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by dblotsky 9y ago
Make works on Windows. You can get it standalone, or as part of MinGW (and then even other Unix tools will work).
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by dblotsky 9y ago
"Doesn't cut it anymore" isn't the same as "has a different way of doing it". Make has many other (necessary) features that Webpack doesn't.
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by dblotsky 9y ago
C. Often people don’t learn anything about a language’s internals, or a computer’s internals, when they learn a “nice” language with garbage collection and dynamic typing and massages. IMO for long-term software engineering that stuff is im
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by dblotsky 9y ago
It's circular because the definition is circular, kind of like: "A mountain is larger than a hill, and a hill is smaller than a mountain." It's a shifting definition. Therefore I think modern statistical methods don&#x27
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by dblotsky 9y ago
> Is this the sort of hormonal influence you find desirable? Nope. I said nothing about desirability. The question was: "What is the brain using except conditional probabilities derived from past inputs?" > All these factors
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by dblotsky 9y ago
Personal two cents: the actual maximally "fair" and maximally safe strategy is not to release anyone on bail. True positives are 100%, and false negatives are 0%. Beyond that, I agree with nabla9: > I think unconstrained algori
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by dblotsky 9y ago
> What is the brain using except conditional probabilities derived from past inputs? Hormones, reflexes, instincts, empathy, etc. Again, human inference and learning are (as of yet) insurmountably more complex than statistical regression
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by dblotsky 9y ago
The algorithm also does "case by case" judgments. However its judgments are purely based on conditional probabilities observed from past events, which are computed using regression analysis (a relatively simple method). Human lear
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by dblotsky 9y ago
The difference between mathematical neural networks and humans is how they're trained and how they function, which is not just a difference in kind. The way that they adjust weights and perform inference is different enough that them b
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by dblotsky 9y ago
1. This article doesn't mention neural networks. 2. "Your brain isn't doing anything a neural network can't do." Really, now? 3. The paper mentions "over 100 factors" the algorithm uses. Ad agencies have w
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by dblotsky 9y ago
The title should have "Dennis" instead of "Ritchie".
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A Novel Improvement on the Myers Diff Algorithm(blog.robertelder.org)
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by dblotsky 11y ago
Even if the numbers are off, the assumption that 40M lines of code take less effort to write than 2B lines of code commits the fallacy that effort is proportional to number of lines of code. Come on, Wired, you can do better.
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by dblotsky 11y ago
Totally exploiting the fact invalid HTML is accepted by modern browsers. :P
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by dblotsky 11y ago
Made me think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cities .
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by dblotsky 12y ago
What a load of crap. You also can't call a Ferrari a Lamborghini because they're trademarks. When someone says "your race car isn't a Ferrari so you shouldn't call it a race car", we look at them funny, scold t
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by dblotsky 12y ago
Hooray, Moiré! :)
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by dblotsky 12y ago
Link broken. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
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by dblotsky 12y ago
Whoop, broken link. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
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by dblotsky 12y ago
Here is an SVG of the earlier black-and-white computer-hit-by-shell logo: http://bit.ly/1rorkXl . Feel free to use as desired.
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by dblotsky 12y ago
Here is an SVG of it, in a less-goofy orientation (doesn't look like a creature anymore): http://bit.ly/1rorkXl . EDIT: Here are the other iterations: http://imgur.com/a/kVDox#0 Anyone may use them
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by dblotsky 12y ago
I'm no designer, but I doodled a thing that could be a logo: http://m.imgur.com/OQFFavW . Criticism/use welcome!
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by dblotsky 12y ago
For those more familiar with cars, a question: when the article mentions disabling the ignition, does that mean that only the starter is disabled, or that the actual spark plugs / fuel delivery are disabled (and there is some check for
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by dblotsky 12y ago
I may be misinterpreting the article, but isn't that just graceful degradation?
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by dblotsky 12y ago
I wonder how many people, like me, right off the bad went and pasted minified jQuery into this thing. Looks like an invaluable tool for reverse-engineering when unminified code is unavailable.
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by dblotsky 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it takes a minimum of 1024 turns to win the game.
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by dblotsky 13y ago
This article is wonderful! The whole point is that you can be more efficient with your pizza money when buying larger pizzas as opposed to smaller pizzas. And regarding health concerns: you don't have to eat the whole thing at once! Be
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by dblotsky 13y ago
So simple, so unreadable, but so perfect.
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by dblotsky 13y ago
"You can make and receive secure phone calls; exchange secure texts; exchange and store secure files; have secure video chat; browse privately; and anonymize your activity through a VPN." People. It's really secure, private,
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by dblotsky 13y ago
Agreed. However simplified variants on problems like these are actually really effective interview questions. A few years ago, I was asked to solve the N-Rook-Kings (pieces that attack like kings and rooks at the same time) problem, for 1 &

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