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by gugagore 4y ago
There's nothing more silent about it than any other bug that arises in a similarly dynamic language. People use Python over C++ in large part because it saves X amount of coding hours, and comes with different kinds of bugs that can &q
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by gugagore 4y ago
Yes, those fixes don't inherently require the Julia language to change at all.
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by gugagore 4y ago
I wonder if you feel that way as equally about C and Lisp as you do about Julia.
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by gugagore 4y ago
I think Julia (mostly meaning pervasive multiple dispatch, which is unprecedented at that scale Julia has it) unlocks a new way to organize programs. Some formalized notion of "interface" is certainly important, but it seems no cl
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by gugagore 4y ago
That is not a full solution to the problem of detecting untested types. What if "plus_one" works for Int, Float32, etc. but not with MyNumber, all of which would dispatch to "plus_one(::Number)".
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by gugagore 4y ago
There are several correctness issues lurking about in virtually all software. That part of the critique is uninteresting to me. If I want to pull up a blog post about several correctness issues in any programming language, I bet I could. Al
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by gugagore 4y ago
> If you can't trust gradients or probability distributions / sampling to be correct, that's a pretty damning verdict for a language aimed at numerical calculations. If you draw the distinction between Julia the language a
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by gugagore 4y ago
The article saying zeros (where the transfer function is 0) when it should be saying poles (where the denominator of the rational function is zero), right?
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by gugagore 4y ago
> Each frame is made of 625 blocks (hence one block is allocated 64µs). The audio stream is interleaved at the end of the blocks. That doesn't seem right. Audio is transmitted continuously by a sub carrier.
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by gugagore 4y ago
A favorite example of the peril of being unfamiliar with advanced math and using concepts from advanced math: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
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by gugagore 4y ago
There are some cases where the smallest unit that the -p(atch) flag considers is not granular enough. In those cases, you can resort to manual editing. Even with that, I find it to be a huge timesaver.
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by gugagore 4y ago
The traditional solutions still involve careful running. People are mentioning Kalman filters. How are the covariances of the noise processes chosen? The best choice of parameters is chosen by experimentation and measurement, not first prin
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by gugagore 4y ago
And from that, to what stands out is that the knowledge is "locked up". I'd say that resonates with the experience people generally have with computers. New technology tends to be less legible.
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by gugagore 4y ago
No one believes they are hoarding cans of food. People say they are hoarding wealth, and assuming it's liquid. https://ncarteron.medium.com/the-billionaires-arent-liquid-a... Which it is. They absolutely could, and the
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by gugagore 4y ago
It's not possible to truly know the counterfactual. However it is clear that technological progress could have been directed toward the utopia. Instead, social inequality in big parts of the Western world is on the rise, with many peop
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by gugagore 5y ago
FYI: "commands" in title appears to refer to the pilot controls, not ATC instructions.
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by gugagore 5y ago
I wasn't familiar, so I searched and found your great account of the history! https://jacquesmattheij.com/story-behind-wwcom-camaradescom/
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by gugagore 5y ago
If you want a great video on the topic, see https://youtu.be/C2RO34b_oPM Or equivalently https://jiahao.github.io/talk/2017-06-juliacon/ There are basically two self-consistent choices for the des
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by gugagore 5y ago
I appreciate being made aware of this downside! Why does this happen with C++ debugging?
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by gugagore 5y ago
Why aren't pollutants (chemical and noise) safety considerations for humans?
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by gugagore 5y ago
To me, "compliance" suggests that adherence prevents an issue, but there is no ambiguity in writing a 4-digit year. I currently have a computer with 16 GiB of RAM. But to be future-compliant, I should write it out as 016 GiB? I ap
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by gugagore 5y ago
It's not obvious when you should switch over to an approximation (base case), so I'd say it's not a good example to introduce recursion. I have never seen it, and I did not do it in school.
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by gugagore 5y ago
This is Hungarian notation. A combination of both flavors into one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation . My take is that Hungarian notation exists to work around a deficiency in tooling. I think this is cl
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by gugagore 5y ago
Another perspective for understanding GJK, one that I have not yet seen thoroughly explained, is that it's a special case of a convex quadratic program: find two points, each constrained to a respective polyhedron (e.g. intersection of
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by gugagore 5y ago
One person cannot drive enough miles in their lifetime to allow making a determination that one system is definitely safer than the other. The reliability that we require from an autonomous system means you might never experience a safety f
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by gugagore 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to have two Cybiko classics. Those were the only two I ever saw in my life. I remember a program on Windows that allowed me to use AIM wirelessly from one Cybiko, with the other connected to the PC with the AIM client
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by gugagore 5y ago
I'd argue (I think many would) that FLAC is substantially less complicated than MP3. Perceptual compression, the frequency domain, and things like the FFT are more complicated in implementation and in the math than Run-Length, residual
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by gugagore 5y ago
A sibling comment mentioned this comment being weird. It strikes me as "weird" too. That doesn't mean it is not relatable. But if you are also struck by what is weird about this comment, you might enjoy taking a look at: htt
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by gugagore 5y ago
how do you echolocate a shape? It seems you are suggesting some mapping of a 2D visual scene to audio. If that is useful in practice, it is one of many possible interfaces that blind people could use. It wouldn't supplant screen reader
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by gugagore 5y ago
That's the same as saying that the possibility of a plane crash is there regardless of the reason of the current plane crash. There could be something worth learning in the details...

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