danieldk

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by danieldk 16y ago
Excellent! Though, I have to add that if you like C++ with STL, D2 with the latest Phobos standard library is the way to go. Hopefully, we will see a stable LDC for D2 in the future.
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by danieldk 16y ago
Mostly, yes. This particular program evaluates effectiveness of features given an existing log-linear model. So, you can evaluate the effectiveness of features in parallel. For each feature, you can also partition the training data, process
3993.
by danieldk 16y ago
Rebirth (at least from daily perception, I ultimately believe that consciousness does not cease with death, but 'attaches' to new organisms with perception), and enlightenment (the cessation of clinging to phenomena). Very hard, if not impo
3994.
by danieldk 16y ago
Did you read this quote near the end? "Shared-memory multiprocessors have never really 'taken off', at least in the general public." The assumptions that held in 2002 seem to be gone these days. There are many 8-16 CPU users these days, esp
3995.
by danieldk 16y ago
Well, what's it worth if you are doing (real-world) number crunching, and your program turns out to be one or two orders of magnitude slower? For instance, after implementing some machine learning software in Scala, I ended up rewriting it
3996.
by danieldk 16y ago
And there are also enough 'prominent examples' for impure imperative languages. For instance, OpenMP makes parallelizing some loops in C/C++ a walk in the park, and I have parallelized some of my programs by adding only a few pragmas. The '
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by danieldk 16y ago
I can understand your conclusion and sentiment. It is also a trap one can easily fall into during meditation, and can lead to both the extremes of anti-materialism and pure hedonism, as can be seen also in Buddhist (and other) cultures. Thi
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by danieldk 16y ago
Or maybe what seems normal to us know, did not seem so normal in the days? I am to young to have witnessed the UNIX industry in the '80ies.
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by danieldk 16y ago
It is unlikely that the Berkeley people would've pushed for a completely free (software) kernel without the Stallman influence: "I think it's highly unlikely that we ever would have gone as strongly as we did without the GNU influence," say
4000.
by danieldk 16y ago
I'd say: just try it. After reading haskell-cafe for a day, I felt utterly incapable of ever learning Haskell. I started picking up the language using Real World Haskell (quite an acceptable book). I can read most programs now and crafted s
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by danieldk 16y ago
Of course, except that many runtimes/libraries handle tripping over array boundaries gracefully, rather than overwriting memory. And some languages avoid null/wild pointers completely. Your programs will still be suspectible to buffer overf
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by danieldk 16y ago
"Memory is predictable, and with Valgrind not a danger." I find that statement a tad too optimistic. If you use Valgrind continually (and people really should), you do catch memory misuse in normal situations. It does not say much about how
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by danieldk 16y ago
Indeed. But daily practice is something to treasure :).
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by danieldk 16y ago
It seemed very familiar, at least the motions the author has gone through. On my first retreat, after one day, I was absolutely sure that I wanted to leave. Sitting was painful, there was a lot of sleepiness, and I was longing for daily joy