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by ced 13y ago
You can usually ask your uni to produce the relevant paperwork.
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by ced 13y ago
Common Lisp implementations have some latitude in what they do here, but the most popular one, SBCL, will fail at compile-time if sb-ext: derive-function-types is true (an SBCL-specific extension). Otherwise it will trigger a runtime error
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by ced 13y ago
Have you done that? I'm curious about how it goes. I feel like it would take a while to get things going.
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by ced 13y ago
The man wants you use end-to-end encryption. Why?
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by ced 13y ago
I've been coding with SBCL and Common Lisp for years, and the general optimization strategy is great. With compiler hints (standard in Common Lisp), you can really help the optimizer, and locally vary the speed/safety trade-offs (eg. bound
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by ced 13y ago
If Bob is a little better than Mark, Bob will get 100% of the business and Mark will get nothing. At this point, to do arbitrage you need to be thinking about microseconds. If Bob can execute in 75 mcs and Mark takes 100 mcs, then Bob is g
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by ced 14y ago
The 2011 census estimated 70000 homeless people in Calcutta. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21626113
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by ced 14y ago
Why? Or was that sarcasm?
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by ced 14y ago
Wikipedia claims that MCMC is for sampling from probability distributions, and that's what I was taught, too. Is there a way to use it to sample from a general search space?
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by ced 14y ago
It's like trying to reach the moon by climbing a tree - one can report steady progress, all the way to the top of the tree! Dreyfus
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by ced 14y ago
Manipulating lists is a solved problem in functional programming IMO, but I struggle to define good higher-order tree operations. Complex operators compose very poorly, and have too many options. So instead I write many simple operators, mo
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by ced 14y ago
I confirmed it for fun. Got 2.746 over 10000 trials. Close enough. (average (map-n (fn () (1+ (position-if (let1 x 0 (fni (< 1.0 (incf x (random 1.0))))) (range 100)))) 10000))
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by ced 14y ago
There is probably 10x more value in YC if you launch before or during YC than after demo day. Why?
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by ced 14y ago
There have been a number of times in my (so far) short career where it's been made evidently clear that if I didn't pass as white, things would be very different for me. Can you expand on that?
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by ced 14y ago
This reminds me of a comment from Richard Hamming, who worked at Bell Labs following the war: Q: But what I sense among the young people these days is a real concern over the risk taking in a highly competitive environment. Do you have any
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by ced 14y ago
I didn't ask the question rhetorically. I agree with you, but it's nice to get different perspectives as well.
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by ced 14y ago
How likely do you think a Chinese spring would be? It's unfortunate that we don't get more foreign perspective on HN and Reddit - I hope you comment more.
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Implementing functional languages: a tutorial [SPJ online book](research.microsoft.com)
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by ced 14y ago
I had the same reaction as you had, but apparently, OP is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_1 though you are right that it's not the same as base N, N>1. Also, Wikipedia uses |||| to represent 4 instead of 0000. It makes mor
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by ced 14y ago
I had no idea it was that high. What does it apply to? If I'm falsely accused of robbery, should I expect to pay 1.5 million to defend myself?
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by ced 14y ago
Have you been to Yunnan? I lived there for a year. The two cities I've seen the most of were about at east-Europe levels of development, surprisingly (to me). The rural areas fare worse, obviously, but I wouldn't expect to meet that much Ha
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by ced 14y ago
Why?
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by ced 14y ago
I don't understand how he can want static checking, but no warnings. "x is declared but never used" has saved me so many times. Maybe he's used to languages where warnings cannot be locally disabled? In Common Lisp I can (declare (ignore x)
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by ced 14y ago
Stan aims to be the successor to BUGS, and it is made in part by the great Bayesian Andrew Gelman. Nevertheless, BUGS was the de facto language for probabilistic modelling for many years, and you may find better documentation for it.
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by ced 14y ago
Some of them go to varying lengths to avoid publicizing their use of FreeBSD Why?
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by ced 14y ago
Thank you for the detailed answer.
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by ced 14y ago
French Quebecer here. I've been trying to learn more about why the perception from English Canada is the way it is and posts like yours help a lot. likely the most racist law passed anywhere in North America In what ways? Do you feel that
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by ced 14y ago
As a Bayesian, this sounds very intriguing. Could you expand upon GMM/provide a good reference?
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by ced 14y ago
The classic paper on the subject is What Every Computer Scientist should know about Floating-Point Arithmetic . http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf
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by ced 14y ago
All issues? Even obscure, or technical laws? I'd love to hear more about how that works out. Certainly, the parliamentary system in Canada is a mixed bag.

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