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nophilosoraptor
12y ago
Floats are like 16-bit shorts. Useless. There is little performance advantage to using a 32-bit float. Their precision is low enough that you can't do anything useful without risking the correctness of your program. They are, like shor
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12y ago
You can think of free will as a control system. Like a PID controller. A person performs an action, measures how the environment is changed, and modifies their behaviour to get better outcomes (for themselves or other people they care about