glymor

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by glymor 18y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to whether God designs. I was refering to the differences in each snowfake or leaf being of random source that is what I meant by "each".
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by glymor 18y ago
I assume OS/360 was written in assembler so it would have been even more true for Fred Brooks. Except he had his crazy crap about being the "surgeon" only writing specs and leaving the team to the lesser work so that might explain his viewp
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by glymor 18y ago
This is nice but it's also nonsense. Nether a program nor a poem is easily tractable. A change in one place requires rebalancing elsewhere. We try and minimise this with interfaces etc but it's never "so flexible, so easy to polish and rew
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by glymor 18y ago
First, they disagree about who precisely "the rich" that the motion refers to are. Mr Piketty defines them as the very, very rich: the top 1% or perhaps 0.5% of the income distribution. Mr Edwards, on the other hand, is referring to a broa
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by glymor 18y ago
Scaling VAT is 7% (17.5*.4) but than you should consider that tax petrol/alcohol is very much higher. My figure for council tax is low as it was sharing and was not in London. The "rich" living in London will be paying a lot more. Progressi
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by glymor 18y ago
It's already 77% totalled up where the economist is based (UK). 40 Income, 10 NI, 12 Employer's NI, 15 VAT. (NI is National Insurance similar to Social Security and VAT is sales tax). Mortgages aren't tax deductible and capital gains starts
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by glymor 18y ago
You seem to be trying to make a big distinction between actors and green threads that I don't see. The MxN mapping stuff is a nice start but there a long way from there to the Erlang or Azul VM.
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by glymor 18y ago
See Amdahl's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law Even a tiny amount of work spent sequentially (eg a scheduler or gc) can determine performance as the core count ramps up. Erlang is essentially ahead of almost everyone on mini
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by glymor 18y ago
The dispacter is probably a bottleneck, looking at the paper http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07actorsunify.pdf I can't really tell how it's implemented. How does the Scala run queue work? eg have a look at the Erlang article I lin
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by glymor 18y ago
I remember his hashmap when he published it, state machines are a great way to do concurrency. The Erlang way of handling concurrency is to spawn millions of "processes" (threads) obviously these can't be hardware threads so Erlang is hitti
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by glymor 18y ago
Azul's system is proprietary and only runs on special hardware. The openjdk that's in common use has had essentially no work done on green threads. And from your link "we have a lite microkernel style OS; we can easily handle 100K runnable
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by glymor 18y ago
Erlang's VM is unmatched scaling above 16+ cores (for example process migration http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/01/cutting-edge-of-vm-desig... ) this is something that the java vm hasn't even begun to look at.
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by glymor 18y ago
Listing of the worst places in the world for sanitation: http://www.wateraid.org/documents/stateofworldtoilets.pdf Interestingly the total number of households without is about the same for India and China ~700m
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by glymor 18y ago
In a country where more households have TV sets than lavatories This seems insane. Indoor plumming is perhaps somewhat involved but what about outdoor lavatories? Maybe my image of rural Britain having outhouses everywhere is mistaken or
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by glymor 18y ago
Weather and climate forecasting confront different problems. I can't predict the behaviour of a single gas module but I can predict the behaviour of the gas as a whole as the randomness averages out. Climate forecasting is a lot more comple
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by glymor 18y ago
mapcar in clojure wouldn't be limited to lists even if no one had though about the it at the time - this is the difference. There's a ton of CL code out there that only works on cons lists, adding a sequence type doesn't solve this nor does
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by glymor 18y ago
He gave moving C programmers on to OOP as C++'s positive legacy.
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by glymor 18y ago
You can use the same car, map on any of them as the functions operate on a sequence interface not on cons lists. Whereas in CL these functions are defined directly on the implementation (cons lists) so map can't map over a vector you need t
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by glymor 18y ago
Clojure's object system: http://clojure.org/runtime_polymorphism
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by glymor 18y ago
Not everything is a conspiracy. They were right to nix ES4. Javascript has prototype based inheritance: adding classes would only further disguise this, confusing people more. And javascript is a dynamic language, this isn't something that
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by glymor 18y ago
My guess is the rename must occur immediately or he would have covered it. But even if it doesn't the write and the rename are not correlated so it's still not safe. e.g. the move does not occur iff the write completes. Is there any way to
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by glymor 18y ago
You would have been better off actually reading what she wrote rather than knee-jerk reacting. She's writing about the fact that expressing an emotion is bidirectional. No longer expressing that emotion will cause it to pass quicker. You're
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by glymor 18y ago
Apparently various parts of the US security apparatus. Google Techtalk by Dr. Lenat http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-7704388615049492068
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by glymor 18y ago
In order to do that they have to stream very early on, far before the Olympiads. I'm not sure what they use to stream but the proxy used in the west, math tests, are more an indicator of how well you can follow instructions. Undoubtedly Chi
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by glymor 18y ago
You're generalising from one data point. Even within the UK, Scotland has a 4 year degree and England a 3 year. Generally in Scotland you can switch to your minor at the end of the first year without losing anything. The only other part of
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by glymor 18y ago
davetufts already covered it by posting http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=53
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by glymor 18y ago
The advantage of desktop email is you control it. The server doesn't get to decide how it should be displayed, routed or filtered. Why are people willing to relinquish control over something they use so much? I could understand if you are n
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by glymor 18y ago
Brendan Cully's masters thesis has more detail http://www.cs.ubc.ca/grads/resources/thesis/Nov07/Cully_Bren... This was also interesting: "we believe that the high-frequency checkpointing mechanism we have engineered in support of Remus
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by glymor 18y ago
The problem with these systems is they don't know what is significant state so they have to copy everything to the slave. The way Remus gets round this is it bulk copies (upto 40 times a second) rather than on every change. So the master ru
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by glymor 18y ago
AFAIK living cells doesn't heal they auto-destruct and are replaced by new cells.

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