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by ssivark 5y ago
IIUC, this article highlights the importance of dynamic dispatch, but implicitly restricts itself to single dispatch (OOP) completely eliding any mention of multiple dispatch. Single dispatch is great/sufficient for modeling process en
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In the steel-manned implementation, I would like the plots and tables to be auto-re-generated on publication, from submitted code. That would ensure that the results can have no “hidden state” and the paper cannot claim anything more than w
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by ssivark 5y ago
You might be interested in looking at the Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/
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This is very cool! I’d love to know what kind of data inputs you used for the recommendation engine. More generally, I think it would be really great to have collaborative filtering services for all kinds of interests (music, movies, books,
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by ssivark 5y ago
Very interesting observations! How did you stumble on this? :-) IIUC (based on one of your blog comments), you typically need one “immediate” neighborhood and one “ring-like” neighborhood further away. The latter seems like it might likely
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Very interesting UX observations on interactive programming. Kinda like mirrors in waiting areas, I wonder whether judicious logging messages about the compilation process (not a wall of text, but just enough) will serve to keep users engag
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Love the OP's attitude. It's perfect for anyone looking to explore computing as a medium. The HN comments they quote (shipping for customers, and avoiding pointless homework) come from a very different perspective -- where the med
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by ssivark 5y ago
Rather, the question is, how can Apple control access to a device they have sold to customers by forcing all app deployments through their App Store? They can run the App Store quite whimsically if they allow side loading apps and other a
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On the contrary, I would argue the exact converse. There are many reasons to want alternative app stores, and they might even be an effective market mechanism to avoid specifying some naive threshold like 15%.
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Hi, thanks for hanging around; the idea seems exciting! A few questions (likely FAQs): 1. How much thicker & heavier is this laptop than similar screen size MacBook Pro and Thinkpads? (Is the battery life comparable?) 2. Is there solder
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No, “square” is the more crude analogy (there’s a lot more to “multiplication” than you might be familiar with in the case of numbers), and “double copy” is more natural. Don’t ask for a simpler explanation because the actual story is not y
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Please elaborate on your workflow, and the tools you use. I know many people will be interested!
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Classically that’s true, but if we want consistency with quantum mechanics, the only starting point we know is to quantize the force carrying fields (gravitons, just like photos and gluons), but then it turns out we can’t get far from the s
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(Passing comment from a phone, so forgive the brevity.) The key predictions one typically calculates using quantum field theory are scattering amplitudes. Let’s consider both gravity and one of the other forces in the “weak”/perturbati
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The two aren’t mutually exclusive! The package repo need only be a list of “endorsed” applications/binaries once they’ve been packaged. The fact that it requires so much work on the package maintainers’ part (essentially duplicating th
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Such a backward headline. The whole point of the economy is to enable human health and happiness; not the other way around!
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A key underlying assumption in Scott’s perspective in “Seeing like a State” is that diversity is critically important to healthy functioning of biological/human/cultural ecosystems. In large computing system fleets we’re often oka
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In the Boeing case, outsourcing is likely a problem not because of the geographical location of the engineers/developers, but the cost-centric mindset that drives such decisions with utter disregard for technology and technical experti
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Nice analogy. I think that Tyler Cowen statement is a symptom of Procrustean thinking from someone who starts reasoning not with an understanding of how humans are , but starts “logically” from the principles of economics and how humans
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Yes, and the crux of the problem is that they didn’t get assent/buy-in from someone like that before running the experiment.
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To add... Ideally, they should have looped in Linus, or someone high-up in the chain of maintainers before running an experiment like this. Their actions might have been in good faith, but the approach they undertook (including the email
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I think most of that comes from the fact that American sports have playoff systems to determine eventual champions (and the uncertainty that entails) whereas leagues favor consistent performers (strongly correlated with the money a club can
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Even at the amateur/intermediate level, a good tool let’s one ignore certain concerns and focus on others. This is crucial for developing skill. The expert might now be able to surf on a table, but the beginner will likely never get th
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How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents(berthub.eu)
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Yes, but that ignores the energy/carbon cost.
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It’s a matter of principle, more than anything else.
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Why not open source this bridge too, like everything else in the Matrix ecosystem?
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Can’t fault them for it, but it does feel a touch petty — falling below the high standard that Matrix has implicitly led us to expect.
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It’s so closed source, even the URL doesn’t work! :-)
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The “more fundamental” equations replace the “less fundamental” ones, which can then be derived as approximations or limiting cases valid in restricted regimes (Eg: Newton’s laws of motion + gravitation from the weak field approximation o

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