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31.
by excessive 7y ago
I prefer looking at in months. If you make a grid 36 across and 30 tall, those are the months of a 90 year life. Much easier for me to fit in my head.
32.
by excessive 7y ago
There are subtleties that make this more difficult than it sounds. For small N digits, you don't have to worry about rounding error on your FFTs, but as N gets large, you need to be careful.
33.
by excessive 7y ago
If it could go lower than n log n, that would have huge implications for signal processing. Multiplication, convolution, and FFTs are all so similar to each other.
34.
by excessive 7y ago
> ... either they will respect you and do it or ... Another possible/likely option - they'll pay lip service to your plan, convince you to stay, and then gradually slip back to the full of shit approach they originally intended
35.
by excessive 7y ago
That might be what it was about, but it could've been about more. I don't think anyone claims humans were significant to CO2 or temperature more than 200 years ago, why go before that to 20,000 years and stop there?
36.
by excessive 7y ago
> The way for you to win would be to counter my argument ... Honestly, I'm not interested in winning this one. I've seen this all before, and someday maybe you'll have seen it all too.
37.
by excessive 7y ago
There's no way for me to win an argument like this. If I dare question how much effort was really spent avoiding any particular apocalypse, I'll just get labelled insensitive, stupid, tone deaf, and/or something worse. I&
38.
by excessive 7y ago
I don't see how that would make things better. For me, I think the answer is to try and keep my mouth shut and just live a decent life. That's a work in progress...
39.
by excessive 7y ago
> Instead of criticizing another perspective, you should put effort towards convincing people of another view point. That just doesn't work. Anytime someone dares express a view contrary to the group, they're shouted down and
40.
by excessive 7y ago
Perhaps in another 25 years, after they've seen a few more rounds of "we're all going to die" (from Ebola, H1N1, AIDS, Killer Bees, Zika, etc...), they'll become a bit more suspicious of doom and gloom predictions.
41.
by excessive 7y ago
One of my favorite bands from the 80s was named "The The".
42.
by excessive 7y ago
That xkcd comic should go back 400,000 years instead of just 20,000.
43.
by excessive 7y ago
I agree, but I think we're in the minority. In particular, I miss when you could easily access the sound card through /dev/audio or /dev/dsp. I'm also not eager to embrace the latest version of a programming
44.
by excessive 7y ago
And even if the start of your career feels meaningful or fun, you'll possibly (probably?) "grow" into a position where that's no longer true. I enjoyed writing software, but after 15-20 years, they expected me to spend
45.
by excessive 7y ago
I'm not certain, but I suspect you'll hit the halting problem if you tried to be completely general purpose.
46.
by excessive 7y ago
That's a fair point (and worth documenting as part of the library), but I'd be much more likely to implement pow(x, x) carefully than switch to a different language or compiler.
47.
by excessive 7y ago
Building expression trees is not the only way to do automatic differentiation. A simpler way is to just carry the value and it's derivative as a pair: #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> struct autodiff { d
48.
by excessive 7y ago
I think you have it wrong. Gravity and momentum are very well understood, but a double pendulum or three body problem is chaotic such that prediction past a certain point is useless. So is the climate well behaved like the ideal gas law, o
49.
by excessive 7y ago
When I was a kid, my father worked at a place that was pushing the "Five Nines" methodology for manufacturing. I'm guessing the next management fad should be Seven Something .
50.
by excessive 7y ago
It's pretty easy to avoid Instagram and Facebook. Install an ad blocker and the rest of the web becomes reasonably friendly. They'll just keep ratcheting up the obnoxiousness until they find your threshold for quitting. These ar
51.
by excessive 7y ago
It was exactly that topic which is why I included the "sometimes" qualification :-)
52.
by excessive 7y ago
I suppose it depends on the activation function, but many of them are bounded. Polynomials are unbounded at the extremes, and as such should really only be trusted (sometimes) for interpolation, not extrapolation. If you get a new input w
53.
by excessive 7y ago
A lot of salad dressings have sugar in them, and they add sugar (corn syrup) to most sausage and some bacon now too.
54.
by excessive 7y ago
Fish used to be a good idea. Now it has a lot of mercury in it.
55.
by excessive 7y ago
Yes, and I'm not sure the R*RS standards even specify which special forms are fundamental vs implemented by macros. However, Smalltalk has some keywords too. In any case, it could be a concise cheat sheet.
56.
by excessive 7y ago
Scheme has to fall somewhere between Smalltalk and Forth for quantity of syntax too. To me, these are the prettiest languages.