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by jakub_h 10y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for applying Ohm/OMeta?
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Then why not have standardized APIs? You could just switch implementations, then, if you stop liking your current vendor. (Or maybe the future lies in call-by-meaning architectures and automated adapter generation?)
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by jakub_h 10y ago
For fuel delivery to LEO, the delivery vehicle could be quite cheap. Even the Dragon might be an overkill. Perhaps a simple tank with a simple RCS assembly would be enough.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
True, but if this additional testing reveals issues not revealed earlier, they'll just iterate again until they won't have to X-ray every plate after every flight, because that is clearly not the MO they have in mind. In the wor
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Remember that with reusability in play, the guidance system can decide "screw the first stage landing, the payload is more important" and simply switch to an expendable launch profile if it turns out that you have more engine pr
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by jakub_h 10y ago
"Engines are incredibly expensive to manufacture" Well, the Shuttle engines were, on the order of $50M or something like that. But the Merlin-1D, according to a former SpaceX employee on Reddit, is in the ballpark of $1M per unit.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
That's possible. But historically, when you talk about the middle class, the first thing that should come to your mind is executives, surgeons and lawyers, not car assembly line workers.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Exactly. There's a vicious cycle of expensive payloads driving costs of launches up (extra scrutiny, fewer launches, less experience, less cost-reducing hardware innovation - the RL-10 alone is sixty years old and quite expensive to bu
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Just 0 kilometers from West Germany, there used to be a country with "strict exit visas", too. You can't get closer than that.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
It sounds horrible that we should compromise potential performance (including per watt and per transistor) by giving up on (micro)architectural flexibility. Why should branch delay slots, instruction combinations that do not handle hazards
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Which is delusional; blue collar is the archetypal working class.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
If it covers results, what about the virtual ISAs that allow you to load data from any address of a byte-adressed memory and their implementations include optimizations?
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by jakub_h 10y ago
I guess it's all a matter of your idiolect. It works, for some values of "works". Maybe it works for the macroeconomist studying national GDP growth rates? Sadly, there are also barbers and truck drivers.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> Prolog and Lisp were the two languages we were forbidden to use in compiler design project, as it was considered "cheating" versus using something harder like C. "Cheating"? Smells like a chance for the revenge of t
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Sadly, Typed Racket always seemed to me like some kind of shoehorning an ad-hoc system onto an AST. For that purpose, a deductive system seems much more natural. There may be problems with decidability, but the fortuitous thing is that this
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> A set of conditionals is probably the most obvious way to express branching. Besides object polymorphism and sets of conditionals, there's also generalized predicate dispatch, but that's probably an overkill for many things.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Well, let's not read much into it. The headline says that dissonant tones sound fine to people not raised on Western music. It doesn't say that dissonant tones don't sound fine to people raised on Western music. ;)
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by jakub_h 10y ago
If the data structures in memory don't fit the new code, I suspect that's a compiler bug.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
"I have a copy of TR 149, Transmission of Information II, as well, but no scanner anymore." How delightfully ironic! ;)
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by jakub_h 10y ago
You could also pack three 20-bit numbers into a 64-bit word, if you needed it. Then again, the C family languages are kind of weird about that.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Very yummy, thanks!
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations? This would an interesting thing to try - a computer system that would scan all the papers for math and find parallels. I think we already have somethin
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Heh! For some reason, that reminded me of this famous conversation: "...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped." "This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders ma
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> Andrew Ng's machine learning class Ah yes, the one I've heard about but still have to take. :) Well, I guess I should give Coursesa a chance. (Somehow I'm not fond of their "timelined" format, it seems redundan
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by jakub_h 10y ago
It seems to me that if we humans are the only ones doing this, it is either trivially natural or trivially unnatural based on whether you include or exclude our creations in/out of the natural world.
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by jakub_h 10y ago
Thank you very much. I'm aware of a large number of books that I could read, but if Sturgeon's law applies, or at least if a lot of the reading would be redundant anyway, I'll rather ask for pointers than to waste a lot of ti
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> but I would never have considered Markov processes to be an adequate predictability model for natural language Isn't it the case that for very short distances (several elements), power decay and exponential decay are (or can be ma
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> This seems like a very important paper > mark_l_watson Hah, I'll take your word for it, then. :) Are there any recent comprehensive monographs you'd recommend for state-of-the-art NPL, for someone who has yet to enter the
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> and Vulkan, the new replacement for OpenGL, defines a vendor-independent bytecode format for representing GPU programs. Vulcan's SPIR-V, however, is more like a compiler's intermediate format than an ISA to be interpreted by
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by jakub_h 10y ago
> that's not freedom of speech. I didn't say that, I was talking about the value of anonymous communication in a democracy. Surely voting is a form of communication.

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