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by toolslive 1y ago
another counter example: Tomatoes. The price evolution: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Tomatoes/price-inflation/1953-... They used to have taste. Now it's gone.
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by toolslive 1y ago
there's a whole class of persistent persistent (the repetition is intentional here) data structures. Some of them even combine performance with elegance.
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by toolslive 1y ago
it's possible to unify the WAL and the tree. There are some append only B-tree implementations. https://github.com/Incubaid/baardskeerder fe.
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by toolslive 1y ago
I encountered the situation where one company had the data, and considered this to be really valuable and did not want to show/share it. Another company had a model, which was very considered very valuable and did not want to show it.
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by toolslive 1y ago
I - load chess problems (look at a diagram before getting out the door) and try to solve it while running. Sometimes, I solve it the first 5min, sometimes I get frustrated because it turns out to be too difficult. - practice polyrh
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by toolslive 1y ago
but they're not: they are scheduled on some infrastructure in the cloud. So the code version might be slightly different, the compiler (settings) might differ, and the actual hardware might differ.
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by toolslive 1y ago
I, naively (an uninformed guess), considered the non-determinism (multiple results possible, even with temperature=0 and fixed seed) stemming from floating point rounding errors propagating through the calculations. How wrong am I ?
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by toolslive 1y ago
approach # 6: Column Store?
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by toolslive 1y ago
".... the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions." https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926
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by toolslive 1y ago
it's also a gentle force towards consistent naming, ie having the same name on caller and callee site.
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by toolslive 1y ago
> If peeling fails, R10 falls back to solving the system of equations using Gaussian elimination. I've built a decoder for online codes (very similar) in the past and learned that it's best to just to a Gauss elimination step r
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by toolslive 1y ago
You can also argue it's "Stockholm syndrome". Anyway,it's funny how opinions differ: I still consider Rust to be a poor man's OCaml.
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by toolslive 1y ago
But, why? Now the kid will be bored at primary school. You could have diverted him toward skills you aren't going to learn in school (checkers, chess, music,...)
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by toolslive 1y ago
> Number bases are arbitrary. They are not: base 2 is minimal, but not practical for humans. You would not force base 2310 to anyone even though it has a nice set of divisors. So there is a sweet spot somewhere between 6 and 16.
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by toolslive 1y ago
> Save your sanity, don't bother learning the conversion factors. They were drilled into my brain when I was in primary school: 10, 100 and 1000.
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by toolslive 1y ago
Still, wouldn't base 12 be better than base 10 ?
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by toolslive 1y ago
for one: Java has a specification. Python does not.
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by toolslive 1y ago
> Haskell, though not perfect, is of a quality that is several orders of magnitude higher than Java. I'm pretty sure he would assess Python a few orders of magnitude lower than Java. Probably warranting the need for a log scale for
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by toolslive 1y ago
Didn't a politician invent the internet ?
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by toolslive 1y ago
"unit tests are a poor man's compiler" (NN)
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by toolslive 1y ago
as a general tip: X^-1 doesn't mean you have to inverse the matrix. It's often a notational shorthand for "you can solve the system". Same remark for X^t. It doesn't mean you have to build a new matrix. It just mean
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by toolslive 1y ago
also, I've noticed that French and Spanish speaking people have problems trying to perform the composition: "XY" and "YX" will end up meaning completely different things. fe DataRequest fe RequestData.
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by toolslive 1y ago
if you want to build "ability to be paused" you would end up with "pauzeerbaar" from "pauzeren" (to pause)
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by toolslive 1y ago
The compositional powers of German, Dutch and plenty of other languages are really amazing. People invent words on the fly and promptly forget immediately after and the listener just understands what has been said. In my Dutch native langua
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by toolslive 1y ago
they were quite useful. I distinctly remember there were undocumented NOPs consuming a different number of cycles than the default one EA. These were fe used to pad raster line interrupt routines with cycle precision. (damn, I'm old)
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by toolslive 1y ago
They were also discussed at length in the German magazine "64er". fe here: https://www.64er-magazin.de/8503/opcodes.html
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by toolslive 1y ago
You are right. However, in my defense, the '>' is there, the dots are an ellipse omitting the part that I'm not commenting on and I only noticed my comment was not placed on a separate line after I was no longer able/
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by toolslive 1y ago
the quote is the part between the dots; my comment is about why the number of developer resources might limited.
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by toolslive 1y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't like notebooks ? I don't want to write code in a browser. For python you have something like ipython which allows you to have an interactive experience, while also allowing you to have your favourite
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by toolslive 1y ago
> ... with its dev resources ... Opening a pull request to the compiler or std lib was also treated with some French love. (I never bothered to open one again after that)

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