jtolmar

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by jtolmar 5y ago
Try finding a state-owned news outlet for a country you don't live in, and filter to their coverage of your country specifically. The layers of removal mean it's already filtered by stuff so important that people in another countr
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If I recall correctly, this will get you a standard deviation of 1. let result = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) { result += Math.random() - Math.random(); } return result; Obviously this costs 12x as much as Math.random(
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by jtolmar 5y ago
Since I assume all the org fans will be in here, does anyone have any recommendations for non-emacs org systems (on Linux desktop)? I don't want to relearn every keybinding, but I love the concept of a simple text-based organizational
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by jtolmar 5y ago
A markdown-like syntax for todo lists, tables, and other things. And an Emacs extension for easily navigating, editing, and searching these files. (And an entire way of life, apparently.)
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by jtolmar 5y ago
Silicon Zeroes [1] starts out slightly more abstracted than what you described (byte-level operators, register files, ALUs, that sort of thing) and builds up to a full CPU. [1] https://pleasingfungus.itch.io/silicon-zeroes
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by jtolmar 5y ago
> how to value the sort of work that's more pragmatic than improving on a complexity bound but also more fundamental than just tuning some asm or C I'd bet lazily slapping caches on things has saved more total time than all oth
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by jtolmar 5y ago
You can turn a sort into a shuffle by replacing the comparator with a random coin flip, and you already have defined a sort algorithm, so there's no added code complexity. fn bogosort(a, comparator): while not is_sorted(a,
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by jtolmar 5y ago
These abstract businesses are going to have an awful lot of trouble producing anything of value without employees. The three-way relationship between worker, owner, and customer is required to meaningfully model anything about our economy.
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Great! Now I don't have to worry about how I'm getting that beer to you.
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I love your marketing patter! Cracking up reading some of this. If I end up stealing your style for something, I owe you a beer.
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by jtolmar 5y ago
I've thought of doing this several times, and always shied away at the complexity and nuance that goes into it. Kudos to the devs for having the skill and determination needed to actually make this real. Very impressive work, and I hop
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A large group of units, generally with ranged attacks, where the most effective positioning is clumping them up into a ball. They hit a certain tipping point where fewer and fewer things work to counter them. If both sides have a death ball
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Only if you have physical access to the server.
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Yeah, IK is about pose and motion modeling. But you can put any state+motion model inside sequential Bayes, and get the probability that the model is in a particular configuration out. Hard to know whether that's relevant without knowi
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by jtolmar 5y ago
> One therapist is taking measurements of say your arm motion and making inferences about the motion of other muscles. This seems like a sequential Bayesian filtering problem. Probably high enough dimension that you should just use a par
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by jtolmar 5y ago
A centralized database operating off a write-once-read-many drive would be append-only and not consensus-driven, and also not really what anyone means by crypto. A whole lot more efficient though.
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It's an average, so the skew doesn't matter for this. Average = sum / count. Multiply both sides by count. Sum = count * average.
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Luckily for my case, some senior engineer was convinced that it was a good idea to make an "abstraction layer" consisting of pass-throughs for every API and external service, and group all the stuff in that layer in a single packa
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by jtolmar 5y ago
Wow, I forgot all about AOP, even though I was, briefly, very excited about it. On a project where "logging" was budgeted as a short, separate task that could be delegated to a junior engineer at the end, I used Spring's AOP
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by jtolmar 5y ago
> As recently as a decade ago, Linux was borderline unusable for a home computer. Lots of driver problems. Lack of software. [...] Linux as a whole basically assumes you already know everything you need to know about what you're doi
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by jtolmar 5y ago
The value of stock comes from a several things: - A voting share lets you participate in company decisions (not that anyone votes for much other than the board recommendations / increasing profits) - The company may pay dividends - The
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When you making predictions about wide ranges of possibilities along many axes, it's very reasonable to choose the single most likely option on each of these, but you end up multiplying some 10% chance by a 20% chance by another 10% ch
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by jtolmar 5y ago
> What is wrong with making it up as you go? Nothing if you're good at it. But if you're hoping to learn something from someone, it is pretty disappointing. How to make it up as you go along is far less teachable.
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100% Thoroughly commented code tends to end up a couple changes out of date. A separate file in the same directory ends up a couple major refactors out of date. A separate file in a separate system ends up a couple company-wide reorgs out o
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Corporations are controlled by their shareholders, who elect a board to act in their interests. The shareholders are paid either by dividends (profit) or growth (increasing share price so they can sell at a profit). So corporations are cont
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They're suggesting a platform for sexually suggestive content, as opposed to one for sexually explicit content. Which might actually be a viable niche. There are a lot more explicit websites out there than softcore ones.
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> Is what you're describing any different from just bookmarking all the tabs in a window to a new folder and closing the window? Tabs are formed automatically, closed easily, and organized by the order you opened them in. Bookmarks
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> I don't have a link It's probably this: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
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Most of what I read is serial fiction, and it has been for years. The most popular site these days is Royal Road, with authors offering a Patreon subscription for early access to chapters. It has the same lopsided power law distribution of
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Looks like an oldschool referrer-based restriction. Copy-pasting it works.

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