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by ced 18y ago
Don't trivialize his viewpoint like that. What's wrong with being an atheist and observing the positive effects that religion has on some people? If he hadn't mentionned that he's an atheist, it could easily have come off as religious preac
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by ced 18y ago
I say that naive, brute force methods on modest datasets will generate huge memory and CPU requirements. The solution is either: waste some programmer time coding a better solution, or get better hardware/operating system. There's a tradeof
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by ced 18y ago
Arh, I was hoping this wasn't true... I'm already using SBCL. The point is: software and hardware constraints limit your flexibility, and Naggum's argument that "a good engineer works around those constraints" is true if you have a fixed pr
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by ced 18y ago
I do AI. I used to live by McCarthy's quote that "Real AI was probably possible on the computers from 30 years ago, if only we'd known how to program them". So I bought my latest computer thinking: I've got 1000 times more processing power
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by ced 18y ago
Social status is a zero-sum game, so if happiness correlates strongly with it.... Then an egalitarian policy could be the best choice even if everyone would individually be worse off . I think this is a crucially missing point from most an
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by ced 18y ago
Infinite set paradoxing has become a morbid infection that is today spreading in a way that threatens the very life of probability theory, and requires immediate surgical removal. --- E.T. Jaynes It applies to other theories as well. Giv
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by ced 18y ago
There is this idea that the current approach to parallel programming is wrong. When spawning a thread, there is instantly a huge space of possible paths for the program to go through. The coder then proceeds to prune off all paths that will
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by ced 18y ago
Why? Mathematical abstractions are leak-free, and so are a lot of computer abstractions. What's wrong with emphasizing the leakiness in some cases?
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by ced 18y ago
Dropbox does not claim any ownership rights in Your Files Do you need to claim ownership of something in order to "share" it with a third party? (strictly legally speaking, of course) The rest of the paragraph is just covering of your b
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by ced 18y ago
Unix ? Why? You mean, making choices over what framework to use would be easier, and there would be less low-level mucking? Less wandering in the dark over documentation? Not my experience. I would second his proposition that VB6 was gre
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by ced 18y ago
... assuming that the number of 20-year-olds going into programming 30 years ago is the same as today.
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by ced 18y ago
123 Eins zwei drei Hundert drei und zvanzig Logical? (hope I didn't make a mistake there...)
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by ced 18y ago
"A proof is a repeatable exercise in persuasion" - Couldn't track the source. Shucks. Computer proofs have their value, but so far it is mostly in determining whether a proposition is true or false. One still needs a mathematician-written p
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by ced 18y ago
They don't seem particularly cheap either. Most hostels are much below the prices listed. I use couchsurfing, which is free, and whose goal is to meet other travellers, not to get a "cheap" stay.
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by ced 18y ago
both of my parents have doctorates, so I think it's safe to say that there's a strong genetic component in my case Both of your parents have doctorates, so I think it's safe to say that there's a strong nurture component in your case.
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by ced 18y ago
But the financial markets do not see it. How can we tell? Because those markets are willing, today, to lend unlimited sums to the Federal Government on supremely favorable terms. Given how the "markets" completely failed to foresee the cu
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by ced 18y ago
In my experience, true motivation like you seem to have is not very common in university, so you have a leg up over most. There are plenty of reasonable professors doing great work. Send them emails, attend conferences. Find professors that
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by ced 18y ago
It is absolutely idiotic to have 64-bit pointers when I compile a program that uses less than 4 gigabytes of RAM. When such pointer values appear inside a struct, they not only waste half the memory, they effectively throw away half of the
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by ced 18y ago
Fair enough. Good luck.
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by ced 18y ago
Monthly payment = $2.60 times # avg. simultaneous users times CPU % It sounds dishonest to summarize this as 2.60$ per user per month. It is 2.60$ per user, if that particurlar user plays non-stop for 30 days straight, assuming 100% CPU
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by ced 18y ago
I thought he was being sarcastic.
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by ced 18y ago
The behavior of economic phenomena is far more complicated than the behavior of liquids or gases. Is predicting the result of a coin toss complicated? Analogy aside, I don't think one can compare the two. Economics deals with a huge (huge
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by ced 18y ago
Most people in Turkey are doing ok. It's just that the bottom level is larger than it is in the US, and there is less support. A person who is much above average in the US can find a way out. Over here, it takes really exceptional qualities
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by ced 18y ago
I think it comes down to having an interest in it. Do you think that the English-only preparatory year in Turkey works for most people? You don't need to master it either. Merely being able to read it is enough. You're Turk, right? Doesn't
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by ced 18y ago
You like PCs, he spoke about PCs, you assume it's the best thing for him No, I don't. Apart from that, you're right. Python is not a great idea. At the same time, it could have worked for me if I'd been in his place. Maybe. I posted her
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by ced 18y ago
Thanks, that's very nice... He is living in another city than mine (I was commuting) so I will likely not see him in person again. Plus, I'm leaving Turkey soon for India, I'll spend 5-6 months over there. There will be plenty of opportunit
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by ced 18y ago
They are also very entrenched in numeric computing. Sun Sparcs and all. The transition to Linux is very very slow.
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by ced 18y ago
I'm not really doing anything so far, short of sending him a "quit smoking and good luck" message... I worry about the food issue, since concentration problems is a big deal in learning. He's not doing well in school so far, but he really
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Second-world child - Need Advice
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by ced 18y ago
How could it possibly be a good strategy?

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