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by roganp 9y ago
It seems to me that that someone can prove that the configuration mattered by pitting a correctly configured Stockfish against the configuration used by AlphaZero, and see what the outcome is for 100 games. I haven't read the paper, bu
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by roganp 9y ago
This. I get a bunch of robo calls that appear to be for no purpose - there is no way to get a human on the other end of the phone (they just disconnect when you express interest in what they are selling). It's almost like the call it
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by roganp 9y ago
They are trying to say "Please don't fire us - even God would have down years!". Although this depends quite a bit on when you start. They start in 1927, if they started in 1932, God might never be fired.
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by roganp 9y ago
Maybe, you should read it again. Look: the author has written the essay, when she did not have to. Does that not tell? She has picked details to report that are unflattering to her (and not because she is unaware). Does that not tell?
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by roganp 9y ago
Or, maybe: the extra information gleaned from reading your emails is just not that valuable. Not because they have this via other means, but its just not that valuable, period - whether it comes from reading emails or scrutinizing your bro
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by roganp 9y ago
This reminds me of an Atlantic article that I found quite disturbing : https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/a-new-w... It is about the origin pathological ideas and how the internet might
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by roganp 10y ago
If 98% of the sites generate what is rounding error on your sales, then you measure that benefit against the risk that your brand gets associated with a hate speech site (maybe in the nytimes no less). It's math alright, but it means
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by roganp 10y ago
Isn't that the thrust of the article though? They narrowed their ad spend to whitelisted sites and have not seen a drop in sales. If the major sports apparel company stopped paying for endorsements and saw no drop in sales, you might
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by roganp 10y ago
Not to put words in the parent's mouth, but I think he is suggesting that we (developers) should spend less time creating / analyzing / debating / choosing frameworks and more time thinking about actual end user function
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by roganp 10y ago
Therein lies the rub. How can regulators or prosecutors discern after the fact that a canceled order was one you intended to have filled?
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by roganp 10y ago
Or run out of room in the paging file. Your addressable memory cannot be larger than physical memory without a backing store.
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by roganp 10y ago
Veritas was definitely better than the alternative. I was a dba at the time and it was a godsend.
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by roganp 10y ago
And that was EMC's "low-end" array. The Symetrix (Symetrics?) I remember being much more expensive for the same throughput.
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by roganp 10y ago
I used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches when I was a kid. Can't say I would eat these today, but a blt without mayo is not much of a sandwich.
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by roganp 10y ago
This. The cuttlefish (a relative) changes the color of it's skin and texture to hide from hunters/prey. If you have not seen this video, prepare to be amazed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM Also,
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by roganp 11y ago
Except that with a capital gain you can choose when realize that gain (and when you pay that tax) whereas the company defines its dividend schedule. But I did not know that was the law...it is always/everywhere repeated that dividend
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by roganp 11y ago
What I have often wondered, is how are "distributed" systems different from systems in the small where different components may be thought of as nodes on a network. In other words, why are not multiple threaded apps writing to th
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by roganp 12y ago
What I'm wondering is how many layers of management had to approve a joke press release? I would bet it went pretty high up the chain.
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by roganp 12y ago
On reading that line, I thought about what I would have done if I had been in the teacher's position. I thought: well, he clearly understands the bits that the assigned homework was to reinforce, why not excuse him from that drudgery
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by roganp 12y ago
Agreed. Matt Levine is always entertaining and frequently informative (especially the footnotes). I get the sense that he reads lots of courthouse docs.
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by roganp 12y ago
This. In my home, the tablet became a paperweight after I bought a acer chromebook. It is the best $200 I have spent to date on a piece of technology.
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by roganp 12y ago
Couldn't this be tested by looking a the frequency of fumbles made by backs before and after they play for the patriots? I mean, if the explanation of the patriots low fumble rate is because they deflated the balls then it should caus
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by roganp 12y ago
That is the point, I think. Inefficient private enterprises go belly up, and therefor stop being inefficient. There is no such corrective mechanism for government organizations.
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by roganp 12y ago
It depends on what you are optimizing for. If you need to store your entire database in physical memory, then the difference between 16GB and 128MB is significant.
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by roganp 12y ago
I'm curious about this, I've got a bunch of books I don't want to throw away, but I'm tired of the space they occupy. Seems like scanning them would be a huge hassle though. Any special techniques that you use to do th
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by roganp 12y ago
I heard Marc Andreessan make a very similar point in an interview. His theory is that the large regulatory burden of being a public company is causing a dearth of IPOs as companies wait to grow large enough to pay for dedicated compliance
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by roganp 12y ago
Well for one thing, it does not control for the differences in income of the stockholders. Each shareholder is taxed at the same rate per share held. Since it penalizes income coming from corporations (by taxing both the corporation and t
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by roganp 12y ago
These comparisons are hard to make sense of because of the different services provided by these governments. For example, health care is a government benefit in most European countries, paid for by their "higher" tax rates.
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by roganp 12y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think eliminating corporate taxes will eliminate tax code complexity. It will add to the complexity of personal taxes as the well off rush to hide assets and income in un-taxed corporations. The only solution to
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by roganp 12y ago
I have to disagree. The "last mile" problem will require deep pockets, and investments like those are not made when the upside is restricted by regulation. There are those on HN who get excited by Google Fiber. Reclassification

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