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by yosefk 7y ago
FP certainly means that you get immutable data structures (and that you don't get or at least don't use mutable data structures, by the definition of FP); Lisp - I dunno, CL has setf (and singly linked lists made of cons cells
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by yosefk 7y ago
100% true. You don't get to replace a pile of shit or even to call it a pile of shit before you demonstrate that you can navigate the pile of shit and teach it new tricks, otherwise you have no credibility. This of course means, at lea
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by yosefk 7y ago
Berglas actually wrote about AI as well ( http://www.berglas.org/Articles/AIKillGrandchildren/AIKillGr... ), and suggested to legally limit chip frequency to 1 MHz to avoid AI proliferation, on the theory that from
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by yosefk 8y ago
A lot of people including "me" (TFA author, of course "me" = larger team) were doing hardware matrix multiplication for many years before 2012 [let's say before deep learning.] I count "moving data around"
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by yosefk 8y ago
What could he learn from the news that would influence his actions or even opinions? If the answer is "nothing", what's the downside for this guy?
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by yosefk 9y ago
I think grandparent's point was that the first cause you mention - reducing FB's power over users - does nothing for the users if this power instead goes to other 3rd parties, and perhaps even grows. GP points out that in a distri
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by yosefk 9y ago
US laws do not give much protections to citizens of other countries so the American rule of law is irrelevant for them; American and Russian government agencies have equal authority to spy on them etc., though of course geopolitics makes th
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by yosefk 9y ago
It's hard to know if a patent holder or system architect actually did the work or just took credit for it. It's easy to check if someone can print out a binary tree. Certainly a "system thinker" who can't write the
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by yosefk 9y ago
What's wrong with regulating farming practices and, if food prices rise, give the poorer consumers more money (as in negative income tax, basic income, whatever) so they can choose to spend on food or anything else? How does subsidizin
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by yosefk 9y ago
That we seriously discuss using 24 out of 64 pointer bits to prevent one of the many problems with buffer overflow, but we cannot seriously discuss making buffer overflows impossible is very depressing. How about we use 24 bits of data poin
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by yosefk 9y ago
A good example of human behavior in TFA as well as the talk it cites is how deeply convinced they are that C++ is objectively always better than C; they don't even try to suggest that there could be a tradeoff and sometimes C would b
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by yosefk 9y ago
> Companies are not going for ARM just to license professor ISA's. They also license and value the underlying efficient and high performance architecture ARM has developed. Depends on the company. Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, AMD and N
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by yosefk 9y ago
I've tried both 5 short workdays and 3 longer workdays. I like 3 longer workdays better. A full day for work and a full day for something else mean, to me, that I can focus more fully on work and then focus more fully on something else
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by yosefk 9y ago
Anything about unsound investments which are nevertheless likely to be bailed out and so have a great expected ROI? Tax evasion by taking companies off the stock market and canceling dividends? That Berkshire's code of ethics is linked
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by yosefk 10y ago
Feynman uses a much larger set of algorithms though, and can come up with new ones. The guy with the abacus seems like he didn't know why his algorithms worked, he just executed them.
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by yosefk 10y ago
Perhaps Mozilla could take a cue from OK Cupid, which blocked Firefox to protest Eich's nomination as Mozilla's CEO, and stop rendering US government websites or perhaps a random list of websites related to Trump or his supporters
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by yosefk 10y ago
> it doesn't matter if that 90% happens in 2 months or 2 years. It does. If you must sell your house this week you'll get a lower price than if you can afford to wait for a year for the most eager buyer who's in love with
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by yosefk 10y ago
One big problem with dilution isn't that you make less money but that you lose control of the company. And poor decisions by investors are a good contender for the #1 thing killing companies. For a VC this is yet another bet which they
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by yosefk 10y ago
Investors put money in the craziest places, surely there's a public story stock right now that you think is inflated beyond belief and yet it trades at the price it does. It follows that investors will do crazier things than give you m
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by yosefk 10y ago
Counterpoint: if you're running out of money, the next investor you try to raise from is going to be tough to negotiate with. If you have years of runway left, you're in control when talking to investors, when you have 6 months, t
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by yosefk 10y ago
> They have no qualms with racism -- only with racism against Han Chinese. > Affirmative Action is somewhere near the mid-bottom, not the top, of a long list of very serious problems deeply rooted in racism. To you the fact that there
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by yosefk 10y ago
I know very little about China, but the report mentions in passing that racism is pervasive in Russia where I was born, whereas Western societies have done a remarkable job addressing racism. It is not obvious to me that the American approa
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by yosefk 10y ago
Author here. I think today that apart from making my case in a bit of an obnoxious tone, I also somewhat overstated it: while it's true that many "high-level" constructs do have a cost that will not magically go away due to a
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by yosefk 10y ago
Wasn't the whole point of Google replacing things like Yahoo directories, curated manually, with fully automated algorithms? Being able to find quality information on "Bill Clinton" algorithmically and not settle for the page
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by yosefk 10y ago
You can't choose not to eat, yet food prices don't rise like healthcare prices. I think TFA did a pretty good job showing the difficulty of pinning the problem on market failure, government failure etc. At least any confident expl
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by yosefk 10y ago
They gave the actual outcome - >300 electors - the odds of 1 in 10. That's a bigger error than people attribute to them based on "odds of Trump winning: 1 in 3". This is a rare case where the "data-driven" cult i
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by yosefk 10y ago
I think the real issue is that everybody cares about usability but nobody actually cares about the users. Browsers, web apps, etc. try hard to make it easy to browse the web, but they don't try very hard to make it clear exactly what y
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by yosefk 10y ago
As someone tempted to comment on politics, I'd love for the detox to continue indefinitely, with an instant lifetime ban for the first offence. HN doesn't add much to politics (it looks just like that kind of discussion would look
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by yosefk 10y ago
As someone who's had to deal with C++ since the last century, I find that one problem with C++ is that people who aren't experienced C++ programmers can't get shit done, especially in a code base where experienced C++ program
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by yosefk 10y ago
Computers cannot take images and produce output in the style of major artists. If you think they can, give them realistic art and watch them embed eyes from the source image into your mouth. This is not to say that it can't ever be don

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