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by eutectic 11y ago
I'm not qualified to adjudicate between Krugman and the market monetarists, but I feel it is important to realise that many (and many prominent) people did fail to make these predictions, and essentially all of them have kept their
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by eutectic 11y ago
They obviously feel that they can maximize their impact by giving guidance to other people. This seems plausible to me.
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by eutectic 11y ago
Millions of dollars seem like pretty good evidence that someone cares.
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by eutectic 11y ago
I suspect that they are a lot easier when you are primed with the idea that they are trick questions.
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by eutectic 11y ago
The economic slowdown could last 5-10 years and cost trillions of dollars (June 2009): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8081813.stm Semi-prediction of a housing bubble (August 2002): http://www.
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by eutectic 11y ago
What do you think are his political views, and how do they influence his economic writing?
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by eutectic 11y ago
Can you give specific examples of other economists making better predictions than Krugman by avoiding the mistakes you claim he makes?
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by eutectic 11y ago
It also has bad performance if you need to pass function pointers around.
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by eutectic 11y ago
I don't know if it varies by location but any time I have bought quinoa in the UK it has come pre-rinsed.
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by eutectic 11y ago
The maybe monad is just being used as an example here, but Haskell allows you to implement the same interface for any applicable type. for example; IO, mutable state, parsers, etc.
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by eutectic 11y ago
The English name is a transliteration of the Japanese.
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by eutectic 11y ago
The idea that top-level programs use UCT is just folklore at this point. I know that at least MoGo uses a greedy version of Monte-Carlo Tree Search enhanced with RAVE (Rapid Action Value Estimation), a way to share information between branc
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by eutectic 11y ago
In a compiler recursion is typically used for walking Abstract Syntax Trees, and the recursion depth is usually similar to the scope nesting depth. I find it hard to believe that this could add up to megabytes for normal code.
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by eutectic 11y ago
You can deallocate if you use small enough chunks, although you might need to use some other strategies to minimize fragmentation.
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by eutectic 11y ago
What about bump-pointer + maintaining a count of live allocations?
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by eutectic 11y ago
Why would it give greater cache mosses? My understanding is that it requires fewer because it reduces the average probe distance and obviates the need for tombstones and the attendant performance degradation.
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by eutectic 11y ago
I'm a student of Physics and Mathematics who takes an amateur interest in programming. :)
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by eutectic 11y ago
Note that the maximum fill factor of hashtables can be increased well above 90% with comparable or better performance to standard open addressing using Robin Hood collision resolution with backwards shift deletion. The hashtable in the Rust
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by eutectic 11y ago
All of the examples he shows fall into one of two classes: -Check whether a type implements a method; if so, do that method. -Check whether a type implements a method; if so, branch on the success / failure of that method. Both of thes
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by eutectic 11y ago
This is a perfect use case for a SAT solver. Here is a solution using the Python Z3 bindings: from z3 import * def all(vars): result = BoolVal(True) for var in vars: result = And(result, var) return resul
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by eutectic 11y ago
Someone Who Isn't Me. A particularly silly way to refer to yourself while maintaining the illusion of legal deniability, especially popular on certain forums devoted to recreational substances.
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by eutectic 12y ago
The burden of proof is on the pro-STEMmers to show that we really do need a bunch more STEM majors, not on the rest of us to prove we don't. Edit: and are you sure that your higher-wages claim (source?) is not just evidence that STEM m
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by eutectic 12y ago
This article is conflating two different ideas; that we should have more students studying STEM subjects, and that students should have a narrower (and more STEM-focused) education. You can disagree with either of these proposals (and I dis
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by eutectic 12y ago
This a common misconception. Partial application is like taking f(x, y) = x + y and turning it into f(y) = 1 + y by supplying x = 1. Currying is like taking the same function and turning it into (f(x))(y) = x + y. Expressing f as a higher-o
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by eutectic 12y ago
Obama gave us meaningful healthcare reform, bringing insurance to millions of people, brought financial reform, and avoided the crippling austerity that European countries have imposed. It would be silly to say that a Republican president w
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by eutectic 12y ago
Maybe you just need to work on something you actually care about. There are a lot of hard and interesting problems which need programmers working on them, but boredom is understandable if you are just churning out the one-million-and-oneth
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by eutectic 12y ago
I really can't agree with this more. It really frustrates me when I see academic papers demonstrating new approaches to parallel computation in higher level languages by benchmarking against the same program using only one core. Why sh
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by eutectic 12y ago
Even if you do not have any 'passion' for a field, I think it is important to have some kind of strong intrinsic motivation; to help people, to further Humanity's knowledge, or whatever else. Practice for the sake of practice
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by eutectic 12y ago
As a society we seem to weight positive harm much more heavily than negative consequences averted. It might not be the best way of looking at things but it seems to be a deeply ingrained aspect of human nature.
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by eutectic 12y ago
I think that I have a reasonable aptitude for maths and I like solving problems, but I always felt like textbook problems more-or-less consisted of plugging the numbers into a standard template. Maybe my education was uniquely terrible but

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