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by pacala 11y ago
> The suspicion is that since AlphaGo plays purely for probability of long-term victory rather than playing for points [snip] I wonder how many handicap stones do Lee Sedol, or Ke Jie for that matter, need to have a shot at winning even
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by pacala 11y ago
With tinfoil hat on, they mighy want to get a few more fingerprinting bits. https://panopticlick.eff.org
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by pacala 11y ago
Believe it or not, people have been optimizing the eggs location long before the Internet, using the simple art of [anonymous] sampling and statistics. There is absolutely no technical need to track everyone's every move, the ad /
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by pacala 11y ago
> One-liners are fine if you know you'll never need to extend the logic later on. Problem is, how often does that stay true? Write the simple version first, wait for the need to extend the logic arise naturally, factor out the funct
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by pacala 11y ago
I don't know Ruby and reached the same conclusion in about 15 seconds. Could be nice to make it a function [or name the results] "capitalizeWords(text)". Possibly adding indentation could help: @sentence = @sentence.
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by pacala 11y ago
You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes less than $52,000/year. Wrong, wrong, wrong and, drumroll, wrong.
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by pacala 11y ago
“Math education needs to improve, but if illiteracy were on the rise, I don’t think we’d be talking about eliminating reading from the curriculum.” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/abandoning-...
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by pacala 11y ago
There are 100 stores on a 20 miles radius. Surely Susie's mom has better things to do than to spend $50,000 and untold time to convince the managers of every single store in the metro to not sell lemons to u/peyton.
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by pacala 11y ago
Let me get this straight. CEO Schmidt gets payed 100x more than both Google Engineer Sarah and Google Engineer Jessie just because he gets to manipulate their salaries.
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by pacala 11y ago
Between Excel and SQL, I'd say collection-oriented programming has pretty much taken over the world.
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by pacala 11y ago
I would gladly maintain the code I wrote in the past 6 years. I would love to maintain the codebase of at least one of Google's internal projects I had the fortune to work with. Thanks Google, their thorough review process and their fo
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by pacala 11y ago
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Down with the Kulaks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak
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by pacala 11y ago
Advertisement is relevant. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=KO produces nothing of intrinsic value, yet it is valued at $185B. Why? Because they've built and maintained a very valuable brand, via advertisement. The day Coc
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by pacala 11y ago
To be fair, that homogenous white European culture, with about 50 countries, 23 official languages in EU, 225 indigenous languages in whole of Europe, and every valley with its own, sometimes quite distinct, dialect and traditions. Here are
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by pacala 11y ago
Does it support C APIs and/or Numpy / Scipy?
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by pacala 11y ago
Would you please clarify what problems are you referring at? Some Java-in-the-browser problems that seem orthogonal to the minutia of the language running in the browser: * Language-based security model. Hopefully not an issue, browsers hav
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by pacala 11y ago
Telecommuting is a sweet deal, congratulations! Realistically speaking, no amount of density housing would provide a 3000sqft house for 400k. Maybe a condo in a high rise, possibly skimping on "good school district". Density housi
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by pacala 11y ago
Earth is heavy. Lifting cargo in space from Earth is expensive due to gravity. Numbers: Earth escape velocity: 11,000 m/s, energy to propel 1kg to escape velocity: 60MJ. Moon escape velocity: 2,400 m/s, energy to propel 1kg to esc
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by pacala 11y ago
"Local variables" can be allocated to global addresses by the compiler/linker toolchain, barring recursive functions. Runtime code loading may require a bit of extra care, but I wonder if safety-critical software really need
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by pacala 11y ago
You are technically correct. However: * Fatalities due to being struck by lightning are largely avoidable by educating oneself on how to behave around a lightning storm. http://hikingdude.com/hiking-lightning.php * Fataliti
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by pacala 11y ago
Interesting idea, tough it incentivizes publishers to prioritize addictive content over valuable content.
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by pacala 11y ago
FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizar_system is based on set theory, and has traction in the math community.
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by pacala 11y ago
What if I have a million A/B pairs, measured in parallel. Each bit is 100 A measurements, 1 for up and 0 for down. Why is this not FTL communication of 10k bits?
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by pacala 11y ago
Google is a big place, with diverse opinions. Even better, it encourages updating one's opinion in face of new evidence. GPUs have proven themselves cost-effective in tackling a number of vision problems [and others], Google has those
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by pacala 11y ago
SWIG supports many other languages besides Python.
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by pacala 11y ago
It has a C++ API, so there is no lock-in to Python, either 2.7 or 3.x.
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Semantic Scholar launched: an AI-based academic search engine(semanticscholar.org)
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by pacala 11y ago
Great points all around, thanks for the reply. Mathematics encapsulates at proof level. I don't have to care how Pythagoras's theorem may be proven, I know it holds for every right triangle and I can build from there. It's a
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by pacala 11y ago
> The Big Idea of Object Oriented Programming is "Messaging" and encapsulation, i.e. how objects encapsulate their internal complexity and expose their capabilities for maximum re-use and minimal knowledge and coupling of inter
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by pacala 11y ago
A few guesses: a. It just works. No need to download and configure the right version of the SDK. b. Does not timeout when you close your laptop [I hope!]. c. I works on a Chromebook. Possibly not something you care about, but a historical p

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