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by kd0amg 7y ago
Can you offer any empirical evidence that it is not difficult? The vast majority of people I've encountered who are entirely self-taught beyond typical high school (or college freshman) material have been quite bad. They repeatedly mak
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by kd0amg 7y ago
Not GP, but I do not. The paper is built on a pretty basic error: > For simplicity but without loss of generality, assume there are n past price changes, each of which is either UP (1) or DOWN (0). How many possible trading strategies ar
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by kd0amg 7y ago
is this saying that since there is some algorithm you can spend some constant amount of time to find it Yes. I’m not sure I’d call that “constructive”. The method for constructing the algorithm is given!
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by kd0amg 7y ago
Most of the ones I've encountered have not put in the time to learn computation theory (not even a careful reading of Sipser), so I doubt they're up for learning to use that sort of tooling. Most also always think they're al
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by kd0amg 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Terms_of_vener... > intended as a mark of erudition of the gentlemen able to use them correctly rather than for practical communication
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by kd0amg 8y ago
I know just enough to say that APL & J are much more expressive as long as Python doesn't have a fix_problem() method built-in. This is pretty much the same impression I got, though I came from the other direction. I was kind of
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by kd0amg 8y ago
That wouldn't really do anything for the issue GP raises. If society sees someone sitting on a pile of ill-gotten gains, donating some of it (whether openly or secretly) just means society will see someone sitting on a slightly smaller
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by kd0amg 8y ago
"Macros" and "first-class macros" are different things. The latter are essentially fexprs. I'm not sure why you continue to insist that responses to your comments are just about how macros happen to be implemented i
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by kd0amg 8y ago
The sequence of events you describe is a thing that functions do not do at run time: they do not operate on pieces of syntax. Macro expansion time is a different series of events than run time. Macros operate on pieces of program syntax, no
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by kd0amg 8y ago
In conclusion, it is definitely not working like a run-time function with different evaluation order.
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by kd0amg 8y ago
To the extent that municipal service improvements increase the utility provided by housing in the area, landlords are able to collect more rent from tenants (not necessarily from the same tenants -- new tenants with more buying power will b
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by kd0amg 8y ago
How and when are its arguments evaluated?
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by kd0amg 8y ago
If `let` is a function, how and when are its arguments (say, `((x 2) (y 3))` and `(+ x y)`) evaluated?
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by kd0amg 8y ago
I have to be honest, the linking of 'nationalism' to this discussion looks like hyperbole to me. I have seen a lot of people in my area assert that my political will should be subordinate to theirs because I came from somewhere
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by kd0amg 8y ago
treating them like functions with different semantics is a very good learning method If you mean run-time functions that act a bit funny about evaluation order, that mental model is incompatible with common introductory examples like `l
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by kd0amg 8y ago
What are lisp macros for if not to delay evaluation? One class of use cases not covered in the blog post is that a variable appearing as a function's argument can only be a bound occurrence, a use of some name already in scope. A var
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by kd0amg 8y ago
wouldn't one come out farther ahead by selling (at least a few) of the paintings to outsiders, rather than donating all of them? GP's suggestion seems to be that non-conspirators would not actually be willing to pay that much --
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by kd0amg 8y ago
"Published tuition fees" is a very different figure from what the average student actually pays.
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by kd0amg 8y ago
Maybe the thing that makes tech workers want to live and work somewhere is lack of density? The vast majority of non-dense areas have much less of a tech scene than New York and Chicao. I would expect that what draws tech workers is caree
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by kd0amg 8y ago
OTOH, I find this also makes it difficult to order drinks.
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by kd0amg 8y ago
This is arguably a step forward, if it means there's someone to subpoena for information about the robocaller.
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by kd0amg 8y ago
How much of the conclusions drawn from these investigative techniques are justified entirely by analytic chemistry, and how much goes beyond that? Using an example from a related article, there's a substantial difference between being
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by kd0amg 8y ago
The "product for a price" idea is a little weird when talking about some service typically provided by a government who deliberately prices it below market equilibrium. If we're going to effectively subsidize this, it's
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by kd0amg 8y ago
A request is communication with certain semantic content, which pulling on a mailbox handle lacks. There is no general understanding among people nor specific agreement between you and some other party that pulling on your mailbox handle is
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by kd0amg 8y ago
The web makes things interesting in that OP's hypothetical company only has that data because Facebook willingly gives it to everyone who asks. It would be obviously wrong if they were using some exploit to trick Facebook's server
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by kd0amg 8y ago
That is a "soundness theorem" and maybe even a "[static] type soundness" theorem (if you like the word "unityped"), but the point is that's not really saying anything about conclusions drawn by the classif
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by kd0amg 8y ago
It might make me worry about their fire response capability. On the other hand, there's probably an element of triage involved here (no immediate threat once the runway was closed). More generally, I would expect problems that a tow tr
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by kd0amg 8y ago
I was replying that "contrarian and negative" type of information is an important supplement to "documentation" or even a higher priority than official documentation. But outsidetheparty already mentioned honest compar
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by kd0amg 8y ago
Even without vector intrinsics, you can get a lot of mileage out of spending almost all your time in loop bodies that map primitive operations over large arrays. Interpretive overhead tends to grow a lot slower than the user program's
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by kd0amg 8y ago
That and the number of candidates they chose not to interview

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