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by fizixer 11y ago
I've been intrigued by the C code-generation feature of Nim but haven't really gotten around to exploring the language yet. Is there any write-up or tutorial that expands on this aspect?
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by fizixer 11y ago
Just curious. Did they let the lawyers know the call is being recorded (it might even be illegal not to do so in some states)? and how did the lawyers react?
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by fizixer 11y ago
This is well and good. But what about going back from 'ancestry discovery' to 'full medical discovery' just like originally conceived? FDA put a stupid ban on them, and then they got something approved but that was a fra
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by fizixer 11y ago
Looks like calculated trolling. Either it's a social experiment or the author is trying to look for something in responses. Or he has no idea what he's talking about.
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International Longevity Day(ieet.org)
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by fizixer 11y ago
So where does this lie on the antlr, Allen Short's parsley, PEG, spectrum? (very loosely speaking) And how does it relate to the issues discusseed in Haberman's articles [0], [1], [2]? which can be considered a good survey of this
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by fizixer 11y ago
Yet another possibility is to use UN flag as representing earth? Also any "planetary" space program, as opposed to country specific programs like NASA for US, JAXA for Japan etc, can be under some newly created body, like "UN
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by fizixer 11y ago
The argument in this article belongs squarely in the WTF category. I wasted 5 minutes trying to find out why a shitty Casio calculator costing $220 is worth its price compared to a $50 android tablet.
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by fizixer 11y ago
Again as a transhumanist, I would urge everyone to consider the sad reality that the biggest reason, in recent decades, we haven't cheated death yet is the pro-aging trance of 99.99% of humanity. In blunt terms, you don't get to c
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by fizixer 11y ago
Yeah I would be disappointed too if, for example, I'm asked to find out how to avoid a clear checkmate and I spend a lot of time thinking and fail, and then I'm told "you flip the board over and run away".
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by fizixer 11y ago
I guess the word might've been used in a facetious way, so to speak, the way Mr. Cobb in Inception tells Ariadne (can also be seen in the trailer), "Well, it's not strictly speaking legal" when it's clearly illegal.
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by fizixer 11y ago
I think 'pure-declarative' people are seriously misguided. They like to reduce the dynamic idea of 'computation' to a static idea of 'declaration'. One of the biggest motivation for them is mathematics. All mat
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by fizixer 11y ago
Technically, this is not a C preprocessor, more like a general-purpose macro processor, since you're using it as a third layer (second being C macros, first being C itself) instead of replacing C macros. Although it gives me an idea, a
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by fizixer 11y ago
Surprisingly, the financial aspect of it is pretty manageable as explained by Max More (head of Alcor) [0]. Apparently if you have signed up for some kind of life-insurance, you simply pay your regular insurance fee, and direct them to give
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by fizixer 11y ago
> You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. But I can miss things while I do exist. I miss 'doing things as a healthful immortal' already! And I'll miss them more and more as my health declines a
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by fizixer 11y ago
> Neither are you, you you from yesterday or the day before - conscious continuity is illusory. How do you know that your body isn't replaced with a new copy each night (thought experiment)? Conscious continuity "might be"
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by fizixer 11y ago
Okay time to upset people: Dear 'All CS Departments of the World': Please stop fooling your students in the 'Intro to Algorithms' class, and just rename it to 'Intro to Combinatorial Algorithms'. Because that&#
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by fizixer 11y ago
Well to their credit, they did mention "scientific research reproducibility" which is a very well known phrase in computational circles. But I agree, it would help if they expand on this from the pure CS point of view. Especially
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by fizixer 11y ago
> So, let's break down the fields of CS for which this should be applicable: > So, is this focused on ML and ML-using code and experiments? Your completely missing the point. Please look into 'Computational Science' (or
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by fizixer 11y ago
Relevant: Zed Shaw: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html
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by fizixer 11y ago
reading it the second time (last time I read it a year ago): - Is ad business model a major reason Google is not providing a platform or hesitant about it? (Out of Amazon/Apple/FB/MS, FB is the only other primarily ad-based c
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by fizixer 11y ago
I imagine typing a code comment in my text-editor before I start writing the code (e.g., calculate fibonacci sequence) and my editor (on a machine connected to the internet) populates with sample open-source code in my language (inferred fr
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by fizixer 11y ago
In the first plot, why do all libraries slow down at the n=1000 mark? something to do with cache?
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by fizixer 11y ago
In a way, yes. (I assume 'going through the book' includes doing exercises, not just reading). Think of it this way. Is a PhD in combinatorics from the math department, with exposure to programming, the most suitable candidate for
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by fizixer 11y ago
I've heard that Bill Gates comment before but I recently bought the books and looked at random pages. I concluded that the kind of person you become after having gone through TAOCP, especially doing exercises and not just reading, you&
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by fizixer 11y ago
because it's probably the only language that offers 'general purpose macros'? (general-purpose meaning platform/language independent) EDIT 1: there are alternatives [1] but this is the most well-known. Now I'm intri
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by fizixer 11y ago
Tufte-LaTeX link: " ... the style of Edward R. Tufte and Richard Feynman." Woah! wait a minute. Style of Richard Feynman? When did Feynman get involved with typography/typesetting work?
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by fizixer 11y ago
You raise a very interesting point. In fact, python and C being my favorite two languages, and I'm trying to do some metaprogramming in some python-C hybrid way, I'd be very interested in looking into this. The other thing I'
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by fizixer 11y ago
IMO, any discussion about C metaprogramming should mention m4 [0], [1], a superior alternative to preprocessor macro system. [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html [1] http://www.ibm.com/develo
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by fizixer 11y ago
Noob question: What if the developer who "might" have infringed on the patent, open sources his work, and it's made available on github with multiple forks, and now there's a whole community behind it, and so on?

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