mkehrt

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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   I saw a phenomenal talk in grad school about why genetic algorithms are generally not as good as stochastic hill climbing. Unfortunately, I can't track down any references to it. The punch line was that they mathematically proved that
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   This is the truth.
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   I'm super pro generics and love me some Haskell and ML. However, generics really do have a cost. Since the size of the objects in a generic container can vary, you either need to take the ML route of making everything a pointer (which add
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   ...circuit?
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   I regularly run into email fields that won't accept +. This is just an extension of that thinking.
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   I'm a little concerned that it only goes up to J.
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   It's still supposed to be the case that the private key is protected by being secret in addition to being encrypted. This removes one layer of security. Not that I think it's really a big deal in most real-world cases, but distributing you
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   Lack of horrible?
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   by mkehrt 13y ago

   This assumes you're using JSON in Javascript. JSON is a pretty widely spread human-readable data format now outside of javascript, and it's nice to have good tools that aren't tied to a particular language.