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by gradstudent 9y ago
I think Stallman's website says more about Stallman's design sensibilities than it does about the ability of plain text to be readable or for search to be effective.
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by gradstudent 9y ago
This article suggest a variety of plugins and then describes a fairly exotic workflow that's alien to my vim brain. I use vim because it's simple, powerful and available almost anywhere. By the time I've installed a bunch of
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by gradstudent 9y ago
is that so much better? I dread every new release of macos because it always breaks some part of my toolchain (either gcc and friends, or valgrind or whatever). It wasn't so bad when a new os came every few years. now they break stuff
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I have a PhD in AI and I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what's being announced here. Like, check this out: > Building on advanced research in program synthesis (PROSE) and data cleaning, we have created a data wrangling
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba. Amazing days. Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 unt
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by gradstudent 9y ago
> That's not even to get into the main point, which is that you don't need to run the pathfinding algorithm every frame and that most of the time it actually isn't an issue. Irrespective of any other criteria, the algorith
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by gradstudent 9y ago
> In the case where the pathfinder really does become a bottleneck the developer has the option to develop his own more efficient solution. Well, yes, but with respect you can make the same argument for any other subsystem. If simplicity
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by gradstudent 9y ago
Thank you for the interesting video. The problem I refer to in the Godot pathfinder is not a case of premature optimisation; it's not (as discussed at 16:10 in your video) code whose performance is negligible in the overall scheme of t
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I could indeed and thank you for the suggestion. However I'd need to be motivated enough to spend time submitting tickets (good tickets!) to a project I'm not currently invested in. Which I am not. I guess the point of submission
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I hope the quality of their pathfinding code is not indicative of the overall quality of this engine: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/core/math/a... They scan the entire open l
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by gradstudent 9y ago
GAs are in this weird place where much of their lunch (by which I mean tasks such as classification and regression), has been eaten by more principled methods from Machine Learning. They've also been pushed out of most combinational op
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I'm not a planning guy but I work in a closely related community so I'm a least somewhat familar with the area. Looking at the first paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06170.pdf ), it seems surprisingly shallow
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by gradstudent 9y ago
> I bet if you'd interview the average world-citizen they'd not be so convinced. I bet if you interview the average AI researcher they'd not be convinced. All the progress we've seen can be summed up as doing dumb thi
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by gradstudent 9y ago
Try "Racing the Beam"; a neat book describing the programming challenges with writing software for the Atari 2600. https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Beam-Computer-Platform-Studies... Though, instead of reading, you re
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by gradstudent 9y ago
As already pointed out, the costs of peer review and distribution are tiny in comparison to what is actually charged. The $1000 cost thing looks like an improvement but isn't, really. It asks authors to pay so that the publisher can cl
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by gradstudent 9y ago
My first thought too. If there are good teachers to be found anywhere surely they'll be found by those working for the leader of the free world?
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by gradstudent 9y ago
My bad. Please forgive me Mr Robot Researcher. Tell me again how all of AI exists to feed your robotic fever dreams.
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by gradstudent 9y ago
> I respectfully, but firmly, disagree. Please pay attention: Robotics is just one application area for AI. Core problems from Robotics may influence the field of AI but they don't define it. Gait control or vision are or what have
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by gradstudent 9y ago
Robotics is not a core problem for AI. It's not even a core problem for Comp Sci. There's a whole bunch of kinematics and dynamics at play which are completely besides the point for most AI people. The only thing (some) AI folks c
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by gradstudent 9y ago
Well, yes, but getting robots to move without falling over is not really a core AI topic; it's an application area where some AI stuff happens to be useful. Coming from a site with a name like "Open AI" I expected some softwa
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by gradstudent 9y ago
The videos seem to have strong control flavour. What's the hook for AI researchers?
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by gradstudent 9y ago
This is great. It's like a mouse only stationary and with lots of keys that you can press instead of clicking. And you can program the keys to do whatever you want! Wow!
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I browsed through the debugging section of the text and was disappointed: > The easiest way to enter the interactive debugger is through RStudio’s “Rerun with Debug” tool. Oh, great. Let's take a language intended to be driven from
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by gradstudent 10y ago
> Fund people not projects — the scientists find the problems not the funders. So, for many reasons, you have to have the best researchers. > Problem Finding — not just Problem Solving Lessons not yet learned
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by gradstudent 10y ago
TIL about figlet and cowsay. Thanks HN!
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by gradstudent 10y ago
> What I really want to see is the other 20 men on her team tell their bosses to cut that shit out. You're being surprisingly lenient in your assessment here. I'd argue they need to tell their bosses to fuck off and find anoth
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by gradstudent 10y ago
Who cares? Dongles cost peanuts (relatively). Just buy more than your shop needs and have spares onhand
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by gradstudent 10y ago
I tried to buy one of these recently. Dell won't sell them in my country. I looked Too bad I can't buy it with Linux (or nothing!) pre-installed.
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by gradstudent 10y ago
This comment (and its immediate child) really should be at the top. Simple. Elegant. No need to install Yet Another Dumb App.
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by gradstudent 10y ago
You can pry Helvetica from my cold, dead, hands.

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