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by possibilistic 12y ago
> Does nature tend to create forms which > are easily detected by relatively simple > neural networks? Poison markings and mimicry, for sure. Furthermore, large swaths of plant life in various spectra. reply
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Thanks for raising this point. It's absolutely correct, and I agree with both of you. It still irks me when biases are so general and aimed at an entire set of people. I know I do the same internally for some populations or interest
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I never played this game, but back in HS/college I recognized that it brought one of the largest shares of traffic to my video game strategy guide wiki. The RO guide underwent constant maintenence by fans, and was subject to extreme or
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Are you sure that reverse mapping is universal? I was going to go for a few anecdotal examples of people I would decidedly consider as counter-evidence to your claim: the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, ... Th
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Reading anecdotes like this makes me so disappointed in my gender. Why do some people marginalize other groups so eagerly? I see so much "bro culture" in our field, and it feels inescapable. Every time I experience it, I literally
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by possibilistic 12y ago
(Note: Posted as self-reply because original comment was too long) I picture a website kind of like Github, or perhaps a language package index like npm's. Except this website is concerned with classification instead of code. You wou
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I hope I'm not too late to your thread to ask questions. I find your field absolutely fascinating, though I've never taken my interest further than basic undergrad image processing or simple machine learning. I wish I had more tim
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Except we are computer scientists and there is no BNF grammar (or what have you) for the language. We all know we can do better than that. I'm just shocked this omission went for so long without anyone noticing--it's a big freak
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I think the fitness landscape is too complicated to justify that kind of assessment. Even with the non-universal qualifier "usually". I think a more correct statement would be to replace "usually" with "can be"
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Electric vehicles are huge here in Georgia. We have state tax breaks on the purchase of EVs that make the vehicles effectively free [1] for many commuters. Anecdotally, one of my coworkers just bought a leaf because of the tax credit. Guess
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by possibilistic 12y ago
It wouldn't be a constant energy algorithm though, would it? For each successive optimization iteration, you would have to expend energy. Does that energy get put back with every rewind of the clock? If so, energy is also infinite. I w
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Which is what I said, right? HTML 4 - vendors implemented the spec incongruently and failed in their own special ways. XHTML strict - standard parsing rules with strict failure mode. HTML 5 - standard parsing rules, suggested (but not requi
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by possibilistic 12y ago
You hit the nail on the head. HTML5 got one thing right though: standardization of the DOM failure behavior. As an implementation detail of their design, they went with "sensible recovery" for failures over stricter failure modes.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I'm speaking more in terms of the goals the markup dialects had, irrespective of the ultimate implementation. I think we can all agree that those suffered from misguided engineering choices (bloaty XML culture). Responsive images could
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by possibilistic 12y ago
This all seems horrific. Why can't HTML be properly extended to support attribute arrays or dictionaries as values? Having a value encode a DSL is so messed up. This is yet more to parse... HTML keeps getting pulled in so many directio
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by possibilistic 12y ago
How comfortable is it to live in Shenzen as an expat? I spent half a year in Changsha and Shanghai as an undergrad and absolutely fell in love with the country in ways I never did for Japan. I found that feeling odd since I spent years stud
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Considering the importance of not crashing , both literally and figuratively, I can understand the need for that heavy of a software process. Isn't this par for the course in high CMMI [1] [2] organizations? I don't really know m
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Thanks for posting this! I like hearing about internal tooling. Is there more on the query tagging? How do you guys bubble query annotations through the stack? I don't know if you're at liberty to discuss further, but how has it b
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Both solve entirely different classes of problem. There are functional overlaps for small problem domains, but as your infrastructure tries to do more, you may find a need to run several distinct lightweight services backed by a variety of
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by possibilistic 12y ago
So we'll be writing Javascript forever?
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by possibilistic 12y ago
See my reply to sibling comment.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I feel like you're being that guy . Forgive me if I come across the same way. Why link me to the Wikipedia article or insinuate I'm pulling this out of--to put it more politely--ex culo? Given my use of notation, one might assume
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I don't mean to seem rude, but what am I looking at? Is this a content management system?
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I don't like that definition. I like to consider ∆S the result of a smoothing operation over energy differentials. You can put work into a system to reestablish an energy differential. It just necessitates obtaining that other energy d
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Biological abstraction is simply not a thing . You must understand that the fundamental difference between digital logic, software, etc. and biological systems, reaction mechanisms, signaling, and the like is not simply about sorting out h
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by possibilistic 12y ago
There is already an awful in lua. http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Felix looks really interesting, especially with regard to the first class functional aspects, how they implemented their stack, and the user extensible grammar. I might actually find myself distracted by this instead. :)
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Got a way for me to contact you? I'll cc you with a github link if/when I get around to this. Would love early design feedback. Alternatively, you can email me from the info in my profile. No worries if not interested, of course.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I hear the "different C++ subsets" meme all the time . To the best of my knowledge, this is typically cited in relation to template generics, exceptions, multiple inheritance, and RAII being used incongruently. IIRC, Google chose
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I've been using C++11, and I really like it. Together with RAII it seems entirely modern and reasonable. Is there a list somewhere that describes what the "bad parts" (in the Crockford sense) of C++ are? Bad practices, bad fe

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