jules

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1951.
by jules 15y ago
Can you elaborate on x86_64 code generation? (are you referring specifically to the vector instructions?) What do you think are the most promising directions to improve in this area?
1952.
by jules 15y ago
Microsoft works that way with C#, VB and F#. And they even fund Haskell research. Judging by the quality of their output, it seems to be working very well.
1953.
by jules 15y ago
That only works for static scenes with a predictable light source. So it wouldn't work with a light source that you don't control. Also it might or might not work for e.g. medical imaging because a person can't sit perfectly still. So for t
1954.
by jules 15y ago
I'm in the same kind of boat, though to a lesser degree. It's going in the wrong direction however. Perhaps we can try to help sort things out together. If you're interested, my email is in my profile.
1955.
by jules 15y ago
What makes you say they are "tier 2" solutions? The VCS integration is right into the file system. I personally like this much more than just IDE integration, but YMMV. CodeAnalyst is a state of the art profiler, even better than the one in
1956.
by jules 15y ago
He's probably referring to A/B testing your browsing experience.
1957.
by jules 15y ago
You could view it that way, but the fact remains that they dispatch on completely different information. Overloading dispatches on compile time types, multimethods dispatch on run time type tags. This distinction is important. Are you say
1958.
by jules 15y ago
VCS integration: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ Profiler: http://developer.amd.com/tools/CodeAnalyst/Pages/default.asp... http://www.codersnotes.com/sleepy/ x86-64 compiler: http://www.micros
1959.
by jules 15y ago
Multimethods and overloading are completely different beasts, despite the syntactic similarity. Overloading is resolved at compile time by looking at the compile time types. Multimethods are dispatched at run time, by looking at the run tim
1960.
by jules 15y ago
This is an interesting "book" that reduces geometry to automated symbol pushing. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/GT.html
1961.
by jules 15y ago
At least in the Netherlands, construction of the reals (for example from rational Cauchy sequences) is standard 1st semester stuff. Understanding reals is required or provides a good source of examples for virtually all mathematics courses,
1962.
by jules 15y ago
While scaling web sites is fascinating, for most people it is also unnecessary. The vast majority of web sites runs just fine on 1 computer. For example, hacker news runs not just on one computer, but actually on 1 core. So with a single 8
1963.
by jules 15y ago
Because that is illegal. In the US, there is the National Organ Transplant Act which forbids paying for organs. In this law, bone marrow is considered an organ. > It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or oth
1964.
by jules 15y ago
That's not true. It does affect the probability of the other child being a boy just like being born on Tuesday does.
1965.
by jules 15y ago
For the people who don't believe this, here's a Python program: x = [(c1,c2,d1,d2) for c1 in ["B","G"] for c2 in ["B","G"] for d1 in [0,1,2,3,4,5,6] for d2 in [0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
1966.
by jules 15y ago
Is it known that 2x2 matrices can't be multiplied with fewer than 7 multiplications?
1967.
by jules 15y ago
Actually, that is a huge problem. You have to decide on the test you are going to use before you see the data. After you've seen the data you can always come up with a specially made statistical test that will prove anything you want with a
1968.
by jules 15y ago
This should be the least of our worries. The incentives are set up so strongly to produce a statistically significant result that indeed nearly all experiments do produce a statistically significant result. Scientists measure a data set. Th
1969.
by jules 15y ago
The 'database' is not really a database in the sense that it stores a list of things. Instead the database is like a predicate p(x) where x ranges over some finite set (you can assume that this set is just 0..N). So if p(x) really has to se
1970.
by jules 15y ago
He's not referring to those, he's referring to the top message: > Get a Chromebook for the holidays: the computer powered by Chrome.
1971.
by jules 15y ago
Not just in the US, but also in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria and Iran.
1972.
by jules 15y ago
Are many non-technical people here here looking for a technical co-founder?
1973.
by jules 15y ago
Are the slides for that talk available?
1974.
by jules 15y ago
In addition to fixing the sorting as other people have mentioned here, it would be great if you made the return and tab keys choose the topmost completion.
1975.
by jules 15y ago
The frequentist way you're doing probability in that comment is not valid since the success or failure of one particular startup is not a repeatable experiment. The only valid interpretations are (1) the frequentist probability across a gro
1976.
by jules 15y ago
How did they do it? I thought that their GC critically relied on virtual memory support that current OSes do not provide, hence the need to run virtualized.
1977.
by jules 15y ago
That depends entirely on your definition of rich. While P(earnings > $1M/year) is probably going to increase, P(earnings > $100k/year) is probably going to decrease. It's also unclear whether your expected earnings are going to incr
1978.
by jules 15y ago
One doesn't need to look very far. The first paragraph: > If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. Startups
1979.
by jules 15y ago
Another vector for disruption is with statistics. Scientists use statistics to analyze the results of their experiments all the time. Unfortunately, most scientists are not statisticians. They spend a lot of time on statistics that they wan
1980.
by jules 15y ago
The €5 textbooks I buy from my professors have consistently been the best textbooks, much better than the €120 textbooks in other courses.

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