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2013: What should we be worried about?(edge.org)
5 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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The normal well-tempered mind [video](edge.org)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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Imdb uses adapted movie quotes for 404 error codes(imdb.com)
19 points by sb 14y ago|4 comments
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by sb 14y ago
Hm, there are already some comments about possible optimizations kicking in and asking for assembly code (which is always a good idea to look for changes). However, before doing all of these things, I would want to know how these results
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by sb 14y ago
I agree that it is all about cost, however this is far more "local" to many US citizens than they might imagine. For example, most of the coke bottles outside of the US come in half litres, while in the US they come in 20 fluid ounces (this
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by sb 14y ago
This year I either read, or started to read the following interesting books: Mathematics: Form and Function by Saunders Mac Lane. This is one of my favorite books concerning the "build-up" of mathematics (it also contains nice diagrams of
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by sb 14y ago
Nice article (the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has many more, btw.), but I like the "Introduction to Lambda Calculus" by Henk Barendregt (one of the people working in Lambda calculus, see for instance the citation to his book "The
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by sb 14y ago
I love that one, and it always surprises me when I meet people who can't express themselves properly. There are some of the earlier EWDs, where he meets a lot with German computer scientists (in particular one of the founding fathers of the
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by sb 14y ago
In college I was reading a lot of the EWDs (particularly his trip reports, some hilarious stuff there) and IIRC he didn't like C/C++ a lot and thought that functional programming has some promising ideas. This was in the later EWDs, I'd say
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by sb 14y ago
I usually recommend E.T. Jaynes' "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science", which is one of the most beautiful and comprehensive books on the subject. To get the "logic of science" part, you also need to have (IMHO) some fairly decent gras
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by sb 14y ago
Hm, I have never really thought about NLP, but I guess maintaining an NLP program somebody else has written must be even more of a nightmare than what we have now...
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by sb 14y ago
You're not really "giving up" portability, only with ANSI C. For all architectures where GCC is available, its labels-as-values support will happily compile and hence give you a fully portable instruction dispatch. Regarding the threaded co
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by sb 14y ago
Ok, well even for dynamic languages threaded code is likely to give you a noticeable speedup. The only negative example I'm aware of was adding threaded code (+superinstructions) to the Tcl interpreter, which resulted in slowdowns sometimes
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by sb 14y ago
This is somewhat different from my memory. AFAIR, TraceMonkey was a trace-based JIT. JaegerMonkey was a JIT (however not just-in-time like V8 with a template-based JIT, but still using an interpreter initially). IonMonkey is--to the best
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by sb 14y ago
AFAICT, two reasons come to mind: 1) A stack-based ISA is still more space-compact. (AFAIR the Shi et al. paper mentions something like a 40+% increase in space requirement for the instructions.) 2) The performance improvement of a register
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by sb 14y ago
I don't know about the exact definition of "mainstream bytecode-based VM", but just for the record: both the OCaml interpreter and the GForth interpreter usually score pretty well, too. Probably the de facto fastest interpreter is the one o
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by sb 14y ago
Some hints for your quest: - Linux's perf tool allows you to read HW performance counters. It's pretty self-explanatory, and some interesting ones are platform-neutral, whereas others you have to specify the CPU manufacturer's hex-code. (
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by sb 14y ago
Hm, thanks for the nice remark on the game stuff, I kind of like that. While agree with your primary criticism, I think the principle of locality applies well to this problem. While there are 24 million places (supposedly, never checked tha
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by sb 14y ago
Thanks so much for all the data! I was just about to write a "well, hopefully nobody on HN cares about these rankings" post, trying to remember some of the facts I read about, but your post summarizes these data so well, no need to post at
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by sb 14y ago
It's a brilliant book, a professor at my university used it for teaching SECD machine implementation. I'm glad that I could get it from the library. If you're interested in these kind of things, Henderson's "Functional Programming -- Applic
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by sb 14y ago
There is also another project named HappyJIT doing much of what is described there. The corresponding paper was presented at last year's Dynamic Languages Symposium [ http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2047854 ] It would be nice if there wer
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by sb 14y ago
That's an interesting point, but I guess that this is mostly due to the immigration friendly policies the US has. IIRC, I read somewhere in the Economist that the US is actually the only OECD country that is not going to suffer from a demog
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Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime(weis2012.econinfosec.org)
2 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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The wealth of nations (Economist daily chart)(economist.com)
3 points by sb 14y ago|0 comments
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by sb 14y ago
Agreed. Besides the length issue of a tweet (which don't apply to blog posts, as we all know from Steve Yegge) I also think that there is no incentive for a researcher to participate in the social web--at least none that I can think of. Act
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by sb 14y ago
Well, actually I was not only having attribution errors in mind, too. Peer review ensures that colleagues will tell you about related work that you don't know about. Sometimes, people will tell you that something is related, even though you
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by sb 14y ago
I am not sure that this will work anytime soon, even if NLP gets better substantially. I think the problem reduces to examination of patents and their novelty. I think that having algorithms to find related work is going to be hard to the p
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by sb 14y ago
I think that your impression of doing related work is overly simplified. Since you are submitting to a conference/journal in your field, chances are high that the reviewers are knowledgable in the subject area and will point out errors in a
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by sb 14y ago
Hm, it seems strange though that they're not keeping the old interface, which is what many people were using Gmail in the first place (even if their target group prefers the new interface.) Come to think of it, it's also kind of sad that
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by sb 14y ago
In addition, I think they completely failed with the HD themes, too. Some of them have such a contrast difference that you cannot even read label captions anymore, i.e., the complete left part below the Inbox becomes essentially useless...

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