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by theoh 9y ago
OK. Downvotes happily accepted; but I think we all operate in "peephole" mode now; the cost of tracing sources back to the original is significant. There is no karma to be had from complaining about HN's software, and yet it
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by theoh 9y ago
>> If mutation is so great, why do mathematicians use recursion so much? > Huh? Huh? The deal here is surely that induction and other recursive approaches are conducive to being reasoned about in traditional mathematical contexts (
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by theoh 9y ago
It's a style or a sensibility in other words. Gorgeous rawness—not just accidental rawness. Don't ever try to convince an architect of that, though.
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by theoh 9y ago
Sam is who he is, but I felt like this sentence dramatically undervalues the importance of empathy (presumably in the service of decisiveness, or Getting Things Done): "If you find yourself always agreeing with whomever you last spoke
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by theoh 9y ago
There is a TON of detailed and interesting information in the article I linked to. It is substantive, in contrast to the yes/no study described on the Wiki page. Yet you felt the need to create a throwaway account in order to complain
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by theoh 9y ago
You're assuming a symmetry between sight and touch that is unlikely to hold completely. There is an interesting, if largely anecdotal, paper from the 60s. There may be more recent work. http://www.richardgregory.org/pap
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by theoh 9y ago
If you can still run Java applets, this is a nice intro: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~sqrt/dimr/dimreduction.html
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by theoh 9y ago
I intended to quote this passage, but had phone problems: "And then, after the service entrances, you have to ride in the service elevators. These are some of the scariest places in the world, if you ask me. New York is full of old one
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by theoh 9y ago
http://deadword.com/site1/pay/work/stories/004/index.htm
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by theoh 9y ago
This was for Zeus, the high-performance web server guys. So I guess it was a thing for them to optimize in general: a USP. If you specify that the files are way too big to fit in memory, well, that's a different story.
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by theoh 9y ago
According to that page "Terra preta soils are found mainly in the Brazilian Amazon, where Sombroek et al.[18] estimate that they cover at least 0.1 to 0.3%, or 6,300 to 18,900 square kilometres (2,400 to 7,300 sq mi) of low forested Am
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by theoh 9y ago
On the Frankfurt School: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/18/grand-hotel-aby...
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by theoh 9y ago
In that vein, I was asked about implementing n-way merge of logfiles in an interview once. The key insight/recollection they wanted was: use a heap to implement a priority queue. Not sure it was a great question as jumping to employ a
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by theoh 9y ago
Yeah, but if the entire history (some large part) is available, then it is in the interests of advertisers to run their algorithm against that. It's not informative. Needless to say, there is a lot of work being done in academia on the
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by theoh 9y ago
Yes, but this kind of HTML authoring is often accompanied by a puritanical dedication to "structural markup". It is often evidence of quite an opinionated, reductive, approach to the web, for better or worse.
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by theoh 9y ago
"Everything indicates"? Facebook's vision for their product and the future world is appalling. Zuckerberg may be doing his best, but he continues to helm a product/service which is structurally bad for its users even bef
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by theoh 9y ago
Geoffrey Hinton's idea of "capsules", which I don't really know anything concrete about, tries to address the recognition of objects subject to rotations, etc. That's a topological/structural strategy within th
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by theoh 9y ago
Often they are very sung, like Louis Kahn's collaborator August Kommendant. And a superstar like Cecil Balmond specifically deals with problems exactly like the one you mention—where an architect wants a column-free span in an unconve
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by theoh 9y ago
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Abstract_Algebra/Quaternions or https://books.google.ie/books?id=ouvZKQiykf4C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA... I am from Dublin, where quaternions were invented, so they get
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by theoh 9y ago
Quaternions are an extension of the idea of complex numbers. Complex numbers have a real and an imaginary part, while quaternions have a real part and multiple imaginary parts (3). So the basic idea is that these richer types of number, whe
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by theoh 9y ago
Another intuitive intro, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648035
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by theoh 9y ago
Because it's an idiom that has come mean something figuratively, not literally? Like "hot garbage". Plenty of info about the meaning of "dumpster fire" online.
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by theoh 9y ago
Well, ice-nine does have a relationship to water specifically. For whatever reason, TV Tropes doesn't currently consider it an instance of the Phlebotinum trope (any substance or phenomenon which is essentially an entirely unexplained
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by theoh 9y ago
I think this Wiki page discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_model_(motor_control)
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by theoh 9y ago
> large-scale, top-down, "inhuman", car or transit-focused, urban spaces are bad You are combining a few different strands there. There are people who think brutalist megastructures are dehumanizing but who are generally pro-ca
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by theoh 9y ago
Along with quadrature boosters, there are (used to be?) these things, synchronous condensers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_condenser
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by theoh 9y ago
A fun concrete aspect of this is the "synchroscope" used when bringing generators online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope
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by theoh 9y ago
The latency is the insurmountable problem. The bandwidth could be immense with modern storage tech.
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by theoh 9y ago
This is interesting too. A less detailed class of records, but older. http://www.medievalandtudorships.org/database/
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by theoh 9y ago
Is it this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guédelon_Castle

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