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by chalst 4y ago
> He will still make half a billion These paper profits are hard for him to realise, since he has to sell 9.2% of Twitter's stock without the price falling. Given the current price depends on his claimed intent to takeover, the mark
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm not an admirer of many of the theoretical positions he takes, but he writes well and often in these kinds of posts he draws attention to considerations that not enough mainstream economists are paying attention to. He's more o
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by chalst 5y ago
> If you want to use system fonts you should have a look at Lua(La)TeX (or Xe(La)TeX but I think focus shifted completely to the LuaTeX engine). Luatex seems the more promising technology from the point of view of continued evolution of
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by chalst 5y ago
Edit Wikipedia. It will improve your writing ability and get your writing to a broad audience. It's the easiest way to get your content checked if you don't do this for a living or in an educational institution.
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by chalst 5y ago
There's a rather old review on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/66290/ It's essentially like Macos's /Applications directory, except where Macos supports the traditional POSIX fhs via a hidden &#x
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by chalst 5y ago
There seems to be serious talk about reimplementing the Torchscript core in Julia (i.e., reimplement the C++ part in Julia), something that makes sense to me given the excellent support there already is in Julia for autodiff. Cf. e.g., htt
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by chalst 5y ago
What would happen to Pytorch if FB did cut their support? Are the people who depend on it seriously incapable of taking up the load?
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by chalst 5y ago
Obligatory mention whenever anyone dicusses Sun's true motives for creating Java [1,2]. Sun's motives were anything but tidy. On Patrick Naughton's account, Sun's executive decision-making seems quite haphazard and oppo
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by chalst 5y ago
True, although the Python-Julia interop is surprisingly good. Gradual migration of legacy code from Python to Julia might be a possibility for some of these groups. But I was really thinking about the situation for new projects when writing
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by chalst 5y ago
As I guess you're hinting at, writing performant pure Julia is a quite different kettle of fish to writing performant C: it's not surprising that a first attempt isn't a rousing success. But there's a spectrum of rewriti
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Directed Acyclic Word Graphs (2000)(wutka.com)
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by chalst 5y ago
At this point we can say that against the two criteria of a spectrum from prototyping to heavy lifting and ease of embedding external high-performance libraries, Julia is simply better than Python. Julia does have two drawbacks of being tie
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by chalst 5y ago
Typical shell programming idioms are quite dynamic. You can give saner semantics, allowing a fair amount of static checking, without abandoning this dynamicity. What Andy Chu has been doing with Oil Shell is promising in this respect. It su
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A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by chalst 5y ago
I didn't downvote but I thought it was a weak comment: it's a generally valid perspective but doesn't seem tailored to the actual news, which is mostly tailored to large capitalisation/turnover companies. The general pro
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by chalst 5y ago
This "hierarchy of being and a hierarchy of meaning" is the justification superstition retreats to when its plain claims are revealed to be simply false. There's also a false dichotomy here: you don't ether have to have
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by chalst 5y ago
Inexploitability is not efficiency. Back in the 2000s, plenty of financiers knew the subprime market was overpricing assets for years before anyone figured out how to profitably short the market. Hard to deflate asset-price bubbles are a fa
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by chalst 5y ago
If you're talking about experts in voting systems, no they didn't. Trump's CISA appointee to oversee election security, Chris Krebs, claimed the election was highly secure, which in a sense it was, because Trump had long been
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by chalst 5y ago
I don't read his blog. Neither of the two links you provide to his blog take any of the claims from the Atlantic piece and refute it. He mocks the title of the Atlantic piece but does not respond to its content. As far as I can see, it
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by chalst 5y ago
Voting machines are bad. Their use makes it easier to commit fraud. However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words) when they were demonstrably
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by chalst 5y ago
If you're wanting a fundamentals-oriented introduction to chemistry, "Why Chemical Reactions Happen" is highly recommended, generally aimed at senior-level school kids who are considering specialising in chemistry at universi
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by chalst 5y ago
I don't think ownership of football clubs by the international jet-set has been good for the local dimension of football. While the English Premier league had been good international television, as a Leeds United supporter, I've r
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by chalst 5y ago
> Substack is great because at least there are some voices out there getting heard. Alex Berenson and Glen Greenwald among the best. I've mixed feelings about Greenwald, but he is smart and occasionally makes good observations. What
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by chalst 5y ago
Consider a finite, nonempty set of powers of two that are greater than one. The sum of the reciprocals is between zero and one, and you can always expand any such set to another larger one, which will increase the sum of reciprocals but it
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by chalst 5y ago
There's a somewhat promo-y tone to this article and a quick skim read did not make the point of the article clear. What is the basic point that the author is trying to make?
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by chalst 5y ago
Maybe you know the information you want is spread over more than one result?
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm not going to try to negotiate the NYT nuisancewall. Who is making the claim and why should we believe h{im,er}? Without more context than the title, my expectation is that we will see both what Russia is capable in offensive terms
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Doom on Emacs culture, the Emacs wiki and making Emacs shut up(emacswiki.org)
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by chalst 5y ago
The key claim revnode was taking from the Post article is valid. There might be other false claims in the article: I'm not going to fact check it.
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by chalst 5y ago
Well, I did exactly what you suggest, providing an alternative source.

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