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by pacala 12y ago
Or Google could buy it. Or Google researchers could replicate it. Or Google could actually make it work because they already have the infrastructure to scrape, curate and query a humongous knowledge graph.
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by pacala 12y ago
A kingdom for a layman exposition on how [2] is to be computed.
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by pacala 12y ago
No search? No traffic? Pshaw!
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by pacala 12y ago
The question is: who needs the jobless people? http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.p... Table 1 U.S. Equine Population During Mechanization of Agriculture and Transportati
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by pacala 12y ago
Do you have some concrete concurrency use-cases in mind that you could possibly share?
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by pacala 12y ago
To be precise, threads suck because thread _scheduling_ is expensive. From a logical pov, structured programming still rules, and threads are an excellent way to implement structured programming.
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by pacala 12y ago
Great example, it now clicks. We lifted b all the way up because it needs to be consumed by the caller, might as well lift a as well, as types with free variables, like b in "forall a.a -> b", are useless. Which looks a lot lik
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by pacala 12y ago
Not sure why "test : forall b. (forall a. a -> b) -> b * b" is "the standard first-rank HM polymorphism". The first comment implied "test" is a type error in HM, typed as "forall a b. (a -> b) -&g
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by pacala 12y ago
Reactive programming is functional programming for events. You can run but you can't hide.
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by pacala 12y ago
There is (immutable) data and there are modules. Encapsulation / Demeter make it hard to work with data. OTOH, Encapsulation / Demeter are good for modules.
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by pacala 12y ago
Really good video. Made me clearly understand that React is Javascript as if it were to natively support the spreadsheet / reactive programming model. Update a cell, dependent cells / signals get updated automagically. The huge up
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by pacala 13y ago
You can implement SQL on top of MapReduce.
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by pacala 13y ago
Thanks for the pointers. Looks like asm.js and C are on par as portable assembly targets. The one difference is that asm.js is ready to use by half a billion users, the other is that no sane human should code asm.js directly, whereas some p
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by pacala 13y ago
Embedding jit assemblers into C binaries is different than jit-ing the C language itself.
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by pacala 13y ago
asm.js is portable assembly with a jit assembler. In that sense, it's even closer to "native code" than C, as C requires a separate compilation step.
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by pacala 13y ago
Could you please share a few examples?
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by pacala 13y ago
Precisely. Software it's all about shortening the length of the feedback cycle. Chorus: "How is email / web / google different than pigeons / library / index of an encyclopedia book?".
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by pacala 13y ago
The amount of negativity in this thread is amazing. I've watched the video and I'm positively impressed. The demo is building the insight why is my code / unit test computing a certain value with instant feedback and full i
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by pacala 13y ago
JVML is not a bytecode. The bytecode syntax is just a disguise . JVML is a high level language that prescribes a certain object / method / inheritance model. Methods are associated with objects according to specific vtable /
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by pacala 13y ago
http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/ > Good, a very good game! I gave 1 star so that my comment gets seen. ++ very positive > The game is an example of how a good game should be! Don't bother that I gave 1 st
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by pacala 13y ago
"electric" is not a source of energy. Is a way to transport energy. No oil / fossil fuels => no cheap electricity either.
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by pacala 13y ago
> explaining it further as "something with an identity and an associative operation" really doesn't help much either My 3rd grade daughter learns about associativity and identity. Is it too much to expect adults to not get
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by pacala 13y ago
The difference is quite subtle, if any. I'm not even sure why you are afraid of government stalking. After all, government is prevented by the rule of law from arbitrarily throw you in jail. For every reason you are afraid of governmen
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by pacala 13y ago
This is getting ridiculous. The ad empires built on stalking every single breath of every single human want to take governments to task on the topic of stalking. What about cleaning up your own house first? 1. Limiting Corporations’ Authori
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by pacala 13y ago
I wholly agree that it's worth investing in finding the best solution. However, in my experience I found that having concrete code to work with is invaluable . The magic bullet for me is to slap something concrete together, then aggre
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by pacala 13y ago
I hope people give Dart a chance before unleashing the fragmentation zoo upon it. It's quite a nice language.
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by pacala 13y ago
Dart is quite awesome on technical grounds. One thing though. I'm not entirely sure how it combats fragmentation. For example, I also find TypeScript awesome. ECMA6 fixes most of the blind spots of JS and it's quite palatable. Hec
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by pacala 13y ago
Almost. Wanderlust. The ebb and flow of disaster and recovery. A pond overflows, a forest burns, a volcano erupts, a comet hits Earth. We always send out the scouting parties and come back. There is no immediate economic logic, just the 1
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by pacala 13y ago
Regrettably, I have nothing valuable to add, but I wanted to call this out as absolutely beautiful. Specialize generic programs to a very specific execution context, using abstract interpretation to inform the specialization. I can think of
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by pacala 13y ago
It appears that we are in agreement that Bob is overpaying. The point in contention seems to be whether Bob is "better off" than he was before the purchase. I am unpersuaded by the circular argument "Bob made the purchase, th

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