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by bmh100 12y ago
The loop of programming "skill" is the path a craft takes as it moves to mass production. To me, much of programming is building custom automobiles by hand. Eventually, tools and processes will become standardized to the point t
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by bmh100 12y ago
There are fundamental cultural issues that will need to be addressed for civilization to reach sustainable, large populations. Yet, even if we do undergo a mass extinction, it may be slow enough that we can actively intervene in the ecolog
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by bmh100 12y ago
A very interesting point was the statement "...renders the MVC terminology obsolete. Not that we don’t have models, views and controllers anymore; it’s just that the layering of the three is no longer relevant." Could someone plea
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by bmh100 12y ago
Rankings can seem to be unstable if the absolute differences between the scores are very small relative to the likely ways those scores could change. Example: Rank,Score 1,0.81 2,0.541 3,0.540 .. 40,0.538 Increasing the value of row 40 by j
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by bmh100 12y ago
Avoiding intermediate sequence construction should help save a lot of memory consumption. That has been a major headache for me when processing large datasets in memory. Edit: If someone could provide a comparison of transducers and monads,
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by bmh100 12y ago
The situation you are suggesting might require dumps of as much state as can be measured and a method for recreating the state of the application from that dump. That might be a very large set of data if every variable can be altered. Even
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by bmh100 12y ago
Yes, good catch! I did indeed mean non-associative multiplication based on the timing of the rounding.
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by bmh100 12y ago
What is interesting about this is how it forces one to deal with a lack of precision. Computers are inherently imprecise in many situations, leading to non-commutative multiplication. I wonder if a language like this would be helpful for pr
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by bmh100 12y ago
Fascinating behavior. Since this is an edge, would it ever occur in human-written code? Could there be a situation where a computer would end up generating such code?
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by bmh100 12y ago
Check out this example with pies: http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/matrix-multiplying.html Now, you might often see this particular problem in terms of database queries, and that is fine. But the uses I have seen of l
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by bmh100 12y ago
Solid, simple post. A similar lesson applies to performing numerical operations on a set of numbers, when linear algebra could be used instead. The performance differences are huge.
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by bmh100 12y ago
It seems very accurate to me, when we consider how many non-permanently attached machines we already use. A smart phone, the Internet, search engines, prosthetic limbs, and cars would certainly allow for a powerful cyborg. Is the only major
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by bmh100 12y ago
While genetic algorithms are highly iterative and often computationally expensive approaches to randomized search, they are vastly more efficient actual brute force methods. It would be better to say "it is more of a 'randomized s
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by bmh100 12y ago
This is extremely clever and something I have wanted to do for a while. If you are interested in contributing to a fun, small Clojure project, stop by: https://github.com/bmhimes/clojure-pifs
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by bmh100 12y ago
What evidence is informing your opinion that genetic algorithms are a bad search algorithm? What makes you say that they are very prone to getting stuck in local minima? Do you think they suffer from local minima more than, say, gradient de
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by bmh100 13y ago
I don't quite agree with your conclusion as written, because I think you can make the point that purely skill-based efforts do not have artistic merit. For instance, the frozen fish packager in an assembly may not be seen as having art
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by bmh100 13y ago
I appreciate the author's viewpoint, but I think he does not make an argument persuasive to opposing viewpoints. He does not address values, assumptions, and reasoning used by such opponents. The Wally quote and the talk of admired pas
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by bmh100 13y ago
I have been wanting multi-device CUBLAS for a long time. Along with shared memory, this is going to make a lot of applications much more powerful, quickly. A major hindrance to getting started with CUDA can be dealing with memory allocati
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by bmh100 13y ago
A bit is a 0 or a 1. Two bits is 00, 01, 10, or 11. Each bit doubles the amount of information. This means that information representing information as bits products powers of 2. To get the number of bits (the power of 2 to represent the nu
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by bmh100 13y ago
Sophomore year, I scored highly on the ACT. Before dropping out, I was given conditional acceptance, as long as I completed a GED.
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by bmh100 13y ago
I dropped out of high school after completing the advanced, senior-level math in my sophomore year. The school had interesting classes, but there were no more classes to intellectually challenge me. It was the right choice, and I immediate
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by bmh100 14y ago
On the other hand, I believe we did see exponential growth in our ability to both automatically drive cars, to automatically translate text, and in voice recognition. If we consider 1958 to be a good starting point for self-driving cars ( h
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by bmh100 14y ago
Is anyone familiar enough with this argument that they can lay down the premises? It is not clear what makes him think that the brain and, by extension, physics are not computable.
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by bmh100 14y ago
Carmack mentioned moving to functional C++ programming recently. http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm... Perhaps you are onto something here.
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by bmh100 14y ago
But the current article title is so much more intriguing dna references a well-known brand. I would love to see an A/B test comparing the two, however.
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by bmh100 14y ago
I agree that it has the potential, but I think that this is unlikely. The approach to generating the incremental revenue can be done in at least two ways: claiming expected value and creating additional value. To use two free-to-play game
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by bmh100 15y ago
I'm extremely interested in machine learning and AI as well. Could you email me to discuss more?
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by bmh100 15y ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding you here, but what about using Rails/Sinatra with JRuby?
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by bmh100 15y ago
hele842000 is on the right track with testing your conversion, but you need to go beyond A/B testing. The next step is multivariate testing, where you change several parts of your landing page at the same time. Finally, there is the holy g
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by bmh100 15y ago
I find this extremely interesting. Does anyone have any experience or strong interest in this sort of work? I am looking to one day use many cores like this, although at a smaller scale.

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