chris_st

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by chris_st 9y ago
Absolutely. This even works at a somewhat lower level... I remember hearing an argument between two cow-orkers, and realizing that each was thinking different (but similar!) things, but assuming the other was thinking the same thing.
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by chris_st 9y ago
I've been using Go for a while, and am frankly amazed at the quality of the tooling. I'll add something others haven't mentioned... the profiler produces an absolutely amazing graph of the run-time call tree[0]. This makes
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by chris_st 9y ago
Yes please to no animation at all as an option. It's incredibly distracting.
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by chris_st 9y ago
Unit testing? I think that, from the computer's point of view, type II errors are correct , in that no errors are generated, no crashes, etc. It's a semantic problem, and so human-generated testing (and, of course, end users :-
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by chris_st 9y ago
I was watching the VAX-11/780 at college get repaired by the DEC tech. She told me of her most difficult case: a randomly crashing 11/780. They checked everything (I believe she said that they eventually replaced every card!) and
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by chris_st 9y ago
The main question for me is, who would have been chosen to fly out? I imagine that the two most senior officers would be chosen, but I have no idea how that would have been decided. Anyone have insight into RAF policies?
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by chris_st 9y ago
So, what applications are iterative Krylov subspace methods good for? Can you give us a sense of where they're useful, and what (in general) inverse methods in this space are?
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by chris_st 9y ago
Any useful rules of thumb on when to use GPU?
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by chris_st 9y ago
When you want to learn it, I recommend the "Blue Book", aka "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" By Adobe Systems Incorporated. It's a very thin book, but a great tutorial and example reference. I enjoyed g
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by chris_st 9y ago
Quick question to those with a deep understanding of these things... I have not been able to get GPU tensor flow (on AWS) to run faster for the networks I'm using. This is with a small(ish) network of perhaps a few hundred nodes... sho
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by chris_st 9y ago
I dunno, seems brave to me. I think she's trying to shed light on something horrible, to help others. Hope it helps...
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by chris_st 9y ago
Run, don't walk :-) to download "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. It's hilarious, ignore the overly serious cover image: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jerome-k-jerome/three-men-...
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by chris_st 9y ago
Man, I wish presenters at conferences would learn this. Really, just that they'd learn that the contrast range on their laptop is huge compared to the contrast range on the projector that everyone else is looking at, especially when
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by chris_st 9y ago
I recently got to take a retirement finances course from the local Society for Financial Awareness (SOFA [1]) person. They're totally non-profit, the classes are free, and (as was the case with the guy who taught the classes I took) t
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by chris_st 9y ago
There's a fun iOS game called GlyphQuest that works something like this -- there's a hexagonal grid of elements, and a monster. Connecting enough "like" elements (and, later on, combinations of elements) causes attacks
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by chris_st 9y ago
Sounds like you've got a great thing going there! Maybe we're more picky, but my game group typically does a new game every month. We find that a lot just aren't fun to play (in spite of reviews, etc.) We do go back and pl
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by chris_st 9y ago
On the other (anecdata) hand, my wife has been severely allergic to peanuts for decades, and still is... she can tell if someone is eating peanuts nearby .
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by chris_st 9y ago
Absolutely correct, but for me what really nails it is the explanation . That's rare, at such a high quality!
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by chris_st 9y ago
We use Microsoft Link for our phone system at work (recommendation: NEVER use MS Link). My first thought was to compare it to "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp" [1] which was a slightly bizarre show in the 70's, mostly intended to
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by chris_st 10y ago
And what do you recommend as "must-read in my media diet to get coherent, well-reasoned essays from" from the left?
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by chris_st 10y ago
Thinking about Hatsune Miku[1] here... are human vocalists headed out? Think about how much cheaper it'd be to have robot entertainers, who don't get drunk, fight their contracts, storm out of concerts, get sick... Hatsune Miku h
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by chris_st 10y ago
Good points. I may have misunderstood the article, but I'm a little surprised the author didn't write about Russell's inability to accept Gödel's Incompleteness proof. This made mathematics not fit in the "[it] i
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by chris_st 10y ago
I have always liked, "We have to believe in free will -- we have no other choice."
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by chris_st 10y ago
> You can find the control you want to tweak by combination of it's position and touch very fast and in many cases without purposefully looking at the thing. I really wish car makers would rediscover this fact.
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by chris_st 10y ago
Good points, thanks!
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by chris_st 10y ago
Your comment is hilarious, but as I deal with UIs a lot, the sheer complexity of all those knobs kind of astounds me that he can deal with it all, and in real time to make music. Wow. I've loved his music since the late 70's, i
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by chris_st 10y ago
> Don't ask permission. I'd go a bit further... I'm a programmer, but I've done several contributions to projects where I just corrected the grammar of the README (which, I imagine, some folks would think kind of ru
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by chris_st 10y ago
Thanks very much for Zapier, by the way! It's a great service.
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by chris_st 10y ago
Well, depending on price and features, of course. I have purchased both TextMate and Sublime, for instance, and now use Atom.
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by chris_st 10y ago
Frankenstein?

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