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by okmjuhb 16y ago
Another cute way that's more obviously correct without translations is to consider a square with sides of length a+b. You get an interior square of area c^2 and 4 right triangles with legs of size a and b.
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
This is totally wrong; the examples rely on compilers doing copy elision together with return value optimization so that the copy becomes unnecessary (even if a copy is expensive, it's fine - it never needs to happen). They do not use copy
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
One such system was Pathfinder, which (I believe) used a relatively simple Bayes net to diagnose within certain categories of disease. It was able to outperform pathologists in the area it was designed for because (or so I've been told) it
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
Math 55 isn't nice because of how much math it covers (you could take equivalent classes that cover the same material, just split up, at the same or higher level). It's nice because of the bonds it forges between the students, who are usual
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
I like to think that, like how the "Book of Life" is interpreted in Christian Symbology, where the list of good and bad deeds of a persons life has been recorded for a later judgment, there's a "Book of Time" where, at some point, you have
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
The just world fallacy isn't bad because of how it changes your motivation or happiness or anything like that. It's bad because of how it causes you to act towards those around you. People don't respond to homelessness when they've convince
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by okmjuhb 16y ago
This article has so much crazy that I almost don't know how to respond to it. C++ coddles programmers and Ruby doesn't. Really? That sounds like a sensible thing to say? C++ avoided reflection because it would be misused by programmers? Onl