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by kd0amg 10y ago
Or sentence convicts. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Terrible for what purpose? Humans seem pretty good at throwing things to each other and catching them. I'm very bad at coming up with a good numeric estimate of linear size. As a fencer, I could never tell you how many inches between m
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Depends... are we talking about eliminating subsidies for transactions with positive externalities, or are we talking about undoing some regulatory capture?
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by kd0amg 10y ago
It's not really being functional that calls for GC -- if you have data structures (whether they're closures, records, or whatever) escaping up from the scope in which they were created, you have a tricky lifetime question to deal
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Yes, NFA! DFA only if it's LL(1).
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by kd0amg 10y ago
One problem is that syntax is just one (rather shallow) part of the design of a programming language, but it's one that gets a lot of attention because everyone who's used two programming languages can tell that it's a point
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by kd0amg 10y ago
I hesitated on using BNF. It seemed overkill Presumably because there's no real nesting of terms in assembly code? Personally, I find BNF so simple that I'd probably still use it for describing the grammar, but lots of parser ge
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by kd0amg 10y ago
I've heard a lot more people saying that people say he's a savior than I've heard people saying he's a savior.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
It doesn't seem all that outlandish to expect her to show more restraint than Trump.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Udacity guarantees you a job offer as an employee or a contractor within 6 months from receiving your Nanodegree Plus credential (the Job Placement Period). Further, in your new job Udacity guarantees that your gross income from such job w
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by kd0amg 10y ago
That would still be a conversion because Harvard is not currently owned by its students.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
simulating complex behavior requires at least 10mb of data The author has not shown that that much is required. At most, the author has shown that it has been done with that much. Seeing as having only thousands of states is apparently en
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by kd0amg 10y ago
One might offer to sit them down at the computer for a while and see what they accomplish. The skeptic can probably even provide his own computer. Most people don't have a large corporation they can just casually make themselves CEO of
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Besides, if it takes that many humans to maintain each robot, the robot is simply too expensive to replace those humans.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Top to bottom. The "top row" of slides are section headers. Go down from a section header to see the section. When you get to the bottom of a section, go right, and it will put you at the top of the next section.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
While reading someone else's program that uses a DSL may be superficially easy, but the minute you try to get under the surface, you're left scrambling to understand what a given term or idea meant to the author. There is no lang
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by kd0amg 10y ago
It looks like kind of an uphill battle when discrediting your opponent is based on discrediting their field rather than just them as an individual (and it's a field that courts have become used to relying on for evidence).
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by kd0amg 10y ago
I was half expecting the One Note Samba (which is sort of the pathological case for the key-finding heuristic skrebbel describes).
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Exception handling requires some piece of code to actually throw the exception though. A more thorough instantiation of the idea would be aspect-oriented programming.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Sure, I can sit on the train if I wait until after 7pm to go home.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
The banks have a profit motive for assessing credit risk accurately. They have a clear incentive to not under estimate prospective borrowers' credit risk (or they'll lose more in defaults than they gain in interest), but the on
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by kd0amg 10y ago
It seems a bit disingenuous to describe it as $10k in savings when it first passes through the hands of a bunch of bankers and merchants who get to force the worker to buy various goods and services at vastly inflated prices.
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Is this really "the market's price" if workers are not allowed to choose their employers?
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by kd0amg 10y ago
No. I want to live in a micro apartment. I do not want to live in a house. How much more would you be willing to pay for a micro apartment than for a house?
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by kd0amg 10y ago
leave the fact that you have a PhD out of your application materials How would you explain the several year gap in history without mentioning the PhD program?
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by kd0amg 10y ago
That PLers, as Lamport writes in his comment on my post, fail to see that Plotkin's SOS is an abstract state machine Is this even true? I don't think I've ever met a PLer who didn't know that an operational semantics d
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by kd0amg 10y ago
The notion of a function having any inherent complexity is rather at odds with your earlier assertion that putting any sort of meaning on the result of running a Turing machine is strictly human interpretation rather than a hard fact of com
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by kd0amg 10y ago
It's a very impoverished form of composition if the only things you can really compose are the absolute primitives, rather than allowing you to compose things that are themselves composed. When you "program" with Turing machi
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by kd0amg 10y ago
a function between any two countable sets, e.g. (Nat -> Nat) -> (Nat -> Nat): pick a representation for the input and output There isn't a TM-suitable representation for things of type (Nat -> Nat). No matter how you try
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by kd0amg 10y ago
Sure, but the extra is all local state. It still only uses one bit of shared state.

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