dan-robertson

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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   This is very true. A lot about civilisation can be learned from tax records but just because there are lots of tax records it does not mean they are particularly easy to read or to recognise, even for an expert.
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   If a truly large archive were found then who’s to say that it could survive long enough to be properly studied? There are multiple sources of untouched ancient texts today which aren’t much studied. Off the top of my head, I’ve heard there
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   I think one thing one should ask is: If monads are the solution to X, and we add a different solution to X to the language, then what are monads for? Let’s say you have imperative IO. Then promises are a Monad but then you could just add la
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   Well “Monoid” is a different sort of composible than something like like T -> Promise U. I do agree that Monoid and Monad aren’t really great names for anyone who doesn’t come from an algebra background (ie basically anyone).
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   What do you mean by “On a side note, at least that apartment had very poor natural lighting coming in?” Do you mean that “at least one apartment in Japan has poor light” or do you mean “the article/the person’s life/something else
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   Proposition: There is no way, given some integer r and a sequence of iid random integer samples X1,X2,... uniformly distributed in [0,n) for some n>1, to always construct some finite k and function f : [0,n)^k -> [0,r) such that f(X1,
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   This is referred to as “Bitmask” in the article.
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   Well I don’t really know anything about it but it seems ok. The programming environment is easier to set up than in SICP which removes a barrier to entry. I’m not really convinced that scheme is the be all and end all of teaching languages.
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   by dan-robertson 8y ago

   I basically agree. SICP makes a lot more sense when considered in the context of a course at MIT, taken after a first course in calculus. The exercises are easy to motivate if one can motivate the study of calculus (e.g. calculus is useful
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    I don’t really like the recommendation for SICP. The book expects a certain level of mathematical maturity from the reader and I think this level is significantly greater than the level that might be expected from the targets of this websit
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    I don’t think clicking yes in a confirm dialog implies that anything was “truly deleted.” It might well still be living in the undo history, other indexes, auto save files, backups, and it could certainly live in memory (especially if it wa
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    I wouldn’t say google dominates the internet overall. They may dominate your internet as the way into most of the internet for you is google (or some other search provider). For a large number of people, especially in the developing world,
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    So the quantum part of this network is that it is doing quantum key distribution [1]. The idea is that messages are sent in a predictably lossy way and that further non-predicted losses correspond to the messages being observed (by the en
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    As I read it, this article (or rather, its abstract) seems to work as: 1. The population is divided into leave voters and remain voters (and undecided) 2. Some statistics will be different between these sets 3. Looking at the election campa
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    I think it makes sense that smaller companies should be looking for the candidates who aren’t “obvious” hires for larger companies which can better compete for pay. On the other hand I’m not convinced that this A.I. test either works partic
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    Suppose as indicated in the article that you want to do 500 interviews in a year and have about 10% success rate. That’s 40 candidates in a month, and assuming 6 person-interviews (3 interviews of 2 interviewers each) are needed per candida
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    This seems nice but it is hard. Imagine the following scenario in a JavaScript where one has lisp like singly linked lists: function map(f, list) { if (list==null) return null; return cons(f(head(list)), map(f, tail(list))
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    by dan-robertson 8y ago

    So the point of this article is that differentiation is linear. That is, the operator D which takes f to d f/d x is linear. The author points out that one can write this down in as a matrix with respect to a basis of polynomials, whi