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by dapperdrake 7mo ago
Underphrased like a pro.
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by dapperdrake 7mo ago
"You're completely right. That mushroom is poisonous."
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Yes.
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Failure is inherently "non-linear" in this sense, unless there is exhaustive case-analysis. That sounds a lot like "just never program a mistake."
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
The return value depends on control flow ("obvious", please bear with me): With "goto" the cleanup-up can jump anywhere. With "defer" the cleanup cannot really jump anywhere. It is easier to mentally stick to
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Confer the recent bug related to goto-error handling in OpenSSH where the "additional" error return value wasn’t caught and allowed a security bypass accepting a failed key. Cleanup is good. Jumping around with "goto" c
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Everywhere. Computing and formal mathematics rely on exhaustive case analysis and binary logic. And even with The Excluded Middle, there are unprovable statements. There are at least two incompatible ternary truth tables (hello there SQL N
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
You have discovered Wally's playground. Wally is one of the guys from the Dilbert comic strip. Basically, many incentives are "misaligned" in such a way, that micromanaging demise is (locally) considered more valuable than a
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Epigram 102: 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. — Alan J. Perlis, Yale
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
There is also the Vernier scale on certain styles of mechanical calipers.
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Slide rules are awesome.
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by dapperdrake 8mo ago
Many irrelevant difference between programming languages are now exposed for what they are. Thinking clearly is just as relevant or encumbering as it always was.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Wait until you hear about the pixel size restrictions on safari canvases.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
WebGL punts to WebGPU for decent compute shaders.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
That was also my research group's approach.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
How else is the data going to make it to your phone?
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
And with a JS-friendly tool you can also test your plots on a tablet and a phone in your local wifi.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
The API and ABI for this are tricky to get right.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Look at Stephen Few's website and books. http://perceptualedge.com/examples.php There is also ggplot, ggplot2 and the Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson. Sadly, Algebra is so incompatible with Geometry that I fou
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
No difference for human visuals or no difference for discrete data or no difference for "continuous" f32 data?
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Good idea. Add Lab-comor space for this though, like the color theme solarized-light. Also add options to side-step red-green blindness and blue-yellow blindndess.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Both are useful. With the y-axis staying the same there is a stable point of reference. Then you can see how sub-samples behave relative to your whole sample.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Think of it as finally targeting a smartphone. People like beautiful pictures. And your phone is already in your hand.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
This might be because JPEG already does FFT/DCT.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Doesn't FFT depend at least on a "representative" sample of the entire dataset? Sounds like what makes sql joins NP-hard.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
This really depends on your problem domain.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
This is a good sampling transform to offer. Call it "co-domain awareness" or something.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Blind sampling like this makes it useless for real-world statistics of the kind your users care about. And column-oriented data is a must . Look at Rlang's data frames, pandas, polars, numpy, sql, and even Fortran's matrix lay
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
In the register file or named registers? And the critical matrix tiling size is often SRAM, so L3 unified cache.
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by dapperdrake 9mo ago
Most of the contemporary mathematical proofs from LLMs read like first-semester failings. Doesn’t really help to cheat there, either.

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