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by likpok 17y ago
This is google.org as opposed to google.com, so it might just be philanthropy.
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by likpok 17y ago
Even more generally, two vectors are orthogonal if their inner product is zero. This is why the word "perpenidcular" is not used, as sometimes your vectors don't really have "directions" in the intuitive sense of the word (e.g. the inner pr
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by likpok 17y ago
How is it easy to guess? The number it generates does not at all appear to be a function of the number of keys already assigned.
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by likpok 17y ago
It's somewhat simple. You just design the finite-state table and either use a ROM (microcode) or some sort of hardwired logic to implement it. I'm glossing over a lot of stuff here, but a simple CPU is just that, simple.
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by likpok 17y ago
True, depending on what you mean by "bit". I'm not sure it is entirely trivial to interconnect the instruction-parsing parts, and memory operations might also be interesting. The ALU would be pretty simple, but you'd lose a lot of speed the
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by likpok 17y ago
Like many things, Stats is a vast field. Would you call a class about the basics of groups and rings anything other than an intro to abstract algebra, even though most places require both calculus and a fair amount of mathematical backgroun
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by likpok 17y ago
It's like with Coke. People prefer Pepsi-flavored brown carbonated sugar liquid to Coke-flavored brown carbonated sugar liquid, but Coke to Pepsi.
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by likpok 17y ago
There was an article in the NYT (I think it may be mentioned above) that discussed this. It appeared on slashdot, and I remember being quite aggravated at comments akin to 'Maybe they just don't want to', as the article explicitly dealth wi
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by likpok 17y ago
Looking at the man page for memcpy, it states that it is explicitly for non-overlapping memory areas. Depending on implementation, then, it might even be "correct" behavior to leave the array in an inconsistent state (if the results are not
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by likpok 17y ago
Or probably also by cutting corn subsidies, but neither of those is likely to happen. Unfortunately, Iowa has quite some sway, so big corn is here to stay.
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by likpok 17y ago
So, if you pay attention to history, you can see that there isn't actually a predisposition which affects this. In the 1980's, about half[1] of computer scientists were women. Now? 10-20%. Something is being done, and it is being done wrong
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by likpok 17y ago
More nerve endings in teeth mean it's harder to eat if you get decay or are eating something hard. Given the state of dental hygiene back in the day, it makes some sense.
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by likpok 17y ago
One issue that I see with that is that sometimes even software engineers can benefit from a theory course (e.g., algorithms), which requires a whole bunch of other theory to really understand. And then you're back where you started, because
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by likpok 17y ago
This does not actually showcase the power of Wolfram Alpha. For instance, Google will do unit conversions aw well. Now, if you wanted to integrate that...
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by likpok 17y ago
No. You do not understand conditional probability. You have made a few simplifying assumptions. One, that the pmf of picking an number is uniform, and two, that the two choices are independent. WLOG the first person is male (ease of pronoun
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by likpok 17y ago
A book i used and liked: Mathematical Thinking, by West and D'Angelo. It's more than a discrete text (it covers construction of the reals, limits, etc), but it covered a lot.
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by likpok 17y ago
PAE does have some benefits for x86 (admittedly, they also exist in amd46 IIRC). The big one (aside from virtual memory space) is the NX bit. You can set regions of memory noexec. Imagine doing this to things like the stack, or the heap. Do
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by likpok 17y ago
Bean stew (I use black): Two cans beans one can diced tomatoes one onion other veggies? (bell peppers, etc) bay leaf, spices, hot salsa (to taste). Sautee onions/veggies Stew everything until it's the consistency you want (put it all in a p
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by likpok 17y ago
They appear to be 1 to me... Did anyone upvote it?
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by likpok 17y ago
This matches with my experiences with ICC doing kernel development. It would vectorize loops and break out the SIMD instructions where gcc would not. It was quite strange the first time looking through the objdump seeing things like punpwlk
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by likpok 17y ago
It might be that they found something like 8.3e(5+-1), and Ars is reporting the bounds rather than the find.
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by likpok 17y ago
One issue that I see is that they only (seem) to compare with gcc, which is not particularly good. It would be better to compare against something like icc, which has better register coloring, SIMD support, etc. This might redeem C a little
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by likpok 17y ago
Indeed. In the CS architecture class here they use Logic Works, which is only a little higher-level, but with a much worse interface. It is no replacement for more powerful things (e.g. FPGAdvantage), but for didactic purposes, this is quit
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by likpok 17y ago
As the author noted, this is Release Candidate software. Bugs like this are supposed to get ironed out here before it is released to market. These kinds of bugs can often be difficult to catch because when I am debugging things, I often c
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by likpok 17y ago
There is another post on HN (or it was recently) about men vs. women. It discusses (in a reasonably but not strictly rigorous manner) the differences between the sexes. Link: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
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by likpok 17y ago
You will eventually memorize the important bits of a language, and that will make your time decrease. Furthermore, you may learn a new style/language where the paradigm just "fits" you right. Both of these will make your times decrease, alt
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by likpok 17y ago
I remember a story a friend of mine told me about high school. He was in US history, and was supposed to do an assignment on Andrew Jackson (or something similar), so he rot13'd the wiki article, so that everyone else would have to either k
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by likpok 17y ago
A much more sensible rule (if you're at a long table) is that you start eating if everyone around you has food.
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by likpok 18y ago
Some IM protocols allowed one to set up some info which is public and supposed to act as a bio. This content could be some form of HTML, which is more than anything twitter supports (i.e, it let you do the styling, much to the detriment of
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by likpok 18y ago
Having had fresh goat, it's pretty good. Mutton, on the other hand, can be quite gamey at times, IIRC.

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