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by pash 12y ago
Note that the bet is the conjunction of those three propositions, so you don't have to think any one of them is particularly unlikely to think that all three of them together are. For example, if you consider the propositions to be rou
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by pash 12y ago
And the verb recurse is used in the name as an adjective when we already have a perfectly good adjectival form of the word— recursive —that is also more immediately familiar. People who consider recurse an ugly back-formation (preferrin
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by pash 12y ago
I don't know the answer to that, but I suspect it might be because there is some reason for the code in GHC.Prim to be monomorphic. There is a Stack Overflow discussion about this that gives a bit more background, by the way. (The answ
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by pash 12y ago
Are you asking me about the capabilities of the techology, or are you asking me to predict the future? I'm giving you the former. I don't know what Bitcoin will look like in ten years. I do understand the technology and am interes
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by pash 12y ago
You can get fraud protection with Bitcoin (if you want it) by using two-of-three multisig transactions with an escrow agent of your choosing. The "no recourse for fraud" meme about Bitcoin is simply wrong. There are not many dispu
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by pash 12y ago
> If you subtract out deaths due to drunkenness, cars kill less people than bathtubs. In case anybody actually thought this might be true, here are some statistics that show it almost certainly isn't. Accidental motor-vehicle cras
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by pash 12y ago
This technique can be applied to created side channels among any connected sub-network of Bitcoin users, so if we're able to build good technology to figure out when to create a side channel (and with whom), it's likely that a lar
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by pash 12y ago
If I'm reading the slides right, longer chains of transactions on a side channel do not increase risk, so it's innappropriate to imply that a more heavily used side channel introduces risks comparable to credit-card chargebacks.
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by pash 12y ago
Word-use is roughly Zipf-distributed [0] in most all modern languages, so there's not much difference in the number of commonly used words (as long as you ignore basic differences like the existence of articles and the richness of word
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by pash 12y ago
For a discussion of the ease of rhyming in French versus English, see, e.g., this book [0]. Rhymes are widely considered to be easier to form in French; partly as a result, however, classical French poetry developed several additional styli
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by pash 12y ago
Or: "Once again, the intent of this blog post is clear from its opening paragraphs (some readers' abiding dissatisfaction with its title notwithstanding), aforementioned intent being not to analyze patterns of general usage of the
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by pash 12y ago
I think the most unwarranted generalization is yours. The author clearly did not mean to do what you criticize him for failing to do. But I suppose we could ask the mods to change the submission title. How about this?—"One blogger&#x27
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by pash 12y ago
A keen observation, and Wilde really makes it four and a half. But Shakespeare wrote mostly blank verse, and rhyming is not as much of a constraint on vocabulary in French due to the high commonality of word endings. If it's true that
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by pash 12y ago
I don't believe the International Astronomical Union has offered an opinion about the Webster's definition of the word, or about how you and your six year-old may use "planet" in ordinary language. The IAU's definit
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by pash 12y ago
In the Bayesian and inductive-logical view of probability theory, you must define a probability distribution with respect to an information set. That set formalizes your observations of (and assumptions about) the state of the universe, and
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The unique 21st-century misery of the online shaming victim(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by pash 12y ago
No, you're right, it's just a terminological morass. Entropy and information are different names for the same concept, one that in its full generality is simply a measure of the uncertainty about the value of a random variable. E
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by pash 12y ago
The goal of most money-managers is to make themselves rich, and for the most part they succeed.
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by pash 12y ago
Insider trading was first outlawed in the United States by the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The major motivation for the ban was to increase the public's confidence that they could invest in financial securities without being t
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by pash 12y ago
No, the article doesn't use the word intelligence ; it uses the words brains , brainpower , intellectual capital , talented , and clever instead. That's The Economist for you. The article more than once calls for improvin
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by pash 12y ago
To understand the theory of recursive functions you must understand fixed points, but I think there's a simpler way to understand the magic of the Y combinator. Here's how it works. Say we have a recursive function like map :
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by pash 12y ago
> I don't think that you can bring up 'fast driving' on the US side of things, if you want to compare yourself to Europe. What am I missing? I think I made it clear that I am talking about population averages. Average sp
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by pash 12y ago
The link [1] cited in my post above includes a chart showing fatalities per mile driven plotted against fatalities per capita for a dozen countries. The relationship looks pretty linear.
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by pash 12y ago
There is a big difference in commuting patterns, which is the difference I noted. Even comparing only suburbanite Americans to suburbanite Europeans, the Americans are likelier to drive, and when they drive, they drive farther and faster. S
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by pash 12y ago
The article ignores the single biggest reason Americans are likelier than Swedes to die on the roads, which is simply that Americans drive more. The death rate is nearly four times higher per capita in the United States, but only twice as h
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by pash 12y ago
Coincidentally, I'm reading Roy McWeeny's Classic book Symmetry: An Introduction to Group Theory and Its Applications [0] right now. It's a "leisurely but reasonably thorough" (as its author describes it) look at
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by pash 12y ago
Yes, I take your point, which is more precise and better argued than the author's. That is, I think your distillation of his argument misrepresents it by stripping out the logical inconsistencies (and the irony). Montier's letter
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by pash 12y ago
The great irony is that Montier tests his argument by comparing the returns on shares of a company that claimed to be trying to maximize shareholder value with returns on shares of one that didn't. He evaluates his claim by the criteri
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by pash 12y ago
I've not read Bird's new book, but the table of contents suggests it's a more modern but more basic introduction to pure functional programming. The new book covers monadic IO and monadic parsing, for example, but doesn'
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by pash 12y ago
The author's definition of foldr is wrong, which makes the post pretty much impossible to understand if you don't already know what it's trying to say. The correct definition, in the author's style, is foldr :: (

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