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541.
by voxl 7y ago
It's comical how little people understand about machine learning, no one calls an ODE solver artificial intelligence but gradient descent on an interesting equation is somehow now A.I.
542.
by voxl 7y ago
Note that none of these languages have dependent types and that feature is sometimes impossible to add in full generic power after the fact without completely breaking existing code.
543.
by voxl 7y ago
You're ignoring the vastly larger group of developers, of which I am one, that simply refuses to program in lisp specifically because of the parenthesis hell.
544.
by voxl 7y ago
Yet you browse and comment on this website, clearly a bastioned of informed opinions, and no political posturing. Really it's worse off for not having the occasional meme.
545.
by voxl 7y ago
The only thing I've learned from this thread is that there is a vocal group of regressive, probably rich (software developers), complaining about homeless people not being jailed.
546.
by voxl 7y ago
If you listen to Conway talk about the Surreals you'll note that he considered it a game (in the game theory sense). He was interested in games of a certain kind and what properties they had, a long the way he stumbled upon this game t
547.
by voxl 7y ago
It's hilarious to me that your name is BinaryIdiot and your post is a false dichotomy.
548.
by voxl 8y ago
You're right, it should have been life in prison.
549.
by voxl 8y ago
Yikes, how strange it must be to be so completely convinced about something so indiscernible.
550.
by voxl 8y ago
Yikes. Talk about ignoring externalities. The energy industry is still run by oil and gas, not renewables, not nuclear. We've made a lot of progress but to think that Nuclear is a better solution than renewables is not an automatically
551.
by voxl 8y ago
That's a lot of words without any evidence. I guess the learned are just oppressing the creatives by demanding their arguments be evidence based and logical? Another tiered competence that they just reject as a systematic way to contro
552.
by voxl 8y ago
The entire point of bandcamp, for me, is FLAC downloads. There was already a comment about how there aren't epub downloads. So this is hardly the "Bandcamp for books." More like the "Spotify for books" I would think
553.
by voxl 8y ago
You can also cause segfaults, the point I think is more that it is hard to do this instead of easy as it is in some languages, like C.
554.
by voxl 8y ago
The ratio does not convey quality. Stars can indicate interest where as issues are correlated with both usage and quality. A star is not nearly as strongly correlated with either usage or quality, it is most strongly correlated with interes
555.
by voxl 8y ago
It's not weird at all. Continuity is, in my opinion, less complex than discrete systems. Discrete systems hold much more information and can often be approximated by continuous solutions, but that approximation comes at a loss of infor
556.
by voxl 8y ago
Are you operating at a loss? It's hard for me to see how this is financially stable. Obviously its a non-profit, but you still need to pull in money to maintain the non-profit. I've heard of other ventures similar to this that wou
557.
by voxl 8y ago
Oh sorry, we didn't realize that you completely understand all of physics and can qualify, without any possibility of error, that any configuration, period, that utilizes fusion will necessarily be impossible because of this physical r
558.
by voxl 8y ago
Literally nothing matters until a human stands up and proclaims it matters to them. This show boating about "why does it matter? It doesn't matter to me!" Is antithetical to where things get "meaning" in the first p
559.
by voxl 8y ago
Being left-leaning is not cause for antitrust. Making your argument a false equivocation. Should Google be subject to antitrust trials? I would say yes, but not because of a left or right leaning bias in their search results.
560.
by voxl 8y ago
As opposed to classical reals which have a computable equivalence? (Hint: they don't)
561.
by voxl 8y ago
>I don't see a problem with this. It's not hard ... What's not hard is being able to see a problem with preparing all your meals from scratch. I don't know a kinder way to say that you're just wrong.
562.
by voxl 8y ago
This is not a valid argument. I don't know Haskell beyond basic fundamentals and I know that your argument is ridiculous. Just consider C++ and boost::spirit. Overloading operators can lead to ridiculous syntax in pretty much any langu
563.
by voxl 9y ago
This is true in theory, but in your example does your small company really have the leverage to take them to court anyway? They have more money than god as you say, how can you hope to win against them in any reasonable amount of time? You
564.
by voxl 9y ago
Proving two things equivalent does not invalidate the use of one or the other.
565.
by voxl 9y ago
I only think the last reason is actually reasonable. You can argue that all the other small ships that they sacrificed could have also turned tail and gave it a go, even if it was difficult. However, the blast radius part wouldn't make
566.
by voxl 9y ago
I couldn't get past the first paragraph in Ted Kaczynski's essay. He makes a lot of claims, with little to no evidence. You can cherry pick notions of stoicism from it (and incorrectly claim that it can be a universally applied ph
567.
by voxl 9y ago
Your claims are outrageous with no supporting evidence. If you just want to throw out anecdotes I'll give you my own. I collected data on all the pointed stories at one previous job for three years and found a negative correlation betw
568.
by voxl 9y ago
Except you can't, as I've said, engineers are not good at estimating. They get significantly worse when you start estimating months out instead of days out. The problem is not that they're engineers, no one is good at estimat
569.
by voxl 9y ago
You're missing my point. My point is that no story points need to exist. If you want to average the amount of work done over a period of time then just count bugs and stories completed. The Central Limit theorem applies equally well to
570.
by voxl 9y ago
I disagree strongly with your take on story points: First, if story points are an indirect measure of time, then the "psychological game" you're playing will be immediately revealed if your engineers are as smart as claimed.

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