dicroce

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   by dicroce 11y ago

   DI is a good and useful thing, but like a lot of fads in software development it is being overused in some places... Actually what DI brings to mind for me is functional programming. By injecting your dependencies (as opposed to simply cons
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   This is a really good idea. Bravo.
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   BTW, I'm pretty sure that this blocking behavior is the best choice (among bad choices). If I memory map a file, I can set bits in that buffer at a much higher rate than the kernel can write those bits to disk... So the choices are: bl
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   That confused me too until I realized the author of the article was talking about the creator of the AI, not the game.
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   I use the convention of the language or large code base I'm working with... That said, I've found that the style isn't nearly as important as consistency. Generally speaking, an inconsistently styled code base is a sign that
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   The best introduction to neural networks is called "Hackers Guide to Neural Networks": http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/ The best thing about this article is how he breaks down the math. The main idea: s
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   Write your neural network code today, and every 5 years or so dust it off add a few layers and run it on your current computer and watch the its performance improve!
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   My company so prefers outside solutions that sometimes we engineers joke that the best way to get your code used is to open source it and let management think it's from outside the company!
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   by dicroce 12y ago

   I've been studying machine learning lately... Here is my take: Well before we create an ASI (artificial super intelligence) we will have put 90% of the human race out of work with specialized (non conscious) intelligent agents... (for
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I agree with everything said and I'd also like to add this: I used to enjoy visiting the site because quite often there was a nice general question on the front page that related to me in some way... Well, ALL of the general CS type qu
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I'd rather we had a clean energy Manhattan project...
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Boring is not the next best thing... Some people are actually paid to do the thing they love...
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. The human genome is 770MB (in .2bit format)... So, we know the genome doesn't have even close to enough information to describe all of the connections within the brain... This means that t
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    smart pointers are better than GC or do it yourself imo. smart pointers and RAII allow me to explicitly model ownership and lifetime in a non imperative way. In addition, I am not subject to arbitrary GC runs with non deterministic amounts
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I learned a lot from Denthor... I even emailed him back in the day and asked him about the first election after apartheid and if he voted (he was South African) and he responded and said that he did. Seemed like a great guy. I also learned
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Domestic spying + Immunity from insider trading laws... It's a good time to be in the government.
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    It's 2014 (almost 2015). It's time my house knows to turn the hallway light on FOR me because it's night time and I'm walking in that direction.
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    That looks very nice.
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I think the problem with Huxleys predictions come from his not realizing how blunt an instrument narcotics are... Fine work and subtle tweaks are beyond our power (just look at the side effects)... Using drugs to adjust personality is like
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Weightlifting? Is this guy an actual "brogrammer"?
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Wow, that article is a total bummer. But it seems to me he's cherry picking all of the things that haven't worked out so well, or progressed as fast as we'd like and pronouncing us a failure.... What about all the things that
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I guess they already figured out all the things?
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Our country is full of police departments that fund themselves through seizures of drug money, that they know about by using data our intelligence services collected on us. I wonder who's using the phone data to buy and sell stocks? Ma
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    In protest you should all switch to using digg.com.
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    So how do they pay you? Rubles?
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Me too. RAII ftw!
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    They see what you see out of your elbow.
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    democracy->oligarchy->dictatorship->collapse->democracy
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    Fuck "Personal Audio". Go Adam. The world needs more people to stand up to bullshit like this. (sorry for the language in this post, this sort of stuff infuriates me).
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    by dicroce 12y ago

    I usually just restrict the SQL I'm using to something reasonable and I've never had any trouble...