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by jules 10y ago
That's interesting, because when working with UV light I could feel pain in my eyes, so the body does have some sort of defense mechanism.
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by jules 10y ago
The couple of explanations of algorithms that I looked at were good. Much more concise than a textbook, but with links to additional material.
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by jules 10y ago
You may be interested in MLton, which is an ML compiler that achieves high levels of optimisation by aggressively specialising your code: generic functions get specialised to the type and higher order functions get inlined to eliminate clos
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by jules 10y ago
I don't doubt that your conclusion is correct, but what if the sort is used in 10 other functions, each of which is used 10 times? If you inlined everything you would end up with 100 copies of bubble sort. The code blowup is exponentia
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by jules 10y ago
An alternative is to make a .xlsx file with Excel, then unzip it. You'll get a folder with text files and then you'll see how to generate your own.
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by jules 10y ago
That depends entirely on the regex implementation. If the implementation uses a DFA to match multiple regexes simultaneously then the performance will be as good as a trie because a DFA is more or less a trie.
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by jules 10y ago
Didn't Chrome already used to have that feature where you could install an application and it would put an icon on your desktop and open it in a browser window without tab/url bar?
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by jules 10y ago
This article makes a good point, but what's the alternative? There is no good cross-platform GUI solution. Qt, GTK, JavaFx, wxWidgets, none of them are very good. Electron at least has the advantage of being fully cross-platform and no
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by jules 10y ago
It's different in different countries. The Netherlands has a system that is similar to Obamacare in that it is a system where everyone is required to have insurance and insurance companies cannot charge more to people with pre-existing
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by jules 10y ago
Capitalism has been and will be an essential ingredient to solve the problem and switch to other sources of energy. The issue is that the costs to the global environment are not borne by the polluters. Put a price tag on pollution and the m
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by jules 10y ago
> And yet, the greatest scientists in history did NOT have the stereotypical Scientist's Disdain for sociology or softer topics. Feynman certainly did.
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by jules 10y ago
Could these problems be solved with bigger networks, or do you really need to improve the algorithm beyond that?
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by jules 10y ago
The design looks amazing. I love how easy it is for "programmer ui design" to look quite good these days.
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by jules 10y ago
It is interesting that you cite the UK as an example, because the US seems to be doing much better than the UK in this regard. Polls show that 100% of UK Muslims find homosexuality an unacceptable lifestyle choice, and more than half want h
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by jules 10y ago
I don't understand the outrage specifically over torture. Yes, it's terrible, but why is there more outrage over waterboarding than over drone strikes? This makes no sense to me. Would you rather be waterboarded or drone striked?
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by jules 10y ago
It didn't surprise me. You have to look through the reality distortion field of the media and established politicians, because that only represents the views of a tiny and intellectually very non-diverse group of people. Consider the m
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by jules 10y ago
Is that true? In his speech the other day he was arguing for a very moderate kind of libertarianism.
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by jules 10y ago
Believe it or not, there is a fairly solid scientific basis for that.
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by jules 10y ago
I've seen this said many times, but I've never understood why people think this argument makes sense. If anything it's the opposite: the larger the country the larger the economies of scale. If there are diseconomies of scale
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by jules 10y ago
Maybe he has been arrested, but all wikileaks know is that he has stopped sending a periodic signal that he is fine.
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by jules 10y ago
You can divide physics into roughly these core subjects: classical mechanics, classical field theory, special relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, general relativity, thermodynamics. What you are asking for is basically what
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by jules 10y ago
It is the same in the Netherlands. By the time people are old enough to get a drivers license they already knows this. Everyone gets taught this by their parents, and everyone cycles themselves so people know that this is necessary.
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by jules 10y ago
Sharding is fundamentally a performance optimisation. If you can instead use a faster database and not have to shard or at least not as much, that saves you a lot of hassle. By having a smaller system you can in practice also reduce your fa
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by jules 10y ago
In the same vein: you don't HAVE to pay taxes, you're CHOOSING to.
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by jules 10y ago
The modern view is indeed that there is no preferred reference frame. It's just a matter of choosing a coordinate system. If you wanted to make a distinction you could say that the laws have a simpler form in a heliocentric coordinate
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by jules 10y ago
There is a very direct link between the mandatory headscarf law and Islam. It was not mandatory in Iran before Khomeini came to power.
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by jules 10y ago
Maybe the doomsday argument wasn't crazy after all! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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by jules 10y ago
What is the logic behind putting butter in your coffee? If your goal is to lose weight, wouldn't not eating that butter still be better than eating it?
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by jules 10y ago
Earley parsing is simple and general.
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by jules 10y ago
The trick to sleeping is simple: make sure you are mentally and physically tired, and switch off your computer and dim the lights one hour before you want to sleep.

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