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by shasta 14y ago
World of Warcraft, for example, trusts the client to handle pathing and movement logic in order to create the illusion of low-latency, super smooth motion. There is a simple solution: Trust but verify. The main reasons not to check that
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by shasta 14y ago
> World of Warcraft (and now other games) Other games were doing this many years before WoW.
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by shasta 14y ago
[To gwern, unprovoked] You are attempting the early dismissal of some viewpoint you disagree with on a more or less political grounds but this has not very much to do with science. [Next reply] Why can't the critique proceed on a higher
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by shasta 14y ago
Hah! Nice link. I do remember some of those from childhood, including this one which I found to be false even as a kid: """One solution in Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake relied on the fact that the culprit had used glycerin tears that
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by shasta 14y ago
Those books were like the MacGuyver TV series for me - loved them as a kid, but upon revisiiting them as an adult wondered what the hell I was thinking. Oh well, I guess he knew his audience. RIP.
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by shasta 14y ago
But then are pirates still in violation of copyright law?
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by shasta 14y ago
You'd need to make your claim more precise, in order to prove it, but a proof might go something like this: assume that an anti-bloom filter starts empty, and that it over time sees some small fraction of the possible objects (because objec
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by shasta 14y ago
f'(x) = lim h->0 (f(x+h)-f(x))/h
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by shasta 14y ago
And yet, if you're interested in studying these "moral effects" rigorously, you'll attempt to model them mathematically. Not necessarily with from-first-principles equations -- sometimes the big data / machine learning approach is best. P
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by shasta 14y ago
Modeling is an estimation of how something works, but it isn't the mechanism by which something works. Let's look at a concrete example. Suppose someone produces a device that contains some generic components: a centrifuge, spectrum anal
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by shasta 14y ago
> if it is at all possible to implement an invention in software, it is essentially math and does not deserve patent protection The current patent laws are insanity, but I don't agree with this. The class of mathematical ideas too abst
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by shasta 14y ago
I think it's true that you can encode OOP objects in any number of languages, but OOP really is about the objects. If your encoding isn't little bundles of methods, it's not OOP, even if it uses the other general techniques you've listed:
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by shasta 14y ago
No, please. OOP does not have a monopoly on abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, etc. If you are focused on "state transformations and encapsulated abstractions", you're not necessarily writing OOP.
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by shasta 14y ago
One question is why the Lisp code doesn't use the letter E as much as every language? Is that just due to normalizing of parentheses?
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by shasta 14y ago
I suggest mailnurse.
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by shasta 14y ago
It doesn't matter what community he's a part of? Do you know how many Africans you could save from suffering and an early death for $100,000/year?
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by shasta 14y ago
> Parent suggested that despite this there are only ever thirty articles on the front page at a time, so we shouldn't see more finance ones. No. Parent's point was the same as yours: numerator increased and denominator unchanged impli
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by shasta 14y ago
What's the difference between your post and its parent?
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by shasta 14y ago
Thanks!
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by shasta 14y ago
Fish isn't an adjective, is it? How would you interpret "Fish fish fish fish" as a sentence?
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by shasta 14y ago
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Google Nexus Q. Caution: Google Nexus Q may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. Google Nexus Q contains a liquid core, which,
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by shasta 14y ago
>> But let's make sure we understand what we're lynching them for before we get out the torches and pitchforks, ok? Have you ever used Hipmunk? It's user friendly and all, but it's not rocket science in the 50s. I think it's fair
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by shasta 14y ago
"In terms of data analysis, Windows could be used in principle. We could also use some type of device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a simple table of rules. [...]" The age old dilemma: Windows or Turing machihe?
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by shasta 14y ago
What? When I met Jeff Barr from Amazon, she was a woman.
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by shasta 14y ago
The point is that to me, there is a difference between "I hate my boss" and "I hate vegetables." If I go out drinking with my boss and determine he's not that bad, I might express that as "I don't hate him anymore." If I try several new k
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by shasta 14y ago
"I hate vegetables" doesn't mean "I am seething mad at vegetables right now." As for my other comment, it was a cheap shot but I couldn't resist. Sorry :).
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by shasta 14y ago
In my experience, if someone says "I hate vegetables", they mean that they will not enjoy vegetables if you serve them. They can be wrong about that. But your bungled attempt at word games leads me to believe you have been trained in philo
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by shasta 14y ago
Can you give an example of one interesting question that philosophers have answered?
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by shasta 14y ago
Is this a joke?
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by shasta 14y ago
Yes, he needs to add "no copyright intended" to protect himself.

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