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by cscheid 15y ago
(Yes, this is a little cynical, but) The distinction between Google making money from you vs. Google having you as a client seems to explain some of what happened. But did they simply not see this sort of problem arising after their family
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by cscheid 15y ago
I think your argument misses the point. The main advantage of the internet is that the marginal cost of a better report(er) is essentially zero. The marginal cost of a TV second is huge. So detailed reporting material gets pushed out of the
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by cscheid 15y ago
You can replace it with descriptive words: "This piece of software is as useful as wings on Shamu" "This piece of software makes me want to skewer needles up my thumbs for a relaxing break." etc. There is value in shock. The problem with pr
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by cscheid 15y ago
"To obtain an integer in [0, n[, one may simply take the remainder modulo n" Isn't that the wrong way? IIRC, most PRNGs behave badly in low-order bits. I always heard that you want to keep the high-order bits around instead via the appropri
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by cscheid 15y ago
Yes, they're called trap streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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by cscheid 15y ago
I think strong type systems for arrays are very much an open problem (as soon as you stick integers in there you go into dependent types land), so for dimension matching you'd probably end up with runtime type errors even in Haskell.
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by cscheid 15y ago
Wow. The argument in the original post that is linked to about scalability and functional programming is almost exactly backwards. Resource usage here is a silly red herring. Keeping code free of side effects means you _can_ scale it. Try s
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by cscheid 15y ago
You might have some fun reading about the Futamura projections :)
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by cscheid 15y ago
Apple actually has a license for the patent. So yes, but in a much more direct way than you suggest.
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by cscheid 15y ago
fwiw, brazilian portuguese (at least around my family!) has "the dirty speaking of the unwashed"
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by cscheid 15y ago
This is "because" those correspond exactly to the Hammersley sequence, a well-known quasi-random sequence of points: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HammersleyPointSet.html
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by cscheid 16y ago
As pointed out in a comment on the original, this is a well-known source of holy wars. The interesting bit is that this argument is one of the sides of an equivalence. Dig up the old archives of LtU, http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/
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by cscheid 16y ago
On point #2, if you're feeling adventurous, you could try xmonad. Its support for programmatically moving windows to different workspaces is pretty nice. Every app in full screen on its own workspace automatically on login. It's great.
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by cscheid 16y ago
apparently it's a collection of statistical flukes: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-02000-001/
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by cscheid 16y ago
Have you seen multiple kLOC tcl apps? I have, and it is not pretty :) Thing about extension languages is that they tend to be nice languages to write code, so people write a lot of code in them, and suddenly your app is 95% written in the e
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by cscheid 16y ago
The GPL does _NOT_ prevent redistribution, please don't spread more incorrect information. It prevents _redistribution without redistribution of source_. You're still free to get GPL code, change it yourself, and never release it again. Lic
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by cscheid 16y ago
I wish google would put ACM and IEEE's feet to the fire. Their crawler definitely sees full PDFs, and we don't.
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by cscheid 16y ago
Not when the ads come from different domains (which is the case for 99% of the annoying flash ads). Adblock stops all requests to these domains. Incidentally, this is also why Adblock is a hit with privacy-conscious people - it mitigates tr
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by cscheid 16y ago
Roughly because the number of times it needs to sum to get a multiply is not constant; it depends on the input. Think about writing the automaton -- how would you know when to stop? You're only given one automaton to write, and you don't kn
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by cscheid 16y ago
Who's to say Pipes isn't getting the axe either?
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by cscheid 16y ago
Not every conspiracy is illegal or unusual. They're still _wrong_, especially when perpetrated by governments against their people's will.
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by cscheid 16y ago
Sorry, but what you're suggesting is the equivalent of "every airplane should fly flapping its wings" "if the image contains enough signal that a theoretically optimally trained eye can detect the contraband, they should be able to use mach
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by cscheid 16y ago
I know I'm not supposed to snark. But teach yourself LaTeX, Mr. Yudkowsky. It'll be a gift to us all.
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by cscheid 16y ago
Interesting. The one experience I've had with pair programming was also with non-trivial algorithmic stuff, and we had the same positive experience. I wonder if it's a more general phenomenon: "pair programming is for the hard parts" or som
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by cscheid 16y ago
Andrew Hodges's biography of Turing, "Enigma", easily. Although "Profiles of the Future" by Arthur Clarke was also surprisingly good.
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by cscheid 16y ago
That's pretty much exactly right - the variance of the von mises distribution is essentially the length of the average vector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution
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by cscheid 16y ago
This is great. MathJax support would kick ass too.
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by cscheid 16y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was trying to say that convergence in area for two-dimensional surfaces in R^3 requires convergence in normals in the same way that convergence in length for one-dimensional curves in R^2 requires conver
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by cscheid 16y ago
Geometric convergence is tricky. Specifically, the issue here is that uniform convergence does not imply convergence in length or area or any other such measures. (see figure 6 here: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~etiene/publications/verifiable-
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by cscheid 16y ago
Reminds me of the setting in Stephenson's Anathem. A high-tech monastery would be great, except that the need for a good connection to the web pretty much kills the whole isolation idea.

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