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by currymj 9y ago
this is a fascinating fact, and I guess I should have assumed everything was even worse than I thought. I guess it’s the flip side of civil forfeiture, departments funding themselves like businesses.
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by currymj 9y ago
i mean this doesn't strike me as any worse than AU or eV or any other unit rescaled for convenience in some particular domain. if they try to claim patent or trademark that's obviously a problem, but otherwise is this so terrible?
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by currymj 9y ago
it seems unreal to most Americans as well. it's not a practice that's widely known, as the article says. if the cards are given after a "donation", the donation is to the labor union representing the police officers, rat
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by currymj 9y ago
there is a culty vibe. if i had to speculate why, it's that a lot of the more zealous Rust programmers simply have never had the skills or wherewithal to write in a systems programming language before. (I'd count myself in this ca
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by currymj 9y ago
shocked that this doesn't mention taxes at all. if you donate a piece of art to a museum, in the US you can deduct its "fair market value" from your taxes. so if there's a way to drive "fair market value" up hi
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by currymj 9y ago
i think the benefit is more for Rust users who find they need to make a GUI. There aren’t many good options right now so this will probably be welcome.
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by currymj 9y ago
a big part of the early Rust community comes from Ruby, so Rust as an entry to systems programming is really common. Mozilla's IRC server has a #rust-beginners channel that is like, overwhelmingly helpful. Go and ask stupid questions.
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by currymj 9y ago
rust at one point had garbage-collected references. And there's still Rc/Arc types for reference counting. I get what you're saying though. Another poster mentioned Swift and indeed Graydon Hoare, Rust's creator, is now
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by currymj 9y ago
i remember people jokingly referring to stuff like word2vec (one layer, millions of dimensions) as "wide learning". this is definitely better branding than that.
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by currymj 9y ago
working with dynamic neural net libraries that have autodiff (PyTorch, regular Torch, and I think also MXNet now) feels a lot like this. you just write normal functions, but after you execute them you can ask for gradients too.
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by currymj 9y ago
it seems like it's made by analogy with "probabilistic programming", i.e. defining complex probability distributions by writing familiar-looking imperative code (with loops and whatnot). I think the idea is that thinking in t
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by currymj 9y ago
Left and Right are really commonly used in this situation in ML-descended languages. It’s not the worst thing. I don’t mind car and cdr though. I kind of wish they were in Clojure tbh. It feels nice to pay tribute to a half-century of compu
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by currymj 9y ago
i think reading about people suffering misfortunes like is naturally very frightening. my instinct is to scramble for reasons why this is abnormal, or the result of avoidable mistakes, or due to a unique situation that isn't likely to
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by currymj 9y ago
coinbase and other exchanges that exchange cryptocurrency for US dollars run into this issue because of Know Your Customer anti-money-laundering laws in the US. I've had to go through the same process when signing up for bank accounts
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by currymj 9y ago
it seems like the main problem this solves is around the ergonomics of getting Rust to compile your code down to SIMD instructions. having run into this while working on Rust code a while ago, I really appreciate this library! I would expec
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by currymj 9y ago
i could not disagree with this more, holy cow. C has so many weird and painful quirks, and is missing a lot of things that a novice programmer will need to know (like object-orientation, especially). it's a great second or third progra
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by currymj 9y ago
more recent statistical analyses have found evidence for a hot hand effect, though. i also don't necessarily like calling it a fallacy, as i've definitely run into some people who misinterpret that word, basically assuming that th
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by currymj 9y ago
There are lots of advantages in general, especially around multithreaded code, and doubly so for anything with relatively simple data parallelism, where you can just use the rayon library. Another advantage is that there are Rust packages f
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by currymj 9y ago
what is the PhD’s research area, specifically? seems like this might help narrow things down, at least. what industries has the PE person done deals in? in those industries, are there any sources of very large costs for businesses? think ab
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by currymj 9y ago
It's supposed to be "crustacean" without the "c". I'm not sure how well known the word crustacean is among ESL speakers though.
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by currymj 9y ago
This is fairly accurate bc they have a Chairman-for-life, and a schism between two groups, one of which denounces the other as revisionist.
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by currymj 9y ago
wrt your first paragraph there, I urge you to take a look at Idris. That's the exact workflow.
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by currymj 9y ago
this is awesome. there's also progress being made on compiling to nvptx so soon-ish it will be possible to write CUDA kernels directly in Rust.
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by currymj 9y ago
in some ways these complaints remind me of trying to pick up Haskell or Rust -- tooling isn't quite there, breaking changes all the time, outdated resources online. funny that Swift, another "weird" type-heavy language, has t
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by currymj 9y ago
it's just a brand name at this point, which they attach to any machine learning they develop or acquire, and they should stop trying to sell it as a distinct technology.
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by currymj 9y ago
In my experience, especially the US south, that specific narrative ("did you know that Marxist intellectuals started promoting gender and racial theory after their attempts at class warfare failed to overthrow the US?") has usuall
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by currymj 9y ago
I mean at the end of the day the story about “Marxist intellectuals” making an enemy out of “straight, cis white males” after “class warfare” failed to overthrow society sounds almost exactly like the Frankfurt School/“cultural Marxism
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by currymj 9y ago
i have a really weird and contrarian opinion, which is that Splatoon online is good because it's bad. I swear I actually believe this, though, not just trolling. voice chat is difficult and terrible, so nobody really uses it! that&#x27
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by currymj 9y ago
now you're talking. follow this to its logical conclusion about all rentiers!
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by currymj 9y ago
the recent fracas with the anti-diversity manifesto published on Google's mailing lists has people on edge, I think. there oughtn't be anything controversial about your statements, but the more right-wing people in tech have been

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