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by sullyj3 8y ago
This is true, but I was under the impression that they were using separate mechanics for star Marine vs shooting in the persistent universe, which they're still in the process of merging together
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I like chaining, that's a good analogy. I feel like, now that I have a certain level of intuitive understanding of what bind does, to me, the `>>=` symbol best represents what the operation does. It just looks like some kind of
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> Definining "monad" as a thing for which monad laws hold is exactly the sort of almost-tautological non-explanation that makes people roll their eyes at FP aficionados. Thank-you for crystallizing and articulating a frustratio
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Americans are weird. America is always exceptional. Exceptionally good, or exceptionally terrible. We have homeless people in Australia too, you know.
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I assumed Constraint Satisfaction Problem
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Depends on what you already know. If you've never programmed before, learn python first.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Can't wait to see the bot you use to make millions with in competition with Duplex
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by sullyj3 8y ago
If you can definitely a problem rigorously, you've essentially defined a function. So "function approximation" is basically "general problem solving approximation".
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Wow, super cool! How does this cope with cycles?
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>Nim is a statically typed programming language, meaning that the type of an assignment needs to be declared before using the value. This is not strictly true, in languages with type inference (which are becoming increasingly common)
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by sullyj3 8y ago
You're right, putting communications satellites in orbit will be much cheaper and more accessible to new players.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I think that anyone using even intermediate Python features is going to find moving to Go a bitter pill to swallow. In what sense is Go a "better Python"? My impression of Go is that it (by design) is extremely minimalistic, leadi
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by sullyj3 8y ago
> Either you have good discipline regarding types where you need it or you don't. And discipline in your coding extends to way more than just type errors. So anything encouraging to develop your discipline is a good thing. I think t
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Humans are the only animals who can be fooled? I pretend to throw tennis balls to watch dogs run across the yard for my own amusement all the time! The author doesn't even make an attempt to defend what on the face of it seems like a p
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I agree, and I think this is a valid reason. However, I think the author could have been more explicit about this (assuming that this in fact the author's reason for writing the post, and not a steelman)
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by sullyj3 8y ago
If I was an intelligence agency, I would do the trivially obvious thing and only use "unmarked cars" when I didn't care about being spotted, and an actual nondescript vehicle the rest of the time.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
This is just sheer abject failure to distinguish between the description in one's head and the actual thing one is describing
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I think they mean that the stock apps should be updated separately to the OS, like any normal app
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It's difficult to take that seriously, given the government itself opened fire on its own population and killed 10000 people in 1989.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The parent's point wasn't to put the US on the same ethical level as China, but to encourage people to be skeptical when terrorism is used as justification for harmful policies.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Directly relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...
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by sullyj3 8y ago
My experience with Haskell has been that if I've written a "run on sentence", it can factored into separate functions, usually resulting in better readability.
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It doesn't suddenly become possible when you start missing payments.
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Uh, what? How are users relevant to the question of whether the tech is progressing? Humans at a game with such a high branching factor is a fantastic achievement.
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The reason language is infinite is that it's structured recursively. It's the same reason mathematical expression are infinite, because you can replace a number with a bracketed expression. But computers can understand arbitrarily
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I feel like this article would be warranted if ML results had stalled and not achieved anything impressive in a few years. But we had AlphaZero recently, and Duplex is pretty impressive. There's no indication that cool new stuff isn&#x
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It doesn't take guts to be blunt to people you have power over.
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Rational doesn't mean valuing every dollar exactly the same. Buying a $1 for more than $1 from an economics professor is funny, maybe a good story, maybe a good keepsake, and plausibly worth more in utility than what they paid.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
How is the word tensor misused? I thought it was just an n-dimensional array of numbers?
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If you built a computer with a squillion chips that was a light-year long, it would take a year at minimum to get a message from one side of the computer to the other. The same issue applies on a smaller scale for smaller computers

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