anatoly

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by anatoly 13y ago
The first message in the thread, from Martin, really surprised me with its absolute lack of awareness of selection bias: >Seems hardly a weekend goes by these days without another Scala rant that makes the Hacker news frontpage. [...] Th
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by anatoly 13y ago
I've followed your advice and have been playing quick 9x9 games on KGS while I'm working through the first "Graded Go Problems for Beginners" book. Thank you.
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by anatoly 13y ago
The post at Joyent is eye-popping and Bryan Cantrill comes across as a horrible person. In just four sanctimonious, power-hungry and smug paragraphs he makes Joyent look like a toxic entity I would never want to deal with.
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by anatoly 13y ago
Issac, I realize that you had the best intentions in this, I see that you were trying to put out stupid fires rather than start another one, and I appreciate your willingness to criticize the crass and inappropriate response from Joyent. A
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by anatoly 13y ago
What's the best place to play online, for an absolute beginner?
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by anatoly 13y ago
I would disagree with both you and your parent comment. Russian and Ukrainian are East Slavic languages; Polish is a West Slavic language. None of these three languages is mutually intelligible with any other, but Russian and Ukrainian are
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by anatoly 13y ago
I will say that I'm a huge fan of the Caltech Learning from Data course (currently also offered on EdX). I took Andrew Ng's Coursera course 2 years ago, finished it successfully, and liked it. But I feel that the Caltech course ga
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by anatoly 13y ago
One more tiny glimpse of the community!
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by anatoly 13y ago
Because of the mind-numbing tendency to politicize everything. Card's book and the movie have nothing to do with his bigoted views, and should stand or fall on their own. In fact, the book (and possibly the movie), with its strong mora
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by anatoly 13y ago
Are you being willfully obtuse, or deliberately misleading? No one said you weren't _allowed_ to express your opinion, recommend anything you want, that you _didn't have the right_ to say what you want, etc. Why do you pretend tha
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by anatoly 13y ago
People like you are far more dangerous, in our times, than Orson Scott Card could ever be.
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by anatoly 13y ago
It's nice of you to point out that, coincidentally, the people you disagree with are the ones behaving ostentatiously on this thread. Here, let me chime in with another piece of Card's writing advice, as convincingly retold by Jo
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by anatoly 13y ago
Are you asking about good SF novels in general or those suitable to teach young kids? For the former, there's so much SF better than Card's. Perhaps Gene Wolfe's _The Book of the new Sun_ cycle, with its brilliant writing and
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by anatoly 13y ago
I agree with you that Ender's Game is really overrated. But you know what? I still think it works great to introduce someone to SF as a field, especially young people. Is there really a contradiction here?
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by anatoly 13y ago
Can you explain what do you mean about other books being patronizing to young readers? In what way are they patronizing? Sure, there're many SF books that may be too complex for many young readers, but there's also lots of classic
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by anatoly 13y ago
I've been reading his blog for many years and can confirm that the resemblance is no coincidence and it is indeed that person.
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by anatoly 13y ago
Thanks! How do I learn modern OpenGL specifically - is there an authoritative book everyone knows, or a very good tutorial?
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by anatoly 13y ago
Are there good resources out there for experienced programmers who want to write games for fun? As someone who last wrote simple games 20 years ago, I'm a little bewildered as to where to begin - should I study OpenGL? Some kind of eng
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by anatoly 13y ago
Units also have the property that they cannot be written as the product of two non-zero non-units. There's no important reason for Units and Primes to be disjoint sets. Units could be considered primes. It would make some things more c
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by anatoly 13y ago
I, too, would like to use this opportunity to declare that I was not aware of PRISM until the story broke and that the US government does not have any backdoors installed on my private servers (to the best of my knowledge, certainly not wit
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by anatoly 13y ago
The rather (in)famous academic source for some of this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rind_et_al._controversy A later paper that provides a list of statistical complaints against Rind et al., finds some of them plausible, but replicates
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by anatoly 13y ago
It's the new guestbook.
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by anatoly 13y ago
I wrote most of the initial C server. Brad helped with code reviews, some bug-hunting, and IIRC he wrote the first version of the slab allocator. Prior to using the slab allocator, we tried straightforward malloc (thrashed under load due to
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by anatoly 13y ago
There is no finite field of size 6. It's very easy to prove this constructively just by showing exhaustively that any attempt to define multiplication on the unique abelian group of size 6 will fail some of the axioms. However, such a proof
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by anatoly 13y ago
HN could use a killfile feature.
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by anatoly 13y ago
I'm so sorry for your father.
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by anatoly 14y ago
I reached your answer (but I'm not a native speaker).
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by anatoly 14y ago
Honestly, I just don't understand any of it. What are retransmission fees? Who's paying them to whom? And what's wrong with receiving broadcast TV on antennas? Isn't that what something like 30% of US population still doing (no cable)? Anyo
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by anatoly 14y ago
The way I recall it (and I wonder if you'll agree - you are certain to know much more about it than I do) Applied was sort of a cryptography Bible in the 90ies. It filled a huge void when it appeared, and deserved the fame it acquired. It a
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