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by xscott 5y ago
Do you have any data that shows people just make shit up? Do you have any citations that show asking for citations leads to reasoned discussions? Maybe you see the point: Asking for data and citations is pretending to be rationale and civ
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by xscott 5y ago
Take your argument to its logical conclusion and maybe you'll see the contradiction: Qatar has the worst CO2 emissions per capita, so clearly that's where you should focus your efforts. > Also, new nuclear, hydro, solar, and w
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by xscott 5y ago
> Emissions per capita are relevant if [...] each of these cost CO2 in quite direct proportion to the number of citizens. Forgive the aggressive editing of your quote, but multiplying emissions per capita times the number of citizens is
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by xscott 5y ago
Emissions per capita is only relevant if you want to assign moral blame rather than solve the problem. Canada and Australia are higher per capita than the US [0], and you can demonize and crucify them all you want, but it doesn't stop
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by xscott 5y ago
> third person plural neopronoun, "th'all" What we need is an unambiguous set of third person singular pronouns. "They" and "them" is already a fine set of gender indifferent plurals. It's &quo
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by xscott 5y ago
That's another subtlety. They've already been funded to make the mRNA vaccine, so maybe that has been milked dry and it's time to move on to the next profitable cow. Obviously I'm just speculating that it's possib
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by xscott 5y ago
> Then the medicine would need to be 100x [300x-400x] more expensive than the vaccine I'm not suggesting this is true, but it would need to be 100x-400x more profitable , and that includes cost to make and store as well as the pric
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by xscott 5y ago
> So to sum up: <snarky shit reply> I wish it was possible to have a discussion that wasn't about who could get the best zinger in to burn the other person. This isn't Reddit, and you aren't in high school.
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by xscott 5y ago
> there could be other popular game matching sites/software now. I like this one: https://online-go.com
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by xscott 5y ago
Now that Go has generics, it just needs operator overloading to be usable for matrices and ND arrays. :-)
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by xscott 5y ago
> There are already DSPs for this purpose I should've been more clear: Most open source projects, or my projects for the customers I used to have, can't/couldn't rely on a DSP chip or card being installed. If Itanium
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by xscott 5y ago
Yeah, there's a whole other universe of specialized chips for special purposes, and I used PCI-style DSP cards when I could. I just think a standard VLIW on the desktop/server would've been useful for the stuff I'm inte
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by xscott 5y ago
There are a lot of important numerical algorithms which would have really benefited if Itanium had gone through iteration and growth. A mainstream VLIW could've had it's place, and it's trivial to find parallelism in FFTs, S
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by xscott 5y ago
That's a really good point. It seems like most English consonants have roughly one way to pronounce them, particular as a first letter in a word as in an acronym. I guess I should've looked for acronyms built on Ch, Ph, Sh, Th,
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by xscott 5y ago
Doesn't Planck's constant seem like using integers in fixed point? Doesn't the speed of light feel like a sneaky limit on the maximum size of those integers? :-) I humbly suggest the reason the universe we live in does not
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by xscott 5y ago
> Try to say "stimulated" with a /z/ (as in "LASER"). Yup, and there are plenty of others too: SCUBA - U as in uh-nderwater SIM / VIN - I as in I-dentification YOLO - second O as in wuh-nce CAPTCHA - fi
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by xscott 5y ago
> This “law” was never really reasonable or sensible. I took two compilers courses from Dr Proebsting, and while he never discussed it in my classes, based on his sense of humor I'd guess he chose "18 years" mostly as a pa
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by xscott 5y ago
There are definitely places that value non-formulaic advanced math. I spent most of the last 20 years (before retiring) doing signal processing, and some of it was very research oriented (no standard answers). Don't get me wrong, I bu
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by xscott 5y ago
Heh, I guess all of reality has two sides nowadays. For every person who notices how parents of small children seem to show up to the office with pink eye and catch many more colds, there's a parent who's certain their little ang
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by xscott 5y ago
I agree with almost everything you say, but calling people disingenuous is lame. If it's your kid, you hug them, they touch everything, they drool on everything. It doesn't matter if they're slightly contagious or heavily co
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by xscott 5y ago
It's a poor choice in a many programming related contexts. To me, it looks like a malformed octal constant.
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by xscott 5y ago
Nope, that's not a problem. You don't need a closed form and simple equation to build the lookup table (inverse CDF). Use whatever expensive and iterative functions you want to build it. For the normal distribution, you can use
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by xscott 5y ago
Thank you for the info on jq. I had seen it before, but I dismissed it as a "grep for JSON" kind of thing, and I don't do a lot of JSON. Hearing it's got more in common with Icon, I'll have to give it another look
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by xscott 5y ago
Yes, you can use an inverse CDF to implement a fairly efficient generator for pretty much any probability distribution. (I'm sure there's some pathological, and uncommon, counterexample.) It's just a small/quick lookup
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by xscott 5y ago
There are lots of implementation details that can make some version slower or faster. In my own, I use 2..5 branching because a sequence of appends on the front or back will tend to create a tree with 3 pointers per node (when you're a
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by xscott 5y ago
Previously I had thought of Levenberg Marquardt as it's own little island, separate from the collection of line search and trust region algorithms. I guess maybe I should think of algorithms using regularized Hessians as a third categ
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by xscott 5y ago
I didn't dive too far into your repo, but it looks like you're doing something similar to Finger Trees [0]. Finger Trees as described in [1] are configurable to be several different kinds of data structures, but using them as a si
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by xscott 5y ago
> It looks like the innovation is to scale the identity matrix in the L-M step formula by the square root of the norm of the gradient. If I have f(x), then I define g(x) = 100*f(x) h(x) = .01*f(x) won't I get different
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by xscott 5y ago
Not my area of expertise, but my guess is they'd heat the air near the accelerator. There's a lot of air between here and there.
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by xscott 5y ago
I agree with every single thing you said, but I don't have a cat. I could also tack on another dozen things I hate about all of this.

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