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by chroem- 9y ago
Any chance you'd be interested in adding more direct support for nonlinear systems? That seems to be missing from most computation graph compiler libraries, e.g. Tensorflow.
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by chroem- 9y ago
SpaceX is not a traditional VC funded tech/ software business. Snapchat has a negative P/E ratio. In other words they are hemorraging money. I can't speak as much to Spotify and Lyft, but I don't remember them being ver
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's interesting that I can't think of any of these megagrowth tech startups that have gone off without a hitch. Zenefits, Uber, Snapchat, etc. are all in some form of trouble or another, and yet these companies are supposed to b
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by chroem- 9y ago
>The US is nowhere near homogeneous. Ah yes, that would be the definition of relatively . Or are you implying that the difference in development between SF and Mobile, AL is bigger than the difference between the United States and Bangl
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by chroem- 9y ago
Why do you think? National boundaries tend to be relatively homogeneous in terms of human development, which prevents corporations from engaging in labor arbitrage. Comparative advantage is beneficial in capital terms only, and harmful if
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by chroem- 9y ago
>Why not state, county, city, neighborhood, or block? Because nobody is arguing that. You're inventing an absurd position to argue against a pretty reasonable one. >you're throwing away comparative advantage, wasting time a
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by chroem- 9y ago
The wealthiest members of our society are on one hand sending their children to expensive private schools, specifically to avoid exposing them to computers in the classroom, while on the other hand lobbying for increased usage of computing
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by chroem- 9y ago
>In which reality is that a "new normal"? This one. It used to be that you would boost profits by innnovating and launching a new product line, not liquidating business segments. Instead of focusing on growth, corporate Ameri
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by chroem- 9y ago
>thousands of dollars The article is out of date. People are saying the amount is now $6 billion.
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by chroem- 9y ago
The dangerous unreliability of software is an accountability problem, not a technology problem. Engineering disciplines are regulated so that engineers are held personally and even criminally responsible if they endanger property or lives.
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by chroem- 9y ago
>Fractions are already a value, or rather they are a representation of a value. The same as the decimal number 25 is a representation of 2×10¹ + 5×10⁰. That evaluates exactly to 25. Now try to pour me a glass containing exactly 1/7
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by chroem- 9y ago
>But, first, every rational number is exactly representable in any base (as a fraction, rather than as a decimal expansion). Fractions are great until you actually need to evaluate them to use their value. Saying that any number can be
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by chroem- 9y ago
>that's a concrete claim with is 1) easily verifiable and 2) wrong I fail to see how it's wrong. If you call Math.sin(x) it will return an iterative numerical approximation of sine. Would you care to elaborate rather than cas
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by chroem- 9y ago
This article seems to boil down to "stop liking what I don't like." Is Wildberger's distaste for real numbers eccentric? Yes. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with what he is proposing? Absolutely not. As long a
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by chroem- 9y ago
This is the same argument that was used to wrongfully deny service to gay couples. You are turning a blind eye because corporations are attacking an ideology we disagree with. I do not believe that some people should be treated more equall
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by chroem- 9y ago
If you saw a "the future is male" shirt, what would your first impression be?
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by chroem- 9y ago
The one that also says it's bad taste to make a "the future is male" or "the future is white" shirt.
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by chroem- 9y ago
It also fits some of the more vague definitions of hate speech.
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by chroem- 9y ago
I'm about as far left as they come, like campaigning for Sanders left, but I have some serious concerns about this. There has been a serious effort to label everyone that disagrees with Israel's growing apartheid policies toward t
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by chroem- 9y ago
>Free speech does not mean a company has to take part in spreading it :). I see you're not a big fan of net neutrality. This is also the same line of reasoning that has been applied to deny service to gay couples and people of color
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by chroem- 9y ago
Why are ahead-of-time inverse kinematics so much more popular than feedback control methods? The numerical iteration involved in this method seems a lot more expensive than the iteration used in feedback control, which is also simpler to i
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by chroem- 9y ago
>Globalized capitalism has caused the largest reduction in poverty ever. This is a non-sequitur that often gets touted, despite totally ignoring efforts of NGO's, improvements in technology and industrialization, as well as decolon
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by chroem- 9y ago
That's not how convection works. It won't be moving quickly in the first place if it cools off. This whole farce of a thread is really tempting me to sink time into calculations to prove that this is absolute bullshit.
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by chroem- 9y ago
You realize that other chimneys have an outside energy source and that this essentially amounts to a free energy device, right? I can scarcely believe that this is an actual level of argument that's occuring on HN.
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by chroem- 9y ago
No, it would have to be a very, very good insulator. You're talking about three miles of tubing exposed to high speed winds and large convective heat losses. Anyone who's taken a course on thermal power systems would know that
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by chroem- 9y ago
Whoever made this assumes that the chimney wall would be a perfect insulator, which absolutely cannot be the case if it's supposed to be a thin cloth or film barrier. The air would cool to the same temperature as the surrounding atmos
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by chroem- 9y ago
You'd think they would have bigger fish to fry if they could substantiate any of their claims about him secretly being Vlad's half-brother and the like. But instead we get this.
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by chroem- 9y ago
We've gone from "Steve Bannon is literally a KGB agent!" to "Steve Bannon cheated at World of Warcraft!" I can't be the only one that finds this amusing, right?
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by chroem- 9y ago
>People are building entire vector editing programs on the web. This is the exception rather than the rule. There is no reason why it should take more than ten seconds to load a static news article with text.
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by chroem- 9y ago
I'm referring to the hyperbolic headlines talking about a "metal printing revolution," not the actual company. There are already off the shelf solutions to do nearly the exact same thing that everyone here is getting all wor

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