mrkgnao

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by mrkgnao 8y ago
> you become dizzy with too much O2 in your blood I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Can anyone comment on the similarities with (apparently somewhat less sophisticated) laziness as in Haskell, or the memoisation/caching done by the Nix package manager, or (perhaps most interestingly) the approach of the Funflow librar
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
This looks interesting. I'm open to replacing my current (actually quite rudimentary) "capture to org-mode" setup. Is there any way to dump all/important parts of the information Memex captures to plain text/CSV&#x2
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
I find it profoundly unsatisfying, but this may be a good starting point for further exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria
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What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success (2006) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
2 points by mrkgnao 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
It is a thing, and there's evidence for it in certain academic fields. [0] studies this effect in economics, and this would be reason to expect similar things in other fields like maths, CS, and physics where alphabetical surname order
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Digging Across Panama (2011)(neh.gov)
2 points by mrkgnao 8y ago|1 comments
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Flagged. This breaks the Show HN rules: OP is not the creator of this. I know the author; they shared it privately with friends and weren't ready to post this publicly yet.
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
This was posted elsewhere on this page: http://www.seilevel.com/requirements/visual-models-save-live...
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Quick note that may be of interest: S² is the mathematical notation for the "2-sphere", aka what we call a sphere in everyday language. I suppose that's explained by this: > A unique feature of the S2 library is that unlik
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
> Physiological values are complex in paediatrics. They are more than complicated because although there are published ‘normal values’ which will guide the clinician in knowing whether a child is tachycardic or tachypnoeic, these are in
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
I mean, if a piano (or something closer to a Tonnetz[0] layout) is okay, why not a full organ with >1 keyboard and pedals? :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
> Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed. I don't understand. From my (admittedly little better than layperson's) knowledge, I'm guessing
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Cavafy's The Satrapy , mentioned in the article (and a poem I love very much myself): http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=60
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Alexander Grothendieck, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, on cognitive "facility" and giftedness: Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Most sperm, too, are beaten to it by others
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Partly PR (like everything he does) and such unflattering things, but also partly an exercise of the ability (read "ubiquitous nerd dream" if you like) of thinking up outrageous solutions to pressing problems (e.g. inflatable &quo
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
> like a thunderstorm formed from two opposing weather fronts, the physicality of outside Prineville air met the everywhere-ness of inside space in an impossible, non-Euclidean intersection Not every word is a pretty one you can throw ar
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Haskell has one of my favourite C FFIs, and there are also libraries that let you seamlessly mix C into Haskell expressions: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/inline-c-0.6.1.0#readme
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by mrkgnao 8y ago
Erm, the link in 3. leads to http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber/ -- which just seems like a bunch of body text with no links in it.
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
Alternatively, "If I take a FLAC you own, make a 320kbps MP3 from it, and store it on my laptop, am I still in possession of any IP belonging to you?"
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TensorFlow in Haskell(github.com)
1 points by mrkgnao 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
A good set of Haskell bindings to the TensorFlow library: https://github.com/tensorflow/haskell
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
This is a nifty thing made possible by the MonadFail class, which defines how a monad treats or recovers from a failed pattern-match. When a value is bound in do-notation, the pattern on the left hand side of <- might not match
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Lagrange Multipliers Without Permanent Scarring [pdf](dbpubs.stanford.edu)
6 points by mrkgnao 9y ago|1 comments
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
Fun fact: the Vim plugin for my browser gave me the link hint "SSE" for the "<n> comments" link on the front page.
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Artem vs. Predator(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by mrkgnao 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
From experience (the last time slides for a talk by Stephen Diehl made its way to the HN frontpage), there's a lot of information in the actual (recorded) talk that the slides are going to be missing.
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
If you do raise that then it's no longer an argument against partial application or "high[er] order functions", since you can't really call `fn` partially applied if fn and x => fn(x) aren't equivalent.
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by mrkgnao 9y ago
How does record access work? Is it via generated record accessor functions (pretty crappy, used by Haskell) or does OCaml now have true row types (as in PureScript (and perhaps Elm))? Can you have multiple types with the same record field n

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