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by habitue 8y ago
Once you understand a few basic things like the underlying git model, and what the reflog is, you can basically get out of any situation. Totally worth the time to learn, it'll save you a ton of time
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by habitue 8y ago
Oh, no way. The information conveyed through human language is an abysmal drip compared to the actual number of letters used to spell it out. Even without knowing anything semantic, compression algorithms can squeeze text down to much fewer
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by habitue 8y ago
There's Avro: https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/ Not sure if the best, but maybe has different tradeoffs
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by habitue 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply disapproval, it was basically an idle thought since I see that replacement pretty commonly
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by habitue 8y ago
This project looks awesome, but as a complete aside: How long do we expect it to take before "automagically" completely replaces "automatically" in English? I am guessing less than a decade to go now
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by habitue 8y ago
tl;dr? Long article, title is vaguely interesting, but without a summary I have no idea if I want to invest the time reading it
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by habitue 8y ago
This are great arguments for why we should all just use Java. Great tooling! Lots of high quality libraries! Nothing to make you get out of bed in the morning! Why enjoy anything after all?
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by habitue 8y ago
This is true, but it's also because Tensorflow is a typed language, but it uses the syntax of python. (At least the default way) in tensorflow, the graph is type checked on startup, and it'll fail if anything is wrong. Contrast
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by habitue 8y ago
Just a nit, but they have to reconcile the two versions first before it goes to the president's desk
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by habitue 8y ago
I think Spivak's comment was talking about the "de facto" purpose as born out by experience. I usually don't like being cynical, but it seems copyright legislation is one of those areas where it's hard to be overly
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by habitue 8y ago
Can you give out referrals?
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by habitue 8y ago
Yeah this tokenization stuff is already used all over the place, (for example, Stripe does it for you with credit cards, giving you automatic PCI compliance). I think the innovation here is that instead of being part of carrying out the res
703.
by habitue 8y ago
This is the responsible thing to do, and what he should have done with the original "announcement". If you announce it after market close on a Friday, there's plenty of time for traders and institutions to chew on it before t
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by habitue 8y ago
Since these are hyperparameters, some of which are annealed over the entire training period, and given the fact that the training required ungodly amounts of computing time, I think it is just impractical for them to have fully checked whet
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by habitue 8y ago
It's a shame they didn't ever resume work on this. Apparently the guy who wrote it can't work on it any more
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by habitue 8y ago
> Rust is nothing but a slapdash C style copy of its semantics. Rust is a copy of Ada's semantics for dealing with memory unsafe code? Could you provide an example of what you mean? > Ada does, and has better and more clear conve
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by habitue 8y ago
Not being an asshole often requires using a few extra words. It's worth it.
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by habitue 8y ago
> Search is their business and they won't be allowed to conduct it there without censorship. Right. Nor should they if that is the cost of doing business. Sometimes there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. > if you hadn&#x
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by habitue 8y ago
Doing business isn't the problem. The problem is that Google is creating a censored version of their search engine. Rather than simply turning a blind eye to China's abuses, they're actively helping the communist party perpet
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by habitue 8y ago
> There is nothing wrong with a company seeking to enter new markets I mean, this is clearly wrong. You may not draw the line at China's human rights abuses, but you would probably draw the line somewhere. Maybe at a country that tr
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by habitue 8y ago
Can anyone qualified/knowledgeable offer commentary on this? It sounds compelling, but since I don't know much about this I am suspicious of making too much of an argument where all the relevant background was provided to me by a
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by habitue 8y ago
Totally! This is actually how the rich lived back in the 1700-1800s in Europe. They had an inherited estate and just lived off of the interest earned on it. It's a big reason why it's a good idea to have a reasonably large "d
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by habitue 8y ago
If you made $52M a year, with 5% growth per year in some super conservative investment, you'd have Warren Buffet's wealth in 87 years If you got 10% it would be 50 years Warren Buffet is definitely impressive, but compounding capi
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by habitue 8y ago
> Unrestricted RPC libraries then let you "solve" these problems in myriad incompatible ways each with their own problems. I mean, this is exactly the state of REST today. It's not specified well enough to admit general pu
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by habitue 8y ago
It's a long article, but there's actually a section called "Where Does This Leave An OS’ Native Date Picker?" That links to exactly what you've linked here, and describes some considerations for when you might not w
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by habitue 8y ago
This is the reason Safe Haskell exists https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_gui...
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by habitue 8y ago
I... don't see anywhere they've restricted publishing to white men? Stripe is a very inclusive company, this tweet seems like trying to stir up shit for no reason.
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by habitue 8y ago
This story is isn't really a story. The "evidence" the author cites that older billionaires are interesting is that William Buffet great up poor and had a paper route. Extrapolating from this, apparently, the author comes to
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by habitue 8y ago
I came to similar conclusions as the author about the usefulness of literate programming. Even after "taking it seriously" and "doing it right" and all those other no-true-scotsman type objections. (see HATEOAS/REST
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by habitue 8y ago
Is the entire idea of software/design patents sound?

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