miloshh

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by miloshh 17y ago
Nah. Using Lisp to script an engine written in C++ is not the same as writing the engine itself in Lisp. I'm not saying this is not possible, it's just that nobody tries. You might be able to do a serious graphics or high-performance comp
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by miloshh 17y ago
Take away static typing from Haskell and you still have a richer language than Lisp, with more interesting research happening in the community. It is ironic that e.g. nested data parallelism has its roots in Lisp (as early as 1990) but migh
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by miloshh 17y ago
So, I guess a real criticism of Lisp would be that it is stuck in the past. Lispers are still looking down on C; they never try to look up. If they did, they would see languages like ML and Haskell have surpassed them in all respects. Heck,
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by miloshh 17y ago
Well, Lisp sure does exist, and has been used to solve real world problems. But those were predominatly in applications where performance, parallelism, graphics, large matrix computations and GUIs do not matter. If you want to pick on the i
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by miloshh 17y ago
"I could show these poor imperative programmers how their problems could be solved much easier in Lisp if I wanted to." That to me (as an outsider) seems to be the main message of these Lisp blogs. But at some point, nobody will believe you
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by miloshh 17y ago
The message of the article is the typical "you need other skills, not just high IQ, to be smart". But then they show some examples of questions for which you supposedly need these "other skills", and sure enough, they're typical little math
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by miloshh 17y ago
Which independent researchers did you have in mind? One example I can think of is in politically sensitive areas, where think-tanks bypass the peer-review process and try to get their "research" straight into media, through good connections
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by miloshh 17y ago
Focuses very much on a Ph.D. in English, which is in some ways the worst rather than the average case. However, the argument that getting a Ph.D. is getting harder while its (financial) value is decreasing seems correct to me. That might no
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by miloshh 17y ago
The attack seems to be based on the arbitrary assumption that e=3. Isn't e always a huge number in practice?
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by miloshh 17y ago
It is a bit better since education institutions and are not subject to the quota, but the arcane complexity of the rest of the process still remains.
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by miloshh 17y ago
But I assume they did not write the game in Python and the optimize parts in C++. Quite the opposite - they wrote it in C++ and then found that some part (e.g. GUI) is growing in complexity while not being crucial for performance, at which
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by miloshh 17y ago
That advice never works. The problem is data structures . If your high-level prototype uses complex data structures of e.g. Python, you will not be able to access them from C++. You will need to rewrite the whole thing anyway. The only way
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by miloshh 17y ago
You're right, C++ pretty much has no serious alternatives for games. And not just games, anything that involves computer graphics, physical simulation, computer vision or image processing. Python is excellent if some good soul has already w
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by miloshh 17y ago
Cornell / Matlab or Java / 2009 and many years past. You can choose multiple versions of those courses. There is even a "robotics" version.
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by miloshh 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC_(complexity) It might be that P=NC, but it is very unlikely, i.e. some problems are probably inherently not parallelizable.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Ah, the power of a least-squares fit. :)
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by miloshh 17y ago
I'm mostly arguing against patenting trivial increments over non-trivial ideas. It has been long known that MC can be applied to computing any integral over any domain, so computing the integral of color over a pixel is simply a specializat
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by miloshh 17y ago
Are you sure that's the typical software patent? Some famous law-suits were about patents that are far less trivial than your bridge example. For example, Pixar holds a patent on Monte Carlo sampling, and has sued or threatened a number of
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by miloshh 17y ago
Often it isn't the main goal of the research that's monetizable. Instead there's an assumed body of knowledge that is "well-known" and "solved" - but in fact there are only a few people in the world that truly understand it, and it could ma
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by miloshh 17y ago
Not really - blacks from Africa and the Carribean do very well academically. It is only the American blacks that do poorly. They have the same biology and often a better starting line than the immigrants. Why is that?
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by miloshh 17y ago
The thoughtful objections have not been against the idea as such, but mostly against the proposal that a board of investors or government officials would decide who is good enough. That would indeed a problem - startups that VCs or governme
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by miloshh 17y ago
As pointed out by gruseom below, if somebody wants to game the system, they will come on a tourist visa and simply not leave. I don't think these convoluted scenarios of possible abuse are realistic at all. Furthermore, if the founder's vis
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by miloshh 17y ago
It's sad how the founders visa isn't even close to reality yet, and already has vocal opponents bringing up bogus reasons why it's a bad thing. How long will it take until somebody complains about "foreigners taking away startup opportuniti
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by miloshh 17y ago
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate Unfortunately, it seems to be just a reference CPU implemetation, but if the GPU code is ever released, I'd guess it will be here.
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by miloshh 17y ago
I think that's unlikely, but it would be an interesting experiment to find out for sure.
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by miloshh 17y ago
It is assumed that longer messages take longer to compose. But that's only true if you're starting from scratch every time. You should instead write one good generic message and send it out to many people, only inserting one sentence to ref
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by miloshh 17y ago
No, it's not supply/demand economics, that was my point. It would be if Americans created jobs that immigrants later filled. That is not happening. Rather, both Americans and immigrants worked hard to build a tech industry that then created
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by miloshh 17y ago
"The demographic makeup of SV engineers was overwhelmingly white American until around a dozen years ago." A dozen years ago was 1997. Do you seriously think this is true? "With the importation of so many engineers into the US, wages were s
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by miloshh 17y ago
The article could as well be called "three wrong ways to hire". I don't understand why academia has long known the right way to hire, but the software industry keeps missing it. The right way is to let the candidates give a 30-60 minute tal
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by miloshh 17y ago
The study seems to say that whether a person uses humor (and what kind) depends on their place in the social hierarchy. But that is a far cry from saying that the purpose of humor is to define the hierarchy. Similarly, the type of food pe

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