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by ulucs 8y ago
I think it's bad, as it opens the door for the "valid" retort of ducks being necrophiliac. Is a fallacious argument the hill we want to die on? I'd rather just support the positives of a liberal approach.
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Ask HN: Why are you using Functional Programming?
14 points by ulucs 8y ago|3 comments
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by ulucs 8y ago
Writing "ps4 piracy" and "xbox one piracy" into google is a whole lot shorter than your comment. Then again, it doesn't give karma like a cool retort would.
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by ulucs 8y ago
Honestly, there's got to be a better solution than full-on streaming. Has anyone seen the demo where there's >2 seconds of input lag? Even with around a 0.1 input lag, what can I play comfortably? Any kind of action games or pl
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by ulucs 8y ago
Nope, Switch piracy exists thanks to Nvidia
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by ulucs 8y ago
> Signaling doesn't buy you much. At least in engineering, because a technical interview will sort out whether or not you actually demonstrate basic programming skills very quick. Doesn't everyone complain about how technical i
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by ulucs 8y ago
To be fair, the priors lean into that rather than Facebook and Whatsapp having troubles.
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by ulucs 8y ago
Number 1 limits the model very harshly. If you absolutely need to secure a contract, you need to keep bidding your minimum price. Else, we can view this as a simple utility maximization problem where each high offer costs you one period of
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by ulucs 8y ago
Well, humans are already capable of dealing with it. The judges know that prisoners know what is expected of a good prisoner. The decisions are already being made with that in mind. Contrast this with evaluating a programmer's performa
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by ulucs 8y ago
Until the populace learns how to improve their chances of getting released and starts to game the system, introducing endogeneity. (Also noticed the nice coincidence of a professor with user name klienber having a NBER Working Paper)
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by ulucs 8y ago
The whole thing is very similar to the replication crisis, which is caused by p being a random variable and sometimes hitting below 0.05 for no reason. Similarly, any training or test set validation percentage is also a random variable. Eve
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by ulucs 8y ago
Following the comments posted here, I think the proper way to format input is to split the transformations into two. The credit card example gives us purely cosmetic changes and it makes sense to apply them in real-time so the user receives
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by ulucs 8y ago
I stand corrected on the name. The operational overhead might be reasonable excuse, but I don't think a second-price auction would necessitate that much effort. You could get by with just a form and running a query on it.
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by ulucs 8y ago
> reverse-dutch auction Why? Even if it's "cute", it serves no other purpose than racking up prices and keeping buyers second-guessing themselves. Just run a normal Dutch or a second-price auction.
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by ulucs 8y ago
Well, Internet Historian can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8
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by ulucs 8y ago
and you usually define $ and $$ as querySelector and querySelectorAll at the beginning of the file if you don't like writing them all out, so they're exactly the same length
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by ulucs 8y ago
Uhh, are there any reasons for the single emoji commit messages?
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by ulucs 8y ago
Considering cardinalities, functions and strings are equal. Using javascript notation, ‘fn => fn.toString()’ is an injective function from functions to strings and ‘str => () => str’ is an injective function from strings to functio
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by ulucs 8y ago
I’m a bit confused about the functions always being continuous. Step functions being ill-defined makes sense, but how about modulos? f(x) = x mod 1 should be trivially discontinuous. I should also be able to contruct the set of integers Z (
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by ulucs 8y ago
Apple can update the guidelines anytime, sometimes forcing you to drop some features. Expo's iOS client had to drop QR code reading: https://blog.expo.io/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-client...
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by ulucs 8y ago
You could train actors to give out placebos for a fraction of price. Less work for doctors and more jobs for actors. It's a win-win.
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by ulucs 8y ago
not him, but I found this after a short search https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/357718
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by ulucs 8y ago
that TAS isn't THAT impressive, given that the same techniques can be abused to produce this: http://tasvideos.org/5384S.html Also, the detailed rejection response to TASbot plays Twitch, remarks that actually running
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by ulucs 8y ago
neat, I think D has language level support for this too
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by ulucs 8y ago
I think the more exciting takeaway from this is the Mastery Learning method causes a one sigma gain (from 50th to 84th percentile) for free whereas private tutoring lets us gain another sigma (from 84th to 98th) for 10x-15x the tutoring c
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by ulucs 8y ago
Xiaomi does this with MIUI's Second Space feature. Different pins or different fingerprints take you to their intended space of the phone
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by ulucs 8y ago
Some time ago, facebook introduced a javascript compiler which pre-compiled intermediate values. I think the point was to extend the spirit to the backend apps. If memoization is first class, implementing pre-compilation should be a blast
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by ulucs 8y ago
If anyone wants to read further and deeper in this topic I strongly recommend "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo. It covers almost all practical and philosophical aspects of organizing one's living place
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The Error Which Statistics Can’t Save You From: Researcher Bias(medium.com)
2 points by ulucs 8y ago|0 comments
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by ulucs 8y ago
I was left wondering “Isn’t what he calls Effect really similar a Haskell Monad?” for a large part of the article. I was really glad to see my novice FP insticts were right!

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