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   by hcs 10y ago

   Are you criticizing the separation of m_sparseIds and m_items in this article? Could you give some more detail as to why you see this as a problem? The only performance issue I see with having these separate is what the author describes as
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   by hcs 10y ago

   Memory access time is a constant multiplier, whether it hits or misses the cache. There can be a big difference in that constant depending on the access pattern, but it is still considered a constant factor. Yes, random access (missing the
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   by hcs 10y ago

   My Computer Architecture professor Daniel Jimenez worked on (invented?) something like this: "Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons" (PDF) http://hpca23.cse.tamu.edu/taco/pdfs/hpca7_dist.pdf
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   by hcs 10y ago

   I think I understand what you and the Collins article are saying, but I don't agree that this denies the existence of objective knowledge. Rather, it is unconcerned with objective knowledge beyond its purview of understanding social
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   by hcs 10y ago

   The discussion near the end of Philip Scranton was the most interesting and coherent part of the article for me, while earlier Dutch is mostly just incredulous about the words used by Latour and Derrida. I think he makes a good point about
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   by hcs 10y ago

   Zach Barth (maker of TIS-100) did a integrated circuit design game in Flash back in 2009 which might interest you: http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl... It's somewhat more of a game than DLS i
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   by hcs 10y ago

   Or "Functional Programming isn't the Question". His later discussion of Free monad is pretty interesting: http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp
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   by hcs 10y ago

   Relatedly, even though Boolean Satisfiability [1] is NP-complete, there are SAT solvers that can solve huge practical instances fast enough to be useful. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem
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   1979 Head on is considered a precursor to Pac-Man(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by hcs 10y ago|0 comments
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Based on a podcast: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
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    Tomohiro Nishikado, Creator of Space Invaders, 2000 Developer Interview(shmuplations.com)

    2 points by hcs 10y ago|0 comments
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    by hcs 10y ago

    For what it's worth, my preliminary attempt to make this game was dwim: https://github.com/hcs64/dwim-game Fairly unsatisfactory, but I learned a lot (and I like the animation).
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    by hcs 10y ago

    I've never been able to find an electronic copy of his 1949 report "The Transmission of Information", it's missing from DSpace@MIT, so here's a scan: https://archive.org/details/fano-tr65.7z Th
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Perhaps link directly to the (2011) video rather than this contentless blog post with an embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Location: Philadelphia, PA Remote: Preferably not Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, JavaScript, Lua, Linux; some Python, OCaml, C++, assembler (x86, MIPS), Java, Ruby, MySQL, PHP Resume: http://gashlin.net/resume.htm
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Are you thinking of symbolic execution ?
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    by hcs 10y ago

    > but the Alto would need to send the pixels a column at a time rather than a row at a time. That would be tricky to do Couldn't the buffer just be column-major?
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    by hcs 10y ago

    You might consider something like the IBM 650, where each instruction includes the address of the next instruction to execute.
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Part of the article is about a 2015 discovery showing that at least some organisms appearing to directly ingest electrons are actually emitting enzymes that grab an electron and a proton from the environment, then consuming the resulting hy
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    by hcs 10y ago

    There's an interesting discussion near the end about Kodak eventually getting secret access to the plans of upcoming atomic tests, so that they could plan around them to avoid damage to X-ray film.
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Citation, as it says in the article: "Two matched-filter searches used coincident observations between the two LIGO detectors from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016 to estimate the significance of GW151226. One of these searches w
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Alternately, all of them :P
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    by hcs 10y ago

    > -10. It's impossible to get right. char * gets(char * s) ?
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Perhaps something like Digi-Comp? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
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    Researchers ask whether LIGO discovered both dark matter and gravitational waves(arstechnica.com)

    1 points by hcs 10y ago|0 comments
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    by hcs 10y ago

    Is this essentially just the book [1], by way of two reformattings [2][3], with some links added? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Programming [2] http://web.archive.org/web/19981202010
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    by hcs 10y ago

    The part you left out of the ellipses is pretty important to the meaning: "according to which devices carry out a sequence of different operations over time". The article is about transfer of control, which is why it focuses on lo
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    Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol [pdf](tomandmaria.com)

    36 points by hcs 10y ago|4 comments
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    by hcs 10y ago

    > Even before ENIAC was finished, engineers realized that there was a much better centralized way to control such a complex machine, using coded instructions stored in memory and "executed" in sequence. > For a discussion of
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    by hcs 10y ago

    The discovered vulnerabilities are in the 7-Zip application's UDF and HFS+ filesystem image support.