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by thesz 5y ago
go has null and has modifiable function parameters. The first thing is a reintroduction of billion dollar mistake [1] which is not acceptable in 21-st century. It was acceptable when Hoare did that because noone knew better then. It is not
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by thesz 5y ago
And that problem was foreseen by members of British Parlament two centuries ago [1]: On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
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by thesz 5y ago
On the other hand I would like to present to you an LMAX Disruptor: https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/ Software based on this intra-program message bus usually follows "throw memory at it". That softw
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by thesz 5y ago
"Garbage collection can be faster than stack allocation" is actual title of this paper: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84... However non-naive your automatic counting scheme can be,
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by thesz 5y ago
Let me offer you an example: proc maybe {onno onjust val} { if {[llength $val] == 2 && [string equal [lindex $val 0] Just]} { lappend onjust [lrange $val 1 end] return [uplevel $onju
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by thesz 5y ago
Tcl forces you to create new data, because you have to think and work harder to introduce effects on variables in upper scope through the use of uplevel and upvar. This reduces side effects significantly and makes data transformation explic
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by thesz 5y ago
I believe he denied existence of genes, not heretability of traits.
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by thesz 5y ago
From what I know, Google Docs never used CRDT. They adopted Google Wave's algorithm which was taken from Jupiter UI system [1]: operational transformations [2] with conflict resolution on the server side. [1] https://svn.apa
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by thesz 5y ago
One of the VPN services I've used had their own IP addresses blacklisted - I was unable to view their list of servers while using their VPN. When asked, they cited possible abuse as a reason. But whitelisted them again after a while.
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by thesz 5y ago
No, you won't "get to speed million times faster" by getting answers immediately. You have to learn system before you can ask sufficiently important questions. I recently learned that some database system, internally, alway
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by thesz 5y ago
Here it is: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06188 RNN outputs "confidence" bit which can guide computation to perform more steps to obtain more confidence in the result. Essentially, RNN asks "let me think ab
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by thesz 5y ago
Temperature is bounded to a positive values and it is sufficiently reasonable to at least try to look at temperature distribution as a log-normal distribution, where logarithms of temperature are distributed normally. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by thesz 5y ago
The graph shows difference between countries with different income, not groups of individuals with different income within same country. The difference of hours worked may be due to factors relevant to countries, not to job done or indivi
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by thesz 5y ago
Here's explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer#E... It looks like "topological qubits" that are used in MSFT breakthrough is a sort of "surface-spread" qubits, b
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by thesz 5y ago
It is not necessarily the case. For example, word2vec uses k-means clustering using cosine similarity measure [1]. It works very, very well. The caveat is not many optimization variations of k-means will work with that "distance".
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by thesz 5y ago
Merge operation over different levels of log structured merge trees allows one to build hierarchical index. My work used uniform splitting of indices, e.g., each 1024 samples at some level we add one sample at level above, but it is quite p
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by thesz 5y ago
I beg to disagree. An old presentation by Simon Peyton-Jones (of GHC fame) has a line like that: "Linked list implementation is first year programming course task; linked list implementation on multiprocessor is a PhD-level task; linke
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by thesz 5y ago
Haskell allows to build abstractions that are less leaky than in most other languages. Take a vector package, for example. It provides you with unboxed vectors that are structure-of-arrays by default with the interface of array-of-structure
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by thesz 5y ago
https://eng.mephi.ru/research/facilities/the-reactor I think it is about 10-15km from center of Moscow.
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by thesz 5y ago
RISC-V does not have unused/unusable exceptions and tries not to expose internal details of implementation as much as possible. To show difference, OpenRISC has division-by-zero exception which is unnecessary - it can be ruled out by c
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by thesz 5y ago
One of these concerns was dual purpose rocket systems deployed next to Russian border. These systems could be refitted with nuclear heads. That's one of things I remember, you may find other.
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by thesz 5y ago
What I said was conditional, " if Russia wants...". You cut my words out of this condition. I also should phrase it as "if Russia wants more independence..." Right now I cannot provide you with concrete example.
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by thesz 5y ago
I think that boils down to whether concerns of Putin would be "more heard" if they were expressed by different person. From my point of view, some of these concerns were quite important for, let's say, viability of Russia as
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by thesz 5y ago
I think I should point out that you are talking about preventing ongoing war. It is just not possible to prevent harm that was and is being done. I politely withdraw myself from answering your second question. It is too inflammatory. I stil
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by thesz 5y ago
L-theanine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175646461...
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by thesz 5y ago
I am a Russian thus I am biased, of course. I see this as a means to divide further and to attain higher moral ground - "do THAT" in case of alert or "you are not welcome here until you SIGN THIS" in case of redirection.
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by thesz 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU "The answer to the speech is... more speech" And I agree that this is exactly the problem - winners are who have more energy and opportunity to speak. "Drowning the
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by thesz 5y ago
I think I clearly pointed out that there is misinformation and there is propaganda. Yet those are classes of speech. Let me point out that I was answering the call to stop these classes of speech nearly completely, using magic of Twitter an
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by thesz 5y ago
What you consider misinformation and propaganda I may consider valuable vantage points. I also should point that any defense of the freedom of speech also defends freedom of misinformation and propaganda.
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by thesz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Canad... There were BLM protests in Canada.

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