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by shawn 8y ago
Right, but the topic here was Reddit’s actions with regards to certain subreddits, and why they can’t simply purge everybody that people wish they would. It was also on-topic regarding what I replied to, so it was more than a little surpris
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by shawn 8y ago
Sure, self-play. Generate the data and search through the problem space for optimal decisions before they come up.
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by shawn 8y ago
This looks like an ideal product. I was asking the other day “why can’t we write in the margins of PDF’s we read?” Cool to see this pop up. Good luck!
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by shawn 8y ago
A positive interpretation is that the original piece wasn’t very substantive, and tossing it off the front page was a way to make room for the more-substantive articles (which we’re now commenting on). A less positive interpretation is that
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by shawn 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/9gi58u/we_need_t... The situation is only going to become more divisive if we don’t find a way to come together and work out differences. Especially with those
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by shawn 8y ago
If you can’t find a quote to disagree with, you might be arguing with a strawman.
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by shawn 8y ago
Argument from experience is only valid when the dataset is large. On average, introverts won’t have success in love unless they work hard for it, just like everything else in life. It’s the lucky few who are the exception to the rule. Consi
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by shawn 8y ago
Yes, but when your parents tell you something that doesn’t match reality as if it were fact, you start questioning everything you know. We’d never tell someone “Don’t worry about acquiring skills. A job will be given thanks to your charming
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by shawn 8y ago
That’s step one in losing your throne as the cool place to go. The Reddit founders understand this, but few others seem to respect how deadly it can be to social software. Consider: “YC is so large that we need to suppress negative stories
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by shawn 8y ago
An interesting question: how did the founders of Reddit make it worth their time to return to Reddit after having sold to Conde Nast? There must not be many startups where founders have sold and then returned, right?
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by shawn 8y ago
I know a machine learning engineer from a certain massive lending company. I asked him “How do you decide which strategy to use and which algorithms to pay attention to? There are so many, and it’s hard to figure out which ones are producti
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by shawn 8y ago
Also leaned to not fuck with the cartels. Oh come on, you can’t leave us hanging like that! This is the beginning of the best story in the thread. How did the cartel connection form? Was your contact named Estefan? Did he have a mild acce
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by shawn 8y ago
It’s better to write software to solve real problems - not software problems. Quoteworthy.
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by shawn 8y ago
Lol. Congratulations on being the one negative comment. I was scrolling down and down with baited breath, but there you were. I wonder if it’s possible to do anything without someone criticizing it.
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by shawn 8y ago
For the loop inside of map, you need to produce side exits and new traces for each function passed in. Is it true to say that if two functions have the same body and arglist, and capture no variables, then you should be able to reuse the
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by shawn 8y ago
Whoa. Why does that happen? The first call does indeed compile down to a tight loop of around 10 instructions. However, the second call compiles down to around 62 instructions - even though it is exactly the same code! That seems like a b
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by shawn 8y ago
Another possibility is that lead has been removed from the ecosystem, leading to less violence. It's probably worth being skeptical of that hypothesis, since it seems too perfect, but it does exist.
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by shawn 8y ago
I've been thinking along these lines as well. One of my dirty secrets is that I'm jealous of Rust's zero cost iterators. I want those in JS and Lua. One way to get them is to write an interpreter for a specialized subset of t
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by shawn 8y ago
And since empirical evidence trumps conjectures, we throw the so called "law" of supply and demand into the garbage bin. Would you mind expanding on this point? It wasn't supported by your other assertions, and I'm cur
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by shawn 8y ago
I like your comment. This was a perceptive reframing: the fact that Babbage became interested in mechanical computers was a happy accident: he was born at a time and in a place that enabled this interest. Were he to be born 1000 years prio
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by shawn 8y ago
HN.
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by shawn 8y ago
I didn’t want to give an answer till I spent some time picking apart Maru and looking for similarities. First, thanks for pointing out Maru. I’ve often wondered how to translate Lumen into C, and this is an excellent guide. Also, I’m not su
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by shawn 8y ago
This isn’t true. It depends how you write your Mathematica. If you define modules, it’s nearly the same as as a scripting language.
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by shawn 8y ago
Note that you can drop down to unsafe C-style code in Rust. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/nomicon/ Anyone who claims Rust is simple should ensure they thoroughly understand that book. Another way to "turn
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by shawn 8y ago
newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It is especially well-suited for applications in AI, simulation, natural language processing, big data, machine learning and statistics. Because of its small resource requirements
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by shawn 8y ago
Yes, the performance is by far one of the best parts of Lumen. Think of it this way. It generates exactly the code you write. It's nearly a one-to-one translation between the input forms and output code. But that's why it's f
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by shawn 8y ago
Lemun seemed like a nice name for the nightly / unstable version of Lumen, once things advance that far.
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by shawn 8y ago
Workin' on it! https://gist.github.com/shawwn/333540a1f0b02510d684394979d6b... Those member / assoc / rassoc / rassoc-if / etc definitions come straight out of sbcl's lisp definition file.
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by shawn 8y ago
It's the best! I learned R last week and added support for it: https://github.com/sctb/lumen/pull/193 There's an old version with Python support here: https://github.com/shawwn/
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by shawn 8y ago
Right! I've been waiting a couple years for Lumen to get some traction. cracks knuckles Before I blather on about why it's worth paying attention to, why don't I just show you an implementation of the classic Trusting Trust

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