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by wlievens 12y ago
Yes, in the same way that a knife is "just a bunch of atoms".
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by wlievens 12y ago
State and Nation are not the same.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Actually there are four hard things: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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by wlievens 12y ago
For an AI course we had to write a solver for a puzzle using a heuristic. We had a reference solution step count to aim towards. After many hours of tweaking I still could not solve it. I had writ and rewritten quite complicated heuristics
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by wlievens 12y ago
And spend the better part your life ironing?
246.
by wlievens 12y ago
Porn and Games, I guess?
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by wlievens 12y ago
The vast majority of patients get it well past retirement age.
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by wlievens 12y ago
I guess he means the output of a program that has no creative input (other than writing the program itself). I'd argue that if I wrote a program to generate a novel, that novel should be copyrightable.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Does it have an API for generating contrasting colors? For instance for a chart, you'd like to generate a set of colors that are all not too alike each other.
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by wlievens 12y ago
As dragonwriter has remarked above, the type "Number" includes stuff that isn't a number. That's a bit absurd, it's like having a value "Red" for a "Color" type. The type should obviously have be
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by wlievens 12y ago
> I never really saw NaN come by on purpose We use NaN for masking in image processing, for instance for filtering out defective pixels. If a pixel has value NaN, it is ignored across the board.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Tooling and libraries/frameworks just as much.
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by wlievens 12y ago
But a file system forms a tree whereas a Markov chain is a directed graph, cycles allowed. Or are you thinking of a file system with cyclical symlinks?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Any! It's transport layer independent! </sarcasm>
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by wlievens 12y ago
Most people here mention "larger businesses". But aren't exactly those much more likely to buy their solutions from established software houses, for regulatory reasons, or higher guarantee of continuity? I don't see how
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by wlievens 12y ago
The big question is: how do you discover and identify a good b2b problem that needs solving in the first place.
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by wlievens 12y ago
I know Leica doesn't make their own sensor. The company I work for made it (for the M). It is a pretty damn good sensor. Don't know enough about photography to judge the rest :-)
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by wlievens 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the hands of a sufficiently skilled photographer, that Leica does produce a better picture. The quality of the sensor is objectively better.
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by wlievens 12y ago
> it would require surprising its creators to the point that they cannot fathom how it behaved the way it did That requirement by itself is probably the easiest of th requirements.
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by wlievens 12y ago
The very hard problems you are referring to are called Strong AI. If your argument is that passing a proper Turing Test requires Strong AI, then, well, duh?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Just a note: your website http://dsirijus.com is not loading for me.
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by wlievens 12y ago
For a modern spreadsheet it would not be unreasonable for a user to expect symbolic arithmetic rather than floating point error soup.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Obivously, since base 10 is arbitrary.
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by wlievens 12y ago
For an example of an integral constant, consider the exponent in Newton's law of universal gravitation: the distance is squared (exponent two).
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by wlievens 12y ago
This again?
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by wlievens 12y ago
He is not talking about fetching a gazillion rows but about writing a gazilkion similar-but-not-the-same queries!
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by wlievens 12y ago
Surely you have a few dozen billion dollars lying around?
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by wlievens 12y ago
It could make sense for future versioning systems to separate author from committer .
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by wlievens 12y ago
Leica has digital cameras these days, you know :)
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by wlievens 12y ago
Actually in all likeliness your compiler will do tgat for you anyway.

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