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   by fizixer 7y ago

   Or I could be a happy camper of Chrome/Chromium for as long as I like.
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   Firefox does 'gah! your tab just crashed' on my amazon tabs at a rate of about 1 in every 4 times. Once it decides to do that on a particular tab, no amount of refresh or reopen, or restart-firefox fixes it. I'm using Ubuntu
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   I know Tensorflow decided to be cuda-exclusive for the silly reason that the matrix library they were using (eigen) only supported cuda. I have never recovered from that.
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   - Or AMD could change their policy of 'never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity' and offer high-performance OpenCL GPGPU offerings. Then nVidia could have all the stroke they wanted. - Or Tensorflow/Pytorch could&#x27
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   I agree. 'Voice coding' does not make any sense, no offense, even if it wasn't a technical term in a completely different discipline. It should be 'voice-activated coding', VAC, or 'voice-activated programming&
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   Simmons - Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell [0] (128 page booklet) [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=dN1KAwAAQBAJ
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   > You’re assuming the 4-6% growth is a given ... I only assumed that to be charitable to OC's argument. If we don't assume that, then OC's criticism of Norvig's simulation assumptions is even more invalid (only slight
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   I'm neither misreading nor missing your point. When your example is included in Norvig's simulation, it will result in two parties coming together, and instead of an interaction of (-1, +1), the interaction (+1, +1) will happen. H
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   by fizixer 7y ago

   > As others have said, a stagnant (0% growth) economy still has many positive sum trades within it. Wow, so I guess I was living with the wrong understanding of positive-sum all this time. Positive sum doesn't just mean win-win. It
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    I'm not sure if you considered fully what I said. Are you telling me that capital powerhouses aiming for 8-20% year over year, and consistently having it their way, in an economy of best case 4-6% with instances of 2%, 0%, and negative
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    > ... 0-sum trades ... I have heard this argument numerous times, and I'm sick of hearing it over and over again. Yes, real world economy is (almost) practically a zero-sum game. Look at GDP growth rate. A rate of 4-6% of a develope
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    As a long time python user who recently got into s-exp languages (scheme to be specific), I realized the differences between python and scheme are more than just syntactic, in the following sense: Programming in scheme forced me to think an
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Off-topic: Whenever I start thinking about json (or xml) I get lost in the turtle tower of metadata. Like 'jc ls' gives json output with following entry format: { "filename": "[actual-filename-string]" } Then I
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Off-topic: I'm looking at turnout histograms and I'm having the hardest time making sense of it. Why is registered voter count on the y-axis instead of x-axis, since that should be the independent variable? Then I realized/re
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Thanks. Great work!
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    I only see about a 100 images. Not sure what's going on.
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    On second thought, I'll wait for two new programming languages to appear that make it even easier to do the interface, one making the Python-to-D interface easier, and the other making the D-to-C interface easier. Maybe those two langu
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    I agree with you. However, a quick personal anecdote: I tried to create "assembler", in python, for just one instruction, MOV. And not even 64, or 32-bit, (it was either 16-bit or 8-bit). After scratching my head with all the corn
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    19-digit-per-64-bit compression storage requires about 19TiB [0]. 1-digit-per-byte requires about 45TiB [1]. Can anyone explain how it requires 38TiB for final output? [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=8+*+%285e13+%2F+19%2
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    You're right. My bad. I googled 'earth land area' and it showed ~196 million sq miles. And I used it without double check. (Google incorrectly reported the full surface area of earth.)
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    2500 mile radius is no joke though. It's 10% of world's land area. edit: The circle in the article has plenty of water. I'm not counting that. So maybe land area in that circle is 5% of world's total land area (not 10%).
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    I'm told Prolog is the old way. miniKanren (by William Byrd et. al.) is trending for many years though I'd like to know what's fundamentally new about it. The fact that Byrd later worked on constraint'ed miniKanren (cKan
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    > .. Fortran 90 ... Peasants. FORTRAN-77 is the real Fortran.
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Thanks. Looks like you've already shared your approach in a separate discussion. Very helpful!
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Thanks. This brings up the point that, if OP clarifies in his (already great) document, would really help. By using node.js, OP has implicitly made a statement of javascript as the server-side language of choice. Even though there is some m
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Minor nitpick. His whole description about how "fluid information" works and how it's so much better than rigid/siloed hierarchy: Really it's tree-based vs tag-based organization [1][2]. Tag-based organization turns
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Fully agree. Refactoring (that serves to reduce tech. debt) needs to happen on a recurring basis. It's the 3rd pillar of coding activity, alongside features, and bugfixes.
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    Could you elaborate? Thanks.
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    > ... just a combination of probability theory and some upper division math classes ... wow thanks for opening my eyes. I guess I should just get together with my undergrad friends, implement the next DeepMind competitor, and collect our
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    by fizixer 7y ago

    This is 100% is on mozilla, given: - it's much bigger and resourceful than openbsd maintainers. - it decided to adopt this fancy update policy, and instead of making it easy/seamless, left it up to the whole open source community