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by pickdenis 7y ago
Node.js is the opposite of what some people would consider "real time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I clicked this and expected to read about new kinds of thermal paste or whatever, not to be slapped in the face with a whole field of solid state physics I'd never even heard of before (magnonics). I'd complain about being paywall
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by pickdenis 7y ago
The fried liver was the first opening I ever studied while learning chess as a 8 year old. I had so much fun with it until someone pulled out 5... Na5 on me. Then I cried.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
If you follow the thickest lines, you get into the fried liver or 5... Na5 lines. Very suspicious. This is DEFINITELY biased towards fast time controls and low ELO.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
It seems that you need to do more dissecting yourself. It would be unjust to summarize urbit like that. It really is as they say, an "Operating Function."
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Does anyone know how Urbit's solving the problem of being incredibly slow? It's running on a naively simple virtual machine and they claim that higher level operations can be abstracted and implemented in native code (called jets
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Interesting how the author used himself as the antagonist in some of these situations. Good article.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
(This isn't related to hip-hop or melodies.) I have absolute pitch; I can tell the pitch of any musical note I hear without any reference at all. I can also produce any pitch within my vocal or whistling range without a reference. This
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I'm glad to see that this problem bugged other high schoolers. I spent a lot of time learning about the lambert W function and real analysis in general due to this problem in high school.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Not him, but I'm gonna use this as a chance to plug unison[1]. I've been using it for more than a year now to keep files synced across more than 3 computers and it works flawlessly. It gets a tad slow to start propogating changes
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> Make no mistake that advertising does work even when you are completely aware that it is advertising. This is an interesting claim that I've heard before. Is there some way to measure the subconscious effect of advertising? It fee
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by pickdenis 7y ago
The multiple compatible function signature declaration got me. I pray that I'll never have to understand and work with code that looks like that.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
No idea what he's talking about but try out Unison! I use it to keep files on my computers synced to a central server. It works absolutely great and handles conflicts in the most sane way (imo). The only caveat I've found so far i
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I think it's implied that the capacity was there, just no impetus.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
NwAvGuy was a true beacon of light in the sea of bullshit that the audiophile community can sometimes be. It's sad he's not around anymore. I had a lot of fun building his Objective2 amplifier.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
It would be cool if the preview was shown and auto-updated every time a change is made.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Here is a paper that uses meta-learning for quick imitation learning in robots that works across domains: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01557 The main sell is that it allows the robot to quickly generalize to new domains
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by pickdenis 7y ago
On the practical side, if you're working on a low level with NGS data, htslib[1] may be worth looking into. It is a C library for reading, writing, and manipulating data structures that are commonly used in NGS (BAM, VCF, etc). I have
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us? My serious guess would be even more paid shills. It's amazing how much more weight a message can have when it comes from someone that's not obviously tied to t
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I lived the first 18 years of my life as a healthy child that ate no meat. I now eat meat. Why? It's tasty and everyone else does it. Should we stop mass murdering sentient beings? Probably[1]. Is hunting and killing on an individual b
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Why are you trying to prove that fungi are sentient? You're just being disingenuous. The core issue is the fact that we kill and eat animals that feel pain and emotions (the "vegan debate", whatever), something that seems wro
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Fine: replace "living" with "sentient". Do you still have a snarky answer?
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> the single-biggest booster for me as a practitioner. Can you instantiate this claim with an example? I'm somewhat knowledgable in both math and computer science theory but have yet to feel as though my math background has helped m
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> The big downside of Make, alas, is Windows compatibility. You'd have to give me a _very_ compelling reason to support developers who use Windows, when Windows lacks these essential tools. Besides, don't people who develop on
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by pickdenis 7y ago
The design of unix/linux systems answers your second question with "yes." A "file" isn't necessarily something on your SSD, but rather an abstract concept: something that you can "read" from and possi
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Just use the "basic HTML" view. When the new design is loading, there will be a link at the bottom to click to use basic HTML, and then there will be a button to set it as default. I use this and have (almost) zero complaints. It
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by pickdenis 7y ago
This is fine and all, but I think they're completely ignoring the elephant in the room. R is a crazy, random, whimsical language that puts PHP to shame. I use Python instead of R unless I'm told to use R. I hate using R, even if t
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by pickdenis 8y ago
Transfinite does not mean infinite. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_induction
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by pickdenis 8y ago
I wonder what the implications of technology like this could be on the large scale. It may have a terrific impact on the hydrological cycle.
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by pickdenis 8y ago
> And the opacity of the algorithms’ power means that it isn’t easy to determine when algorithmic governance stops serving the common good and instead becomes the servant of the powers that be. This will inevitably take a toll on privacy

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