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by ced 15y ago
That's a fascinating story. But pretty soon after I finished it I had hundreds of hits from DHS, DoD, bases in Iraq, etc., and white unmarked Crown Vics were driving by my bungalow in the middle of the night I'm surprised that writing a f
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by ced 15y ago
You're right that the FFI can create significant friction, but once you're in C-land, you get C-level performance. So you need to move whole algorithms into C. In a O(n²) algorithm, the O(n) FFI friction will be negligible for a large enoug
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by ced 15y ago
Seeing how things are going, I predict there will be a real revolution within 2 years in US Has there ever been a revolution over free speech or anything similar? It seems like the vast majority doesn't care at all. Can any revolution be
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by ced 15y ago
That's a good article, thank you for the link. Is there any precedent for a law that involves coin flips (randomness)? My hunch is that while they sound great in an economy paper, they're too easy to shoot down politically.
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by ced 15y ago
Why not go full Turk? Have a Turker suggest a new rule/modification. It will be paid for only if accepted by another, who must play N recorded moves of the game with a friend before passing judgment. Iterate. Disclaimer: I've never used MT.
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by ced 15y ago
Isn't it trivially easy to defend against by adding a secret character/number to all of your keys, eg.: "dog" becomes "dogu" and "julia" becomes "juliau"? In fact, why not do this at the language level? python could pick a random character
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by ced 15y ago
You're a native speaker, right? Can you really see a new character and be confident about your guess? I usually think "This is probably a Zhi, but it might be a Ji, too, or something else entirely." Granted, some characters, like animals, a
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by ced 15y ago
No, I think that your answer made the most sense. The length of the decompression code is a constant, whereas Omega has an infinity of digits, so it doesn't matter.
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by ced 15y ago
Yeah, but compression is all about communicating information. If I don't have the information that I want to communicate, it's weird to claim that it's incompressible. Are the lost works of Shakespeare incompressible because we can't know w
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by ced 15y ago
I don't understand how omega can be be incompressible. Compression, from the information theory perspective, allows me to send the string Digits #10000 to #100000 of the decimal representation of omega. which any competent human coul
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by ced 15y ago
Good post, but it's a sad reflection of code's failure as a medium of expression that we need 50 lines of Python to express one line of math.
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by ced 15y ago
#.(loop)
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by ced 15y ago
By "frame of reference", I know you meant "inertial frame of reference", but of course the Earth moving around the sun and the solar system moving in the galaxy are not inertial. My weight is a bit stronger during the day than during the ni
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by ced 15y ago
I empathize with the intent, but it makes me wonder: are war metaphors insensitive?
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by ced 15y ago
Is the situation improving?
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by ced 15y ago
When I write Emacs Lisp, Emacs will automatically turn my "lambda" into λ . I have mixed feelings about it, but it's certainly more concise.
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by ced 15y ago
Off-topic, but what happened to statsia? I was curious to see what you were working on.
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by ced 15y ago
xenophanes, I've been thinking about the problem a lot today. I'm pretty sure that my point is basically right, if the model is correct, but my ideas are not clear enough to explain it properly. Model correctness in Bayesian statistics is a
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by ced 15y ago
It's getting too late for me to think about statistics :) A few points: Similarly, imagine a study of coins which had a stopping rule to stop whenever you have at least 60% heads. You'll always be able to get that result and conclude the c
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by ced 15y ago
Thank you for your comments - there's a lot of issues about this problem that I'm not entirely comfortable with. With that said, I'm not sure that I see the connection between what you're arguing and the significance problem in the original
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by ced 15y ago
Yes! Thank you.
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by ced 15y ago
Nah, it's not. The original had a setup like: Doctor A decides to test a cure on 50 patients. 40 have gotten better. Doctor B independently decides to test the same cure on his patients. He will stop once he has reached 'significance'. Coi
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by ced 15y ago
It doesn't sound terribly Bayesian to me. From one of his pages: However, the significance calculation makes a critical assumption that you have probably violated without even realizing it: that the sample size was fixed in advance. If ins
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by ced 15y ago
I'm curious about what a world without Mr. Ritchie would look like. What were the popular alternatives to C and Unix in 1970?
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by ced 15y ago
Extending an offer is not the same thing as "poaching". Honest question: what's the difference? What would constitute poaching in this situation?
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by ced 15y ago
It is completely non-toxic to humans From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health : DDT is classified as "moderately toxic" by the United States National Toxicology Program (NTP)[46] and "moderately hazardous
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by ced 15y ago
the ~$100k not living in the USA tax deduction that the US gives you Could you provide more details? I tried Googling for it, and I could only find: You can also claim an additional exclusion from your U.S. taxes in excess of the $91,50
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by ced 15y ago
Cool. How do you deal with the double slit experiments if there is no interference? Aren't you back to a fully deterministic worldview, from the observer's perspective?
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by ced 15y ago
Schrodinger's cat is a flawed thought experiment. Observation just means "interaction" The way I learned it, Bohr would say "the atom is in a superposition of states until it is observed". Schrödinger used the cat thought experiment to sh
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by ced 15y ago
e is like a speed limit (like c, the speed of light) saying how fast you can possibly grow using a continuous process. Can someone explain what he means? Doesn't that assume dx/dt <= x?

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