anatoly

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by anatoly 15y ago
>I think it's pretty telling that tablet computers have existed for ... what, 15 years? And that tablet computing didn't take off with consumers until iPad. I think that's a fine example of how Steve influenced a change in the world. Co
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by anatoly 15y ago
Well, I'm not sure signalfd(2) was feasible back when signals were added. Was it? Today it's usual to structure your main() as some kind of select()-like loop; even if you don't need one for your main workflow, at the worst you can spawn an
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by anatoly 15y ago
No, it isn't ridiculous. I've seen many projects available for multiple OS's that choose to advertise themselves with a Mac screenshot (or a Windows screenshot, or a Linux screenshot) at the top. The screenshot by itself says it runs on Mac
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by anatoly 15y ago
They filed in February. It is a (notable) coincidence that the application became public just now.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Doesn't say it on the page either until the very bottom. It's almost as if it's a statement _not_ to say it upfront. It transmits the unspoken assumption that you don't care about anything else or you don't expect your visitors to.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Also see metalua.
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by anatoly 15y ago
This is a good program. It reminds me of the curriculum of St. John's College: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(United_St... Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but it seems plausible to me that there's a subreddit out there
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by anatoly 15y ago
I only read Dune last year (I'm in my thirties), and really disliked it. Your comment, however, emphasizes a virtue I did not sufficiently acknowledge at the time. It _is_ true that Dune was able to weave a lot of background into the story
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by anatoly 15y ago
What happened?
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by anatoly 15y ago
It's difficult to imagine this could be for any reason other than his illness, but I'd like to hope against hope.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Sure it's possible, but you have no evidence for it. Consider what your argument reduces to: - CS says the path to super-intelligent AI lies through human-equivalent AI (actually, he says Vinge's program says that, and he explicitly critici
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by anatoly 15y ago
Your rebuttal can be used as is to argue that an oracle to the Halting Problem is a superintelligence, and that Stross's argument doesn't demonstrate the unlikelihood of someone implementing a fast approximation to it tomorrow.
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by anatoly 15y ago
"They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
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by anatoly 15y ago
> This is a pretty big stretch. The Russian language defines 3 tiers of familiarity/address: a nickname for family/friends, a full first name for acquaintances of the same age, and a full first + patronymic name for everyone else. (This
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by anatoly 15y ago
This interview is suspected of being fake. Russian bloggers who investigated this weren't able to find the person who allegedly interviewed Perelman. There are errors in the names of math departments, papers etc. that Perelman couldn't conc
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by anatoly 15y ago
I don't know what tptacek based his words on github takedown requests on; I'm basing mine specifically on the comment by 'R' to the blog post. You make a point elsewhere that the post's author's repository is live on github, but that's not
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by anatoly 15y ago
Your comment does appear disingenuous, though I'm sure that's not deliberate. Neither false DMCA notifications nor github takedown requests are legitimate responses to "simple nerd-rage" when it's about MIT-licensed code. I'm sure you under
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by anatoly 16y ago
When that thread came up originally, I was intrigued by the idea of the dual-pivot quicksort, and went on to browse Robert Sedgewick's Ph.D. thesis, _Quicksort_, published in 1978. Sedgewick considers and analyzes several variants of quicks
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by anatoly 16y ago
I don't understand what he means by "semantic concepts". Anyone?
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by anatoly 16y ago
I'd love to have the data to graph the ratio public_monad_tutorials/haskell_programmers over time.
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by anatoly 16y ago
I understood 'slow' to be a nicer euphemism for 'stupid' almost anywhere in the text: referring to reduced mental facilities rather than merely a question of speed.
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by anatoly 16y ago
I hope someone does "Try Javascript in the browser".
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by anatoly 16y ago
The difficulty of these is all over the map. Possibly the most difficult one is "Opening boxes in a prison courtyard". If you can solve this without any hints or help, and by solving it I mean working out a strategy that gives prisoners at
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by anatoly 16y ago
Here's the easiest way I can think of to imagine an ordering that works for what you need. Imagine an infinite square lattice: a plane where the As lie on one axis and the Bs on the other, and there's a dot in every integer-coordinates poin
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by anatoly 16y ago
The hard thing about this problem is to neutralize the "random data" that can pass whatever error-checking you want to enforce. I don't remember all the details but the trick is (substantial hint) SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER to use indirection.
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by anatoly 16y ago
(update: it's amusing how I switched from lemmings to ants in the below without noticing, because I remember this problem told about ants. Won't change it now). Well, you're almost right. The point of this problem is that many people find i
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by anatoly 16y ago
Yeah, "within 24 hours" doesn't mean "in exactly 24 hours". Edit: Here's my hint to those who have trouble solving this puzzle. Don't read it before trying to solve yourself! http://pastehtml.com/view/1c02p65.txt
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by anatoly 16y ago
I like this list; thank you for taking the time to compile and annotate it.
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by anatoly 16y ago
I strongly advise against trying to learn physics from this book. Trust me, while the idea looks magnificent in theory, it's a horrible book to try and learn from for someone who doesn't have the mathematical and physical background. It jus
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by anatoly 16y ago
Baez is awesome. I used to follow his news-in-mathematical-physics digests back in the 90ies (basically a blog years before there were blogs); sadly almost everything went over my head. I dream of finding time and stamina to study enough ba

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