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by grondilu 9y ago
Related is NVIDIA's recent announcement of their Isaac Robot Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa__wkSmWUw
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Instead circumstances are going to overwhelm us until enough of the population is miserable enough to demand real change. I'm not sure. During the great depression the USA did not embrace communism. Why should it be different wi
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by grondilu 9y ago
It seems to me that it makes more sense to approximate sinPi(x) = sin(pi x) scaling[x_] := 8/3 (x - x^3) indices = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10} inner[g_, h_] := NIntegrate[g h/Sqrt[1 - x^2], {x, -1, 1}, WorkingPrecision-&gt
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by grondilu 9y ago
Perl 6 does have macros but they are not quite mature and that would probably be overkill for a six coefficients polynomial. Reduce should be pretty fast anyway.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Notice that your program could use a fold [1]. Not sure it would be much more efficient, but that would give it a more functional-programming style, which is arguably more elegant. I wrote it in Perl 6 for instance: sub wallace-sin($
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by grondilu 9y ago
I was wondering if this will be used in supercomputers. Apparently yes: > Summit is a supercomputer being developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[1][2][3] The system will be powered by IBM's POWER9 CPUs and Nvidi
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by grondilu 9y ago
"We should give money to people so that nobody feels miserable enough to commit crime and we won't have to put them in prison." -> "But what about those who refuse to pay?" -> "We'll put them in pris
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by grondilu 9y ago
I was pointing out the paradox that even in the fantasy where there is no crime because everyone gets "free housing and food", there will always be people who refuse to pay for housing and feeding other people.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Me? Thanks for your sacrifice. What if I am not willing to pay? Will I be sent in prison? That'd be pretty ironic.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I did not make myself clear. OP was saying we should give people free housing and food so that they don't commit crime. IMHO that's basically yielding to extortion. By the same logic we should not put criminals in jail, instead
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm no lawyer, but I doubt poverty has ever been an excuse for crime. Some wealthy people commit crimes, and crime exists in communist countries (where everyone gets "free housing and food"). You guys make it sound like crim
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by grondilu 9y ago
Everyone else, of course. Thanks to the State, this "great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else".
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's kind of sad that we classify Politics so linearly. After all originally it was only based on where representatives were seated at the assembly. What characterizes Le Pen is the nationalist stand inherited from her father : bas
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by grondilu 9y ago
> If they opt for liberal Emmanuel Macron How is he labelled as "liberal"? He's been a member of the French socialist party. He only left it last year for his campaign.
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by grondilu 9y ago
It matters because the original and the copy belong to the same reference class[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption
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by grondilu 9y ago
> he's actually migrating their consciousnesses, What exactly do you mean by that?
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's not exactly the same problem. A cell model will hopefully not have to know the exact geometric configuration of a protein, as long as it contains a rich enough collection of possible reactions with other proteins. Determining th
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's probably hopeless to try to simulate a cell at the atomic level. Instead, it seems to me that computational biologists try to build models of cells[1] where if I understand correctly all occuring molecules are tracked as concentr
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by grondilu 9y ago
I've tried. It's just hard, frankly. I'm just not that good a coder :(
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm a Perl fan and as such it saddens me to see other languages targeting wasm. I've been convinced for a while that webassembly is the next big thing in computing and so far the Perl community as far as I know has shown close to
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by grondilu 9y ago
This. When Musk came up with his hyperloop idea, I found it odd. It seems to me that transportation nowadays needs two things : supersonic airliners and self-driving vehicles. The ideal scenario to me is this: 1. wait for a self-driv
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by grondilu 9y ago
One of the drawbacks is that it's fairly slow computationally. I wrote a Perl 6 module[1] and I'll try to update it with this binary tree method. Hopefully I'll see an improvement. 1. https://github.com/grond
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A Geometric Algebra Implementation Using Binary Tree(hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr)
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by grondilu 10y ago
> We’ve been digging ourselves into a hole for over forty years, but Temin says that we know how to stop digging. If we spent more on domestic rather than military activities, then the middle class would not vanish as quickly. The effect
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by grondilu 10y ago
Naïve question : why is Lidar so important for driverless cars? We human drive cars with only visual and audio information. We don't need lidars. Why couldn't cars do the same?
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by grondilu 10y ago
> The Ancients are no good; to think about death is not to experience it – to believe one is not afraid of it only shows one has not yet met it: What about people who thought they will die and were ok with it? Or those that did indeed d
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by grondilu 10y ago
> in some form or another. Well, I may have made the mistake of using the word capital to refer to shares of companies. I admit the term is more generic and even cash can be seen as capital. Still, this thread started about the idea of
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by grondilu 10y ago
> You're implying that is necessarily a bad thing in all cases. I sincerely wasn't. I was trying to be as neutral as possible. And I was not talking of freedom in the post you're replying to, I was only talking about res
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by grondilu 10y ago
You seem to believe that people don't own capital because they are poor or something. It is certainly true that poor people don't own capital, but it is also probably true that a lot of people who are not poor do not own capital
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by grondilu 10y ago
> You can put all sorts of restrictions on selling shares so long as you're not a public company, though. Sure you can. But it is my understanding that the more restrictions you put in the circulation of capital, the further away y

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