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by ced 10y ago
There has been quite a lot invested in Prolog and its successors. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer It's just fundamentally much harder to get anywhere than with procedural languages.
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by ced 10y ago
Interesting, thank you for the detailed answer. Expression templates do look very intriguing and powerful, I wonder what kind of application it enable. Julia has several cool performance-oriented constructs too: generated functions, loop fu
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by ced 10y ago
Haven't used C++ in a decade - how is the modern functional programming working out without a GC? Isn't object ownership tricky to untangle? I read your option 3 and nodded - I'm using Julia for much the same reasons. I didn&
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by ced 10y ago
Could you support your assertion that the variation shown in the graph is due to volcanic activity? To me it looks like "steady increase after WWII, up to critical levels, then subsiding after the clean air acts of the 1970s". But
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by ced 10y ago
From the article: "We've done a lot to try to understand what has led to this increase in refusals," Le wrote in the post. From the blog post: We’ve found that people typically refuse out of skepticism. Potential recipient
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by ced 10y ago
What do you mean? What can happen?
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by ced 10y ago
Allocating every country the same per-capita quota of emission would be both fair, _and_ would save the planet, if the quota is low enough and exchangeable. But that would imply that we, the high per-capita polluting countries would pay mon
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by ced 10y ago
True, but I was under the impression that even on the coast, a few cities are _really bad_, but most are ok enough (i.e. polluted, but not worryingly so). Do you have any personal experience there?
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by ced 10y ago
I'm sure it's horrible in some cities, but I lived in a 4.5M-people city in the South (Kunming) for a year, and its air pollution level was entirely comparable to North American cities of the same size. What are you basing your op
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by ced 10y ago
What happens?
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by ced 10y ago
What did you do?
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by ced 10y ago
Gabriel accused Washington of being "angry" about the deal that the EU struck with Canada, known as CETA, because it contains elements the U.S. doesn't want to see in the TTIP. What would those elements be?
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by ced 10y ago
Tarrosion is right, on my machine, putting the code inside a function is 10X faster, and then swapping the order of the loops gives another 10X improvement: function f(s) a=ones(s,s); b=ones(s,s); c=zeros(s,s);
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by ced 10y ago
Could you post the Julia code? Unfortunately, you do have to make sure that the types are correctly inferred by the compiler in high-performance loops. Or maybe you used a global. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.
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by ced 10y ago
Oh, I'm sure there is, but it's hard to do without also losing the nice properties of the purely logical formulation, and AFAIK that's the main reason why these approaches are not more popular. If you have a link to an intere
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by ced 10y ago
It's part of "good old fashioned AI". It allows a program to reason logically about the world and create a plan that will get you from your initial state (eg. "I'm hungry") to some desired end state ("Not
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by ced 10y ago
Right, but when learning English as a second language, they don't teach you "com" and "putare", because the roots are too far away and too diverse (Latin, Germanic) whereas in Chinese, it's often immediately o
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by ced 10y ago
Why couldn't they compete?
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by ced 10y ago
Not to comment on this particular debate, but I was curious about how homosexuals were treated in native populations, and it's quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit http://www.firs
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by ced 10y ago
How are the offers from Google et co's Canadian offices?
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by ced 10y ago
Does anyone know why the pay is so much lower? It seems lame to blame it on "culture" (if it's really true, that's a great arbitrage opportunity). Are there systemic country-wide forces that push down on the salaries?
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by ced 10y ago
Russell and Norvig's AI textbook has a good introduction, although maybe it'll go into more detail than you would like. Stanford has some classes on coursera, too.
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by ced 10y ago
I lived in Western Turkey for a year, and while nearly everyone was Muslim (some atheists sprinkled here and there), there was plenty of alcohol and bars, <20% of women wore the headscarf, and I honestly can't remember any instance
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by ced 10y ago
The faculty were all rather nice to the students, and since it wasn't in a university, the 50 or so international students were a pretty tightly-knit group of people. They pushed a lot to finish the Ph.D. in 3/3.5 years, which is
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by ced 10y ago
Yeah, that's the key. I studied in a Max Planck Institute in Germany. 80% of the students were international and spoke English, but I could always speak German to the remaining 20% and to faculty. Of course, we'd switch to English
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by ced 10y ago
Those slides were very helpful, thank you.
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by ced 10y ago
I haven't read much on gradient boosting, so questions: 1. Where is the gradient? This explanation makes it sound like a straight Generalized Additive Model. 2. In fact, the explanation makes it sounds worse than random forests. Wouldn
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by ced 10y ago
using SIUnits, SIUnits.ShortUnits using Measurements ((-5/6±0.1) + 1im)km^2/s^2 > -833333.3333333334 ± 100000.0 + 1.0e6 ± 0.0im m²s⁻² typeof(((-5/6±0.1) + 1im)km^2/s^2) > SIUnits.SIQuantity
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by ced 10y ago
The juliacon videos are online. See here for Julia 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gXMpbY1kJY&t=1250
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by ced 10y ago
Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer funct

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