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by h91wka 7y ago
> note that you're agreeing with me here I am not. My point is that solving the problem of mask shortage by allowing the infection to spread at full speed is like setting your home on fire to deal with a clogged pipe.
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by h91wka 7y ago
> This was a coordinated (dare I say "propaganda") campaign by US and other government officials in order to try to avoid mask shortages[1]. A noble goal, sure -- but the net result is that people are now misinformed about the
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by h91wka 7y ago
My key takeaway from this entire situation is that authorities in Europe and USA don't understand how exponent works. Every country that is now suffering from the pandemic went through "c'mon, it's just 10 cases" ph
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by h91wka 7y ago
Short answer: not every physicist works in a lab. Theoretical & mathematical physics are entirely about working with mathematical models of phenomena that other people observed in a lab. It's enough to understand that any theory is
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by h91wka 7y ago
Please fix the title of submission. It is " Unsupervised Learning of Probably Symmetric Deformable 3D Objects from Images in the Wild". No anime examples to be found in the paper :(
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by h91wka 7y ago
This article pales in comparison with a presentation where he described a new Wolfram language feature (that was basically reflection) as New Kind of Programming no less. My theory is that this kind of marketing is very efficient against ol
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by h91wka 7y ago
Maple's PDE solving abilities always made me want to yell "witchcraft!".
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by h91wka 7y ago
P.S. I actually remembered one area where Maple is still absolutely superior, that is plotting. It doesn't require to explicitly set argument range, it tries to find features of the function and adjusts the range to include them. AFAIK
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by h91wka 7y ago
MapleSoft Maple was on par with Mathematica, when I worked with both (ca 2010). Not sure about current state of affairs. Maple's embedded programming language is also quite a bit nicer.
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by h91wka 7y ago
> as properly organized C++ codebase doesn't have problem I'm still having hard time to believe that kernels optimized for SIMD architecture will be useful on CPU and vice versa. And OpenCL people advertised this, if memory ser
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by h91wka 7y ago
> You don't need to be a genius to run a multiplication of two arrays on a GPU. You don't need to be a genius, but you need to know a lot about low-level stuff. "Simple" matrix-vector multiplication is a task where qu
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by h91wka 7y ago
Same goes for GPGPU
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by h91wka 7y ago
> just to avoid the need of a "host" environment / CPU? Why would you need to avoid that?
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by h91wka 7y ago
No. Language was not a problem at all. For people who are accustomed to writing code for modern CPUs, switching languages is no big deal: they all perform as good as compiler and language runtime are designed. That's because CPUs are f
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by h91wka 7y ago
1) Aforementioned companies don't market themselves as "privacy-centered" 2) If you re-read the original post, you'll notice that I was talking about trends. Increasingly aggressive telemetry and "interest-based&quo
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by h91wka 7y ago
And why do you think this whole "interest based" business exists?
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by h91wka 7y ago
> More reasons to trust Mozilla? I think Cliqz incident and Shield Studies AR Game incident prove that you can trust Mozilla as much as any other huge corp.
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by h91wka 7y ago
Some language-specific build systems get their ability to work with the online repositories deliberately broken.
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by h91wka 7y ago
Does concept of "estimation" ring a bell to you?
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by h91wka 7y ago
It's funny how Mozilla preaches privacy, but if you open `about:config' and count 1) parameters that include word "telemetry" 2) everything that looks like a unique token 3) "mozilla.org" URLs you'll see t
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by h91wka 7y ago
I have to do a bit of DevOps at work, and I absolutely hate every second of it, hence I tried Nix, and I think it is absolutely awesome. As a software developer, I find the ability to take a cryptographically consistent closure of a program
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by h91wka 7y ago
Interesting project... I wonder does it have same kind of processes preemption based on reductions like BEAM?
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by h91wka 7y ago
If it's off-putting to _puritan_ newcomers, then good riddance, I guess.
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by h91wka 7y ago
Incorrect. Kafka is a message _storage_. The server can be seen as a distributed persistent append-only log. All broker logic is encoded in the client. Source: maintainer of one of client implementations.
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by h91wka 7y ago
Too late. Now I am only feeling disappointed that "after another Half-Life is released" meme has become obsolete.
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by h91wka 7y ago
> This couldn't be further from the truth. In imperative languages you don't need Edward Kmett to invent lenses for you.
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by h91wka 7y ago
In imperative languages you don't need Edward Kmett to invent lenses for you.
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by h91wka 7y ago
> The best way to tell if someone has no idea what they’re talking about and are just mindlessly repeating other ideas is when they say the phrase “easier to reason about.” "easier to reason about" is not someone's opinion
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by h91wka 7y ago
Purely functional algorithms and data structures are typically slower. Imperative code is also more concise than equivalent functional code. The only real benefit of functional programming is that it makes code much easier to reason about.
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by h91wka 7y ago
...and Roadside Picnic.

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