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by antics 12y ago
> I think they just wanted their own version of Thrift such that they could ignore the languages they don't care about. I'll put it bluntly: you have no idea what you're talking about. Bond v1 was started when Thrift was n
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by antics 12y ago
One problem with traditional VC money is that (most?) major VCs seem to enter the discussions with an idea of how much stake they want in the company they're investing in. So, when you have a number of VCs with this idea in a competiti
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by antics 12y ago
Yes, everyone knows this. This is not helpful.
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by antics 12y ago
Retric, look. Do you realize that the whole point of asymptotic analysis is that _we do not care_ what integers we "really" deal with? These bounds specifically deal with sorting arbitrary data of unbounded size, and _no other ass
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by antics 12y ago
It's completely false to say that "we know how schedulers work". The _only_ reason there is confusion in this thread and the 4chan thread is because so few people actually know anything about schedulers. If they did, no one w
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by antics 12y ago
No, sorry, that's not correct, it's not a decided issue whether it's linear time or not. It depends on what assumptions we _decide_ to make about the scheduler and the OS, what the API for sleep is, and so on. One reasonable
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by antics 12y ago
The discussion is about big O, yes? This isn't really relevant to our discussion. Parallel analysis and average case, for the purposes of the discussion here, are fancy games you can try to play to get nice bounds, but they do not real
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by antics 12y ago
flebron, you do not seem to be reading my posts and I am getting a bit annoyed. Again, for the third time: you cannot "assume" that reading the digits of a number takes O(n), but reading the digits of two numbers to compare them t
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by antics 12y ago
Again, yes, I know. I understand what the model is. I'm saying it's not useful to point out that you can choose contradicting axioms to base your model on. And make no mistake, the two axioms that you are proposing do contradict e
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by antics 12y ago
I am not sure I understand your point here. Short circuiting comparisons is still linear for integers of unbounded size. But besides that, it's incredibly common to assume that 64-bit primitives are done in constant time, because to th
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by antics 12y ago
Yeah, I know. Go read the parent again. The author claims that sorting in this case takes time proportional to the size of largest element, and I'm saying, if it takes time proportional to the space consumption of in the largest elemen
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by antics 12y ago
This isn't really right. If the numbers can be arbitrary in size, then you can't compare them in constant time, which means that comparison-based sorts are quadratic. This is directly related to my third point. Traditional analysi
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by antics 12y ago
Just to be 100% clear, in case anyone who is new to the field stumbles on this thread, this is NOT breaking math or anything. This is a fun, but totally normal result. First of all, there are quite a few linear time sorting algorithms. Radi
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by antics 12y ago
I want to dispel the rumor that this is magic. This is standard material in undergrad algorithms classes. See, for example, Jeff Erickson's algorithms notes here[1]. It's literally the first page of the chapter on dynamic programm
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by antics 12y ago
This is actually just standard theory. They teach this in every undergrad algorithms class. A lot of it is just getting good intuition for these sorts of problems. For example, the nth Fibonacci number has n log_2 \phi bits, which means tha
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by antics 12y ago
No. He has explicitly said that he does this because he thinks Python makes better pseudocode, and is easier for beginners to understand, as empirically measured by the questions he got from students of his AI books. I understand your heart
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by antics 12y ago
I actually think Norvig is making a totally different point than you are. I also think (with respect) that it's a much more important point to learn. Where your point is that there is a better but almost-as-intuitive approach, Norvig&#
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by antics 12y ago
Let's take this to email.
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by antics 12y ago
Sinofsky was brought in as President of the Windows division after the failure of Vista, during which he spearheaded (among other things) Windows 7 and IE8, both to extraordinarily great praise. Yes. He was divisive. Yes. He had failures. B
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by antics 12y ago
Let's do an exercise. We say we're interested in targeted outreach to demographics whose attrition rates are especially high, and whose entrance rates are especially low. You come up with the normative claim. Because the normative
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by antics 12y ago
I take it from your response that you entirely ignored my response about targeting outreach at demographics that have high attrition and low entrance rates. Specifically those groups. That's what we do when we do outreach. I don't
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by antics 12y ago
If you don't reach out specifically to minorities (women, for example), then the outreach doesn't work . So the groups that are systematically marginalized will never apply to begin with, meaning that your set that you've &q
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by antics 12y ago
It's _not_ a hard question. First off, the rate of attrition among these specific minority groups is dramatically higher than it is for whites of any class. How many women who start as engineers are still engineers 10 years out? Look
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by antics 12y ago
Ah, thanks! I tried a reverse image search, and Googling various versions of "watch with chrome face", and looked around the site, but nothing.
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by antics 12y ago
I apologize for my ignorance, but does anyone know the brand and model of that unusual watch about a third of the way down the page?
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by antics 12y ago
If your question is how do you evaluate whether something like this is a joke, then why don't we start by considering the fact that Shivers has a distinguished and successful track record of a capable scientist and advisor that spans m
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by antics 12y ago
Absolutely wrong. Don't speculate about things you know nothing about. Shivers is beloved by his students. For example, Matt Might -- who I name because his blog is one of the most frequently frontpage'd on HN, and also because yo
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by antics 12y ago
As a Microsoft employee, I assure you that the problem here is not that Microsoft criticism is unpopular on HN. That is just hilarious. I can't even think of a thing that's more popular to bash on HN than Microsoft.
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by antics 12y ago
This talk was submitted to a conference which literally requires exclamation points to be in the title. So that's where they come from.
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by antics 12y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate it! :D

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