benrbray

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by benrbray 7y ago
Not sure what the poster had in mind, but I will refer you to some notes by a geophysicist about intuitively understanding adjoints: http://www.reproducibility.org/RSF/book/bei/conj/paper.pdf
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by benrbray 7y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... )
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by benrbray 7y ago
Cool! Has anyone written this up and made cool visualizations? It's one of those many things I'd like to do but don't have time for :)
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by benrbray 7y ago
Half the buttons on my remote are dedicated to services that have been discontinued
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by benrbray 7y ago
It seems the author wanted a solution that would work offline as well.
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by benrbray 7y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of examples where genetic algorithms are the "right choice"? I thought they were really nifty when I first heard of them, but thinking of them as an optimization procedure, they don't really
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by benrbray 7y ago
From the abstract, it looks like they're optimizing for rectangular queries instead of single points. For a single point, I think you're right. > We present the onion curve, an SFC whose clustering performance is provably clos
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by benrbray 7y ago
What do you find most surprising about life in Mexico City vs. wherever you were living before?
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by benrbray 7y ago
I'm confused--according to a quick search, "touch typing" is being able to type without looking at the keyboard? Can you even say you know how to type if you have to look at the keys to do it?
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by benrbray 8y ago
Are there any modern equivalents?
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by benrbray 8y ago
This is excellent, and opportune timing for me too! I just finished courses on microarchitecture and compiler optimization. Can anyone recommend any similar articles about low level optimization?
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by benrbray 8y ago
This is really cool! I wanted to point out this wonderful article also posted to HN today that shows how LLVM MCA can help guide low level optimizations: Article: https://pdziepak.github.io/2019/05/02/on-list
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by benrbray 8y ago
But at the same time, I'm considering replacing my 2015 HP laptop because my "A" key stopped working, and the cost to replace the keyboard is 25% the cost of a new laptop, which I'll need anyway in another year or two ev
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by benrbray 8y ago
Why? I don't have that much stuff to begin with, and I try to buy used when I arrive in a new place. The only added cost is the plane ticket, and I probably fly less than the average vacationer. Even if you're right, moving freq
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by benrbray 8y ago
Arguably, hiring a moving truck just to ship my grandmother's dining table across the country every 2-3 years is less ecologically sound than buying a flatpack from Ikea when I arrive and selling the furniture used when I'm ready
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by benrbray 8y ago
A tenured professor has already achieved their goal. There's a very real comparison to be made between a startup founder and a young, tenure-track faculty member trying to make their mark on the research community. You're correct
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by benrbray 8y ago
What I find absolutely INSANE about American traffic signals is that they're built on the assumption that drivers will turn-on-red while the pedestrian walk signal is active. This causes so many unnecessary conflicts. At best, you get
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by benrbray 8y ago
Well, it's useful on places where genuine human interaction is important, like Craiglist or Reddit. (in reality though reddit has a huge bot / astroturfing problem anyway, so perhaps the value of captchas really is overstated)
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by benrbray 8y ago
then maybe OP should've waited until Jan 24 to post this...
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by benrbray 8y ago
I suspect that this trend might be slowing down. Starting with the Pixel 2, Google started really pushing the idea that image processing in your camera can make up for a lack of better hardware, using it as an excuse not to improve the cam
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by benrbray 8y ago
About which part? The US has done some pretty terrible things (slavery, interment camps, destabilizing the middle east and south america). So you disagree that we're allowed to talk about it? Is there a government agency censoring H
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by benrbray 8y ago
Can you say anything to back up the claim that "speech still has power" in China? That seems to go against what the pro-censorship commenters are saying, which is that most people in China know all the bad stuff anyway and just d
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by benrbray 8y ago
You're right that the words we say can determine what other people think of us. But that's how language works. Most people, rightfully, don't want to associate with someone who invokes racial slurs. The point is that we are
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by benrbray 8y ago
Like the other poster, I'm curious to hear your perspective. You don't find it a bit strange that "only government-owned websites and specially approved political blogs...are allowed to post photos of top leaders."? You
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by benrbray 8y ago
My gut feeling is that the spending habits of people who can afford a second "winter" home don't really reflect those of the average consumer...
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by benrbray 8y ago
Yeah, the new name is pretty crude. I wish they had either changed the name completely or simply permuted the letters: PINS, SPIN, SNIP...
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by benrbray 8y ago
This comparison makes no sense. Regular coffee makers make far less waste and are just as convenient. Hell, I grid my coffee by hand and brew it one cup at a time with one of those conic filters and it still takes only 6-7 minutes.
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by benrbray 8y ago
Good thing I'm on Windows :)
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by benrbray 8y ago
I agree. They also tend to make the UI feel really slow and unresponsive if interaction is disabled while animations are playing.
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by benrbray 8y ago
I think people fear change in software because updates have a habit of making the user experience worse . Think of the troubling trend in web design where they take away customization options and add more padding to everything to be &quot

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