ArbitraryLimits

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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
I'm perfectly comfortable with concision, thank you. Clearly one can interpret the Golden Rule two ways depending on whether you take into account the other person's different values or not. For example, you're probably patti
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
I don't think so - the whole point is that other don't want the same behavior from you as you would want from you, in their shoes.
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
SF is (or used to be until recently) the West Coast's banking center, and everyone in that industry has to be ready when markets open on the East Coast at 5am Pacific.
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
> In Ruby, unit tests stand in place of static compiler checks. I haven't heard a strong argument against them nor a replacement for them. How about static compiler checks? :)
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
> In the US system ... everyone else is promoted and then assigned It's worth pointing out that one of the reasons this system works in the US army is that non-commissioned officers are trusted with a great deal more responsibility
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
Wouldn't this only apply to neural networks as used for classification? I mean the general paradigm of deforming curves until they're separated by a hyperplane seems pretty obvious now that I see it in front of me, but what about
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
This is basically what VxWorks (real-time OS) started doing in their 6.x series - the MMU is active and all memory addresses are virtual, but no two processes get access to the same virtual address range. That way you can debug with virtua
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
That's true but I think the bigger reason is that a single address space makes system calls as cheap as regular function calls, since there is no kernel boundary any more. Ironically, VxWorks's latest major rev was all about turni
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
I'm a little embarrassed that I never got the word play in "tarsnap" until just now...
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
Yes, but you have to admit it does need a call-to-action link that's actually a button.
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
That's a lot of buzzwords in one sentence. Reminds me of the early 90s when everything had to use neuro fuzzy wavelets.
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
I'm confused, are you saying there's a link between people's beliefs and actions or not?
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
No one's going to rag on the post's author for labeling himself "Christian" right at the top? He might have donated to Prop. 8 after all. Edit: That's sarcasm, people.
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
> Lagrange interpolations are only distantly related to Legendre/Hermite/etc polynomials Actually ... take an nth degree polynomial from your favorite orthogonal set. For each of its n+1 zeros, construct by Lagrange interpolat
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
Except that EEs like to explicitly restrict the word "signal" to mean only the known inputs, and call the rest "noise."
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
"Signal" has always bugged me because it has the connotation of a function of time , whereas historically the Fourier series were first used to represent functions of space .
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
Everyone says that, until they're put in charge of babysitting an old HPUX or AIX box and it's time to install something. Then no one complains about Autoconf again (though they can't bring themselves to praise it, either).
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by ArbitraryLimits 12y ago
Well, it helped that the Scuds had a 5% accuracy rate.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html > Years ago David Cheriton at Stanford taught me something that seemed very obvious at the time -- that if you have a network link with low bandwidth the
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Unlike the iPad, the iPhone, Dropbox, and "The Web," credit for this metaphor may fairly be given to David Gelertner. Although he applied it to naming files rather than servers. From http://www.edge.org/conversatio
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
It wasn't really funny until I saw the first figure, then I died laughing.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> I found it funny how all the reasons they gave why TCP sucked were things their workarounds were equally bad at. I have yet to see anything designed with UDP instead of TCP that didn't end up reimplementing TCP itself, poorly.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
You're right, it was Newton's method.
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Dijkstra's algorithm is close enough to the Bellman equation for programmers, I guess :) Also I don't really think taking a Taylor series for the inverse square root should count as an "algorithm."
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I've always been partial to Brad Efron's explanations, see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.179.... IMO he nails the key distinction here: "One definition says that a frequentist i
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Everything you've said is strictly true, but I feel like it misses the point. The difference between water and diamonds is that water's marginal utility is almost zero, owing to its ubiquity, whereas the marginal "utility&qu
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> one of the startup's I CTO for Did I understand that correctly? You're the CTO of multiple startups? How's that working out?
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
Normalize to show percent of revenue and then we'll talk. A time series of $$$ allocated to R&D is basically going to show when the company's growing and when it's shrinking, the same way a heat map of who clicks on furry
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
> As long as the costs of fraud are borne by the individual merchants I doubt it will be fixed. Fundamentally flawed system design / perverse incentives. Sure, but be sure to empower consumers against the banks if you make the banks
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by ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I'm positive that I've seen configure scripts that try to check whether they, themselves, are out of date, and regenerate themselves if so. That's the only time I've seen an error about autoconf version skew. To be fair

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