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by wbhart 14y ago
Works for me. But I did have an internet outage earlier tonight. Likely unrelated.
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by wbhart 14y ago
They don't understand the term crowdsource. They think this means that the crowd will be their source. This is explicitly spelled out in the article.
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A follow up to "A mathematician looks at D"(mathprogrammer.com)
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A mathematician looks at D(mathprogrammer.com)
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by wbhart 14y ago
The Wikipedia article notes that the press attention garnered by Nadim after his prior tussles increased the popularity of Cyptocat. Now imagine an intelligence agency wanting people to make greater use of a system they have back-doored or
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by wbhart 14y ago
I think the danger with encouraging lawmakers ignorant of how computers work to make more laws is that they will not actually improve things.
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by wbhart 14y ago
...that it isn't limited by how 'smart' we are. That's the cheap answer to your question of course. The more expensive answer relates to the role of creativity in scientific advance, and how creativity is limited by experience. When you loo
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by wbhart 14y ago
It's my belief that the first computer programs that we would consider a real AI have already been built, and quite recently. Somehow or other, when enough information is finally available for such a breakthrough, there is a kind of 'leakag
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by wbhart 14y ago
Restricted access to this site by the uk porn filters. Is there something dodgy about it (before I make a telephone call to confirm I am over 18).
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by wbhart 14y ago
Technically, work on Crack became public before work on Go did. So you should be asking what Go provides that Crack doesn't. Technically.
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by wbhart 14y ago
I would have once disagreed with you being a C programmer. However, nowadays there is a tendency to providing functional features, including for example if..else expressions. But if you make i++ an expression, you end up with ambiguities if
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by wbhart 14y ago
You are joking aren't you? There's not a line of documentation on the Flua webpage. The Windows download doesn't open on my Windows machine and I need a GUI to run it on Linux (which my linux box doesn't support). It also claims to be as fa
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by wbhart 14y ago
I would imagine that the vast majority of students at Universities around the world who take Linear Algebra "master" it in 10 days. That is, the ten days before the exam, having spent most of the term drinking, socialising, falling asleep i
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by wbhart 14y ago
There's less typing for the programmer than in COS as far as I can tell. And productivity is an important improvement.
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by wbhart 14y ago
I completely disagree with the point of view in this article. I recently purchased an ultrabook because I realised that is exactly what I wanted. Reason: weight and size. I do agree that the current incarnation of ultrabooks isn't there yet
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by wbhart 14y ago
I don't think this is terrible practical. Just as SSA wasn't efficient until the advent of modern computers and for integers of about millions of bits, so Furer's algorithm probably isn't efficient until integers are so large that their nu
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by wbhart 14y ago
How will mypy give satisfactory array and integer performance? In the case of arrays, unless they are homogeneous, you have to implement them as arrays of objects. And in the case of integers, they won't have the Python semantics unless the
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by wbhart 14y ago
Unfortunately, one has to eat. And there are social responsibilities, e.g. to family and the needy and so on. It's tempting to work on projects that are really meaningful, but if one receives nothing at all for it, the result may be starvat
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by wbhart 14y ago
Don't forget the singlehanded pi computation record. This guy is a serious heavyweight.
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by wbhart 14y ago
I like the model Fabrice uses. He picks really meaty, technical projects which most individuals would not attempt alone, if they even think the project is possible. And he comes up with the goods. It would be interesting to know if this mod
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by wbhart 14y ago
Hilariously, the link is inaccessible from QLD rail's free wifi, in Australia. Apparently the link (nasa.gov) contains pornography, illegal content, peer-to-peer or hacking, etc. People who make these woeful, idiotic filters that filter out
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by wbhart 14y ago
Another algebraist here. I eat corn in rows. Quite amazing!
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by wbhart 14y ago
Could you provide some more information about "features that are typically forbidden in high performance environments". Probably you want a parser expression grammar with a packrat parser if you really want speed anyway. At the moment I am
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by wbhart 14y ago
I will likely remove the global state at some point, but the garbage collector is not something I plan to implement myself.
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by wbhart 14y ago
The major parser libraries that I could find don't allow adding syntax at runtime or to add operators to the expression hierarchy at runtime. Many (though not all) of them also make it difficult to do custom error reporting. These were my m
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Parser combinator library in C(github.com)
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by wbhart 14y ago
Using the same logic as is being used in the prosecution of Bradley Manning: supplying copies of diplomatic cables to Wikileaks is knowingly "aiding the enemy", a capital crime, thus giving money to Wikileaks is "aiding the enemy". So if yo
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by wbhart 14y ago
I'm totally guessing, but perhaps there is no way to memoise when using preprocessor magic and so the algorithm for constructing the parser is O(n^2). (Of course my parser combinators don't memoise either.)
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Parser combinators in C(github.com)
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Open access petition at the Whitehouse - Tim Gowers Blog(plus.google.com)
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