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by fyp 7y ago
I remember in an intro bio class we were shown simulated animations of how reactions occur. For example it depicted molecules floating perfectly and almost intently into an enzyme demonstrating the lock and key model. The teacher made it po
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by fyp 7y ago
Some of these aren't one line but could be (for example the one for node.js can use npx instead)
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by fyp 7y ago
> In the absence of calamity, fortuitous events, or brilliant new marketing strategies, sale counts are well-described by a Poisson process. That is, you can think of there being an underlying average number of sales per day, and each da
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by fyp 7y ago
The only thing I remember from the CKEditor post from last year was that it took "42 man-years" to implement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18220020 I wonder if it's better understood now and can cost
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by fyp 7y ago
Ah I didn't realize they were talking about over the history of the library. That makes much more sense.
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by fyp 7y ago
My theory is that we're just looking at the list of books most frequently assigned by english teachers. Excluding children books, most of these can be found in the new york state education department's literature suggestions: htt
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by fyp 7y ago
Why must the messy code win in this case? Building a transform tool should be a pretty well understood problem. Just take a look at what photoshop's transform tool does and you will see all the possible extensions you might need to sup
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by fyp 7y ago
Can someone point me to a successful PWA in the wild? I hear a lot of them as a web developer (usually the first thing I do after create-react-app is delete the service worker) but I don't think I have ever seen/used one.
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by fyp 7y ago
I have a pair of "identical" GPUs which have dramatically different performance. Swapping the order didn't help. It turns out it was because one was blowing hot air into the other. Sigh.
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by fyp 7y ago
> a friend of mine once got a Google Code Jam World Finals question in a phone interview with Google (...) I doubt there were more than a few hundred people in the world who would've gotten the right answer to the question in a phon
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by fyp 7y ago
Pretty spot-on guess! I do have relatively high blood pressure, typically in the 130-150 range. Doctors have suggested it before but since I am borderline I don't really need to be on meds yet. I think it sounds worse than needing to t
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by fyp 7y ago
I have had life long headaches that I have given up on fixing. Occasionally when I switch to a new doctor I will mention it just to see if they have anything new to say. They usually just put me on a concoction of various pain killers (e.g.
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by fyp 7y ago
NaN == NaN is always false (at least in other languages I know).
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by fyp 7y ago
Native lazy loading is an extremely recent feature! https://web.dev/native-lazy-loading/ https://caniuse.com/#feat=loading-lazy-attr So no, browsers don't have these problems solved out of the box
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by fyp 7y ago
I really wish we had more control over the scheduling of async tasks. For a javascript example I ran into recently, say I am firing off a fetch for each image that comes into view in a large gallery. If I suddenly scroll down to the 1000th
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by fyp 7y ago
In theory if you can completely saturate the 1 gbit link for a whole month it's 300TB/month
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by fyp 7y ago
People were projecting that he will lose last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792890
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by fyp 7y ago
Yea that's a good point. This matters when your derived data takes linear time to recompute. There are still techniques to make this work (but not automatically afaik). For example it's easy to make them efficient again if your co
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by fyp 7y ago
Since there's a correspondence between proofs and programs (Curry-Howard), maybe you're just looking for a graph-based visual programming language. But given the failure (of adoption) of dataflow programming languages I don't
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by fyp 7y ago
I found the philosophy communicated by mobx-state-tree to be a lot clearer than redux (particularly stuff around patches, snapshots and async flows): https://mobx-state-tree.js.org/intro/philosophy
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by fyp 7y ago
Most functional languages have immutable persistent data structures that don't require a linear copy and are fairly efficient. For example in clojure, sequences are implemented as 32-ary tries so insert/delete/update to any
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by fyp 7y ago
I wonder what niche these tools fill. Maybe when you want to do some ad-hoc analysis and want every step in your shell history? Otherwise it seems more flexible to just fire up a python interpreter and do it in like 3 lines of pandas (or wi
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by fyp 7y ago
Can someone give me an example on how to properly use the central limit theorem in the real world? For example with stuff that are commonly assumed to be bell-curved like test scores, IQ, etc. What are the iid variables being averaged? Each
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by fyp 7y ago
"A careful search algorithm in a high dimensional space" sounds exactly like what these guys did with chocolate chip cookies: https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
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by fyp 7y ago
Also a programmer here but I agree more with your girlfriend's style. You can either use battle-tested libraries or you can try to understand and reimplement them to suit your use case. The former is safer but the latter is necessary i
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by fyp 7y ago
It's amazing how good this is for training! Apparently I am not that great at minesweeper and guess way too often when it's not necessary. This variation kills those bad habits pretty quickly by punishing you 100% of the time for
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by fyp 7y ago
Are there still ongoing iterated prisoner's dilemma tournaments that we can submit code to online? The idea that you can submit "code of ethics" to duke it out in a simulated environment is pretty fascinating.
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by fyp 7y ago
> For a short period of time, because of a blog post someone else wrote, I had a huge waiting list Why is this short opportunity window unique? So you realized you missed this window but then the environment was already one where this &q
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by fyp 7y ago
Were there any videos people thought was particularly worth watching? Is this the right list? https://slideslive.com/neurips#!feed=popular
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by fyp 7y ago
I have seen the theory that the most optimally emotional ideas are the ones that go viral: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

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