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by sriku 4y ago
The "what other mathematicians respect" aspect can be rather hegemonical. This thesis I came across recently is such a breath of fresh air in that space and I wish more people did this - http://www.theliberatedmathemati
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by sriku 4y ago
On a related note, John Ousterhout (in the RAMCloud project) was basically betting that the latency of accessing RAM on another computer on a fast local network will eventually become competitive to local RAM access. https://ramc
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by sriku 4y ago
Ourtserhout's paper perhaps comes from his vision for RAMCloud as well ... in which he bet on network latency going ultra low over time that accessing memory on another machine was fast enough to enable whole new categories of applicat
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by sriku 4y ago
I liked how Rich Hickey described this - "hammock driven development".
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by sriku 4y ago
Looks like this is expected to serve as a rich file format for astronomy data. The creators of the format pick HDF5 as their best choice among other formats. So you may want to consider that. The closest discussion on the format's rais
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by sriku 4y ago
All developers pay an annual tax to Apple, which should cover storage and discoverability at least right?
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by sriku 4y ago
> I don't see Apple Music removing the Beatles because they haven't updated recently. I wish I could upvote you for that multiple times!
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by sriku 4y ago
My prof just ran a Win32 programs written 20+ years ago on today's Windows. At least someone is paying attention to backward compatibility.
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by sriku 4y ago
Totally relate to the OP. I recently got my app kicked out of Apple App store for not being updated to the latest SDK. No patience or time to change programming language. layout engine, audio API, graphics, screen sizes etc. I just said &qu
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by sriku 4y ago
Since when did "one in eight" qualify for "most"?
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by sriku 4y ago
While the "Dream analyst" said plausible things about the author's dream, I have no idea how they (the analysts) know it. So I tend not to believe that easy explanation. The only consistent thing I can say is that if the drea
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by sriku 4y ago
I'm yet to give reverse mode a second try, but my attempts at forward mode (linked in parent post) were on my own without the paper's help. There's a talk that Conal gives that makes the paper a bit more accessible - https:&
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by sriku 4y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00746
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by sriku 4y ago
The struggle I had with reverse mode felt comparable to my struggle with coding up union find (for which mutation is crucial for its efficiency).
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by sriku 4y ago
Correct. Reverse mode seems much harder to express in Haskell..i was trying to understand AD some time ago and used Haskell for that (before running into Conal's paper). This way of writing forward AD was easy and it was awesome to see
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by sriku 4y ago
The other being D.J.Bernstein. (I admire, or dare I say envy, the work of both of them btw.)
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by sriku 4y ago
I've been trying a different way of recording for several years now. Have no way of knowing whether it will be better or worse than photos, but ... Honestly don't care because it is fun for me. When some interesting thing happens
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by sriku 4y ago
I get a feeling that this holds only for physical books and perhaps not as much for digital books. i.e. Owning more Kindle books doesn't necessarily give you the Dunning-Kruger compensating force (I'm guessing) because these aren&
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by sriku 4y ago
I think non-platform browsers also use the same engine and webview, so if the platform implements "honor X-Frame-Options", won't it essentially lock out third party browsers? Like I won't be able to use Firefox Focus. Ma
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by sriku 4y ago
Would that description have been influenced by symbolics and such systems? It is pretty spot on but perhaps more true of those systems than of today's lisps.
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by sriku 4y ago
Am a similarly profiled (neo)vim user .. but without cat. Sometimes I catch strange letter combinations like "gqip" in my emails that baffle the recipients. Want vim keys everywhere!
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by sriku 4y ago
<shaking head> you always learn something old about vim every day!
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Stigler's Law of Eponymy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sriku 4y ago
This reminded me of how in Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India), move ticket prices have a cap (and movie going is HUGE) so it stays affordable for the masses despite really good and well maintained theatres. So companies that run movie t
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by sriku 4y ago
Sure yeah. The first part of my comment isn't dependent on Beethoven's full loss of hearing though --- loss of eyesight ending an era of music still sounds a rather hilarious statement to me :)
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by sriku 4y ago
A rather tangential comment - this paper is an example of how NOT to write an abstract. An abstract is expected to tell me what new piece of knowledge I can learn by reading more. The content of this abstract is only 20% of what a real ab
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by sriku 4y ago
I was amused that the article claimed that loss of eyesight would end an era of music when Beethoven's loss of hearing certainly didn't end his compositional ability.
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by sriku 4y ago
I've been using fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) for personal projects for like a decade now and I much prefer it over git. The characteristics that get me to stick with it are - 1. Single file executable. No dependencies to
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by sriku 4y ago
Wouldn't this be relatively easy if we wanted it? We could just feed it a "time step" token periodically?
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Slowly getting somewhat cynical. This is the only space where both "prebuilds everything and therefore saves rendering time and improves caching" and "no build step and so speeds up deployment" are both considered valid

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