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by eapriv 2y ago
Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-a-frog-have-scorp...
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An Age of Hyperabundance(nplusonemag.com)
5 points by eapriv 2y ago|0 comments
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by eapriv 2y ago
Even this is not in any way related to the asymptotic time bounds discussed in the article.
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by eapriv 2y ago
This is not in any way related to the asymptotic time bounds discussed in the article.
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by eapriv 3y ago
You can use any language to follow and solve the exercises; Casey presents his own solutions in C/C++.
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by eapriv 3y ago
Not only it is not obvious; it is not known to be true.
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by eapriv 3y ago
Note that the paper does not provide a proof of this statement, only some experimental evidence.
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by eapriv 3y ago
Surely identifying just one file type (or two, as in your example) is a much simpler task that shouldn’t rely on horribly inefficient and imprecise “AI” tools?
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by eapriv 3y ago
Addition and multiplication of floats are commutative.
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“Clean” code, horrible performance(computerenhance.com)
739 points by eapriv 4y ago|907 comments
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by eapriv 4y ago
It doesn’t even work with pi.
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by eapriv 4y ago
When I open the page, it says "very + loading... = loading...", for a few moments because of course you need at least a second to load two more words from the server.
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by eapriv 4y ago
Cool, thanks for the explanation!
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by eapriv 4y ago
Then why divide by two at all? Also, adding one bit for every value (or pair of values) means that data size gets a significant increase from the start.
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by eapriv 4y ago
Surely multiplying both signals by two is changing them? What if overflow happens? How do you store the information that it needs to be divided back when decoding?
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by eapriv 4y ago
I can’t understand the very first step in the compression process: “The left and right channels are converted to center and side channels through the following transformation: mid = (left + right) / 2, side = left - right. This is a lo
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by eapriv 5y ago
Another perspective on the Axiom of Choice would be to formulate it as “you can select one element from each set in a given set of sets, and the selected elements form a set”. So we accept the existence of infinite sets (since we have an ax
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by eapriv 6y ago
I would argue that Strugatski brothers’ first sentence is harder to translate, because it’s a direct quote from Pushkin.
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by eapriv 7y ago
Their discussion of Haskell starts with the statement that it is "very abstract" and continues with "Do you really need six different ways to implement factorial?". Well, you have six (in fact, many more that six) ways t
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by eapriv 7y ago
No, what you described is O(n).
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by eapriv 7y ago
> That's right, ellipses are not elliptic curves, and elliptic curves are not elliptical. I don't know who was responsible for this idiocy, but if I ever meet them I'm going to kick them in the ass. The referenced Wikipedi
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by eapriv 8y ago
You ask as if it is somehow a huge investment. Category theory is not that hard. It became the language of (almost all) contemporary mathematics. Many mathematicians learn it during the first years of their studies. Its core is very small,
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by eapriv 8y ago
I can’t see see the similarity. SQL join is the categorical fiber product. Tensor product is not a categorical product. It can be related to the product, but not in a trivial way. In particular, I can’t agree with your statement that the te
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by eapriv 8y ago
A reminder: import of cheese into Russia is prohibited by the Russian government, not by the Western countries.
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by eapriv 8y ago
> describing monads in terms of their strict category-theoretical definition helps no one, especially those new to Haskell. I am a counterexample: the description of a monad as a monoid in the category of endofunctors actually helped me,
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by eapriv 14y ago
"Some of the most awe-inspiring discoveries in the 20th century are about the limits of thought, and about rigorous ways to think about thinking. Gödel was central to these results [...]" I am not aware of any "awe-inspiring discoveries" ab