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by shasta 15y ago
In America, regulation just kills this kind of entrepreneurship
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by shasta 15y ago
You're not substituting the right numbers into that formula. The numerator includes all bad (will fail) startup ideas that get rejected.
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by shasta 15y ago
The better argument for software is that secrecy doesn't work.
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by shasta 15y ago
It would be nice if comments from e.g. Hacker News were overlaid on the page you were visiting. A browser plugin could show you comments from multiple communities. That way you discover the comments even if you find the link another way,
635.
by shasta 15y ago
Right, but I don't think "fixed: replaced with compiler crash" is a resolution you'll see in many bug databases
636.
by shasta 15y ago
It turned out the guy who brought the dates was their pimp
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by shasta 15y ago
Oops, I should have found that. I looked and thought there was some reason it wouldn't work. Interesting post, thanks for the fun.
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by shasta 15y ago
Isn't crashing the compiler pretty far to the "less" side of "more or less fixed"?
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by shasta 15y ago
Incredibly ironic? It sounds like you've found a couple of bugs. What's with the throw away hatchet account?
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by shasta 15y ago
Well, both have computed the Fibonacci terms at a given level, so how different could it be? Here's my implementation: def fib_fast2(n): assert n >= 0 a, b = 2, 0 # invariant: a,b are components of 2(phi^n)
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by shasta 15y ago
Two optimizations you can apply: 1. Given how your big integer code is probably implemented, you probably want to distribute the divisions by 2 into the intermediate calculations, rather just shifting by n at the very end. 2. Consider that
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by shasta 15y ago
Thank you, that's a nice observation
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by shasta 15y ago
You can configure your email client to alert you to emails marked as urgent, but in my experience that includes every and only email from HR.
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by shasta 15y ago
It might not cover 80% of rails, but rails isn't 100% of programming. Also, the feature lacking in Scala that would help the most with both of your examples (rails and ORM) is meta-programming, which is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of
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by shasta 15y ago
Given the precision needed in the arithmetic, I've always wondered if the matrix exponentiating method wouldn't be faster. I've never been motivated enough to actually research it, test it, or think hard about it though...
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by shasta 15y ago
Structural typing and type inference aren't a drop in replacement for dynamic typing , but they cover 80% of the use-cases and the typically the other 20% of cases aren't that painful to encode in a static language. I'm curious which
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by shasta 15y ago
If you go to dinner with a friend who has chicken and water while you have the lobster and wine, then your friend might suggest "let's just split it" as a way to simplify the math and that's fine. But you shouldn't suggest it. Similarly,
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by shasta 15y ago
Two things: 1. It still sounds like you're assuming it's self aware and that letting it out of the box makes sense more than letting Wolfram Alpha out of the box makes sense. The intelligence could just be a powerful logic engine that's in
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by shasta 15y ago
It's just the average
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by shasta 15y ago
The comment about hooking up nukes was hyperbole - I know that's not what's being proposed. And I even agree that there could be real risks in building a self improving machine if coupled with self awareness and physical interaction. But
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by shasta 15y ago
Wow, there's some serious lack of critical thinking going on in this thread. Of course we can build intelligence that we can control. Is it a good idea to hook up the nuke switch directly to a giant neural network you don't understand? P
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by shasta 15y ago
I wonder what kind of gmail ads watching that would lead to...
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by shasta 15y ago
I found my first substantive error in upwards of 5 minutes. On page 3, he claims that if gcd(A,B)=gcd(B,C)=gcd(C,A)=1 then gcd(C-A, C-B)=1, which is clearly false (take A,B,C = 3,7,11 for example). His "proof" shows only that gcd(A+B, C-A
654.
by shasta 15y ago
That position could be dominant because of a relatively small minority of Canadians who feel strongly about creationism who will actually vote on that issue.
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by shasta 15y ago
This is probably why they keep repeating that their customer is the government. You could probably sell Exxon's security vulnerabilities to the government and demand $N dollars from them to show them how to fix the problem. It's advertisi
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by shasta 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand to which of my musings your conjecture is directed. Are you saying that without sufficiently many honest and competent people we cannot have great government because we need those people to run the government or t
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by shasta 15y ago
I frequently encounter people who insist that the US style government, while not perfect, is the greatest form of government, and they question how much room for improvement there really is. And yet, when issues such as increased surveilla
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by shasta 15y ago
I was attempting to make what I thought was a rather obvious caution (which is why I kept my post so terse), but since my above comment has been downvoted to hell[1] I guess I should explain. I was not speculating that unemployment changes
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by shasta 15y ago
Correlation is not causation, etc.
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by shasta 15y ago
Right, because while you and I are able to see absurdity of that, these super intelligent geeks you have in mind wouldn't be able to.

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