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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Q is trying to do both data and validation, which are very different problem spaces. I think designing for both involves serious tradeoffs for the individual parts.
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Favor: could someone share an intelligent (or at least in-depth) write-up of the pros/cons of infinite scrolling? Most of what I'm finding on the web is content farmy. Also: at what point is memory usage worth worrying about? Scro
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This is a better (video) introduction for programmers: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/talks.php
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
From the papers section: "A Language for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies" http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/papers/popl088-yang.pdf (I hope you like the lambda calculus!)
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Github project: https://github.com/jeanqasaur/jeeves
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Speaking from my experience, learning Ruby made programming more fun, elegant, and productive. Thanks Matz! Though sometimes overblown and even cultish at times, the Ruby community transformed expectations about what a language can be. The
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Yes, I think what you are saying can work well for programming. But with certain scientific questions, there are many theories that could work. It isn't just a matter of ruling things out (though that helps too). One key part of the sc
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It depends what question you are asking. If the question is "should we fund projects even if we don't know if or when they will have demonstrable results?" then I would argue that, yes, some portion of research should go towa
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
This sentiment is interesting "Over the past few years, NIF has been getting a fat 'F.'" Perhaps now that 'grade' will change. Actually, I think framing it as a grade is beyond silly; it is irresponsible. Givin
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I see intrinsic informational limitations. Software developers and managers learn, but they also forget. Also, technologies change, so knowledge "rusts" over time. So the rational ability to make information-based trade-offs is dy
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I like seeing this probabilistically! That said, I think the operative decision is "should I cut the corner?". If so, you should also factor in the p( ___ | not cut corner ) probabilities. So, you should cut the corner if the bene
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Meta comment: The article: (a) covers enough relevant topics (b) using rather ambiguous terminology (c) while offering sharp opinions (d) about a world of pain (e) that we all experience (f) but can never be solved in general This is not a
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Right. One key question is this: what does "high quality" mean? If your product is a first iteration on a web application, user interaction may be a key part to quality while database tuning may not. If your product is a data anal
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
I heart what should be called a "truth injection attack" in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2021553/109618
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
Re: "Java has had all of the same async capabilities for many, many years, but nobody uses them" That's exaggeration. Lots of Java libraries use async and concurrency. Java 7 has NIO.2 which is easy to use. There is also Nett
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
I'd like to be able to see a revision history when someone edits someone else's comment. Trust but verify. Sometimes people mess up.
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A perfect fit? Care to expand on your idea? I'd like to see what you had in mind.
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Ironically, like a float, I suspect the precision of your `99.999%` estimate is dubious.
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EU
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Put another way, these are invariants; e.g. make sure that a faster implementation gives the same result as a reference implementation.
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The gravity assists (and more) are detailed here: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rose...
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Yes! I noticed (visually) how close Rosetta came to Earth a few times. I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist but didn't get a sense for how close a spacecraft may get to a planet (other than not so c
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
I don't see this as a contradiction. The authors probably would include simulation and computerized solvers as "computerized problem solving". Such applied techniques are certainly welcomed in the field of economics. That sai
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
You are talking about the aggregate demand–aggregate supply model, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD-AS_model Here's my take: the paper would say that solving the AD-AD model with a computational technique w
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
spikels, The authors most likely see your point (and hear it all the time), but I'm not sure if you see their arguments and perspective. Yes, philosophy can be less than useful at times. But sometimes it simply doesn't get credit
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Thanks for sharing your experience!
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As a matter of context, this paper was published in Philosophy of Science. This tells you quite a bit about its goals and audience. The central claim is "Our claim is that economists are willing to accommodate mere computation more rea
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by dj-wonk 13y ago
To comment on just one part: "Obama said he's ordered a plan to be drafted that would shift that data to some other entity." (From http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/17/263357
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I was using humor there. Yes, I am open to this kind of thinking being useful. I did watch the video. I followed the logic. (That logic is contradictory from other perspectives -- see http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/Th
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Unintended consequence: my confidence in string theory just plummeted.

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