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by iskander 16y ago
It's block for me too.
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by iskander 16y ago
Specializer which propagates argument types through a dynamically typed function and gives me back a statically typed one. Polyvariant type inference ftw.
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by iskander 16y ago
>- The "Structural*" types are new in .Net 4.0, you never had to understand them before and you probably don't need to even know they exist now. You're right, I scooped those off MSDN and never use them myself. All the others, however,
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by iskander 16y ago
1) Just do EM with parameters in an arbitrary semiring and you generalize nicely to all the special cases you mentioned (and more) 2) I see how all of EM is coordinate ascent, but I don't see how the M step is gradient ascent. Where the gr
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by iskander 16y ago
I only programmed .NET in the days of 2.0, so my problems with it come from an older less capable framework. Nonetheless, when your language of choice requires you to distinguish between: - IComparable - IComparable(Of T) - IEquatable(Of T)
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by iskander 16y ago
>A nuclear bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible. Nuclear weapons have a few niche civilian uses. Sealing an underwater oil leak is one such use that is particularly relevant today.
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by iskander 16y ago
I know several people who have taken up meditation and they each have changed significantly through their experiences. Perhaps it's more useful to compare someone who meditates to their former selves rather than some nebulous concept of an
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by iskander 16y ago
The old one is easier for me to read and easier to grok as a map. Is this a case of design aesthetic winning over functionality?
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by iskander 16y ago
>Can't you just make that within your network? (neighbors, clubs, events...) Many of my friends who didn't go to college (or commuted to college) held on to whichever high school friends also stayed behind. They didn't meet many new peo
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by iskander 16y ago
>my empirical evidence http://xkcd.com/285/
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by iskander 16y ago
I think the job hopping taboo varies between companies. I've done a lot of resume screening for a company of ~50 employees. I prefer to see a variety of interesting jobs (even if they were 1 year each) over one long stretch at a single posi
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by iskander 16y ago
OCaml: 5) Polymorphic comparison is an ugly hack and land you in an infinite loop when accidentally used on a circular imperative structure. Type classes (specifically, an Ord type class) would fix this problem. 4) Arbitrary gaps and incons
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by iskander 16y ago
>come in at 1 and work till 10 I did an internship at Google, so I have only seen one team in action for a small period of time. That said, there were a shocking number of meetings-- daily standups, one-on-one meetings, video conference
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by iskander 16y ago
Publicly funded education...except for those with disabilities or recent immigrants?
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by iskander 16y ago
Don't target OCaml. It's a fine language but a shitty backend. You'll get saddled with a wonky 31/63 bit integer type and a very literal non-optimizing compiler. Similarly, compiling to Haskell may result in unpredictable performance due to
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by iskander 16y ago
Uhh...if I remember correctly then the Fourier transform is: F(w) = <f(x), cos(2 pi w x)> + i <f(x), sin (2 pi w x) > (where <_, _> is the inner product between functions, x is a time and w is a frequency). So the i
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by iskander 16y ago
>The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other’s eyes in candlelit city bistros when you were single and skinny — have for the most part come true. It sounds like her dreams were achieved. His dreams we never
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by iskander 16y ago
>bdd binary decision diagrams? Who wants to live with a static analysis researcher? They're not exactly the life of the CS party...
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by iskander 16y ago
The OCaml type system is a really weak form of theorem proving-- the fanciest usable thing you can do is phantom types. When algorithmic trading software gets written in Agda then your comment might make more sense.
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by iskander 16y ago
I can't tell if you're joking.
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by iskander 16y ago
Judging from the crankish/alarmist tone of the quoted "engineer", I wouldn't really trust his evaluation. However, let's say that 1 gallon of oil actually does poison a million gallons of water. A quick google search yields that there are a
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by iskander 16y ago
You might also throw in p(procrastination | is_user, gender).
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by iskander 16y ago
Good catch, I should have said uniformly sampling. Anyway, this blog post and much of the surrounding discussion make me really sad about how poorly people understand data analysis.
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by iskander 16y ago
Sampling from biased populations does not remove bias.
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by iskander 16y ago
I haven't played this game but it looks like the certificate is just the solved level-- verifying that a cleared path exists can definitely be done in time polynomial with the level size.
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by iskander 17y ago
I disagree. I found the interface clunky and the research interest categories were really sloppy (typos, duplicates, inconsistent granularities, etc...). Also, the inability to click on section names during sign up was very frustrating.
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by iskander 17y ago
While the computational benefits are certainly nice, I think that Mercer's theorem is much deeper than that. It says that any [positive definite]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-definite ) function is an inner product, though the s
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by iskander 17y ago
>RT is a bit suspect when it comes to Russian govt. issues however Ha, that's certainly understating the issue. I followed their reporting of the war with Chechnya and it was often war-goading propaganda. They're good if Russia has no
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by iskander 17y ago
What exactly is "required" for living a good comfortable life? It's easy to set the standard as long as it either doesn't apply to you or cuts out things you don't personally like.
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by iskander 17y ago
Walmart and suburbia have leveled American living standards. Now any old slob can own a house and fill it with the same sorts of things as their richer compatriots (though it will be made in China rather than Germany). Things didn't used to

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