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   by mjn 12y ago

   This is discussed now and then, but it's difficult to get all the architectural pieces to align to make it really work. A GC needs some kind of cooperation with the language, so you need to agree on common interfaces, which is a bit
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   by mjn 12y ago

   In some theoretical sense I agree with that view, but I don't think we're currently at that stage from a practical perspective. Today, the established ASP solvers have performance and expressivity tradeoffs relative to the establi
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   by mjn 12y ago

   Fwiw some of the later logic-programming work coming out of Prolog has produced languages with Prolog-like syntax but without statement order being significant, and guaranteed termination. This paradigm, Answer Set Programming (ASP), is als
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   by mjn 12y ago

   For better or worse, this is more historically common with men, even in previous generations. Both of my parents' fathers were in their late 40s when they were born, in the 1940s. And yes, that left the fathers quite old when their kid
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   by mjn 12y ago

   I read him/her as referring to the mail server lacking an IPv6 reverse DNS address. This is a fairly common oversight, since IPv6 connectivity is getting more common, but many providers' control panels allow only easy self-setting
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   by mjn 12y ago

   Basically the sovereign-country version of declaring bankruptcy, yes, except that it's messier because there is no bankruptcy court with jurisdiction to oversee it. You declare that you can't pay some or all of the outstanding deb
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   by mjn 12y ago

   That's a reasonable criticism, but I think quite different from ideological extremism. Their problem, at least at the level of the leadership, is more just populism: they are telling Greeks many things that Greeks want to hear, which a
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   by mjn 12y ago

   Fwiw I've had better luck without SPF records than with them (or at least without hard-fail SPF records). As far as I know, the lack of SPF never resulted in lack of delivery (and I have no delivery problems to the big providers). But
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   by mjn 12y ago

   I think interest in that application is partly driven by a DARPA competition for disaster-response robotics: http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/
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    by mjn 12y ago

    > It's very difficult to pass lackluster work through these places Not really that hard. It's difficult to pass outright bad work through a top-tier conference, but above a quality threshold, it's basically a crapshoot;
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    by mjn 12y ago

    My second-hand understanding of the arrangement is that from 1997 until roughly the mid 2000s, Maxis's autonomy was mostly protected by Will Wright's personal clout (plus possibly some terms around the acquisition, if there were a
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    by mjn 12y ago

    It does vary a lot by school. Total cost-per-student has risen substantially at many universities, but is closer to flat at others. The University of California system is one that has had kept per-student costs close to flat, and in their c
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    Generative-space word clouds(kmjn.org)

    1 points by mjn 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mjn 12y ago

    Relatedly, I found this survey of different methods for procedural city generation (template-based, agent-simulation-based, etc.) to be informative: http://www.citygen.net/files/images/Procedural_City_Generati...
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    by mjn 12y ago

    The internal links framed by a colored box are the default rendering of the LaTeX hyperref package. I also don't like them, but they seem to be pretty common, e.g. most arXiv papers do that. You can turn it off by passing the 'hid
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    by mjn 12y ago

    I believe they're similar to uninterned symbols in Lisp, i.e. what you get in Common Lisp from make-symbol (or gensym ). The main intended use-case seems to be to get "private" property names, by conjuring up a fresh name-
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    The fourth amendment and the global internet [pdf](stanfordlawreview.org)

    1 points by mjn 12y ago|1 comments
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    by mjn 12y ago

    Interesting; this could potentially solve a pain point for me. I run a small set of services for some research collaborators and have been phasing out passwords, so users are authenticated solely via their public keys. That works for most c
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    by mjn 12y ago

    More or less yes, but it's more than one register. The video output as the scanlines go across is built up from a number of registers. Three registers encode a 20-bit "playfield graphics" layout (blocky background graphics) f
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    by mjn 12y ago

    In recent years (say, the past 4-6), imo inclusionists have actually more or less won on the "notability" question. Nowadays "verifiability" tends to trump it: if you can write a well-referenced article, this is taken
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    by mjn 12y ago

    A reasonable point. I've been doing a bit of editing for style recently, and will make another pass before sending off the manuscript. At the moment the style is very uneven from chapter to chapter, partly because the authors come from
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    by mjn 12y ago

    As another resource, here's a draft chapter on dungeon generation, from a textbook on procedural content generation in games: http://pcgbook.com/wp-content/uploads/chapter03.pdf (Draft in part because some of
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    by mjn 12y ago

    It's still a good introduction to the principles: how problems like regression, classification, and reinforcement learning are defined; concepts like overfitting, bias-variance tradeoff, etc.; some general classes of algorithms and how
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    by mjn 12y ago

    Here's a direct implementation of the Clojure -> and ->> macros in CL: https://github.com/nightfly19/cl-arrows/blob/master/arrows.l... 'fogus also points out that the Dylan compose f
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    by mjn 12y ago

    Some quasi-journals have been moving in a "magazine-style" direction with broader-interest articles than a traditional journal, in order to fill some of the trade-magazine gap. Some more successfully than others. A few that I some
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    by mjn 12y ago

    > Historically no test existed other than behavior observations. That's not too different from what I read this test as doing, except that it's observing neural activity while observing behaviors. Naturally, neural activity dur
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    by mjn 12y ago

    The x86tso file mentioned there is from this project: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/ They have some interesting material there on building models of processors' memory-concurrency behavior. Unfort
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    by mjn 12y ago

    I agree with (1), but it's much beyond just low-level staff; even senior people have considerable turnover. Since I'm an academic AI researcher, I've tried to cultivate contacts with AI leads at AAA companies, because they of
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    Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities [pdf](eml.berkeley.edu)

    2 points by mjn 12y ago|0 comments
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    The productivity of working hours [pdf](ftp.iza.org)

    3 points by mjn 12y ago|0 comments