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by thesz 6y ago
Quote: "Plenty of companies, indeed entire industries, base their business model on being evil. The insurance business, for instance, depends on the fact that insurers charge customers more than their insurance is worth." No, it i
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by thesz 6y ago
One can master owns native language being an adult, why not? I am Russian and I enjoy translating wonderfully sounding English concepts to Russian. As you can understand, it takes a little bit of mastery in both languages. The upside I get
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by thesz 6y ago
And I think it supports Dijkstra's argument [1]: "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer." https://twitter.co
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by thesz 6y ago
One of my favorite places in Moscow [1], the Andreevskij Most, was moved from its place to new one to become pedestrian bridge (it was railroad bridge before that, I used to see fireworks from its heights). [1] https://ru.wikiped
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by thesz 6y ago
Mikhail Gorbachev, as a person somewhat responsible for collapse of USSR, had an incentive to paint USSR in a certain light in his interview, wouldn't you agree? I grew in USSR (I was born in 1971 in Moscow) and I do not remember any s
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by thesz 6y ago
I think I should point your attention to the MIR (МИР, Машина для Инженерных Расчётов - Engineer's Computer) [1] and Setun [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR_(computer) [2] https://en.wikipedia.
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by thesz 6y ago
I think it is a moot argument if you know the history of silk and nylon. Nylon stockings were on par and better than silk stockings until they pushed silk stockings out of market. Then they became what we know them today - wear once or twic
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by thesz 6y ago
You are using "factory produced" code every time you use any optimizing compiler for typical general purpose language. Compiler optimization phase ordering is NP-hard for every program being optimized and compiler writers cannot a
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by thesz 6y ago
No word about convolutional sequence modeling: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rk8wKk-R- (PDF) It is even more unreasonably effective, outperforming already unreasonable effective recursive neural networks on reasonable spect
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by thesz 6y ago
I disagree with only 1 way to write programs in Go. Go is not an old Fortran (see [1] about "the only real structure is an array") so there is always choice between array-of-structures and structure-of-arrays. [1] https:/&
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by thesz 6y ago
Pound of fat, or, in SI, 453 grams of fat, is 4077 calories (9 calories per gram of fat). Most probably, weight loss will be less than pound in water calorie restriction. Also, there was studies on Ramadan fasting and they've found alm
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by thesz 6y ago
My point was that "parsing with derivatives" not necessarily a slow thing and I provided example supporting that point. I specifically has been searching for performant regular expression library recently. The "parsing with d
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by thesz 6y ago
According to "Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide" [1], it is quite common for computer languages to have most of the grammar in the regular grammars class and some parts to be, actually, context-free. [1] https://dic
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by thesz 6y ago
Parsing with derivatives is not all that slow: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... The paper shows that it can compete with re2 (by google).
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by thesz 6y ago
That brought up the verse from Pushkin [1]: One bearded sage concluded: there's no motion. Without a word, another walked before him. He couldn’t answer better; all adored him And all agreed that he disproved that not
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by thesz 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS32/MIPS6... It contains "possibly via trapping" which I am not at all against of. What is interesting there that MIPS introduced BALIGN instruction whi
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by thesz 6y ago
MIPS has four (two instructions for loads and two for stores) instructions exactly for unaligned access situation, when it cannot be handled in software. This is exactly what I am talking about. BTW, MIPS were proud that their ISA is as goo
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by thesz 6y ago
What I am looking for is not "accessible" but "consistent". What you describe above makes hardware design harder (one has to split unaligned access into two (unnecessary) microoperations which preclude or make harder to
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by thesz 6y ago
The hardware has to handle this case for misaligned loads and stores. Are load and store (multiple or misaligned) atomic? If so, then hardware has to check things in advance and trap. If not, then there is a possibility for some part of sta
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by thesz 6y ago
>If that is "hard", I would hate to see what you think of things like cache coherency across cores... Cache coherence across cores is easy. The number of corner cases is much smaller. The number of corner cases of old architect
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by thesz 6y ago
This instruction makes design of ARM CPUs harder. As an example, consider page fault handling for a situation where part of access is valid and other part is not, especially for store operation. Or out-of-order execution. Or, for whatever s
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by thesz 6y ago
I once read modification of Greenspun's Tenth Rule which looked like "typical Common Lisp implementation contains slow ad hoc bug ridden implementation of half of Haskell type system". Which case I clearly see here.
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by thesz 6y ago
The quote about "exceptional ride due to lower center of gravity and essentially middle engine design" was taken from Tesla PR in the comment I've replied to. The 0-100km/h times for M3 and Model 3 is 3.9 and 3.2 seconds
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BMW did not get over $2 billion in subsidies from government. That may explain price difference.
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I think that Tesla's PR department is not a right source for judgement. https://fastestlaps.com/tests/95pv46ue63rt - Tesla Model 3 Performance does not win big over BMW M3.
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>ride quality worse I think you are wrong here, in this exact point. More mass in the car frame makes ride quality better: you can have more weight in wheels (unsuspended mass) or more responsive suspension.
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How so? What did he do to achieve that? What moves did he taken?
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by thesz 6y ago
>In the brain, neurons cannot wait for a sequential forward and backward sweep. I think that neurons hate when we animate them. Being a little more serious, is it possible to perform gradual back propagation? I.e., for iteration 1 train
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I keep saying that brain grows (BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor is released into blood) when body encounter evolutionary familiar stress - hunger, need for endurance and need for force exertion. Basically, brain was made for body to
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by thesz 6y ago
You keep asking for scientific evidence of effects of completely new phenomena. I cannot provide you that. On the other hand, I am pretty sure you cannot provide me with evidence of absence of effects of the experiment of that magnitude. Fa

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