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by jmpeax 12y ago
The idea would be, in this case, to create a method called "toHtmlString". The name "toString" suggests a generic String is created for the object, but HtmlString represents a specially formatted String. Rather than havi
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by jmpeax 12y ago
One of the best type features of Go is the lack of need to do something like this: "@implements(IEatable)". If a class implements all of the methods of the interface, then it automatically implements that interface. Yuppy seems li
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by jmpeax 12y ago
I've written an in-house visualization program in OpenGL that runs on Mac and Windows. These articles just make me laugh, especially the bit where they talk about cross platform being a myth, then follow on with the virtues of DirectX.
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by jmpeax 12y ago
Being a programmer, a sci-fi fan, and always excited by new developments even from a young age, I thought I'd never reach a time where I would find it difficult to accept new technology. Clones, immortality, interstellar travel, tech-e
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by jmpeax 12y ago
It may work for death row, but extrapolating it to other convictions doesn't seem very rigorous. With such high stakes, could there be an unaccounted greater prevalence of framing someone else in capital crimes compared to lesser crime
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Whatever happened to IRIS Explorer by NAG, is it still available?
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by jmpeax 13y ago
The term for this is called "Symbolic Regression".
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by jmpeax 13y ago
This is incorrect, under deliriums pedantic interpretation of space complexity. Some regular expressions require one to accept a certain number of examples of a character. This means that storage space for the count is required, which scale
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by jmpeax 13y ago
How many times would you need to execute line 2? The more times you need to do this, the more values x needs to be able to represent. So running x++ in O(n) time means the space needed to store the accumulation grows as O(n log_2 n)... unde
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by jmpeax 13y ago
I'd like to see the non-vectorized Python version with a @jit annotation. (That is, from the Numba package: http://numba.pydata.org/ )
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Half of the article is an ad hominem style attack against Goodfellow. It would be nice if it was 50% shorter, with only real content. Wise up Jeff.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
So, is there such a thing as a useful O(1)-space algorithm? I can't think of a single one.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Also annoying is the news reporting dozens of "officials are not ruling out ______". Really? Officials are not ruling out a model that they have no data against but has higher than 0% chance of occurring?
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by jmpeax 13y ago
I don't know what an incubator is, so I looked it up on Wikipedia where it says that "Successful completion of a business incubation program increases the likelihood that a startup company will stay in business for the long term:
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by jmpeax 13y ago
It's not completely unnecessary and meaningless. In computer graphics, floating point indexing is used to interpolate between texel values during texture look-up.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
This has the same effect on me as writing out all the zeros in larger numbers, rather than in scientific notation, and then zooming in to see only about 3 zeros at the same time and asking me to scroll through them. Even without the horribl
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by jmpeax 13y ago
You're forgetting the 3 trillion the US government stole from its citizens and gave to the banks.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Your comment about 3D being superfluous without contributing anything meaningful really hits home when I try to recall the 3D movies I've seen. Even the one that made the biggest impression on me, the stunning and very well made "
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by jmpeax 13y ago
The blog post tries to discredit imperative programming by describing naively incorrect simulation implementations and attributing them imperative programming. A final sentence describes the well known, obvious, and correct way where two wo
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by jmpeax 13y ago
It's rather simple, I think. An unfinished, but still very entertaining game will be better than a beautifully polished boring game. The "finished parts" can out-weigh in entertainment an entire competing game.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Hopefully the people reviewing his grants in three years time will remember him.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Still looking for a PDF to Word converter than can do pdflatex compiled documents... equations, figures, layout, etc. This is one of the worst one's I've tried.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
> What a p-value means is, if the hypothesis in question is false, then we have an x% chance of seeing the observed data. The hypothesis in question is the null hypothesis which must be assumed true not false for the p-value to mean
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by jmpeax 13y ago
I want to know how much Sony payed Wired for that advertism... article.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
The real villains aren't the companies involved in battles of fisticuffs, they are the corrupt or incompetent politicians who fail to abolish software patents.
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by jmpeax 13y ago
Have you considered a MBP and installing windows on it?
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by jmpeax 14y ago
How embarrassing for NYT. My goofy cousin ran out of gas on the highway, maybe NYT can publish his story too.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
The CEO of Supercells says that the "secret sauce" of his company's success is "product quality". Forgive me if I feel like I'm being sold to.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
That's an argument to moderation. Something he's explicitly stated should not be done (pertaining to software patents, sorry, can't find the reference). Although extremely hyperbolic, you can imagine a choice between killing 10 innocent peo
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by jmpeax 14y ago
It's remarkably easy to spot these types of article early. They always begin with short sentences, and almost always include the sentence "It has been a good run."

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