anatoly

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by anatoly 12y ago
That's an amazing story, thanks! This is the place where it catches the fault: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/...
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What I Believe(scottaaronson.com)
15 points by anatoly 12y ago|3 comments
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by anatoly 12y ago
I was shocked to read that eggs generally have pleasing deep-yellow or orange-red yolks because the egg industry spends a lot of money to put special additives into chicken feed just for that purpose. There's no other benefit from thos
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by anatoly 12y ago
Consider that these people updated, you just don't share their conditional probabilities. In particular, they might think that P(response by MIT as given|harassment nonexistent or relatively trivial) is fairly high, given their underst
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by anatoly 12y ago
Susskind is much more advanced. Realistically speaking you need to understand and internalize the content of Lewin (or comparable) before you take on Susskind. Lewin = undergraduate-level physics Susskind = graduate-level physics, converted
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by anatoly 12y ago
I don't understand where the misdirection is in what I said. It's not like I'm actually suggesting to debate whether MLK should be forgotten: I'm making a point through comparison. MLK being dead plays to the strength of
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by anatoly 12y ago
> However good this guy might be at teaching physics, this "loss" to the community cannot begin to approach the loss of uncountable women who decided to avoid quantitative fields because of the male culture dominance. This comp
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Falling(iasc-culture.org)
1 points by anatoly 12y ago|0 comments
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by anatoly 12y ago
"And Weidmann was, of course, executed for his crimes. His execution was widely covered, and even Franz Kafka was dispatched by Paris-Soir to cover the anticipated event." Err, what? Kafka died in 1924, 15 years before Weidmann&#x
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by anatoly 12y ago
Thank you for correcting my careless notation. I often forget about the differences between some of the u-sounds, because my native language (Russian) has just one. To me, "look" and "Luke" actually sounds like a passabl
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by anatoly 12y ago
I find David and Ben Crystal's efforts to promote the Original Pronunciation admirable, but ever since I've heard their version of Sonnet 116 a few years ago, I've harbored doubts about their particular choices. Several books
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by anatoly 12y ago
> (λ x . (x x)) (λ x . (x x)) This shows an infinite loop in lambda calculus evaluation. It can be arrived at independently (and I'd be surprised if it hadn't been) just by trying to build the simplest expression that doesn&#x2
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by anatoly 12y ago
Why? Is it unreasonably difficult for you to implement recursion via direct self-reference in your language? Or do you just not want to because the Y combinator is there and it's cool?
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by anatoly 12y ago
>derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules. Sorry, I don't understand what that means. Also, (lambda x: x(x))(lambda x: x(x)) already gives you an infinite loop, so why do you need a Y combinator to show non
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by anatoly 12y ago
Has the Y combinator been useful to anything? Has it been used in any software in a role other than pedagogic? It's a beautiful way to make a recursive call without binding the function to an identifier, but has it actually proven usef
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by anatoly 12y ago
Everything you said, plus - in the last levels I usually tried to find "the difficult thing" first. After looking at the push directions a bit, it becomes obvious that the difficult thing is going to be to position the red square,
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by anatoly 12y ago
Very nice writeup! To finish the puzzle, consider the following comment in one open-source mp4 library: https://github.com/l-smash/l-smash/blob/master/core/box.h "According to ISO/IEC-1449
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by anatoly 12y ago
It's chapter 8 (or "arc" 8 as the author calls it).
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by anatoly 12y ago
I was undecided about it right up until the big fight with the big L in one of the early chapters. That was so emotionally captivating, so epic and detail-rich at the same time, I was just walking around in disbelief afterwards going "
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by anatoly 12y ago
I honestly don't understand how it's not published yet. Yeah, it's extremely lengthy, and may need to get slimmed down in editing, but it's just so good, better by far than most current published SF out there.
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by anatoly 12y ago
Worm by Wildbow is also very much worth a try: http://parahumans.wordpress.com/ Not a fan fiction, like HPMoR, but rather a lengthy novel about superheroes and supervillains that takes the subject seriously and with an incr
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by anatoly 12y ago
Can anyone comment on what makes stockfish different from other chess engines? If I'm curious about state of the art in computer chess, is it worthwhile to study its source? What interesting ideas should I expect to see there beyond wh
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by anatoly 12y ago
66k. Aww, I'd have guessed something like 100k. Weirdly disappointed.
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by anatoly 12y ago
They keep saying that drinking lots of sugary drinks is bad for your health. But I've seen people who drink lots of sugary drinks, and I've seen people who eat greasy burgers and nothing else, and let me tell you, the people who e
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by anatoly 12y ago
It also works with most comments here! Whoever thought this up is a genius. Thanks for brightening my day.
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by anatoly 12y ago
While this is true, DHH in his article largely dismissed not merely testing first, but unit tests altogether, explaining that he prefers to focused on system tests. This set the tone to many subsequent reactions. But there's no reason
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by anatoly 12y ago
(cont'd) OK, so who needs this? Well, this paper is beautiful on its own, but it's not particularly important to many other mathematicians. The reason is that in set theory there's something famously called an "Axiom of
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by anatoly 12y ago
Say you have three identical bags of blue marbles (same number of blue marbles in each one), and three identical bags of red marbles (same number of red marbles in each one, but maybe not the same as blue, you don't know yet). Now you
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by anatoly 12y ago
Oh really? Do you suppose many VCs will want to invest in his startup, knowing that a crowd of zealots will be chomping at the bit to protest them and boycott their other investments? I'm afraid he may be effectively blacklisted in thi
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by anatoly 12y ago
Julio Cortázar, for his majestic _Hopscotch_, but also and especially for his short stories.

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