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by xamuel 10y ago
If P=NP then we already have the hardware to crack RSA encryption. The above sentence is true, but it has no bearing on anything.
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by xamuel 10y ago
>if there is no pixie dust that makes humans intelligent [...] then neural net breakthroughs [...] have the potential [...] You're assuming neural nets are the right model. Like a 19th century person saying, "if there is no pix
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by xamuel 10y ago
Re: memorization: Don't tell people not to memorize. What you meant to say is memorization is necessary but not sufficient. If you really didn't memorize, you couldn't answer "What is a derivative?" It would be as
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by xamuel 10y ago
In addition to what unimpressive said: Avoid cards where it takes a long time to state the back side of the card. Even if you know the answers, you'll get bogged down and it'll take too long to review. Answers should be short an
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by xamuel 10y ago
I agree in principle, but "boring" is in the eye of the beholder. Some developers don't understand "map", that doesn't mean you should replace every `.map` with a for-loop. >There is probably a library for
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by xamuel 10y ago
Undefined/implementation-defined behavior are necessary if you want optimal performance (unless the compiler requires formal proofs of correctness). >it is human nature to forget High-performance programming is a job the average h
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by xamuel 10y ago
Not to endorse either candidate, but you're making a common mistake. If the election were a popular vote, the candidates would campaign for that. They'd focus more on big cities etc. There's no guarantee Clinton would have
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by xamuel 10y ago
If we want to make these kind of audits part of the process, we need to put the statisticians in an isolated environment before the election. Tell them Candidate A won by X% in such-and-such counties, but don't tell them who A is. A
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by xamuel 10y ago
SMAUG. Not on Github, but this fork is: https://github.com/InfiniteAxis/SmaugFUSS
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by xamuel 10y ago
Yep that's right! When I got out of academia and started interviewing around for CS it was quite interesting how many former MUDders there are in hiring positions :D
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by xamuel 10y ago
I cut my programming teeth on the open-source engine of an online game I was into. It was C, and I had no prior knowledge of C, or anything else besides BASIC. I didn't care about career development or resume padding. I was just a te
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by xamuel 10y ago
I've noticed the president switches between "omnipotent tyrant" and "powerless figurehead" depending whether or not I agree with his party. When he's in my own party, he's a lame duck, unable to effect the
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by xamuel 10y ago
I'd like you to be right, but I don't think you are. There's a big difference between style transfer in art vs. literature or code. In art, it's ok to get close enough, laymen will forgive a lot of noise. A lossy paint
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by xamuel 10y ago
Pure math phd here, now working in finance. On a personal level I wish I could've been a research professor. But on an objective level, in pure math the invisible hand of the market is acting correctly. There's already so much am
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by xamuel 10y ago
Have to take HN anti-parser comments with a grain of salt. I wrote a parser for a format that everyone here would crucify me for. When I went on the job market, I removed it from my github, fearing employers would see it as a black mark.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Sure, you can read React docs for an afternoon and get a basic feeling for it. Then there's the million fine points to master. Like the minutiae of React.propTypes. Or how to use {' '} to avoid having spaces rudely removed.
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by xamuel 10y ago
No not still using it. I use C or q (as in kdb+) when I want speed and expressiveness. Python if I want quick easy prototypes. If you think Haskell is a weird language that challenges what you think about programming, it's nothing co
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by xamuel 10y ago
Hard to put a finger on it but it lacks a certain "playfulness" which real-world languages have. It's like the difference between Lojban/Esperanto (artificially constructed spoken languages) and English/Spanish. En
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by xamuel 10y ago
I taught myself Haskell because people say it improves you as a programmer. I didn't see that, but I have a math PhD so maybe I'm just too familiar with abstract types to gain new insight from Haskell. As a language, it's st
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by xamuel 10y ago
I read the wikipedia article rather than the linked BBC article. What struck me was the boneheaded greed of the National Coal Board. Pettily resisting things like 'move the giant pile which killed all the kids, away from the village&#
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by xamuel 10y ago
>a tragedy that something so important would be decided on so flippantly If so, it was an even bigger tragedy when the UK joined the EU in the first place, there was NO vote for that.
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by xamuel 10y ago
>you could run into other players ... it would be exceedingly rare This should've tripped everyone's BS detectors. Why would a studio do the huge work to add a multiplayer mode if it would be so rarely seen?
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by xamuel 10y ago
Fantastic! Anyone know if it's the first Literature Nobel given to a pure singer-songwriter? Here are three Dylan songs with big literary value: * "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts": an amazing example of musical story
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by xamuel 10y ago
If you like these excerpts, you should definitely check out Kafka's novels. "The Castle" is my favorite book of all time.
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by xamuel 10y ago
It's like this. If you're on a C++ team where the whole team heavily uses C++'s features as well as Boost, then you should write your code accordingly. This'll make your code more concise, and clearer to the other memb
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by xamuel 10y ago
In my experience, those $100 university textbooks aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Tae Kim's guide is infinitely better, if you're an autodidact. Use Tae Kim for grammar, use Heisig Volume 1 for kanji, and us
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by xamuel 10y ago
One big elephant in the room no-one wants to talk much about (according to my Japanese wife) is that, incredibly, health insurance doesn't usually cover childbirth in Japan. They don't consider it to be an "illness" and
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by xamuel 10y ago
There isn't even any guarantee that "os.path" is the vanilla iterative lookup it's presented as. For all we know, it could be a @property-decorated method thousands of lines long.
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by xamuel 10y ago
The author's examples of so-called ultra-unreal are not so new. Like there were no corrupt courtesans in olden days? Re: The Internet: It doesn't necessitate a new genre anymore than the invention of the telephone did. Good lit
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by xamuel 10y ago
I don't know what's so "Missing" about the polymorphism anti-if: I've seen it ruin plenty of code.

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