mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
You should call this system "Java". <g>
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I seem to remember from anatomy and physiology that most body cells don't really divide, the exception being epithelial cells, which are constantly being produced and shedding. So I'm not sure that DNA damage would tend to get pro
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I have a theory that even though the bombers didn't necessarily always hit what they were aiming at, the bombing campaign was important in tying up the Luftwaffe and degrading its capabilities through attrition, thereby hastening achie
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It's not a complex problem.
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Btw, here is a simpler technique I've used for shortening over-long if-statements: Replace if(A) { // 300 lines of code... } else { return FALSE; } with if(!A) { return FALSE; } // 3
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The irony is that the documentation[1] is now 335 lines. [1] https://github.com/groupserver/gs.group.member.canpost/blob/...
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I disagree that the problem was valid. The fact that code doesn't look right to somebody isn't a problem, it's just somebody's opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Using min-max heaps should be workable; indeed, the resulting data structure seems to be a special case of the data structure described in section 3 of [1]. [1] http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/mike/Papers/
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Interesting. One layout they did not consider is the bit-reversal permutation[1] of the sorted array. Searching is straightforward: to find element i, you reverse the bits of i -- so then, you can just binary search. This layout is similar
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Deletion can't be done efficiently, as pointed out by Timon Gehr: >> Deletion leaves a hole in one heap, which should be filled by the minimum element of the next heap, etc. The minimum cannot be extracted efficiently from a max-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
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I wonder if taking proton pump inhibitors changes your gut bacteria?
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>> "Microdebt" clearly does not solve poverty. This idea has always had its critics. It is distasteful at best to be a money lender to the poorest strata of humanity. Common wisdom tells us as much. But payday-loan places ha
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Independent doesn't sound like the same thing as undecidable. Given a program P, it is undecidable whether that program will halt. There is an answer: P either halts or it doesn't. There is just no way to find out (in general).
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I'm trying to wrap my head around how P=NP could not have an answer, and I am not having much success. It could be that I am not educated enough to understand. Notwithstanding that, I don't see how any of this relates to my origin
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p=np is a well-posed question, so clearly it must have an answer. We can't just make it an axiom. However, the thought occurred to me that perhaps p=np could reduce to some undecidable problem (in the halting problem-sense). In that ca
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
Could P=NP be undecidable?
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Stock market data does seem like a better source of entropy than Twitter queries.
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Lex solves a restricted subset of state machine code generation problems; Ragel aims to solve all state machine code generation problems generally. You can do anything you can do in Lex in Ragel. The reverse is not true. Lex is simpler, but
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Opioids are said to work poorly on nerve pain.
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
The video is cool. The finished drawings look like garbage.
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>> If doing a `cd` command takes 3 seconds, I'll have to wait for it to be ready to run the next command anyways, because my `rm` command has to run in there or I might have a problem. My understanding is that the cd command fini
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There's a simple economic explanation for why poor people might do less jogging. Jogging is a luxury activity: it takes time and energy, without producing any income; it doesn't get you a job or take care of the kids. If you are s
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by mtdewcmu 11y ago
The Nature paper uses the phrase "data-driven hypothesis generation," which sounds pretty accurate and consistent with what you're saying.
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"such broad definitions can quickly degenerate into pancomputationalism : everything computes. And, if everything computes, computation is an uninteresting concept. The brain computes, but so does a piece of wood. Computation is simpl
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I would make that series of if-statements more obviously deterministic, for starters. One way of accomplishing that would be a bunch of nested if-else blocks. However, that would be ugly. I'd prefer something like continue statements -
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It won't execute more than one, because only one can match. The other sscanfs will all fail. I agree it would make sense to stop trying patterns once one has matched, though. Personally, my inclination would be to rewrite the loop to t
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My major problem with demonizing Nazis is that it's trite.
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Idiomatic expressions (like "come in handy") have to be learned as complete pieces, because they're, well, idiomatic -- they can't be predicted from simple rules. I remember studying Spanish idiomatic expressions in Span
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Managers are the ones that buy this stuff, not developers.

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