pjscott

44 ms·

481.
by pjscott 7y ago
I haven't heard SE outside of a Japanese context, so this may just be a case of different countries randomly picking different acronyms.
482.
by pjscott 7y ago
The higher levels of IC are usually more noncom than grunt.
483.
by pjscott 7y ago
That sounds like an opportunity to very politely explain the phrase "take it offline" to everyone. It would be awkward, but probably less awkward than standing there patiently doing nothing for half an hour.
484.
by pjscott 7y ago
RE2, at least, will fall back to an NFA-based matcher if things get too pathological.
485.
by pjscott 7y ago
An algorithm for "do these strings differ by an edit distance of at most 1?" is much simpler, and should be easy to figure out. No dynamic programming required.
486.
by pjscott 7y ago
And ARM processors these days tend to do the same, translating from the Thumb-2 variable-width instruction encoding into whatever each processor uses internally.
487.
by pjscott 7y ago
That just means that they have a PR problem. It doesn't necessarily indicate a problem with their actual warehouse conditions, though there may be one; it's enough that people believe there's a problem.
488.
by pjscott 7y ago
> Also in the states, engineering students ask the same question about Laplace transforms. ;-) Laplace transforms are wonderful because they protect you from the differential equations that would otherwise await you if were foolish enoug
489.
by pjscott 7y ago
The remainder is what's left after you've repeatedly subtracted, and can't subtract any more before going negative. (I wish that one of my teachers had said this to me, but they were too busy getting everybody to memorize the
490.
by pjscott 7y ago
Sure you can! Just look at a typical fifth- or sixth-grade classroom. Most of them can perform long division, briefly, before the test. They may even remember it for several days after the test.
491.
by pjscott 7y ago
Teachers are a very mixed bag. Some of them are delighted to see a student learning, in whatever way that learning may happen -- and some are just annoyed that the classroom's reality fails to match up perfectly with their lesson pla
492.
by pjscott 7y ago
It's almost never explained with such lucidity. If you find a hundred people who can perform long division, I would be surprised if twenty of them have any idea how it works.
493.
by pjscott 7y ago
My parents invented a simplified division algorithm so they could teach me the four basic arithmetic operations by third grade, and it was so much easier than long division that I could never remember how to do things the conventional way.
494.
by pjscott 7y ago
"Solved", in this case, means "computers can play the game at levels no human can beat."
495.
by pjscott 7y ago
It sounds like bonuses and stock grants would be the obvious workaround -- or are those also covered by the salary band limits?
496.
by pjscott 7y ago
Especially if you have a team of 1500 people. One person trying to make a browser WYSIWYG is bad enough; can you imagine how buggy it would be if 1500 people worked on it?
497.
by pjscott 7y ago
All but impossible? We got a model that predicts height startlingly well, usually to within a few centimeters, back in 2017: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/09/accurate-genomic-predi...
498.
by pjscott 7y ago
They're all correlated, sure, but how well have we determined causation for these? Childhood nutrition I'll grant: it has big, well-established long-term effects on a lot of things. The rest look more shaky. Pre-kindergarten edu
499.
by pjscott 7y ago
The article I linked put it way better than I did, so I'll just quote that for clarification: > One of the key problems is that polygenic scores are the sum of many individual small genes’ effects and form a normal distribution, whi
500.
by pjscott 7y ago
The obligatory article on this subject is, as always: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection It's long, but there's a concise summary at the top that's definitely worth a read. Embryo selection works best w
501.
by pjscott 7y ago
Suppose that SF became 20 meters under sea-level (!), and was protected by a giant sea wall. The city's area is about 122 square km, so the total volume of water displaced by it would be around 2.5e12 liters. The ocean's surface a
502.
by pjscott 7y ago
Numbers are defined further down, in terms of those primitives. Search for the phrase "Now we come to the code that implements numbers."
503.
by pjscott 7y ago
Huh? At least half the die area is special-purpose hardware for running convolutional neural network inference, specialized for consistent latency on small batches of images streaming from several independent HDR video sensor channels. This
504.
by pjscott 7y ago
Yes, they have a bunch of special model compilation stuff that needs to happen in order for the ML model to run on their hardware, such as weight quantization, and then they'd also need to generate the a program for the NPU so it knows
505.
by pjscott 7y ago
I looked it up, and it may be so -- but every public figure has scandalous accusations, and these don't seem very strong. Is there something unusual in this case?
506.
by pjscott 7y ago
All of this is unsurprising, given Gladwell's process: 1. Take research findings in psychology, sociology, etc., all fields which are having big replication problems. 2. Pick out findings that are surprising enough to write a pop-scien
507.
by pjscott 7y ago
On Apple's platforms, Instruments has a memory allocation logging tool that's very nice to use. Just attach to a program, no need to recompile: https://www.agnosticdev.com/blog-entry/ios/profiling-memory-
508.
by pjscott 7y ago
I'm not sure I see much distinction between (a) a shortage of usable gas because nobody is bringing in gas, versus (b) a shortage of usable gas because nobody is bringing in generators to run the pumps. In both cases people could get
509.
by pjscott 7y ago
The main effect of government intervention in this case is to ensure dangerous shortages of basic goods in an emergency. That seems like an odd policy to cheer for.
510.
by pjscott 7y ago
Huh! That's a bit more brutishly forceful than I was expecting, and I concede the point. It hadn't occurred to me to stick that innermost loop in there rather than keeping a running sum in the second loop.

More ›