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by nbouscal 10y ago
You're the first person I've heard say that the metaphor doesn't make any sense; meanwhile, a lot of people regularly use it, which implies that it makes sense to them. You're welcome to not like the metaphor, but you do
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by nbouscal 10y ago
It rots in the sense that it becomes harder to change (or fix) over time, even if the code stays the same. This happens via loss of institutional knowledge as people forget how it works, loss of knowledge of the technologies used as they&
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by nbouscal 10y ago
Are you buying GBP futures then?
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by nbouscal 10y ago
What prominent lies from Remain? There was a lot of what people were calling scaremongering, but if you look at the markets it looks like it was pretty accurate. I've seen thorough takedowns of blatant lies from Leave, but haven't
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by nbouscal 10y ago
If the market is doing stupid things, go make a killing. Until you've done so, you're really in no place to criticize the market.
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by nbouscal 10y ago
If UK wants to trade with EU, UK still has to follow all EU regulations. If UK wants to trade with EU, UK still has to follow EU immigration policies. If they want to avoid those things, they don't get access to the single market, ther
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by nbouscal 10y ago
Standard Chartered is a massive multi-national bank with a £17 billion market cap and a multi-million line Haskell code base. Is that still a research project?
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I doubt the value network ever outputs a literal 100% chance of winning, it would at most be a lot of nines. Even if it did output an actual 100% chance, AlphaGo would still end up picking moves favored by the policy network, so it would pr
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by nbouscal 11y ago
It does start really basic, with a single logistic classifier. I think you'd have to be pretty motivated to learn how neural networks work from this course, but it seems possible. If you don't know any machine learning at all, the
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by nbouscal 11y ago
Given that it's so common to present RNNs as feed-forward nets with a layer for each time step, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable to group them in with deep learning.
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by nbouscal 11y ago
The Fed's mandate is inflation and unemployment, so judging whether they should act based on stock prices reflects a misunderstanding of their goals.
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by nbouscal 11y ago
The experiment referenced about disfluency has repeatedly failed to replicate. Meta-analysis here: https://www.academia.edu/11918605/Disfluent_Fonts_Don_t_Help...
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by nbouscal 11y ago
Even if MRP goes through, it'll almost certainly still be `return` for most people for a very long time. It just won't be part of the typeclass :)
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I don't know who the Haskellers you refer to are, or who they're regarded highly by, but all of the core members of the Haskell community that I know do care about category theory, and do know some amount of it. It's too usef
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by nbouscal 11y ago
> Only across riders who can afford the surge price. It's the utility-minimizing choice for the rest. It's really not. Without surge pricing, the people who can't afford surge pricing experience significantly worse outcome
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by nbouscal 11y ago
That's just really not true. Vim has a massive middle ground. It has a plethora of features that you don't need to know about, but that make your life marginally easier when you do learn them. Getting up to parity with another edi
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Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises(regexone.com)
1 points by nbouscal 11y ago|0 comments
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I speak four natural languages. I don't love the analogy, because I think differences between computer languages are more significant than differences between natural languages. That said, there are still more differences than just who
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by nbouscal 11y ago
Spoken like someone who has only learned languages from a single paradigm. “Programming languages are built on a common conceptual foundation.” This simply isn't true. The conceptual foundation of Java is quite distant from the concept
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I'm not claiming the hatred for my hypothetical white male CEO would follow the same narrative pathways. I'm claiming that it's easy to imagine reddit hating a white male CEO as much or more than Ellen Pao. I won't disag
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by nbouscal 11y ago
How about an older white male, from a business background, who was openly trying to institute censorship and monetization and was unabashedly ignorant of Reddit culture? I'm fairly confident that a CEO like that would have been signifi
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Greece and Syriza lost the public relations battle(marginalrevolution.com)
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by nbouscal 11y ago
“Greece” is the title of the post, so this follows the standard HN norm. Also, anyone paying any attention at all to world news knows what aspect of Greece is likely to be being discussed.
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by nbouscal 11y ago
Tyler Cowen responds: “Interfluidity has an interesting but quite wrong post on how to think about Greece. International relations simply could not be run on the principles he advocates, most of all in conjunction with democratic nation st
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by nbouscal 11y ago
It's not at all non-obvious if you learn the language. It's also not non-obvious if you learn any of the myriad other languages with the same semantics (including popular web languages like Ruby and CoffeeScript).
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I think you would like to know that your comment is completely impenetrable to an average intelligent layperson. All the words are reasonably understandable, but I have no idea how they translate into a response to the parent comment. My gu
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by nbouscal 11y ago
You "addressed" it by referring to "studies" that you didn't cite. There are studies that go both directions on the question, none of which have good enough methodology to be worth more than a tiny update in either
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I've similarly never seen anyone promise the benefits of dependent types when talking about simpler type systems. Why would they need to? Much simpler type systems already have more than enough benefits to be worthwhile. I'm not a
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by nbouscal 11y ago
http://chrisdone.com/posts/existentials
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by nbouscal 11y ago
I've spent a lot of time hanging out with pretty hardcore type theory people, and have never seen any of them recommend a dependently-typed language to a new programmer. In other words, you're pretty blatantly fighting a straw man

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