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by bnegreve 11y ago
FWIW, I use awk, which is POSIX standard $ awk 'BEGIN{print sqrt(2)+4;}'; 5.41421 bc is also standard but for some arbitrary reason I don't like it.
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To clarify CP and SAT solvers are just examples and obviously they're not good enough otherwise we would be using them already. Genetic programming with combinations of SAT and statistical learning is also a possibility I guess [1]. Th
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The point is that the human doesn't write a face recognition system, but a system that learns from examples. If humans cannot program AIs, who else is going to do it?
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by bnegreve 11y ago
How do you define programming? If it's specifying a program that maps some inputs with some outputs, many AI systems are already able to do this, sometime even better than humans. For example: would you be able to write a program that
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Yes, there are many of these. I think MiniZinc is also quite popular among the optimisation guys http://www.minizinc.org/
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by bnegreve 11y ago
An interesting vision is that we'll go from programs that can be executed to models that can be solved with generic solvers (e.g. SAT solvers [1], or CP solvers [2]) So if you need to sort an array, instead of programming quicksort
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> Lack of ability to imagine another's experience. Actually assuming that it's impossible to enjoy life without money is a very western centric opinion. You don't necessarily need to buy food, you can grow food, you can hu
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by bnegreve 11y ago
When I have to choose between a 2 hour flight and a 4 hours train ride, I choose the train. I hate airport security and I find it impossible to do anything in a plane. I agree that flying is generally cheaper though.
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by bnegreve 11y ago
I guess the question is how does this compare to standard existing tools such as grep, i.e. something like $> grep -Hn TODO test.js test.js:241:TODO ...
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Cool! One little thing is that you would expect that the is_anagram relation is a symmetrical one. I.e. that "neo" is an anagram of "one" then "one" is also an anagram of "neo", which doesn't see
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Usually analytical minds are opposed to synthetic minds (i.e. good ability synthesize/abstract). Of course most people can do both, but often people are better at one or the other. (Although usually, only people with analytical minds w
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Thanks but obviously I already know all these things because I've spent hours thinking about it:) The question remains how do I stop?
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by bnegreve 11y ago
For some reason, I find the demonstration in this article far more convincing than the ones in the posted article.
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> It isn't really disingenuous. It's become fashionable to claim that "all graphs should start at zero", but that's not necessarily how you display data. Not all graphs no, but for histograms which are meant to c
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by bnegreve 11y ago
> The point is that a grade is an ordinal quantity In principle I agree, but grade inflation preserves the order so why should we care about grade inflation if grades are only about order? I think the plot and the rest of the article goe
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Grades are at least supposed to reflect the quality of the students who pass the tests with some level of linearity. If the author doesn't believe this is the case, s-he shouldn't use them in the first place, especially not to
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by bnegreve 11y ago
The scale on the first plot is a bit disingenuous. Here's the same data replotted with a proper scale (i.e. ranging from 0 to 4 instead of 2.6 to 3.4). http://i.imgur.com/HxKss12.png
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by bnegreve 11y ago
Well, the odds of finding a prime number with 1,000,000,000 digts are lower by far and you only get $250,000
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by bnegreve 11y ago
FP7 founds research projects, so we're mostly talking about research software which is usually developed by researchers.
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by bnegreve 12y ago
Dude, this is insane. You basically telling people what they should say with quoted sentences.
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> What this ideology calls "greed" is what every business, from the local small bakery shop to a multinational has to do: Optimize for profits while delivering product that satisfies customer needs at the right value and qualit
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by bnegreve 12y ago
What's truely impressive is not the record but the fact that they will operate at 505 km/h. Current high speed trains can go over 570km/h but are only operating an 320km/h.
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Unlike the title this also include the main result and a bit of derision.
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Interestingly, I find these blatantly honest short sentences more informative than abstracts.
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by bnegreve 12y ago
But you could expect from your high school education that it teaches you scientific facts established over 100 years ago. At least that's how I interpret Vinhboy's comment.
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by bnegreve 12y ago
The author is an assistant professor in history. I'm guessing LaTeX is not very popular in this field.
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by bnegreve 12y ago
Since job interviews and competitions are somewhat similar, I wonder if this also applies to job interviews. I mean, job interviews are very competitive, they are time constrained, and they result in a binary decision made by some external
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by bnegreve 12y ago
> GIF: 1 MB > Video: 73k Yes, but with some loss of quality http://imgur.com/1qkJYEA (not as much as I thought, though)
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by bnegreve 12y ago
Although it's common wisdom I actually disagree. It may be true for short time blocks (days, maybe weeks) but I don't think this is the case for longer time blocks (month, years). - If you do the same thing every day, years will p
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by bnegreve 12y ago
There is this paper [1] by John McCarthy on what he calls Elaboration Tolerance: Elaboration tolerance is the ability to accept changes to a person’s or a computer program’s representation of facts about a subject without having to start a

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