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by hikarudo 7y ago
Even better: use mmap to allocate a virtual huge array, which initially will use no memory at all, and let the OS allocate physical pages to it as needed.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
As a skeptic, the title begs the question: do incompetent managers actually get promoted? How do we know this?
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by hikarudo 7y ago
Some twenty years ago, while playing Master of Orion, I asked the Humans to ally with me and go to war against the most powerful race. They replied something like: "Yes, we will be your allies. We fondly remember when you gave us +10 T
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by hikarudo 7y ago
Ah, Master of Orion! I had a ritual when I was 13 or so: when I got home on the last day of school before vacation, I would play Master of Orion nonstop until 3 or 4 am. I still enjoy this game and play it a few times every couple of years.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
I agree. Why go through the extra loops? Keep it simple.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
I have exactly the same problem. What I've found is that I need to spend more time deciding what is important, and less time consuming frivolous information. That's hardly a technology problem. For things I really don't want
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by hikarudo 7y ago
BorgBackup is great. One limitation that isn't mentioned often is that when doing anything with your borg repo, RAM use increases with the number of files you have backed up. In my case I had 15 million files, and mounting the repo too
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by hikarudo 7y ago
How exactly does money "passively" deployed into pre-existing securities become "extractive"? If I invest some money in a passive index fund, what does that have to do with market cornering / scarcity generation &#x
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by hikarudo 7y ago
> A first world country that short of some tech and Toyota/Honda produce little to nothing for trade. Everything is imported Japan does not export "some tech and Toyota/Honda". It exports a LOTS of vehicles, vehicle p
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by hikarudo 7y ago
Like you, I used to think that creating my own decks is better than using someone else's. But then I listened to a podcast episode, by The Learning Scientists, in which they say that research evidence shows that your time is better spe
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by hikarudo 7y ago
The problem with using technical books to go to sleep is that you will start feeling sleepy when reading technical books during the day as well.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
I think infix operators are even better for binary functions like this: a <= b. Haskell uses this to great effect (though some people think operators look like noise).
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by hikarudo 7y ago
You're absolutely right. Assertions are so easy to use and there's no barrier to start using them. You can start small, one assertion at a time, no large refactorings required.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
We do the same at work. No unit tests, only integration and regression tests. See metamorphic tests (comparing outputs for mutated inputs). One thing I've been trying out recently is adding asserts to code (design by contract): encode
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by hikarudo 7y ago
I believe ekianjo wasn't talking about neural networks, but simulations using models that are similar to how neurons work. Computational neuroscience is a thing.
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by hikarudo 7y ago
The opposite of: "only the rich can get a house" is not "everyone gets a fair chance of getting a house", but "not even the rich can get a house". Think of two families that want to get the same
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by hikarudo 7y ago
mrmoneymustache forum personal finance and so much more. https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/
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by hikarudo 7y ago
"If friendship has a basis it is this: that a person may desire the company of someone for whom he has no specific purpose" - Roger Scruton
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by hikarudo 7y ago
Beware of the sample size issue. The Midwest has lots of low-population counties, for which a single cancer case plus or minus makes a great difference in the incidence rate. See also: Bayesian Data Analysis, Gelman et al., 2nd edition, sec
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Try selecting Brazil in the Economist link. Are houses there really that expensive?
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by hikarudo 8y ago
See also Hoogle [1], a Haskell API search engine that allows you to search by aproximate type signature. It works really well. [1] https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Could you give us some pointers on where to learn more about this connection between design patterns and abstract algebra?
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by hikarudo 8y ago
What is the pydata library set? numpy, pandas, matplotlib, sklearn and the like? My google fu is failing me...
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by hikarudo 8y ago
That same question is treated in Herbert Simon's book "The sciences of the artificial" (1968).
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Are there counter examples? That is, cases where futures where introduced but not followed by a crash?
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by hikarudo 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/machinelearning Very high quality.
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Though it's a learning model, not an algorithm: Support Vector Machine. I love the geometric intuition behind max-margin hyperplanes leading to good generalization.
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by hikarudo 8y ago
The people buying those clothes are doing so because they see value out of doing it, so it's beneficial so them as well. Your point about externalities is still valid, though.
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Computer vision.
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by hikarudo 8y ago
Thanks! How would I go about wrapping OpenCV's C++ API?

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