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by ggchappell 10y ago
> And here [2] is a JavaScript implementation. Is it up to date? The last commit to this repo was on July 16, 2015, and the code says it conforms to the 8.0 standard. But Unicode 9.0 came out in June 2016. The document in your link [1] i
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Is it this? http://blog.arkency.com/2016/12/techniques-for-dealing-with-... I haven't read it yet, but it looks worthwhile.
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by ggchappell 10y ago
The post takes comments. Write one?
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by ggchappell 10y ago
> Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language Can anyone explain that last bit. I know WebGL 2 goes with GLSL ES
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by ggchappell 10y ago
> In your Beverly Gray example, it's all one editor who did not seem to realize that there is a preview button. Wow. I count 4930 edits to that page, by a single account, over the 199-day period from January 20, 2016 to July 26, 201
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Key quote: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” -- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Instead of thinking of this as a virus in pieces, might it be better to think of it as a symbiosis (with the "bio" part being deemphasized a bit)?
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by ggchappell 10y ago
I understand your point; but we should remember that the redesign of the shifter did not happen in isolation. Car designers have been tinkering with controls for decades. Sometimes the addition of new ideas can be very helpful. For example,
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Interesting thought.
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Cool. It needs some kind of averaging with nearby frames (or whatever), to avoid the constant flicker in areas of more or less solid color.
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by ggchappell 10y ago
> I think we should call them "generator comprehensions" again. I think we already do. Perhaps not officially , but "generator comprehension" is a widely used term among Python folks, in my experience. A quick Google
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by ggchappell 10y ago
Interesting & fun. However, apparently none of these people were just fooling around, surfing, watching cat videos, or posting idiotic things on Reddit or Facebook or whatever-the-latest-trendy-site-is? I don't believe it.
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by ggchappell 10y ago
> a homoiconic language like Hebrew What does "homoiconic" mean in this context? (Google doesn't help.)
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by ggchappell 10y ago
This is an excellent article. > Hanlon’s Razor says “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence,” but I would add, “Never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by differing incentive
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by ggchappell 11y ago
I think that a major issue overlooked in discussions like these is the effect of how interesting an idea is. I could tell you that computing in 2029 is going to be more interconnected, more ubiquitous, with more surveillance and more ads
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This is a tricky problem. We need to remember what courts are all about. They take someone who is accused of something, and if they decide it is appropriate to do so, then they take away possessions and/or restrict freedom. That is a s
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by ggchappell 11y ago
That would be the case if they did in fact lose money based on this problem. I don't know how common/significant such losses are. But it seems clear that lots of news organizations are betting heavily that such losses are less tha
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Nice, but it needs to say up front what it does (i.e., compile a Lisp-ish PL to a C-ish PL). EDIT. After a bit of analysis: The lexer is basically a state machine. Each kind of token consists entirely of characters in a single class, so t
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> The media seems generally unprepared for a coordinated campaign of fake tweets from accounts that don't have eggs as their avatar or #freeiphones in their profiles. Why should they care? The purpose of a news business is to make m
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by ggchappell 11y ago
From your linked article: > #1: Eat More Protein During the Day & Select Carbs at Night > ... eating a meal of carbohydrates in the evening can help you go to sleep quickly. This is curious. I've run across this advice before
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Do you have a source for that? EDIT. Perhaps it's really Terry Pratchett? From Carpet People : > If he concentrated, he could just hear Pismire playing the fluteharp; it was easy to tell, even with all the other instruments in the
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Interesting point.
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This seems a little odd. Yes, Alan Turing looms large in the public consciousness; his various Polish contemporaries, not so much. But to anyone who has looked into the history of these events, the work of the Polish is no secret, nor has t
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Lots of interesting things here. One of them: > If the telegram is packed full of unnecessary words, ... the sender has been guilty of economic waste. ... He added to the volume of traffic .... And yet: > But when you think of telegra
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by ggchappell 11y ago
> Didn't they know functions in 1987? ;) In all seriousness: only just barely. I entered the undergraduate C.S. program at the U. of Kansas in 1983. The faculty were constantly saying, "We're doing structured programming
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by ggchappell 11y ago
After reading, I'm still not sure why I should care. I've been using "CSS variables" for years -- in less . If I'm modifying CSS on the fly in JS, then I don't need CSS variables; I have JavaScript variables
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by ggchappell 11y ago
No, of course he wasn't saying that. But there is a problem with the reward structure of the system. Scientists have to eat and pay the bills, too. Unless you're really rich, it's tough to do much serious science in your spar
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by ggchappell 11y ago
Would you say that more recent methods allow us to talk about degree of language similarity in a way that is objective enough and meaningful/useful enough that the results are not "for entertainment value only"?
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by ggchappell 11y ago
This is a nice little article. But I have a different perspective on a number of these issues. My thoughts: > 1) There is no integer type! Yup, problem. See also Lua. [I suppose in JS one could create a typed array and use the items as i

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