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by cultus 8y ago
Greater cycling actually reduces traffic and wait times for drivers. Combined with the CO2, toxic exhaust, and other negative externalities, as well as the positive health effects of cycling, it makes sense to discourage driving and encoura
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by cultus 8y ago
Moore's law as far as serial performance ended years ago. This means exponential growth has effectively ended for most tasks because of Amhdahl's law.
573.
by cultus 8y ago
There's Young Sheldon now, so don't think you're getting off that easy.
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by cultus 8y ago
It looks like this is too underpowered to get anything out of this. The 95% CI is 1.02-1.7. Considering that the great majority of statistical tests in studies like this have null results (but usually aren't reported), there is a very
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by cultus 8y ago
Sounds like they should be the bookies.
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by cultus 8y ago
Really? Because apart from macros, Lisp has less syntax and little complexity compared to most languages. The issue mamon was talking about is about different programmers using different mental models or features. If macros aren't over
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by cultus 8y ago
I think this criticism of lisp is overblown. It’s never idiomatic to introduce a macro unless you really need one. In the clojure community at least, macros are used pretty sparsely. The base language is is expressive enough.
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by cultus 8y ago
Don't assume that new=complex. Wayland is smaller and follows the Unix philosophy much better than X. X has gotten insanely complex with all the workarounds necessary for a modern desktop. It tries to do far too much, and not well, so
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by cultus 8y ago
I use it too. It gets out of my way better than other window managers/desktops I've used. It's amazing how much good stuff comes out of OpenBSD despite the limited manpower.
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by cultus 8y ago
The issue with nicotine vaping is that the nicotine needs a carrier, which is usually (always?) propylene glycol. Glycol is fine to ingest, but not inhale. In addition, oil/glycol vapes produce some combustion, and glycol can produce s
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by cultus 8y ago
I'm thinking more in terms of usage of the research. Practitioners at places like NOAA or NGOs only care about the content, they really don't care about whether it was published. Heck, if the work you got published is paywalled, t
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by cultus 8y ago
Traditional peer review can filter out complete crackpot garbage, but it empirically is not effective at improving paper quality. Just because it may have filtered out some wrong things you said does not mean it is effective at it in genera
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by cultus 8y ago
As a recovering academic, I believe it would be good to examine why you want to publish in an academic journal. Are you a consultant, for example, and you think it help you get clients? Are you trying to get a better job and you think th
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by cultus 8y ago
Everything is based on composition, which makes it easy to build computations up like building blocks. Stacks are also efficient. The JVM bytecode is actually a stack language, for example. There's a newer one called Kitten that is sta
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by cultus 8y ago
No, not true at all. Engineering and academia are still solidly Matlab. You have to keep in mind that these people are not programmers, they are used to Matlab, and they don't want to learn another language. It's just a small prop
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by cultus 8y ago
Matlab is 1-based. That's what the vast majority of scientific programmmers still use. Worrying about 0 vs 1 is just useless bikeshedding, really. I've done lots of index heavy operations in Julia and in Python, and it's easy
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by cultus 8y ago
The object system is IMO the best feature of Julia. All functions are multiple dispatch, so the expression problem is more or less solved. This makes it easy to do things like allowing users to define custom sparse matrix types and use them
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by cultus 8y ago
You get used to the 1-based indexing pretty quick. It's a non-issue. 1-based indexing is the standard in math, and also Matlab and Fortran. For the primary use-case of Julia, it makes sense. Julia REALLY tries to be easy for Matlab use
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by cultus 8y ago
>I'm sorry but that is ridiculous. The Model 3 has some quality control issues on the frame and GM does that a bit better. However if you go into the electronic, the software, the drive-train, the charging network, the suspension an
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by cultus 8y ago
They already have come in. The Chevy Bolt has a 230 mile range, compared to 220 for the Model 3. You can go out and buy one today for $36,000. The 3 and other models are also plagued by quality control problems. The Bolt is both more reliab
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by cultus 8y ago
It's not really a problem for Clojure since it is on the JVM, so you get all of those libraries for free. Java interop is very easy, especially due to macros. I've never used Clojurescript. I'm not sure how easy that is with
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by cultus 8y ago
Well, not in graphics libraries obviously, but it comes up quite a bit in other areas. Vectors with a norm of unity are just a fundamentally important set.
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by cultus 8y ago
Not at all. There are plenty of circumstances in all kinds of numerics where one would want points on the sphere in high dimensions. It's not just a geometric object that has limited practical value for d>3. It is the set of points
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by cultus 8y ago
It's quite complete for anything numerical/machine learning/statistical at this point, with almost 2000 packages. This is in addition to the very comprehensive standard library, which includes everything you get in Numpy&#x2F
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by cultus 8y ago
As yodon explained, those benefits are handled just as well by ordinary contracts. I've still never got a straight answer from anyone about what smart contracts _actually_ bring to the table.
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by cultus 8y ago
So what does the smart contract bring that the regular written contract doesn't?
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by cultus 8y ago
Thousands to millions. There are approximations that work very well with millions of examples. Neural networks are empirically outperformed by gradient boosted trees (look at Kaggle competitions) on most practical tasks except for image, so
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by cultus 8y ago
I'm a data scientist who uses gaussian processes all the time. They are: 1. Typically very accurate. 2. Sound theory and good uncertainty estimates. 3. Being a Bayesian model, tuning is very easy. The main competing models for some of
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by cultus 8y ago
Functional-ness is completely orthogonal to the type system. Clojure is probably the second most-functional prominent language after Haskell. Immutability is very strongly encouraged, with mutation used only in controlled ways.
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by cultus 8y ago
These other factories would have to be completely retooled. It would take a long time and a lot of money. It's not like changing the die in an injection mold or something.

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