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8,389karma·3,978submissions·October 4, 2010
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Yup, same here, except now I don't have to look at the list anymore. Have ended memorizing it.
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> because the test distribution could be arbitrarily different, In that case all bets are off for all machine learning algorithms anyway. If the changes are not arbitrarily different then some of…
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Unless I have to travel to a destination with a drastically different weather or I have to stay longer than ten days, it usually takes me no more than 15 to 20 minutes to get packed. With my undiagnos…
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I had vouched for your comment but it did not have any effect. Please email Dang, it seems to be a false positive of some sort. Love your long comments. > Oh I've posted much longer than that …
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@DonHopkins your comment is flagged dead. Is it because of its length giving false signals ?
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Oh! I thought this would be about migraine.
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I see them on sale, so probably they do. However, regardless of whether they do or do not, if they have kids they should. Globes communicate so much better than maps. In fact even better is to build o…
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Agreed. Modern rigour is, well, quite modern.
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Why is it poor taste? He is not preventing anyone. Neither is he evergreening patents. Many things that are on the market can be made and sold by someone else for less. If you want you can put up a GP…
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Many accomplished mathematicians were not professional mathematicians. Surprisingly enough, many were in fact lawyers. Descartes was himself a lawyer (by training) then there were Leibnitz, Cayley, Vi…
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Like ... death to traffic.
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Yes right ? How dare someone build something entertaining and tell about it.
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This would qualify more as a Ballista than a trebuchet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista …
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https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This would be a good starting point. More in the manual.…
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Could one compare choreography with this model https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_corout... Note this is for cooperative threading.…
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A long long time ago I had a fun time making Mobius strip structure out of link list(s). Each edge of the ribbon was a linked list, connected to each other by rungs . It looped back on itself but c…
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Coroutines, cooperative threading using fibres, type classes, generics, type deduction, easy interface with C++. The functional style, pattern matching. Flow based programming using 'chips and wi…
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Unfortunately no. Felix is quite old at this point. It's a very interesting language, with many interesting ideas. It did not quite take off though.
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Take a look at Felix. https://felix-lang.github.io/felix/ Ignore the 'scripting' language claim.…
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Great for listening to while programming. Words/lyrics throw me off but movie scores ... they feel perfect for programming.
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Not for C++ code generated by whole program optimizing compilers. Your "human entered" is doing the heavy lifting. Now that AI is writing code your assertion might be on shaky ground.
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Sorry about such a profound loss. Maybe you can find some meaning in the fact that it did not happen the otherway around.
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But think what your wife would have to go through if you passed earlier. It is that thought that makes me want to out last my wife, but in a state where I am useful in some way.
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The more fundamental reason is Amdahl's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law Even a tiny bit of serial instruction will limit the speed up…
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Thank you. Had not heard this one before.
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I don't mind the dupe's but it makes sense to merge the discussions. Same for Bradbury. I tried flagging my own comment but it seems one cannot. So flag away to draw attention.
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How did you figure that out ?
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To smell fresh cut grass. It can be quite enjoyable.
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