howeman

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by howeman 13y ago
I think that's basically it. If you want to do a lot of work you can do somethings with cross validation (see which parameters perform the best), but that's a form of automatic try/fail
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by howeman 13y ago
Not fully, but mostly. See comment 64 of issue 909. https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909
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by howeman 13y ago
Is this also what is used to enforce academic standards (i.e. each student doing individual work)? I've heard CS lodges the most official complaints of any department.
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by howeman 13y ago
You mean supersonic airplanes? I don't think hypersonic airplanes have ever been seriously considered for passenger travel.
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by howeman 13y ago
Go can do unsafe memory access, can't it? See http://golang.org/pkg/unsafe/
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by howeman 13y ago
Since this is a thread about biases, I'll phrase it like this: Yes, I have used Go, and yes, it does deserve the laurels.
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by howeman 13y ago
Sampling bias and memory issues aside, you can make an objective poll. "Have you ever eaten oatmeal?"
98.
by howeman 13y ago
I was going to go with "Divide the land area of a state by the area of its convex hull. Which is the lowest percentage?"
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by howeman 13y ago
Operator overloading can certainly do good things. Not going to argue with you there. Though, in the case of units, you can actually go a long way with that ( http://play.golang.org/p/iCqB2euJj8 ). It's not perfect,
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by howeman 13y ago
Sorry, new to posting on HN. How do I get asterisk literals?
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by howeman 13y ago
It's not quite that bad in Go, (-b + math.Sqrt(b b - 4 a c)) / (2 a) though if you're using a ton of matrices it could be. I for one have found Go great for computing. The really quick compile times with static checking plu
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by howeman 13y ago
Interesting question at 30:00
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by howeman 13y ago
I was at a computer camp sometime around '94, and the camp had a printed "Directory of web pages" which was exactly like the yellow pages of the phone book. You would look up a subject, and it had a printed list of urls on th
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by howeman 13y ago
At this point there are something like 600 open issues, so I think that will be a while.