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by thechao 4y ago
I really like XML a lot ; I've gotten large numbers of people to use XML & XSLT, where I work. XML is dated, and it is gross. Here's the two things the XML ecosystem nailed , which tie me to it: 1. A dedicated tree-based
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by thechao 4y ago
I like SA's blog; and, based on that I bought this book (Quantum Computing Since the Time of Democritus). It's expensive and bad . Really mind-numbingly awful. I can't tell if his writing has improved dramatically since he w
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by thechao 4y ago
For C(++), I use make and ccache. I can just use `find` to place a naive dependency of every header file on every C file; and, `*.d` files (from clang/gcc): I get nearly perfect incremental builds, without file updates breaking the bui
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by thechao 4y ago
I took me surprisingly long to convince myself the author was correct: the answer is 48 because there's 4x as many hens and 4x as many days: 3 x 4 x 4 = 48. The "wrong" way to solve this problem is to compute hen-laying in te
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by thechao 4y ago
Now I'm going to go look and see where Jython's parity is to Python. EDIT: Only supports 2.7(x); that makes me sad.
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by thechao 4y ago
There's a lot of conversation going on, but I am familiar with a number of the parties pushing this legislation. The entire point is so that the lege can force TX universities to get rid of "undesirable" faculty. Full stop:
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by thechao 4y ago
We've got a Kasparov because there are N billion of us: he is the Chess superintelligence for humanity. Similarly, my aunt is the person helping him eat soy beans, through the proper investment & maintenance of her combine.
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by thechao 4y ago
The original paper for the ORS was engineered out of COTS from materials in the early 80s, designed to be built on a UK-friendly budget renting space from the US Space Shuttle program. With Space-X-like tech, it'd be hilariously cheap:
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by thechao 4y ago
A group of humans is a super-intelligence; a group-of-groups is even smarter. The 8 billion of us, together, have an unimaginable intelligence. AGI isn't going to be a problem.
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by thechao 4y ago
Fortress.
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by thechao 4y ago
A fine morning at Starbucks for the family!
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by thechao 4y ago
Why do you want hello world, at all? Yes, the nearly-null program is 50MB; also, yes, a fairly nontrivial program is ... 60MB? The core for a computer algebra system is 100MB? You're paying a higher initial capital cost for lower per-u
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by thechao 4y ago
Yeah — I used to program in a GC-free LISP in grad school. That's why I'm so flabbergasted.
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by thechao 4y ago
I've never heard of interaction nets (which just shows how overspecialized CS can be: I guess I have a PhD in PLT?); so... I wikipedia'd it up. I normally don't trust Wikipedia any further than I can throw it, but ... &qu
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by thechao 4y ago
The snowball Earth's (both of them) were caused by excess serpentine weathering. Serpentine is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust — like 80% of it. The serpentine is covered in limestone (and other things) which
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by thechao 4y ago
There were a lot of avid Shuttle photographers. When the astronauts landed they'd develop the film and mount them to a cheap matte-off-white cardboard, sign them, and they'd go out to the various centers. When NASA JSC decided to
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by thechao 4y ago
Cohen the Barbarian style, I guess? An old barbarian is a deadly barbarian!
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by thechao 4y ago
Every Chinese engineer I work with knows how to measure in li , fen , & jin ; the Japanese measure floor area in tatami , etc. I think you're conflating customary units with scientific units. Most of the world uses local, cus
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by thechao 4y ago
I'm pretty sure this is what OP meant; but, now, I am saddened we haven't seen the Neil's collaborate on a sci-fi graphic novel. Obviously, it'd be 12000 pages long.
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by thechao 4y ago
This is a Massalin superoptimizer.
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by thechao 4y ago
Ok, here's my problem: if I go get the US currency volume rates from 2001 to 2023, I get an expected increase in currency of ~7.2%/annum (there are some 5% years; mostly 6.5%s; and, one 15% year). This means the total volume of US
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by thechao 4y ago
I, too, stopped reading my Econ 101 text book at page 3! There are dozens of us!!! Inflation can be caused by directly printing money. In modern economies it's more related to things like reserve rates, treasury rates, overnight rate
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by thechao 4y ago
The article actually discusses AT1's at length, and pre-addresses all of your arguments. I'm not sure I find Levine's argument 100% compelling — I mean, we're dealing with a sentiment based sale, not calculating engines
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by thechao 4y ago
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png
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by thechao 4y ago
Why are you being downed!? This list is the best !
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by thechao 4y ago
Every traded object had its own measurement system: it pretty much summarizes the difference between Imperial measures and US Customary measures.
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by thechao 4y ago
When we taught parsing (formal language theory) we generally did so using a "Chomskian" hierarchy. In a trivial sense it would be something like: regex (finite automata; pushdown) -> context free (CYK; LL(1); LL(k)) -> Turin
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by thechao 4y ago
Jeremy Gibbons et al. invented this; I just wrote this up because Jeremy's a really amazing scientist & I think his work should be appreciated, more.
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by thechao 4y ago
Probably not? The stockholders lost the rights to that value when they failed to maintain oversight of management.
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by thechao 4y ago
Except the previous owner gets a Snickers bar instead of, say, the cash equivalent of the house.

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