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901.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Anything is possible, but I really doubt you'll find those 80 digit numbers. Maybe the sat solver includes some serious number theory though. I doubt it.
902.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Could an enterprising person find such papers, cleverly select a dataset such that X is way worse, and finally refute the original paper? This seems like something an amateur could do. Wouldn't that tear down a bunch of this junk?
903.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Ha! Typed it on my phone. I indeed meant the second, 'patsy'. Thanks for the correction.
904.
by jfoutz 9y ago
This makes me super curious about the pre flight baggage controls. How do they handle someone who picks up the extra bag, but winds up not taking the flight? With baby formula, i'd just return the bag and apologize, eating the $99. Her
905.
by jfoutz 9y ago
So this requires a few things, First off, single organisms can have pretty advanced local processing of control. An octopus has a nerve cluster for each tentacle that can operate independently of the main brain [1]. So in at least one case,
906.
by jfoutz 9y ago
or it could be the big bang is the relaxing of a muscle cell is some cosmic monster. Or perhaps the big bang was kinda like enzymes, breaking something hard to eat into a nice easily digestible heat bath. or it could be an edge transition o
907.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Ehh, try welding aluminum. I agree with you, but it ain't no walk in the park. Oil and coal seem like the real keys to industrialization. We took most of the easy stuff.
908.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Today I was one of the 10,000. This is great, amazing, hilarious, and awesome. I can't think of a great use at the moment, but I will find one.
909.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Schools are notorious for lowest bidder construction without a thought about operating costs. I saw one building that ran ac and heated the cold air up to the desired temperature. Stupid. But cheap to build.
910.
by jfoutz 9y ago
the law is a piece of the puzzle. I think that would be a tough approach in u.s. culture as you present it. For one, all it takes to get someone executed is a dishonest officer. Also, planting drugs on someone or their property seems like a
911.
by jfoutz 9y ago
I mostly agree. the traditional method [1] should be honored. but clearly, there are some bad agents out there that ignore the rules and mess things up for everyone. They are pretty clear about their expectations: # Notice: The use
912.
by jfoutz 9y ago
It really comes down to storage. Solar is just now passing coal costs. when it falls another order of magnitue, most of the effort will go to pumping water up hills or batteries or whatever.
913.
by jfoutz 9y ago
I was going to link the same article! I think the interesting part is the similarity between haskell and clojure. Essetially programming to very small classes/protocols. The linked article is cool, because i think the java approach wou
914.
by jfoutz 9y ago
it was a stupid joke about the y combinator. you can arrange a version with more function arguments that'll call all of the parts with their lambda friends. so they can all call each other. so something vaguely like (define local-
915.
by jfoutz 9y ago
That's pretty neat, but imagine how cool it would be if there was some sort of function that would take a lambda as an argument, and then call that lambda with itself as the first argument! sort of split the lambda into a Y and combine
916.
by jfoutz 9y ago
That was my initial thought as well. But, low disk space on the master DB? And you need a human to go futz around with it? There is either a whole lot of missing monitoring and automation, or those are completely worthless pages. I understa
917.
by jfoutz 9y ago
You're thinking majority not Byzantine fault tolerance. 2/3 have to agree.
918.
by jfoutz 9y ago
The big win from ai won't be self driving cars, it will be scaleable curation. Google search was amazing, but it's kind of fast food information. Getting high quality information and the halo of related concepts, like you find in
919.
by jfoutz 9y ago
I kinda think thats the point. Not exactly a software problem, but an information theory problem. If you need to tolerate 2 failures, you need 6 machines.
920.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Some people get paid more because they create more value. Is that unfair? Does a person with a Lexus get more value from police protection than someone with an old beater?
921.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Single pass generally means one crack at each compilation unit. it's ok to keep a list of unresolved forward references and go back and inject (fix-up) the address once it's known. I mean, that would still count as a single pass.
922.
by jfoutz 9y ago
No. It's literally "Store, sync, and share files easily." [1] There is no way to sync a device without an app. The app is not a bonus, it is a core feature of the service. [1] https://gsuite.google.com/product
923.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Me, personally, here's what i do. I screw up all the time. Odds are, you do too. Usually, it won't matter, like a mistyped password. Sometimes i mistype variable or function names, and the compiler helps me out. Sometimes my logic
924.
by jfoutz 9y ago
They're probably already committing a felony accessing the computer. The scan is an intent to transmit malware. If that's true, you could make a pretty good fleeing felon argument.
925.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Ah, OP's assertion was the price is crazy from retail investors, which i assume would be non-institutional, non-insiders. It's impressive that a few % of owners can double the share price. Unless, they meant Musk was buying shares
926.
by jfoutz 9y ago
That's sort of a weird way of looking at it. Don't Musk and Ahuja own like 10% of the shares? Is there an easy way to get non-insider, non-institutional numbers?
927.
by jfoutz 9y ago
That's wild. I'd have thought 401ks and institutional investors would be orders of magnitude more money than etrade and tdameritrade stock accounts. crazy.
928.
by jfoutz 9y ago
But they are still on the road. They're still a hazard to everyone around them. Pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers are all at risk.
929.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Losing bees would suck so bad. Lots of plants co evolved, requiring pollinators. Orchids are the weirdest, with special moths unique to them [1]. But so much stuff depends on bees. A whole bunch of kinds of fruit trees, different kinds of b
930.
by jfoutz 9y ago
Yeah, this is wrong. continuations close over the heap. set! will have visible effects. ---------- original ----------- They save the state of your whole program. It's just like a checkpoint in a video game. (call/cc try-the-left-

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