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by bglazer 13y ago
From a performance point of view, is there a significant penalty associated with these "small types"? For example, kilogram as wrapper around float?
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by bglazer 13y ago
This is super awesome. That's a great idea and your code (what's in the screenshot at least) looks nice as well.
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by bglazer 13y ago
No snark, just curious. What's the point of this? Is it for teaching? It's a not a performance thing like asm.js right?
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by bglazer 13y ago
Does anyone know what they do/teach in the South Korean 'education centers' for Northern defectors? It must be an interesting challenge to bridge the gap to completely brainwashed people.
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by bglazer 13y ago
At what point does 'old misuse' become correct usage?
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by bglazer 13y ago
Somewhat tangential, but you should watch Coraline. I thought it was a nice example of 3d done right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_%28film%29
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by bglazer 13y ago
I think he's still making money from the in-game ads in already downloaded copies of Flappy Bird. Still cool. "Independent thinker". I like it.
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by bglazer 13y ago
I must say that the idea of a single human cell traveling through space at relativistic speed, with the end goal of landing on a planet and growing into a fully formed human is one of the wildest and most unique ideas I've heard in a l
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by bglazer 13y ago
https://www.readability.com/‎ Have you ever heard of readability? It's a plugin that removes link-bait crap and reformats articles into a standard format.
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by bglazer 13y ago
I have never heard the term sock puppet used like this, nor have I heard that Scott Adams was doing such a thing.
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by bglazer 13y ago
that's just incredibly asinine. Vanderbilt Duke UNC Rice Georgia Tech Virginia Tech University of Virginia That's a partial list. PLACES TO BE FEARED! It's legitimately damaging to the American South to perpetuate stereotypes
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by bglazer 13y ago
What do you mean by "this allows for sock puppetry, for whom Scott Adams will forever be the patron saint"
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by bglazer 13y ago
That sounds wonderfully interesting. Care to be a bit more specific?
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Query Handling as a Complex Optimization Problem(postgresql.org)
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by bglazer 13y ago
Wow, vector multiplication suddenly makes sense. I had never seen it described with polar coordinates. It's wonderful to have this little insight now. It's unfortunate that my math knowledge is so filled with holes.
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by bglazer 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip It's fake mayonnaise essentially. From Wikipedia: "Current primary ingredients are water, soybean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified corn starch, eggs. Ingredients making
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by bglazer 13y ago
As a side note Rossi sold 27 thermoelectric converters with a claimed efficiency of 20% to the Department of Defense. 19 of them didn't function at all. The 8 that did work only produced 1 Watt of power instead of the 800 promised. The
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by bglazer 13y ago
Judging by the extremely unfavorable picture portrayed by his Wikipedia articles [1][2], that question has already been answered. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer [2] http://en.wikipedia.org
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Statistics textbooks or classes?
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by bglazer 13y ago
Ah that's really cool to see a relatively rare phenomenon like that happening in real time. Also fascinating that the author used Facebook feeds as a source. That seems like it could be a very, very powerful tool for linguistics. The p
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by bglazer 13y ago
It's a shame to lose someone at such a young age. It seems he certainly contributed more than his share to the world.
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by bglazer 13y ago
I think there's a clear counter-point to your statement in a company like Uber. Better taxi service? That's the definition of practicality, and I still find the business model, and especially the analytics very intriguing ("s
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by bglazer 13y ago
I'm currently going back and learning linear algebra from the excellent MIT OCW course [1]. I somehow didn't have to learn linear in the course of a CS degree at a big state school. Focusing solely on learning this one subject has
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by bglazer 13y ago
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseInfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a...
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by bglazer 13y ago
Nope, it's still around on youtube and on the Stanford Engineering Everywhere site. The coursera version of the class is much more introductory and skips significant parts of the full Stanford version. http://www.youtube.com
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by bglazer 13y ago
I like the commands, especially the ssh one, which I didn't know before and will certainly use in the future. I also enjoyed the format of the article. A whole dev team each contributing their own piece to a blog post provides a lot of
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by bglazer 13y ago
> The anticipated base purchase price for the Transition® is $279,000. You can reserve a place in production with a $10,000 refundable deposit here. Just for anyone who was wondering. Seems pretty reasonable for a light aircraft, that i
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by bglazer 13y ago
This is truly incredible stuff. Hats off to IBM for pushing the field of machine learning forward. This statement really struck me: "“In the Jeopardy days [in 2011], Watson was running off 90 servers and could store 15 terabytes of mem
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by bglazer 13y ago
I was under the impression that these are all mathematics and theoretical physics related.
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by bglazer 13y ago
I can't read the whitepaper due to work network restrictions (scribd? really?) but superficially this seems more directed towards DIY-er gardener types rather than industrial farming. That is to say, people who have no need for a giant

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