jakub_h

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by jakub_h 11y ago
Because he had no nose?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Well, Emacs is still single-threaded, if I'm not mistaken, so it's a good fit. :)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Also relevant? http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/curriculum-Z-H-2.html
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> When I lived on the countryside in Australia we didn't lock the doors. Well of course you don't; the robbers die while still crossing the perilous deserts and/or trying to avoid lethal wildlife.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> No, there were days when people did not even lock their cars and their houses That must have been an extremely long time ago: http://www.ancientresource.com/lots/roman/romankeys_locks.ht...
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Thank you for this interesting factoid. :)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Perhaps a better analogy would be driving cars vs. designing car engines? At least I vaguely recall something like this from Amazon reviews of SICP.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
All this sounds very comforting, considering that the oil is going to run out (* ). The north being inspirational to us, I hope, will continue into the future. ((* ) And by "run out", I mean "become unprofitable to pump consi
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by jakub_h 11y ago
It's much more difficult to limit suicidal people's access to ropes, and suicides utilize firearms twice as often as ropes (at least in the US, apparently: http://lostallhope.com/suicide-statistics/us-methods-
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by jakub_h 11y ago
What about using deep learning to properly classify arxiv papers about deep learning (and other things, perhaps)? ;)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
I love the way in which LibreOffice can export a PDF with the original document still embedded. If a scannable code on a paper document could contain all the data needed to recreate it without any loss, you'd get effectively the same t
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Have you heard of Oberon? That's like three people in a year. Including building the computer. ;)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
You might ultimately only need some specialized "neural processing instruction set" for either the GPU cores or for the CPU cores. Or at least, I don't see any obvious obstacles to that.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> This project is the sixth attempt to implement the model: Finally, the sixth attempt is written in the right language! Now it will succeed for sure.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Frankly, these questions sound like a red herring. Or rather, they seem to imply that the actual question to ask is "on what other hardware can we efficiently run mainframe software?". And not, for example, how to evolve software
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Didn't pseudo-time solve these things a long time ago, only to be forgotten (and not developed further) by the mainstream?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Isn't 8 GB per core still reasonable? Especially if you can share indices and buffer caches across cores, for example. There must still be diminishing returns for caching.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Isn't CL a perfectly reasonable thing to interface with Vulcan? Given its power, and things like compile macros, it could be possible to generate versions of some functions (array-oriented ones, for example) that would run on the GPU u
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by jakub_h 11y ago
True, but there's a strong connection mentioned in the article.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> Normal people aren't structurally important parts of the economy. I suggest we try to remove them to see what happens! :)
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Expected LibGen. Was not disappointed.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Sampling bias, perhaps? Or how that thing is called? If there's, say, 20% of women in a field and 80% men, and you get treated badly twice as likely by an average woman than by an average man, you'd still observe (in absolute term
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Will help with the language, or with the bureacracy? I'd be surprised about the latter, but I'd also be surprised if they gave much trouble to an educated productive individual. Hodně štěstí!
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by jakub_h 11y ago
Is Germany really as convoluted, or more convoluted, than the US case law, the patchwork of local tax legislation in the US, or the US tax code, for example? I never understood how those things could ever be navigated by one person.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
It almost sounds like the insurance business. You're lured by the flashy ads. You sign the contract. Shit happens. The insurance company tries to weasel out if they can away with it. New insurers happily ignore the stories.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
"following Lisp and Dylan's footsteps" I hope not, especially regarding popularity.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
I got some vague VPRI-ish/Bret Victor-ish vibe when reading the article. Direct manipulation and constraint solving definitely fits the bill here.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
I thought that type stability was actually a crucial notion in real-world dynamic language implementations? Witness inline caches and polymorphic inline caches, for example.
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by jakub_h 11y ago
So you're redeploying one binary instead of another binary. You still need to deploy something. In fact, what about just switching connections to freshly launched VMs?
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by jakub_h 11y ago
> This is what makes your argument moot - because they do gimbal, and the gimbaling is what creates the moment/torque. In a way that is very nearly analogous to twisting your hand around slightly to balance a broomstick. The point o

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