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by madhadron 5y ago
That's because "learning" in neural networks is a fancy way of saying "curve fitting."
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by madhadron 5y ago
Mission critical software projects, by their nature are started rarely and make very conservative language choices. By its nature, much of it is old, so it's in C++. There's also a fair amount of it in C# and Java, too.
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by madhadron 5y ago
You can also build a fat jar, which is basically a zip file containing everything but that the JVM knows how to load. All the static assets can go in there, too. It saves you the build.sh.
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by madhadron 5y ago
Parler was much more dependent. Facebook owns its own data centers, its own fiber...if it has bridges to the rest of the Internet no one else really can cut it off, and those bridges are largely guaranteed by contracts.
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by madhadron 5y ago
Yes, 10k to 15k machines is a relatively small cluster in my world.
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by madhadron 5y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Pharo with Seaside. I'm not sure how you would make the iteration cycle shorter than editing code in a live Pharo image and using the image itself as the data store.
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by madhadron 6y ago
Eventual consistency in databases is fully described by "make your merge operation the join of a semilattice." I once watched a whole keynote at Strange Loop which slowly recapitulated that idea over the course of an hour when wit
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by madhadron 6y ago
That's fair. I'm not sure what other word to use though. Admirable in some ways, socially unacceptable in others? Someone whose work was amazing but who really shouldn't be suggested as a role model? And who knows what parts
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by madhadron 6y ago
So a little bit longer version of the story: Eckert and Mauchly had designed the architecture. Herman Goldstine, the military liaison of the ENIAC project, and something of a social climber, sought out von Neumann to see if he was intereste
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by madhadron 6y ago
> Only when company is reaching google scale kubernetes make sense. Long before Google scale. Kubernetes won't handle clusters anywhere near that large.
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by madhadron 6y ago
To be fair, Kubernetes right now only schedules relatively small clusters. But it turns out that the majority of the world is not Facebook or Google and only needs relatively small clusters.
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by madhadron 6y ago
I have several friends who personally knew Feynman. He was a problematic individual in many ways. One of them remembers being in an elevator with his girlfriend, and Feynman getting on the elevator and immediately hitting on her. Another re
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by madhadron 6y ago
Order theory has its own life outside of category theory (and predates category theory by many decades). It often gets lumped into lattice theory, though you also have lots of handy things like semilattices, partial orders, and chain-comple
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by madhadron 6y ago
My impression after reading this is that the author needs a better git client. magit, SourceTree, or Fork (my personal favorite at the moment) let you stage individual lines and chunks, which is life changing. If you find a typo or somethin
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by madhadron 6y ago
I have come to the conclusion that management is not a profession. Engineering, law, medicine, teaching are professions, that is, occupations that require considerable training or study. Manager is a role in a team that requires you not to
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by madhadron 6y ago
The practice of cargo cults in Papua is actually far more interesting than Feynman gives it credit for. It's worth going and reading about them. There was a whole lot of other social stuff tied up in them beyond "oh, we want cargo
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by madhadron 6y ago
> Does anybody else find it a little scary to comment on this topic in case they get called out and targeted as well? Honestly? No. And the problem with the numbers in that poll is that there is no reason to think that all those people a
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by madhadron 6y ago
People have already pointed out using pure functions for the heavy lifting and then making the IO as simple as possible, but another issue is tooling. If you have something like Standard ML's module system or COM style components, you
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by madhadron 6y ago
Ah, thank you.
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by madhadron 6y ago
Nope. The debate in the community before OSI existed was between free software and open source as terms. Free software was the term preferred by the FSF and the GNU project, with their more stringent notions of free. "Open source"
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by madhadron 6y ago
Naa. I was around when OSI was created. They weren't authoritative then, they're not authoritative now.
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by madhadron 6y ago
Oh, that's a nice thing. I still remember carefully appending underscores to names to thing to make C and FORTRAN talk in gcc/g77.
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by madhadron 6y ago
And it's just a misunderstanding. I think it was Perlis who said, "We don't know what the programming language of the future will look like, but we know it will be called FORTRAN."
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by madhadron 6y ago
Remember, the CDC was utterly compromised for the last four years. It was being run by a quack and its researchers denied access to epidemiological data. Expecting it to be functioning again immediately after years of assault and damage is
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by madhadron 6y ago
Eh, the US so incredibly mishandled the pandemic that we ended up with >400k unnecessary dead. The fact that school weren't handled well is just one aspect of the failure.
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by madhadron 6y ago
Twitter does not—and cannot—violate first amendment rights, since it is not the US government.
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by madhadron 6y ago
The Google Meet example is utterly crazy, but for Submit/Reset I think I see how it happens. You're thinking through the user's flow, and at the end of that flow you have Submit and Reset or Cancel. You think about them at th
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by madhadron 6y ago
I mean, that's what the interview format was designed to do. Schockley decided that how he should hire engineers was to stress them and ask them brain teasers. He had no basis but his own opinion, but he had to hire fast because none o
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by madhadron 6y ago
You don't need the whole thing, just a cliff notes so you can get through Paradise Lost, and you're generally good.
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by madhadron 6y ago
Dickens and Jane Austen seem to be mutually exclusive. I adore Jane Austen's work, but have only made it through Dickens with struggle. I have heard similar things to your position and mine from many people, but rarely heard someone sa

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