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by stewbrew 7y ago
"The primary problem was Java developers compiling code where they had no idea what the output was doing." By that argument anything but assembler is garbage.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Inheritance is a conceptually more complex issue that isn't just about code reuse and doing things slightly differently than a parent. Composition doesn't make such assumptions. It only assumes that the parts conform with some int
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Such a list is almost worthless without some kind of quality assessment. I skimmed through a few courses and they vary extremely in quality. Some are made by often rather young lecturers who could have prepared better so that they don'
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I remember a slightly different story: There were claims they would revolutionize urban traffic. Then they came up with a rather ridiculous solution, especially in consideration of the price point. What's left are tourist tours for peo
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by stewbrew 8y ago
This means you're dependent on 1 developer who still wants to maintain this software? That said: (IMHO) impressing demo.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The keyboard of my sister's brandnew mbp is literally falling apart. She uses a cheap bluetooth keyboard she puts on top of the mbp's keyboard. She still claims Apple makes the best notebooks. I'm totally enthralled by how Ap
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by stewbrew 8y ago
“On average, compiled languages consumed 120J [joules] to execute the solutions, while for a virtual machine and interpreted languages this value was 576J and 2365J, respectively.” IMHO it's not quite right to evaluate energy efficienc
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by stewbrew 8y ago
In my understanding that is/should be the main difference between internal/external storage. Internal/scoped/private: An app can only read from/write to its own area. External/shared: Everyone can read/wri
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Fisher, Neyman-Pearson or NHST? A tutorial for teaching data testing (2015)(frontiersin.org)
15 points by stewbrew 8y ago|0 comments
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The proposal isn't about eliminating p.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Well, no. Hardly any non-statistician knows what a CI really means. It's also just a statement about significance in disguise.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"InteliJ support is more than enough" That won't get kotlin more traction. No proper/official tools for LSP support means no vscode, vim, emacs etc. users. As a happy eclipse user, I wouldn't call it dead either.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I first learned about ATS when it came out on the top (2nd, 3rd?) of the benchmark game. That was years ago. Did it gain any real world traction in the meantime? It seems ATS was removed from the benchmark game since then.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I'd say crime, thrillers and such. There are many German writing authors.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
It claims to have found an effect not just a correlation in the data. But the term probably was a little too strong.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"I wanted to replicate this result myself. So a few months ago, when I surveyed readers of my blog, I included some questions about perceptual illusions (including a static version of the hollow mask). I got five thousand responses, in
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by stewbrew 8y ago
To be fair, you describe the last step of one of his analyses. He starts with 900gb of data. One could of course discuss whether spark is the right tool for filtering a text file for a pattern, IMHO the post is interesting nevertheless.
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Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by stewbrew 8y ago|0 comments
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Pouring steamed milk over good hand-brewn coffee is a slightly disturbing idea. Why would you want to do that to your coffee? That said I too love my electric milk frother its hot chocolate option.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
It's a pity Sinclair tended to make at least one bad design choice per device. Eg the Z88 was about the most amazing device of its time if only it had had something else than eproms for storage.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Use forth. Pro: Forth is standardized. It runs everywhere. It's most likely the first language that will be ported to any new platform. If it isn't avaible on a new platform yet, you can write your own interpreter. Contra: Today&#
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by stewbrew 8y ago
In the app store there already are several called xfiles - remember the TV series with the same name? There is also the x-plore file explorer. Maybe they reconsider the project's name.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I wonder what the result would look like if this were applied to source code. IMHO a probabilistic algorithm for code completion could turn out interesting. Most code completion algorithms work deterministic by deducing the set of completio
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by stewbrew 8y ago
I get this argument from my father in law too so I don't take it as a joke. He had used XP until 1-2 years ago and doesn't care about the security risks of an unmaintained os.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"Probably the first difficulty people run into when leaning German is memorizing the gender of each noun and properly declining that noun’s articles when used in a sentence." It really depends on what your mother tongue is. I pers
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"about the recurring patterns found in object-oriented software" ... in statically typed languages of that time (like C++ and to some extent Java). At least some patterns solve problems that are not (that kind of) a problem in, e.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
This doesn't preclude R7RS compatibility, does it?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"the core problem with Windows software is there isn't a primary software repository for all approved and tested software" scoop uses portable binaries provided from the original source. For many people that's good enoug
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The VM is VisualWorks, a commercial? product.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
So, AG writes a sloppy review to complain about a sloppy mischaracterization of (mostly classic) statisticians. "About the exposition of causal inference, I have little to say." That would have been interesting though.

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