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by f00zz 6y ago
Right, I admit that I don't know the first thing about ML, so I tried an experiment. Consider a language with the tokens "{[()]}" and the following grammar: S := S S | '{' S '}' | '[' S ']&#
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by f00zz 6y ago
In Kernighan and Pike's "The Practice of Programming" there's a chapter that covers the implementation in different languages of a random text generator using markov chains. It's a nice exercise and a lot of fun to
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by f00zz 6y ago
Sorry, but I'm not seeing how this will help. If I take e.g. libpng and rewrite it in Rust, then it's basically a new project. I don't understand how a patch replacing all existing code will be accepted upstream, or how the m
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by f00zz 6y ago
Back when I was forced to work on windows I'd add rules to the default windows firewall. E.g. to block twitter I'd add a rule to drop all outbound packets to 104.244.40.0/21.
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by f00zz 6y ago
> I don't expect much technology transfer in this. Well, Foxconn itself started as a backyard operation making injected plastic parts, so who knows.
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by f00zz 6y ago
The new Motorola Razr is also being assembled in India. Is this a trend?
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by f00zz 6y ago
Can't wait!
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by f00zz 6y ago
I think you can go a long way towards grokking data structures and algorithms by solving problems on competitive programming sites. I don't have a CS degree, but some time ago I became somewhat addicted to SPOJ (an "online judge&q
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by f00zz 6y ago
Read a couple of blog posts on text generation with RNNs and came away with the impression that this is a glorified Markov chain text generator. Not sure why people seem to be expecting AGI to arise from this.
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Yes. Import substitution protectionist policies have been an ongoing disaster for Brazil and Argentina for nearly a century now. What countries like South Korea did was quite different.
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by f00zz 6y ago
What stuck out for me was the bit about farmers in Myanmar playing Clash of Clans. This is something I noticed when I was in South Korea for work a few years ago, everyone was constantly playing CoC and similar games. Of course these are
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by f00zz 6y ago
Yeah. If you have that much control over your input and parsing is your bottleneck, you might as well use a binary format, mmap the file, cast the returned pointer to your data structure, and boom: zero time spent on parsing. Still, very co
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by f00zz 6y ago
> tax the international sale by %40 I'm not surprised. In general, import duties are around 60%, and that's not even the full story. The (foreign) company I work for sent me a development board once; when it arrived here I foun
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by f00zz 6y ago
> If you go by GDP it should be a rich country Not really. GDP is large, but that's only because the population is large. Per capita GDP is around US$ 9k, which makes us poorer than Mexico or Argentina. For comparison, per capita GD
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by f00zz 6y ago
This was a fun read. I totally feel what the guy is saying about thinking in a different language, my brain turns to mush when I'm trying to communicate in English. And I have it easy; compared to Chinese, all European languages are ba
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by f00zz 6y ago
As a Brazilian living in Brazil I'm surprised that anyone would expect a service provided by the Brazilian government to be efficient, or even work at all. This Pix thing seems to cover more than inter-bank transfers, people are expect
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by f00zz 6y ago
> a juggernaut company like Facebook More likely Brazil's central bank doesn't want competition with its own payment system (Pix).
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by f00zz 6y ago
No surprises, the country is deeply hostile to capitalism and innovation. Brazil is not poor by accident. Too bad, as this could have been a boon to small businesses.
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by f00zz 6y ago
Right, others have mentioned the WWW. But it doesn't look obvious to me how the existence of a high energy physics research facility was a necessary precondition for the development of the web. The idea of hypertext had already been fl
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by f00zz 6y ago
Honest question, what are some engineering spin-offs that could come out of this? I'm asking because I'm reminded of a Peter Thiel interview where it's mentioned that, despite changing our view of the universe, no "real
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by f00zz 6y ago
Advogato, an early social network blog site for open source developers. The site itself was implemented as an Apache module written in C.
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by f00zz 7y ago
Nice article, I learned something. Nitpick: MOVZX EAX, BYTE PTR [RDI] AND EAX, 0xFFFFFF00 MOV EBX, EAX // no partial register stall I think the author probably meant AND EAX, 0xFF. But the AND is redundant, as MOVZX
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by f00zz 7y ago
That book is amazing. It inspired me to look for more resources on computer architecture and Verilog, and after a while I had a very simple but functional CPU in Verilog that can compute prime numbers [ https://github.com/f00
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by f00zz 7y ago
He even met with Chavez in Venezuela. Edit: to whoever downvoted, here's Chavez next to Chomsky, "one of the intellectuals who fights the imperial hegemony of the elite that rules the United States": https://www.yo
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by f00zz 7y ago
This (educational) ISA has just NAND and ADD: https://user.eng.umd.edu/~blj/RiSC/RiSC-isa.pdf
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by f00zz 7y ago
The neon signs in Japanese are also mostly gibberish. (You can even get a T-shirt with the nonsensical neon signs from this Japanese site: https://www.ttrinity.jp/product/2353750 )
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by f00zz 7y ago
Others have already mentioned some good novels missing from the list, I'd add Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. I'm not a fan of the politics in the novel, but the descriptions of computer networks, cracking and computer worms ar
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by f00zz 7y ago
Companies like Lego are already using so-called "green plastic", polyethylene produced from sugarcane ethanol. It's still polyethylene, though (non biodegradable).
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by f00zz 7y ago
Something that's probably not mentioned in the article is that it's really easy to get into day trading in Brazil. I think I read somewhere that in the US you need a US$ 25k account to day trade; in Brazil with a US$ 50 account yo
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by f00zz 7y ago
Best reason to quit I've seen in this thread.

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