lotsoflumens

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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
We are all going to need a lot more bandwidth!
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Most Americans and Canadians think that Russia is "over there" somewhere on the other side of Ukraine. I think it's due to the way most maps are still drawn - Mercator projection with the equator on a horizontal line. If maps
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
"Copyright Fantasyland Institute of Learning" - I think that says it all ... in case you missed the big unicorn logo at the top.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
You made no mistakes - you wrote an opinion (speculation ?) in hopes of stimulating a discussion. Unfortunately, there are too many assholes who would rather just click than talk. I up-voted your post.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Exactly the same here. You wrote my thoughts perfectly. It's sad actually.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I totally agree - the problem is that for every degree of warming Trudeau will raise the carbon tax 5%.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
If any of you have seen an Ottawa winter, you'll understand that the one guy on the night-shift there is too busy trying to figure out how fast he can get to Australia.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
That's why I'm becoming increasingly skeptical of the usefulness (in the scientific sense) of complexity theory as it's currently laid out. We already know that instances of NP-Hard problems are either easily solvable, in p
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
>> (thus far, the biggest obstacle to proving P != NP has been the difficulty of proving anything about lower bounds on runtime that isn't directly tied to space consumption) I probably don't understand the proofs of these b
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
>> It's simply that construction of practical approximation algorithms or heuristics that work on large instance is (in general) much easier than separating proofs for complexity classes. I agree, but the search for better algori
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
>> My intuitive belief is that P is unequal to NP, but the only supporting arguments I can offer are the failure of all efforts to place specific NP-complete problems in P by constructing polynomial-time algorithms. Actually, there ha
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
It looks like the bridge designers defeated the the bridge destroyers - in that case at least. I DO feel that software engineering is on par with other engineering disciplines - if writing software can be described as "engineering&quot
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
> And civil engineering is just one branch of engineering, there are many and all of them have to work with the same balance between available resources, time and other constraints and they do substantially better than your average softw
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
> the civil engineering profession is lightyears ahead of the software people because there are lives on the line This is an often repeated and completely false assertion. Just think about the number of deaths every year due to bad road
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I do my best to offset the down voters by deliberately upvoting any down-voted posts. I really hate the thoughtless and humorless political correctness that's frequently evident here. Also, I agree with your observations about how the
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
What happens when a dead salmon does algebra?
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I'm (not) eagerly awaiting the day when some IoT thing "Fucks ya".
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Is it just me, or isn't it obvious now that decorators are, at best, an anti-pattern, or worse, a misguided attempt at code obfuscation?
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Yes - we're definitely winning :-) Did you mean "ad-blocker-blocker", or maybe "ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker" ?
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Here's the important part: "The effect ad blockers have had on publishers has been tremendous, with advertising organizations estimating that by 2020, $35 billion dollars per year will be lost as a result of blocked ads" I pr
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I experience a physical revulsion just thinking about all the wasted years I spent with COM and DCOM.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
>>> it's the first version of .NET that can build self-contained apps I tried it - it puts 50MB of DLLs beside the "HelloWorld" executable in a subdirectory (on Ubuntu 16.04). It's like shipping the entire Java
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
No - a pure function is a function that has no side-effect (other than heat loss). You are talking about referential transparency. Even functions that are not pure can be referentially transparent.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
You're making the mistake of believing that the CV's of token board or foundation members have anything at all to do with quality, reliability or integrity. Such beliefs lead to the Appeal to Authority fallacy, and others.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Nice summary! I think Ethereum is finished now. The trust in it will disappear, or the money invested in it will disappear. Either way, the value goes to zero. I was just getting interested in it. I'm feeling both sad and relieved. Sad
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Good Stuff! Is there other research like this out there?
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Sorry about the delay in responding ... I don't consider upvotes/downvotes by themselves to be moderation or censorship. That's just non-verbal communication. However, when an upvote or downvote system hides a post or promote
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
OK, I didn't understand how the "neural_network" was connected to the data. Thanks for responding.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Very nice article! But ... You generated your original data from: "sklearn.datasets.make_moons". Then you say that you tested your classifier on a hold-out set with "sample_ppc()". I don't think that's a true h
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
... immediately.

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