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691.
by stabbles 8y ago
Cause obviously the heavy machinery to process all nine yes-or-no-questions can never be implemented client side
692.
by stabbles 8y ago
Of course sorting floats happens a lot. In practice one rarely encounters NaN's and ±Inf's, so fast comparison for concrete values is the default. I don't know why the 'slow' total order is not implemented in hardwa
693.
by stabbles 8y ago
Yes, the literal < in the language induces a partial order by convention. What I'm getting at in my comment is that you can define a sensible total ordering.
694.
by stabbles 8y ago
Isn't there a default total order for floats? E.g. -Inf < -1.0 < -0.0 < 0.0 < 1.0 < Inf < NaN?
695.
by stabbles 8y ago
As op admits
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by stabbles 8y ago
I wanted to comment about this as a LPT because of past experiences, then went to run `brew update` and `brew upgrade` which took more than an hour because it had to build a new version of LLVM from source... Then I ran `brew cleanup` and b
697.
by stabbles 8y ago
Julia has 2400 open issues and 660 open PRs ( http://kristofferc.github.io/post/julia_issue/ 2017)
698.
by stabbles 8y ago
I made a habit of using automatically disappearing messages in chat using Signal (after a day or week). You have to manually save important messages, but typically this is not an issue. The only downside is that the Signal servers may store
699.
by stabbles 8y ago
Ah, this is very nice! Also a great tool to teach people SQL :)
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by stabbles 8y ago
Looking at the Rust source [1] it seems there the `next()` call has some overhead, so it's probably not the compiler. I remember this was simple to implement in Julia [2] where you can iterate over the full range `for i = typemin(Int):
701.
by stabbles 8y ago
Well, that seems more like an issue with the compiler then, cause avoiding overflows would not result in a 2x slow-down in C or C++.
702.
by stabbles 8y ago
This was useful to me when doing Project Euler exercises, but I wouldn't know how to prove this generates all triples.
703.
by stabbles 8y ago
Yes, that's the main contribution of the experiment / paper. But prior to AlphaZero the chess community did not even consider investing in MCTS engines -- alpha-beta pruning was thought to be far superior. I'm thinking that w
704.
by stabbles 8y ago
I agree. There is no explanation why the neural nets work so well. There is just proof it works well for a handful specific games (Chess, Go, Shoggi). Beyond that it's just inference to the claim that neural nets work for all two-pla
705.
by stabbles 8y ago
What's very interesting is that the Komodo developers have implemented a Monte Carlo Tree Search version of their engine without neural nets for evaluation / move selection. This brand new engine can actually compete at the top
706.
by stabbles 8y ago
Very roughly you can think of AlphaZero as a best-first tree search, where 'best' is some statistical estimate.
707.
by stabbles 8y ago
It's amazing how much of a stir the C++20 ranges have caused. Very entertaining to follow.
708.
by stabbles 8y ago
It's built with good old bootstrap & jquery. It feels faster than most modern web apps.
709.
by stabbles 8y ago
I can't think of any reason anyone would want to switch to this IDE. Is it a natural choice for NetBeans users? Are there even NetBeans users left?
710.
by stabbles 8y ago
Not really the same, but this reminds me of the top comment of the Dropbox announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
711.
by stabbles 8y ago
In C++ with short string optimization short strings are on the stack while longer strings are on the heap. That's the difference between a cache hit and a cache miss.
712.
by stabbles 8y ago
I think it is discontinued (the link to the app is broken). Any idea why?
713.
by stabbles 8y ago
Why is an announcement of a patch release on the front page of Hacker News? Just because it's about Rust?
714.
by stabbles 8y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, what exactly is novel about this? Isn't back-propagation just the chain rule (i.e. as old as calculus). And I figure 'gradient descent' was discovered not long after?
715.
by stabbles 8y ago
It's possible to interpret your comment as a direct response addressing the mother who put out the tweet, which seems very inappropriate. The point you're making might be true, but maybe it's better to rephrase it.
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IMF warns storm clouds are gathering for next financial crisis(theguardian.com)
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by stabbles 8y ago
The php dev landscape is pretty wide. On the one hand there's wordpress developers that can only use "f5-debug", on the other hand there's software developers that use TDD with PHPUnit and Behat.
718.
by stabbles 8y ago
> Even JavaScript is miles better (PHP has a type system equally as bad, if not worse). That's just not true. Just one example: PHP will throw runtime errors when (1) an argument type being passed to a function does not match its co
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by stabbles 8y ago
If the goal is to save resources, maybe it's worth switching to Go entirely. It's a shame the article does not explain what was unsatisfactory about php-pm [1], which is a native php solution that also allows the application to bo
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by stabbles 8y ago
After the new media query 'prefers-color-scheme: dark' has landed, we now need 'prefers-content: tldr' as well.

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