chancho

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by chancho 16y ago
The only thing dynamic going on there is the type system, unless myfunc is recursive. Dynamic programing uses memoization to achieve lower computational complexity, but memoization != dynamic programming.
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by chancho 16y ago
On a street where there are several Startbucks, it's wise to open up another Starbucks?
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by chancho 16y ago
I would name my next son Simon if one of those two would implement optional backtracking in the type checker, so that it would try all of the definitions of e.g., map, foldr, filter, and succeed if there is exactly one assignment of types t
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by chancho 16y ago
Early-career research positions for cleared PhDs at gov't labs pay much, much more than the equivalent positions at universities (post-doc, lecturer, etc.) and still allow you to publish.
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by chancho 16y ago
Any excuse to post these: http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html
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by chancho 16y ago
To be sure, those interchanges are the most pleasant to drive through, but at a cost of land. The interchange design presented in the NPR article is much more feasible in urban centers where you might be constrained by existing structures.
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by chancho 16y ago
One of the two lights is always red (I hope!) so they won't be going that fast.
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by chancho 16y ago
So then why are laptop hard drives called 2.5in?
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by chancho 16y ago
Start buying up student loan debt and pooling them into Student Loan Backed Securities (SLBS). Tranche and rate them based on US News & World Report school rankings, sell these CDOs to wealthy institutional investors worldwide, then hav
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by chancho 16y ago
You could cure a lot of cancer for $1 trillion. By turning the offer down, are you sure you're not "influencing" someone else's mortality? (That's a rhetorical question, of course. I don't have an answer.)
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by chancho 16y ago
See also http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/
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by chancho 16y ago
Herd immunity? That's a pretty bad metaphor. There is not "safety in numbers" on the Mac. Safety comes from their lack of numbers. Unless you meant to imply that Macs are like the kids at school whose dipshit parents don't vaccinate them.
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by chancho 16y ago
a few = 11
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by chancho 16y ago
Robotics research in Japan is primarily aimed at defending against giant space monster invasion. Oh wait, I guess that falls under defense.
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by chancho 16y ago
This is supposed to be a positive aspect of defense R&D spending?
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by chancho 16y ago
Thanks for sharing your personal computing habits with us. I happen to reboot quite often, switching between Ubuntu and Windows. I tried using a VM, but there were too many issues. With an SSD, rebooting from one OS to the other is fast eno
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by chancho 16y ago
Sitting in one of these (goofy, overpriced) chairs does not involve tensing any muscles other than those used for balance, which don't really get tired, so that's probably the worst analogy on the internet today. These chairs are meant to r
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by chancho 16y ago
Not sure but it probably involves Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madson, Michael Ironside and John C. McGinley, i.e the greatest movie cast ever assembled.
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by chancho 16y ago
We decide X is twice as big as Y when X = 2Y. This is not up for debate. And re. net worth: That's exactly how I would plot it if I wanted to make a point about income inequality. Carlos Slim is worth US$53 billion. The per capita income
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by chancho 16y ago
> There's hardly ever such a thing as a "natural" range. Another good point, but if bar A is twice as tall as bar B then variable A's value had better be twice that of B's. Anything else is precisely the kind of shady drug-company data
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by chancho 16y ago
You make a good point about temperature, but I stand by my critique because temperature is a quantity and these graphs are all plotting percentages, which should always been graphed from 0% to 100%. If your percentages are all within the ra
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by chancho 16y ago
WTF is the point of a graph if you have to read the fine print to avoid misinterpreting it? Why not just use a table? A graph is supposed to convey the relative magnitudes of the data points, not just their ranking. If I just wanted to show
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by chancho 16y ago
WTF are you on about? The page doesn't say any of that. They acknowledge that C++ is not perfect but give specific reasons why it's a good fit for this domain: performance, access to cutting edge tech (e.g. GPUs, iPhone, iPad) and access to
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by chancho 16y ago
It will also by distorted by those who are playing the lotto but have not yet won it.
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by chancho 16y ago
In Windows, KDE and Gnome it almost universally closes a window. By default, anyway.
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by chancho 16y ago
You never close browser tabs?
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by chancho 16y ago
Very good Mac keyboard remapper: http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele
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by chancho 16y ago
The happy hacking keyboard has both the esc and ctrl keys in these (proper) positions. Highly recommended for vimming. http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/26/happy-hacking-keyboard-li...
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by chancho 16y ago
> Russia has satellites in high orbit that carry nukes. What? There is a treaty outlawing this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon#Orbital_weaponry
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by chancho 16y ago
Textbooks are enough of a boondogle. Forcing entire generations of students to learn things like Matlab and Mathematica only sustains their ridiculous price tags. The student versions being so cheap does not make the situation better, it ma

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