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by mjn 7y ago
There's a map here of per-capita carbon footprint per zip code: https://coolclimate.org/maps It seems to suggest that suburbs are generally the biggest emitters per-capita. Inner cities tend to be fairly low and some r
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by mjn 7y ago
> Also, why is NEURIPS or ICML papers is not a hiring guarantee? I thought they're highly sought after. They're sought after, but the conferences have also grown huge. NeurIPS 2018 accepted around 1,000 papers! Based on a query
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by mjn 7y ago
What part of TX do you live in? My parents have lived in suburban Houston for 20 years, and their power has basically never gone out for more than short blips, not even during tropical storms or hurricanes. The power lines in their neighbor
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by mjn 7y ago
My parents (who live in Texas) get a rebate like this from their electricity company, which surprised me by even having an option to do it manually without a Nest-style internet-connected thermostat. If it's a day that the company want
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by mjn 7y ago
Unison has support for that on some platforms. On Linux, the option "-repeat watch" uses inotify to watch for changes and rerun unison each time there's a change. You can combine that with -auto and some of the options specif
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by mjn 7y ago
That can happen because unison uses OCaml's built in serialization, which isn't guaranteed to be stable across OCaml versions. It doesn't often change, but the representation of arrays was changed in OCaml 4.02, which meant u
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by mjn 7y ago
These are the four patents being asserted, fwiw: 7,781,789, Transparent mirrorless light emitting diode: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7781789B2/en 9,240,529, Textured phosphor conversion layer light emittin
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by mjn 7y ago
If those were the only two options, sure, NYT wins. But there are plenty of free options better than Breitbart. BBC News, NPR, and The Guardian are all decent, on par with NYT in my opinion. For local news, I've mostly found small site
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by mjn 7y ago
No problem; your question made me curious. Too late to edit, but I wrote it up on my blog for posterity: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/car_hoare_bank.html
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by mjn 7y ago
He appears to be a distant relative, yes, but by my count, five generations removed from any direct connection to the banking business. Starting with his entry [1] on thepeerage.com, a UK genealogical site for the upper classes, you can bac
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by mjn 7y ago
Some jurisdictions add an extra layer of protection against companies being (maybe intentionally) "sloppy" with where they pull data by mandating sequencing: You first have to make a conditional offer, and only then is it legal
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by mjn 7y ago
There's a new section of the manual covering them, here: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual046.html A blog post with a more extensive set of examples: http://jobjo.github.io&#x2
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by mjn 7y ago
It's the wrong number of letters, though. Here in Washington, DC, we currently have six licensed scooter companies: Bird, Jump, Lime, Lyft, Skip, and Spin. Through advanced statistical analysis, I've therefore determined that four
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by mjn 7y ago
It seemed too frivolous to include in the blog post (I'm the author), but I fit an exponential to the last 10 years for Twitter consumption, which predicts 100% colon titles as early as 2050: https://twitter.com/mm_jj_n
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Colons in computer science paper titles (2018)(kmjn.org)
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Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)(kmjn.org)
16 points by mjn 7y ago|5 comments
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by mjn 7y ago
I wrote a somewhat related response at the time the "Who Killed Prolog" article this one is responding to came out: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/prolog_lost_steam.html I agree that "easier to understand&quo
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by mjn 7y ago
> the EU should adopt English as the main language I don't see it happening officially, but this is more and more becoming the case de-facto isn't it? Especially anytime things are done cross-border, English is the default lang
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by mjn 8y ago
lvalue/rvalue are old concepts and terms ('60s/'70s) and common to all C-family languages. The others are new to C++.
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by mjn 8y ago
> Symbolic execution is also known as abstract interpretation These aren't the same thing! They do both use abstraction of concrete values, but abstract interpretation solves for fixpoints in a lattice of abstract values, which is a
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by mjn 8y ago
We got 6% from Springer for a textbook (6% total split between the authors, not per-author) [1]. However we were first-time authors, and also insisted that we be allowed to leave the "author version" PDFs online as open access [2]
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by mjn 8y ago
A pretty large number of people do end up making that decision. I'm an academic researcher who does some stuff related to AI & Games, and one of my personal problems is that my game-industry AI contacts keep leaving the game indust
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by mjn 8y ago
It seems a bit more complicated than that to me. In many cases Americans in at least some regions do want it, and even vote to fund it, but nonetheless the political & civil service machinery seems unable to actually deliver it. Espec
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Roundtripping Trump through machine translation(kmjn.org)
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Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)(kmjn.org)
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Colons in computer science paper titles(kmjn.org)
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Advice on how to take a screenshot (1985)(kmjn.org)
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by mjn 8y ago
To be more specific, 9 feet (2.7m) is the report's worst-case upper bound, the 99.9th-percentile results of running a new simulation model, RCP 8.5, not a prediction of what's likely to happen. That model has a huge range: Its 50t
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by mjn 8y ago
One way of quantifying it really roughly is to estimate the total caloric value of worldwide food production and divide by the population, to get a global estimate of calories-per-person. According to one estimate, anyway, that's been
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Most medical practices are not parachutes: A citation analysis(cmajopen.ca)
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