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by toolslive 1y ago
I'm going to be sarcastic _and_ on topic (you baited me): yeah, like how python completely solved concurrency & parallelism.
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by toolslive 1y ago
Nope. The list is very limited. For the starting position: a3, a4, b3,b4,.......h3, h4, Na3, Nc3, Nf3, Nh3 That's 20 moves. the size grows a bit in the early middle game, but then drops again in the endgame. There do exist rather artif
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by toolslive 1y ago
or just present it with the list of legal moves and force it to pick from said list.
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by toolslive 1y ago
not my fault python is broken.
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by toolslive 1y ago
I was merely giving an example that strong typing has nothing to do with having to write the types. (and, obviously, the inferred type (int -> int) is correct. )
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by toolslive 1y ago
no need to explicitly write the type if you have type inference: > # fun x -> x + 1;; > - : int -> int = <fun> >
127.
by toolslive 1y ago
In chess, as in most sports, defending is more difficult than attacking. When you're attacking, and you're attack is running out of steam, you can always "throw some extra wood on the fire". When you're defending, o
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by toolslive 1y ago
Oasis anyone?
129.
by toolslive 1y ago
I-IV-V-I, II-V-I and maybe I-VII-VI-V and you can consider yourself "advanced" ;)
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by toolslive 2y ago
Unrelated. The article uses the word "decimated". It seems to me a lot of people misinterpret the meaning of this word. It does not mean "kill 90%", but "kill on in every 10" aka 10%.
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by toolslive 2y ago
Studying SML should be part of the entry examination for programming language designers. It's old, has its warts, but is still vastly superior to most things that came later. (Type inference? check! Pattern matching? check! TCO? check!
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by toolslive 2y ago
what bother's me even more is that they are constantly spying on me (phone home, what am I watching, ...) and pushing advertisements to my TV. My next TV will probably not be connected to the internet.
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by toolslive 2y ago
it's really not that impressive, but you have to use erasure coding (chop the data D in X parts, use these to generate Y extra pieces, and store all X+Y of them) iso replication (store D n times)
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by toolslive 2y ago
If your data structures are recursive, it makes sense your algorithms are too. It makes the code tidy and simpler to reason about. Plenty of times your code becomes "obviously correct".
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by toolslive 2y ago
my wife had experimental spinal intervertebral disc replacement surgery 20y ago. Nothing was "fixed" they just replaced the soft tissue with something that resembles a polyurethane o-ring. Turns out the USPHS didn't believe i
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by toolslive 2y ago
I had 3 courses of material science at university (30y ago) and back then the theoretical models where nowhere: being within 2 orders of magnitude of reality was already a success. Engineers would just build a big formula with plenty of con
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by toolslive 2y ago
These days, there are compilers for embedded systems that can prove for certain code (for example) that it runs in constant time and constant space. As an example, galois.com has been doing this for Haskell, not just for embedded systems, b
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by toolslive 2y ago
from the original document: "critical code is written in C." The document is not dated, but it's probably quite old (I'm guessing 30-something years). Writing critical code in C is probably a mistake, but once you find y
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by toolslive 2y ago
6502 was my first assembly language (back in the 80s). It was fine. However, when I later had to do some Z80 assembly programming I considered that instruction set a lot nicer. It had more registers. It had a swappable register set. It even
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by toolslive 2y ago
We do statistical modeling in Python in our company. When a statistician asked for R, I said "no, but you can have Julia". He's quite happy with it, and we're planning to move some stuff over.
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by toolslive 2y ago
Maybe papers need to be put under version control.
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by toolslive 2y ago
I do this all the time: - I want proper English, - and Proper SI units, - and Euro as currency. So I put myself in Dublin.
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by toolslive 2y ago
Canada?
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by toolslive 2y ago
So - for English, I'll use the Jamaican flag. - for Russian, I'll use the flag of South Ossetia. - for German, I'll use the flag of Austria. - for French, I'll use the Malinese Flag. - for Dutch, I
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by toolslive 2y ago
you mean CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) ? There are others that are also _very_ interesting (but also pre 90s). SELF fe, was object oriented, but did not have inheritance. It used prototypes. In essence, you would create something of the
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by toolslive 2y ago
I'm a middle aged European and I have no issue reading the cursive handwriting shown there. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of (UK) senior citizens who would be thrilled to help out here. The retirement homes are filled with bor
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by toolslive 2y ago
"a good chess player sits on his hands" (NN). It's good advice as it prevents you from playing an impulsive move.
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by toolslive 2y ago
PGN is just a format to communicate the games. So pgn pretty-printing is at the same level as pretty printing json. Nothing wrong with that, but at some point you might want to publish a game with diagrams variations, .... For that purpose,
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by toolslive 2y ago
Note that if you're after the perfect recipe and you want to find the ideal ratios/temperature aso, changing the setup "one factor at a time" is a working but sub-optimal strategy. You want to look into DoE (Design of Ex
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by toolslive 2y ago
I don't consider TCP an abstraction at all. The abstraction is the unix API over it, and then again, the > ssize_t send (int socket, const void *buffer, size_t size, int flags) is not a nice one. When was the last time you had the

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