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by malisper 11y ago
> VC investing in U.S. companies dipped to $9.3 billion in the first quarter of 2016, down from $17.6 billion in the fourth quarter. How is the first quarter of 2016 measured? We're only half way through it.
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by malisper 11y ago
> They are losing money at an incredible rate and no where near profitable. They are losing money at a rate of about $100MM per year, and having to raise the same. Do you have a citation for that? I couldn't find anything when I tri
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by malisper 11y ago
What do you mean by "with better accuracy"? How can one matrix multiplication algorithm be more accurate than another?
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by malisper 11y ago
He's not saying that closures over mutable variables is a bad thing in Swift . He is saying it's a bad idea in any language, even though most languages with closures allow it.
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by malisper 11y ago
It shows that there are some problems (eg PCP), that are literally impossible to solve for every case. If you were able to come up with an algorithm that could do so, you would've found a solution to the halting problem, which we know
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by malisper 11y ago
I've actually learned everything I know about CSP from chapter six of Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach.
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by malisper 11y ago
This kind of puzzle falls under a general class of problems called Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Sudoku puzzles, map coloring, and cryptarithms are all examples of CSPs. A CSP is defined by a bunch of variables, each of which can take o
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by malisper 11y ago
Lisp actually does have stream fusion, but it has it in the form of a library![0] [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node347.html
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by malisper 11y ago
I would guess the canonical example of this is goto. By the definition the author uses, goto is extremely powerful. At the same time code written with goto is generally a complete mess. Instead languages provide for loops and while loops w
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by malisper 11y ago
That actually doesn't matter. What does matter is if he knows he is going to reveal a door that is empty. If he does know you should switch. If he reveals a door arbitrarily, and it just so happens to be empty, it doesn't matter i
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by malisper 11y ago
There is a web client for it.
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by malisper 11y ago
Candy Crush brought in $1.5 Billion dollars in revenue in 2013[0]. In 2014 it had 93 million users[1]. That means Candy Crush brings in at least $16 / user / year. I'm guessing they don't really care what the cost per ac
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by malisper 11y ago
> Thank goodness he never took a clock he'd built into school. Uh... From Steve Jobs's biography: In twelfth grade he [Woz] built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and re
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by malisper 11y ago
The destructuring mechanisms in Clojure are very, very powerful. For some reason this author does not seem to like them, even though they reduce his 7 line CL program to a 2 line Clojure program. What destructuring? I didn't see any
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by malisper 11y ago
PG's comment was made on the post you are referencing.
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by malisper 11y ago
> The more I see things and think about them, the more I believe that this whole talk of logos being "very important since it's what your customer looks at all the time" is a big scam perpetuated by graphics designers, bec
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Debugging Lisp Part 4: Restarts(malisper.me)
42 points by malisper 11y ago|9 comments
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by malisper 11y ago
From [0]: > She connected me with Andreessen’s due diligence team who were surprisingly open with all the technical analysis they had done. [0] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/30/the-audacious-..
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by malisper 11y ago
I believe you are misunderstanding what I did. At no point did I change an object's type or change its behavior. All I did was change the object's implementation in order to make it more efficient. Being able to redefine the class
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by malisper 11y ago
I'm afraid I don't know that much about debugging with Scheme. I've never built anything large enough with it that I would need to extensively learn how to use the debugger.
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by malisper 11y ago
They are gifs. I used Open Broadcaster Software to record the videos and then used ezgif.com to convert those videos into gifs.
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by malisper 11y ago
Stroustrup gave a talk where he demonstrated that the performance of a linked list is terrible compared to a vector. Here[0] is a summary. [0] http://bulldozer00.com/2012/02/09/vectors-and-lists/
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by malisper 11y ago
Why is everyone complaining about the deal? Did Apple force all of the artists into it or did the record companies? Either way, the problem doesn't come from the terms of the deal, it comes from why the deal was made.
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by malisper 11y ago
I believe this is the heart of the problem of all of the bias flamewars. I think we can agree that it is reasonable to make statements about the group as long as the statements are true (women are more likely to be recruiters). It becomes m
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by malisper 11y ago
> bias includes the negative prior How is the prior negative if it is accurate?
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Macrology: Case Studies in Lisp Macros(malisper.me)
9 points by malisper 11y ago|1 comments
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by malisper 11y ago
My personal favorite is the series library. I wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078155
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by malisper 11y ago
From looking at the source for some of the benchmarks for SBCL, it appears that almost all of them set speed to 3, debug to 0, and safety to 0.
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Hitting the High Notes(joelonsoftware.com)
6 points by malisper 11y ago|2 comments
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by malisper 11y ago
It can. If you know someone else doesn't know, that just gives you more knowledge you yourself can use. For the "hardest puzzle", on each day everyone learns that no one was able to figure out the solution the day before. Bec

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