kmiroslav

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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> If anything I feel the failure of OO languages What failure exactly? OOP has flaws but it has certainly proven to be extremely versatile and adaptable over these past decades since even today, it's still the dominant paradigm to s
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
I don't really understand this obsession with messages. We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century. The last popular language that supported this paradigm (Objective C) is being replaced and will pro
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
I don't see why, as long as the IDE sees the build file as a genuine source file for the language it's written in.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
You know the situation is bleak when even the legendary Jeff "llama" Minter says he can't make money on the app store.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> so wanting ur borders secured is now literally Hitler. I never said anything even remotely close to that.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
You should take a look at how Hitler looked like in the early 30s as he was beginning his ascension toward Chancellorship. There are a lot more resemblances with Trump than you think.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Apple has already abandoned the RNC [1]. I'm disappointed that no other large companies have so far. [1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/18/trump-remark...
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
The only things Trump is right about are the exact same things that every politician says: > He's right that many Americans are getting screwed by the system. He’s right that the economy is not growing nearly fast enough. He'
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> The huge triumph of DL has been figuring out that as long as you can pose a problem in a differentiable way and you can obtain a sufficient amount of data, you can efficiently tackle it with a function approximator that can be optimize
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> Jane Street Capital's Yaron Minsky once said that contrary to popular belief hiring for OCaml developers was easier No one will ever admit publicly they are having a hard time hiring because of poor technical choices, that would b
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
The JVM (well, Java really) has been supporting orders of magnitude of that for many years.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
They're not, really. A couple of concepts have become trendy: composition and immutability. The former is certainly a staple of FP but the latter, not as much (a lot of languages considered functional support both mutability and immuta
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
The size of the Javascript generated by Scala.js alone makes it a non starter for serious projects.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
It's a non starter as the main language since it's not JVM based. As a C/C++ alternative for native development on Android... possibly. This will be in great part decided by 1) How frustrated native Android developers current
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
The Android community has already adopted it pretty significantly (join the #android Kotlin slack and see for yourself). And this was done without any official support for Google because... it's not necessary: Kotlin works out of the b
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Should probably be renamed "Why Kotlin is my current programming language".
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
I've long thought that the best way to get more women into engineering is for parents of young girls to realize that they need to buy their daughters more engineering labs and electronic kits and fewer dolls.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Mostly because that's what Torch uses. LUA itself is extremely fast for a scripting language but while that characteristic is vital in video games (where LUA is used quite a bit), it's pretty irrelevant for machine learning since
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> It has better type classes Haskell and Scala win and lose on different criteria but for type classes, I find Haskell's syntax and semantics infinitely more elegant, more terse and more flexible than Scala's. Defining type cla
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Scala is a mess of a language, with pretty much any language feature ever invented under the sun. If you want real and well designed FP, pick Haskell. If you want a pragmatic JVM language that doesn't make your eyes bleed like Java doe
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Typical neural networks have multiple layers of hundreds of thousands of nodes, which then get updated very frequently during the learning phase. It would be suicidal for these updates to be immutable (e.g. returning brand new neurons with
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Well, you don't get to decide what people find natural, they do. And deep below, computers work under a model that's anything but functional (assembly language is basically a big mutable state machine). There is value in understan
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
It's refreshing and uncommon to see someone who sees value in PHP, Java and Haskell at the same time. Nice to see open mindedness about languages for a change.
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Not a very well structured article. The animated graphic (which is cool) comes before the lambda parameter is even introduced. That animation should have been put at the end. It's also not doing a good job at explaining when regulariza
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> 2. Once you learn Haskell you really kind of want a Haskell job to put all this nice stuff into practice. Personally, not really. I enjoy dabbling with Haskell on my open source projects but doing so has made it abundantly clear why I
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Personally, one of the reasons why I fell in love with Ruby 10+ years ago was because I realized I could use it instead of CMD or bash to write all my scripts from now on. Regardless of the platform. Obviously, this applies to Python as wel
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> though a counterexample to a conjecture, does not advance mathematical theory in any way. [I realize it's sarcasm but in case it's not clear to everyone, I'll speak my mind about it] I think it's a pretty serious ad
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
Sorry, I thought it would be obvious. My point was that when you sell something, you have no idea what it will be used for, period. If you're uncomfortable with this idea, don't sell the item in the first place. Saying "I fil
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
To some extent. I think they should only be transferred in the case of an acquisition of the company or if the buyer can show that their business is aligned with the patent being bought. Such restrictions would kill the patent troll busines
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by kmiroslav 10y ago
> In my own case, I knew that the patent I was helping my company's attorneys to file was a valuable property that the company would own and possibly sell. But I didn't contemplate what could happen after such a sale Seriously?

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