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Price Gouging and Speculative Costs(jefftk.com)
2 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 7y ago
By the way, what is "selective LIFO"? I googled it and couldn't find it. Also, I couldn't find anything on queue depth determination.
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by bshanks 7y ago
An organization that determines its beliefs by voting can have inconsistent beliefs even if each voter has consistent beliefs and votes honestly. For example, imagine that "(A AND B) logically implies C", and every voter agrees wi
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by bshanks 7y ago
Rational thinking is computationally intractable.
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by bshanks 7y ago
The division of the cerebral cortex into cortical areas is somewhat subjective.
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by bshanks 7y ago
The ones listed by 4 or more people (not including Bell) were: - CDC-6600 and 7600 - listed by Fisher, Sites, Smith, Worley - Cray-1 - listed by Hill, Patterson, Sites, Smith, Sohi, Wallach (also Bell, sorta) - IBM S/360 and S/370
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by bshanks 7y ago
The article mentions that corvids don't have a "neocortex", which is true, however many believe that there is a part of avian brains which is their version of neocortex (see e.g. https://www.pnas.org/content&#
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by bshanks 7y ago
I agree, sorry. The original paper used the phrase "total energy" but although the paper text does mention powering the screen, their figures just talk about computational energy, so that is likely what they meant. It's too l
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by bshanks 7y ago
One way in which the brain differs from conventional computers is that neurons appear to serve as both CPU and memory storage. Rather than having a few fast CPUs and a large bank of dedicated memory with a few busses (leading to "the v
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In mobile, 62.7% of computation energy cost is spent on data movement [pdf](safari.ethz.ch)
200 points by bshanks 7y ago|157 comments
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Programming Boot Sector Games by Oscar Toledo Gutierrez(lulu.com)
1 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 7y ago
It depends on context. It's true that many CPUs provide atomicity for aligned accesses of the machine word size. However, the C/C++11 standard defines data races to be undefined behavior, so a data race in a C program still matter
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by bshanks 7y ago
The C++ standard definition of a data race excludes races of atomics; http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n429... section 1.10.23, page 14 near the bottom: "The executi
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Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)(blog.regehr.org)
133 points by bshanks 7y ago|44 comments
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Python gets a new governance model (2018)(lwn.net)
1 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)(blog.regehr.org)
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What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003)(people.cs.uchicago.edu)
1 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 7y ago
If you like this, the author posts a number of other 'Decoded' episodes: https://www.maizure.org/projects/
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by bshanks 7y ago
thanks!
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by bshanks 7y ago
What are existential generics? I searched Google but couldn't find the meaning of the term.
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Decoded: GNU Coreutils(maizure.org)
256 points by bshanks 7y ago|55 comments
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MaiZure's Projects(maizure.org)
2 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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Seven Insights into Queueing Theory [pdf](treewhimsy.com)
133 points by bshanks 7y ago|17 comments
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The Strange History of Ransomware(medium.com)
8 points by bshanks 7y ago|2 comments
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by bshanks 7y ago
Now it says: " rip db YTMND has suffered a catostrophic failure. Whether or not the site will ever be back is still undecided. I am actively working on data recovery, but who really knows what the future holds. Join the chat to remini
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Simplicity: Implementing a smart contract language in 30 lines of Haskell(medium.com)
2 points by bshanks 7y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 8y ago
I agree (mostly). Here's my proposal: https://gitlab.com/bshanks/sdver {marketing}v{major}.{patch} that is, there is no longer any number which distinguishes (non-breaking changes which add API) functionality from
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by bshanks 8y ago
You could use the Brier score to compare how good various forecasters are at predicting something
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Is Sound Gradual Typing Dead? (2016)(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by bshanks 8y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 8y ago
> Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant? i'm not sure about this but i get the impression that semilog plots of exponentially growing things often look deceptively linear, and hence that the best-fit exponential curve often looks

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