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by jpfr 10y ago
Scam-Journals are a business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishi... Enough people succumb to the pressure and publish anything just to look good on the publication count metric.
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by jpfr 10y ago
Between a Greek accountant and a German one, who do you prefer? [sarcasm off]
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In todays world, Holland is tiny. It cannot make many meaningful decisions on an international level. How would Holland negotiate with the USA or Russia about trade issues? Well, they couldn't. They'd have to concede to any terms
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by jpfr 10y ago
At my university (KIT in Germany [1]), they developed such a system and apply it for live-translation of lectures for international students. Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXpKz0BiIU And a publication
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by jpfr 10y ago
I know for a fact that if the Emacs developers weren't doing a bang up job, which they are, then I would immediately allocate some of my time to help. Development is going great IMHO. However, the bug count is steadily incr
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by jpfr 11y ago
Exactly. This was a brilliant choice of action. And Merkel is blatantly telling the Turks how different things are handled in the EU. Without giving Erdogan (she needs him) grounds for feeling disrespected. This is now out of the hands of g
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by jpfr 11y ago
There is a strong connection between SAT, spin models and inference in graphical probabilistic models. All can be seen as instances of markov random fields. They can all be solved with the same algorithms that are very fast for most practic
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by jpfr 11y ago
The lottosonline article is so beside the point. The original paper uses lottery outcomes from all over the world as the seed for "truly random" numbers. For example to define cryptographic curves where no government agency can in
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by jpfr 11y ago
But it may be way more profitable. Because profitability is not the amount of dollars earned, but the ratio of earned dollars per invested dollar. Also, it makes sense for most healthy companies to borrow money and pay out a stock dividend
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by jpfr 11y ago
Python has itertools.product to iterate over the cartesian product of two lists. Some of the most elegant code I ever wrote is due to this abstraction. https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.p..
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by jpfr 11y ago
Discussing edge cases is just the way to find out if a concept (either a technical model or a qualitative worldview) is generally applicable. Especially if those concepts are touted as being all-encompassing, holding without exception or be
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by jpfr 11y ago
Big systems growing over decades are usually easy targets for drastic simplifications by building upon better abstractions. There's a great talk by Alan Kay titled 'Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Co
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by jpfr 11y ago
Just use queue.h, as do all the BSDs. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/sys/queue...
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by jpfr 11y ago
I went to school with the maintainer at the time (tobgle, ca 2004). He was 14 when he rewrote large parts of the C++ code base. Plus he knew OpenGL.
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by jpfr 11y ago
At that rate, you are limited by context changes from userland to the OS. So you must use an event driven approach like nginx or node.js. In contrast to the Apache way of opening a thread per connection. Also, make use of netmap: http:&#x2
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by jpfr 11y ago
The guy clearly is technically brilliant. But I was referring to the results. Not how the results were achieved. In the video, he claims to want to achieve level 3 driving. Let's see how he can do the following under non-perfect condit
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by jpfr 11y ago
Prototypical case of the 80/20 rule. He has implemented the happy case. But that system is nothing people realistically would want to drive their cars. What he did is impressive. But the results are not that outlandish for a talented p
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by jpfr 11y ago
Relevant video from juliacon on the type system core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUP3cSKb8sI Julia's type system is geared towards JIT compilation. Methods are compiled when they are first called. Then, of course,
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by jpfr 11y ago
Assembly lines require a huge investment and cannot scale beyond their maximum capacity. So when a car turns out to be popular, the OEM (the brand that does final assembly) or one of the many suppliers might run into a huge backlog. That is
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by jpfr 11y ago
In Europe, only used cars are sold directly off the parking lot or showroom of the dealer. Normally, you choose the options (color, engine options, leather seats, ..) and the car is built for you. You can pick it up some weeks/months l
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by jpfr 11y ago
> Where's a page that says it's a LISP underneath? Every expression is transformed internally to an AST representation that can be seen as a lisp-style s-expression. And this gets transformed, JIT-compiled, and so on. [1] Furth
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by jpfr 11y ago
The Axiom [1] developers created a special purpose dependently typed language to capture mathematical abstractions: SPAD/Aldor [2]. Maxima uses Lisp. [3] These packages contain many man-years of work. Julia is JIT-compiled, a Lisp (und
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by jpfr 11y ago
> You are lying at "Third". Angela Merkel publicly encouraged immigrants to come (and die trying) by promising that Germany will host all the people who arrive in Germany and several days later when the reported numbers of imm
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by jpfr 11y ago
The EU is winning this. It shows that it goes by the humanitarian principles it claims to have. Refugees fleeing from a humanitarian crisis are allowed to stay and to become citizens. People fleeing from a bad economic situation are not. &g
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by jpfr 11y ago
> First, Germany has a problem with social support even for Germans, Hartz 4 is horribly low and injust. Hartz 4 (long-term unemplyment aid) is basically what the country can sustainably pay without getting into the same debt spiral of G
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by jpfr 11y ago
Printing money is like robbing those who still have cash as the currency is devalued. And it doesn't change a thing if you owe money in foreign currencies. Otherwise, Japan et al. would have long ramped up the printing presses.
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by jpfr 11y ago
Looks like a bunch of harmonic drive gears in a row. Every industrial robot contains a couple of these.
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The test highlights an issue not covered by micro- benchmarking: Encoding and Decoding should perform similar, as factual throughput is determined by Min(Encoding performance, Decoding performance). For unknown reason
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by jpfr 11y ago
Norbert Wiener released "Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" in 1948. 65 years later, people are still debating the issue and constantly come up with fancy new terms for the subject (i.e. title
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by jpfr 11y ago
That's a good question. Why should a state open the possibility for private companies from another part of the world to sue him? What is the potential upside of that? If it's just for free trade, we already have the WTO. I think m

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