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by plesner 12y ago
I don't know, that seems bad just in a different way. Maybe if IEEE hosted those documents themselves it would make sense to link to them but even then the copyright notice on the draft looks pretty onerous.
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by plesner 12y ago
> Instead, the motivation he suggested was that you could run a computation in all the rounding modes, and if the results in all of them were reasonably close, you could be fairly certain that the result was accurate. I actually thought
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by plesner 12y ago
> nothing in IEEE-754 requires that this state be global. In the C language bindings, for example, dynamic rounding mode and status flags have thread scope. My example, RegExp captures in JavaScript, also have thread scope. Thread local
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Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating(h14s.p5r.org)
140 points by plesner 12y ago|58 comments
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Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Handed Three and a Half Year Sentence(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by plesner 12y ago|0 comments
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by plesner 12y ago
Getting a good sense of a person is really difficult, especially through something as contrived as these technical interviews. And any company that sees enough applicants that they can afford it will err on the side of rejecting candidates
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by plesner 12y ago
Nice work. I really like the simplicity of it. The best strategy I've been able to come up with grows the exponent roughly every 50s: 47s to get to 100, 51s to 1415, and so on. I wonder if there's a way to do it faster.
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Real Human Beings: Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs and the New NPC(pastemagazine.com)
2 points by plesner 12y ago|0 comments
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by plesner 12y ago
"Google competitors say: google is bad"
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by plesner 12y ago
What's the algorithm for mapping between locations and names? If I wanted to integrate this into my own code how would I do that -- is there a library? Coincidentally I published a post about almost exactly the same thing only a few ho
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by plesner 12y ago
Here it is: http://h14s.p5r.org/2014/09/z-quads-conversions.html
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by plesner 12y ago
Thanks for the link! There's a ton of relevant information there I hadn't seen.
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by plesner 12y ago
I did give Hilbert curves a try at one point, what made me go with z-order instead is that there's an elegant way to convert between coordinates and z-order quads (which I'll describe in a later post) and I couldn't find some
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by plesner 12y ago
Given a value how do you determine the granularity? How do you tell whether a leading 00 indicates a lower resolution quad or a higher resolution one in the 0th corner?
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by plesner 12y ago
Thanks for the pointer to d-ary heaps, there's some overlap there. You're right -- I simply wasn't aware of how those work.
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by plesner 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I was familiar with google's system from when I worked there but couldn't find a good description of it so I assumed it was purely internal.
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Z-Quads, a spatial coordinate system(blog.quenta.org)
31 points by plesner 12y ago|28 comments
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Hilary: the most poisoned baby name in US history(hilaryparker.com)
4 points by plesner 12y ago|0 comments
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Mars: a hybrid imperative-declarative higher-order language(mars-lang.appspot.com)
70 points by plesner 12y ago|54 comments
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by plesner 13y ago
I don't know, investors don't seem too put off by this Crazy Bob's name. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/square-cto/
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Spying plunges U.S.-German ties lower than Iraq war - Merkel ally(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by plesner 13y ago|0 comments
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My week as an Amazon insider(theguardian.com)
4 points by plesner 13y ago|0 comments
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No, the Student Loan Crisis Is Not a Bubble(theatlantic.com)
1 points by plesner 13y ago|0 comments
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by plesner 13y ago
I'd be worried it would play out something like this: "We're not saying you have to lie, just that you can't tell anyone about this. Whatever dead man's switch you've set up for yourself is none of our concern.
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by plesner 13y ago
Also relevant: can an emoticon count as a close paren? (wink :-) or (wink :-)).
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by plesner 13y ago
I was going to ask why these agencies even use polygraphs but found an answer on wikipedia: "According to a report to Congress, polygraphy in the security clearance context has little utility in detecting untruth, but significant utili