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by sharkbot 14y ago
Or the author could have added 'virtual' to the method declaration and discussed why that code now crashes due to a NULL dereference...
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The Central Limit Theorem Makes Random Testing Hard(blog.regehr.org)
56 points by sharkbot 14y ago|15 comments
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by sharkbot 14y ago
> ...the end of the article seems to be acknowledging that families have phenotypes; there's no reason this shouldn't apply to groups. You state that "there's no reason this shouldn't apply to groups", but that's the critical question u
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by sharkbot 14y ago
You have skipped over the most important word in the quoted phrase: 'parsimoniously'. Yes, there is no reason this shouldn't apply to groups, but is that the simplest explanation that fits the facts? The more parsimonious explanation is tha
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by sharkbot 14y ago
I'm a big fan of Lua, and a big fan of correctness via simplicity, but I worry the author is a little too confident for his own good. Take his sample webserver: http://lua4everything.dyndns.org/ and the accompanying blog post: http://blo
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by sharkbot 14y ago
I pulled the Euterpea source from the website and tried the tutorial in GHCi 7.0.4. It complained that the definition of times (n+1) m is invalid. If anyone is trying out the tutorial and gets the same error, replace that definition
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Interesting discussion. Definitely something for the Lua programmers to keep in mind, as the default number implementation type is a C double. I did a quick test on my ancient MacBook, and the translation of the C++ code into Lua showed a s
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by sharkbot 15y ago
I was just about to comment upon the inclusion of Hameroff in the author list. Penrose and Hameroff are pushing a notion that the brain utilizes quantum coherence to perform computation inside these microtubules, resulting in human consciou
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by sharkbot 15y ago
It's the tragedy of the commons, writ large. "What's wrong with just showing one gaming ad to a precocious dinosaur-loving kid, she'll be able to concentrate on her studies later. Oh, maybe one more ad, maybe one more, maybe one more..."
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by sharkbot 15y ago
You're probably referring to is, "Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken", discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463 Talk about scary...
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by sharkbot 15y ago
In a nice instance of synchronicity, I was just reading a paper by Scott Aaronson, "NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality" [1]. The paper talks a little bit about the quantum adiabatic method, which seems to be similar to simulated anne
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by sharkbot 15y ago
What about the value of the equity? The equity's worth is not fixed; it's set by the market. So, if Person1's equity is now worth double, how does that change your scenario?
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Team models Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom(tgdaily.com)
3 points by sharkbot 15y ago|1 comments
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by sharkbot 15y ago
The GHC Haskell compiler also supports dynamically scoped parameters via the XImplicitParams switch [1]. Type constraints are used to indicate which variables are propagated to the function. I've used implicit params in my toy compiler code
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Wow! The wonders of such a storage technique! Hopefully the production of this liquid doesn't peak anytime soon... :)
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Um, do you have a reference for the seawater-powered torch? Google isn't coming up with much. The reason why his mechanism cannot create thrust is in the linked article: the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Unless there is evidence that the boat
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Ditto.
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by sharkbot 15y ago
To be fair, there is no evidence that CIQ is "breaking the HTTPS handshake". The article I read implied that the software had access to keystrokes, which could be used to infer data that would be encrypted on the wire, not that it was break
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by sharkbot 15y ago
The name Marc Hauser piqued my interest. He has been accused of scientific misconduct [1], and his research has been tainted. Take this article with a suitable grain of salt... [1] http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/harvard-
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Another book that takes this "soup to nuts" approach to the pillar of computer abstractions is Zalewski's "Silence on the Wire". It's mostly focused on computer security, but it does an excellent job of peeling back software abstractions an
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by sharkbot 15y ago
I don't see many arguments in Wilkinson's article. All I see are assertions, spiced with a unsubtle comment that neuroscientists are fabricating their results. Neuroscience can shed light on the philosophical study of free will via empirica
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Kobo releases Vox e-reading tablet, based on Android 2.3(blog.kobobooks.com)
14 points by sharkbot 15y ago|9 comments
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by sharkbot 15y ago
As a person who is sympathetic to Buddhism, I appreciate what you're saying. But, what you are describing is still vulnerable to the "anesthetic defence": Can you (or someone) remain conscious after the administration of anesthetic, especia
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by sharkbot 15y ago
You seem to be using obfuscatory wording to avoid the issue. We have evidence that physical brains are not just correlated with consciousness, they are the cause. Anesthetic is probably the best example; once you've administered anesthetic
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Considering we don't have great definition of consciousness, it's a bit of a stretch for you to say that "Consciousness does not depend on anything..., everything else depends on it". In fact, your broad statement isn't true. Consciousness
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by sharkbot 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns_(book) Commonly referred to as the Gang of Four (or GoF) book, due to the four authors: Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides.
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by sharkbot 15y ago
The points you describe are valid, but there are a few nits: Regarding your first point, your referenced article makes a misstep of its own, conflating the implementation with the semantics. From the article: "Do some folks believe we’re st
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by sharkbot 15y ago
I'm not clear on the desired result of this project. Is it to make currently-unsafe Python code automatically correct? Or is it to keep the GIL semantics, but make it faster? If it is the former, then I worry. Software transaction memory is
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by sharkbot 15y ago
I find unit tests are useful due to a property they share with types, paired programming or formal specifications: you are forced to describe your program in two different "languages", and therefore have to think deeper about the problem. A
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by sharkbot 15y ago
Yegge points to the Tiobe language index as a metric to language adoption, and implies that "No" languages have low uptake. What about Lua? The Lua implementers don't accept public patches, rather they will rewrite public patches that are s

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