whiff all the joke explanations, but it got uncomfortably close often enough that I don't think this is will work like a Turing test. Future versions won't be any worse at this skill, at
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   On reading that C has "BCPL semantics with a lot of SMALGOL syntx" , I was really curious to see some examples of SMALGOL programs. I found this [1] which describes what is taken out of ALGOL to make SMALGOL, and searches for &qu
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   This is very helpful; thank you.
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   Not really, unfortunately, and it’s a pre-existing framework for teaching a class, so simplicity of compilation is extra important. Also if I try to isolate the SIMD bits in C++ I’ll lose the opportunity to have them be inlined which will
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   cool; thanks for pointing out your project! Do you have any advice on how someone limited to c99/c11 can still leverage the wisdom and techniques inside it?
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   Thank you. I just started reading this today. My codebase is just C99 or C11 so I’m working through how to un-C++-ify the article; I’m grateful for all the generally useful background info
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   I’ll try them!
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   Thanks. It would be simpler if I were working on only one platform that I knew supported a specific set of instructions. But, even though the code does involve some convolutions and things that are a good fit for SIMD, it needs to be cros
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   by an1sotropy 4y ago

   Can you recommend any favorite resources for learning how to use SIMD intrinsics?
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    The slide deck seems like a pitch for more funding to create a CMake replacement, rather than a description of that replacement, right? It ends with "A $1M+ investment in a new CMake language(s) and translation tools could avoid a fut
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    It's neat that the artist is actually taking a photograph of a projected video, but if you accept digital processing and are only after the visual effect of this, averaging video frames is a lot easier (though less precious). The artis
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    If they pull this off, does this mean we can use ESLint in a directory where I haven't (and don't need to) run "npm init"?
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Thank you for pointing out this precedent in this use of face-swapping - it's a great idea, and (together with the OP link about Hong Kong protestors) changes my understanding of the threat/value of face-swapping technology.
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    That sounds cool; hadn't heard of it. The web searches I've just tried to look for technical details yielded not much; are there any extant open specs?
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    I remember learning PostScript (~1993?) by reading the Red Book, and thinking how awesome it was that this company Adobe, which I'd never heard of, had created a new programming language just to solve once and for all the problem of sp
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    I think Prolog is one of those languages everyone should spend a little time learning, just to stretch your programming brain in a new way. It’s a logic programming language: very roughly, you program by stating the logical tests that are t
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    These are awesome and criminally under-viewed (on youtube). Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLcfMEQjMqM currently with a single-digit number of likes, that uses two people at a table, with a marker, and some p
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    (I don't know about wildly popular, but) I remember linking the older UPS logo (with the string-tied box on top, designed by Paul Rand, who also made the IBM and NeXT logos, and lots more), and thought the new logo was sort of dumb, bu
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    I should have seen that coming :)
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    For a short time, some kids will boast about their ability to spot a deepfake in some media, but then they will use "deepfake" more generally to say that something (not AI-generated) looks weird or bad. Eventually "deepfake&
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    As other comments have noted, PageRank didn't come out of a vacuum; some history is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#History
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Kind of niche and specific to X11, but one my favorite quotes is from jwz [1]: "X is slow because of the separation of servers and clients, i.e., the client-server model, i.e., its network capacity. It doesn't matter that it uses
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    If I get nothing else done today, I will at least have learned this cool fact/number.
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Thanks for this link; I think your reply is the one I saw and then couldn't see, but now it's back. I may be misunderstanding how HN works.
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    I agree, but the original article at dusted.codes hopes types will "prevent silly mistakes like multiplying $100 with £20". I don't know what that author would think of multiplying $100 with $20, but my point is that this emb
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Is this getting downvoted? bummer. You have provided a real example, which I was looking for, of why one might need to express a square dollar; thanks. I wonder if the people who want to argue "types save you from bugs" see your
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    thank for the link to that nice article; it also has some other examples of symbolic math packages getting the wrong result
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    There used to be another answer here, with a specific link, but now it's gone. I thought I upvoted it, but I'm worried my fumble fingers on my tiny phone downvoted it by accident.
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Thanks; you have aptly expressed the vibe I got trying to read through New Kind of Science.
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    by an1sotropy 4y ago

    Can you share an example of it getting math wrong?