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by azag0 10y ago
Clickbaity, yes, but in an obvious way. The article is a response to a criticism, and the title conveyed that well. As much as I dislike click baits, I didn't mind this one.
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No one can think 100 years into the future, that's just ridiculous. Chaotic systems -- all real-world human systems on some time scale -- are unpredictable no matter how awesome you are.
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Oh, there are. In particular, actual variables and arrays can be pointed to only if explicitly declared as "target".
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by azag0 10y ago
I read <irony>.
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Of all the people that disagree with me, I'm wiling to engage in a conversation with a certain fraction that is closest to my position, because then I have at least some common baseline from which I can start. I belive many people have
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by azag0 10y ago
The simplest explanation is that the exponential model is not a good one (does not correspond to the underlying dynamics), and so the half time value is not an inherent (time-independent) property of the codebase, but depends on its age. It
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by azag0 10y ago
What you describe is not your theory, it's pretty much conventional understanding of what life is in terms of thermodynamics -- a local capsule of low entropy. It's just that in formal treatment of thermodynamics, there is no nega
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by azag0 10y ago
That's what I wrote. I didn't use the word "heavily" correctly.
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Mostly heavily parallel calculations I guess, where communication matters. Diagonalizing dense matrices, solving partial differential equations. Mostly scientific or engineering purposes.
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by azag0 10y ago
I don't know how the algorithm works, but I noticed that already figures with a very rough level of approximation are still almost unreckognizable from the original when I defocus my sight.
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by azag0 10y ago
There is a difference between inherent difference, and difference in the meaning we assign to things.
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Google Translate got really good in translating German to English(translate.google.com)
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But brain still is "just" a neural network, granted, with immensely more complex neurons and extraneuronal mechanisms that might as well be absolutely crucial for learning. But the difference between a highly intelligent and blank
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by azag0 10y ago
And I forgot to say that you made a great app! 95% gonna buy.
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by azag0 10y ago
Any chance of tracking Terminal.app?
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by azag0 10y ago
There are other implementation of the Python interpreter than the reference C implementation, notably in RPython (subset of Python), which is called PyPy, Java (Jython) or Cython (this compiles Python statically to C). One could say that Nu
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by azag0 10y ago
I know what you wanted to say, but you didn't give the best example. "1 + 1 == 2" will be always true in any Python code since all those symbols are either operators or literals. I believe you cannot change dynamically how th
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by azag0 10y ago
I used cffi recently to embed CPython into a fairly rigid Fortran program to support dynamic scripting. Was a piece of cake.
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It's not that I couldn't make it fast. I followed just the steps you mentioned and got to a really fast code. But the process didn't feel intuitive.
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by azag0 10y ago
I started a DFT code in Julia two years ago but didn't get too far. I always felt that I have to think how to make the code fast in Julia (types/vectorization), whereas I just know it will be fast in Fortran. So I always end up
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by azag0 10y ago
1) Homebrew is not a company. 2) It's open source.
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by azag0 10y ago
Amazing. I've been using --with-python3 a lot, having a bottled option would be great.
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by azag0 11y ago
I use git often on the command line, especially for non-trivial tasks, but do not quite understand why someone would pick it for routine committing/tree view over a GUI. I find the ability to graphically see the state of the working tr
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by azag0 11y ago
To me as someone who writes a simple web app in Flask from time to time, web with and without JS feels like two orthogonal approaches. Without JS, you're just wrapping your data on the server in some nice html and sending it to render.
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by azag0 11y ago
I would consider Tabulate much superior to PrettyTable.
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> neural networks are not smart That's like saying computers are not smart. It's meaningless. Computers are as smart as the algorithms they run and neural networks are as smart as the neural connections within them. Neural netw
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by azag0 11y ago
Python has comprehensions for this style of programming: def groupby_unsorted(iterable, key): return [(k, [v for k, v in g]) for k, g in groupby(sorted((key(v), v) for v in iterable),
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by azag0 11y ago
The point of rootless is that doing privilege escalation attacks will be much more difficult
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by azag0 11y ago
I agree with the demographics, but I've never understood this connection. With Facebook, the intrusion of privacy happens completely out in the open and you can work with that. By now pretty much everyone concerned knows that they coll