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by asgard1024 11y ago
What every programmer should know about memory: Even though it may not seem so at first, memory is very lossy, especially in old age. So, write comments, write documentation, make notes. Diagrams help too. It's best to acquire these sk
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Yeah, that paragraph was just an aside, but anyway. > Those future market segments affects his current decision to spend (go into debt) $150k+ for his medical degree. I think the problem here is that we let him make the decision which sh
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> If nobody steps up then it's quite likely that work never needed to get done in the first place. Seriously? Consider this: You have all people tied up in work for one month. A customer issue comes up. Who should step up to take it
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Not sure why are you replying to me, it's entirely different question. I don't have a problem with people working on new things. The question of leadership - I think it's a little fuzzy. OS kernel decides what process gets to
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by asgard1024 11y ago
While I quite agree with the idea, it rests on the assumption: "leaders also need to create a culture in which employees do not have every waking moment of every day committed to project work" Unfortunately, I am currently in situ
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I can't relate to the experience of being black in the U.S., but I was once being loudly called names for being a nerd in the subway (by some probably drunk guy). (We were discussing Forth with a coworker and the guy apparently took it
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> Abusive is when that conversation turns into name calling. I don't think so; it depends on context. If someone calls you names in context of you doing something stupid, then it's not abuse, it's just being abrasive. Abus
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Interesting. I guess it comes down to personal preference. Would you rather work with somebody exceptional but abrasive, as opposed to somebody average but nice? I think many people would choose the former. I think the reason exceptional pe
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by asgard1024 11y ago
OK, so it seems to me that you pretty much agree with my argument, but you don't like my assumption that even if there is subjectivity, there can be a learning algorithm. Is that correct? I think even for 100% subjective decisions we c
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by asgard1024 11y ago
This is your human anti-algorithm bias showing. When it is more subjective that doesn't mean that algorithm still cannot do a better job than human. :-) You have just assumed that it can't, because you don't know how to measu
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Yes, you're right, it was the case in Intel 486 SX/DX. All I am saying here that this is of course a waste of resources, even though I don't know how to prevent this sort of waste in our society. (IMHO, bigger problem is for
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> it's morally wrong to demand that people who build things should be expected to share the thing they build They don't have to share them! If you want to invent something and keep it secret, by all means, be my guest! This onl
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by asgard1024 11y ago
That's a good and interesting point. I guess I have less moral problem with it if the item in question is a final product (such as work of art) than a tool, and if the price difference is not large (say up to half of order of magnitude
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> the guy who wrote the education curriculum ought to be paid He absolutely should be! > how are they supposed to get a reasonable amount of money without denying non-payers access to their works Good question! But I don't think
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Not sure if "principle" is the best word, but I wanted to keep the post short. Better would be to say that it's against assumptions which make free markets at least theoretically efficient. The other response to you is correc
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I do find market segmentation to be morally wrong (at least, it's against free market principles, even though I don't agree with those always). Why shouldn't everyone deserve access to the best tools, and by extension, best t
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I think the data can be, and should be, crowdsourced, like Wikipedia or OpenStreetMaps are. However, I have no idea how to do that. How to take two learned neural networks (or whatever) for a specific application (like image recognition)
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I think you are assuming consciousness (of the group) where can be none. Shouldn't be in the interest of the majority to make sure that minorities are not marginalized?
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ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality(newscientist.com)
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> It's hard to imagine any effective strategy that doesn't involve killing people I disagree, one is actually described in the article: "[For] the youth of the nation are closer to the innate nature [of humans] on account
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by asgard1024 11y ago
We need to do a better job at integrating them (both from social and policing point of view). This is an expense but is less an expense than doing war at foreign country. Unfortunately, multiculturalism has often been used as an excuse for
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I don't know about you, but I found Bayesian approach much more intuitive than frequentist one. The only reason to use frequentist approach is to have a procedure that you can do with pencil and paper on real problems (and unlike Bayes
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by asgard1024 11y ago
The solution is very simple - support the immigrants, and instead of waging a war outside the country, focus on police/social work inside the country. I was born in a country that (somewhat) supported terrorism - Czechoslovakia. Eventu
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I don't think FPLs by themselves are (Turing) tar pits. On the other hand, there are lambda-calculus tar pits - for example SKI combinators. This shows that even a language that has referential transparency and lazy evaluation can be a
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by asgard1024 11y ago
So, the "tyranny of the majority" is an illusion of those who are highly intolerant?
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I think you could find the similar problems with many languages (for example, my native Czech has a unique sound that's quite difficult to learn, and all the different declensions and conjugations will make your head spin). But I also
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I assume everybody here is familiar with the feeling when you suddenly understand something; it's as if pieces of a puzzle suddenly click together and create the whole picture. So, my question, what is this feeling? How does the brain
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by asgard1024 11y ago
How to improve it? Make it into one big HTML page so I can save it and read it without having to click like crazy! :-)
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Facepalm. It's not an explicit contract in the sense of them coming to one table and agree with it, it's implicit in them having the common interest. Steve Keen did models where independent agents can become oligopolists even with
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> How come the choice to keep my sauce secret is less than any other choice? Because this "choice" restricts freedom of other people. You don't just want it to be a secret (then all you have to do is not to tell anyone), y

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