NickPollard

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by NickPollard 8mo ago
There is apparently a suite to rent in the Rosewood Hotel in London (near Holborn) which has it's own postcode (WC1V 7EN). To be fair it's a 6-bedroom wing, but still a fun fact.
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by NickPollard 1y ago
I have a 4 year old and an 18 month old, and I don't own a car (nor does my partner). We rent a car ~10-20 times a year, but that's usually for vacations or trips out of the city to visit family. Regular weekly family life we use
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by NickPollard 1y ago
There are essentially two bits of information in the 'state' of this iterated algorithm: a) Are all the non-lowest bits zero, or are they the value of the latest N b) the value of the lowest bit So the cycle of (N, 1, N+3, 0) corr
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by NickPollard 1y ago
Traverse (or foldM) is probably a good start, likely the most useful monad-generic (or applicative-generic) function, that is simple but incredibly powerful and useful. More generally, Monads essentially support function composition between
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by NickPollard 5y ago
> Functions and types can take integers as monomorphization-time template parameters (const generics). Const generics aren't dependent types though; you're still dealing with known constants at compile time. For it to be depend
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by NickPollard 5y ago
I've not been following recent Rust development as closely, can you elaborate on what limited form of dependent types Rust is adding?
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by NickPollard 8y ago
Absolutely not. The code of conduct was created to help produce a welcoming and supportive community, and if Tony being kicked out for being neither welcoming nor supportive counts as 'weaponizing', then that's a very strange
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by NickPollard 8y ago
Can second all these suggestions. Also, from my experience all the Haskell events I've been to have been incredibly welcoming and positive, whilst I'm aware there are a tiny subset of abusive people out there, I've never met
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by NickPollard 9y ago
and Dolphin can upscale to e.g. 1080p rather than the gamecube's native 480p.
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NStack – Deploy Data Science Experiments in Minutes(blog.nstack.com)
3 points by NickPollard 9y ago|0 comments
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by NickPollard 9y ago
We have some info on our docs here: https://docs.nstack.com/en/latest/features/index.html (See the composition section at the top). Composition is a simple technique to build functions out of multiple simpler
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Show HN: NStack – Typed, composable microservices for data analytics(github.com)
30 points by NickPollard 9y ago|5 comments
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by NickPollard 10y ago
For what it's worth this was (and is) my red line that prevents me from ever buying an iPhone. That's one person who agrees with you at least!
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by NickPollard 10y ago
The XPS 13 is a really nice machine - I use one full-time for work, although with Linux (Fedora) rather than Windows, and it's fantastic.
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by NickPollard 10y ago
You are right - in a tautalogical way - that type systems only catch type errors. However, in modern languages (including Haskell, Scala, as well as newer, more experimental languages like Idris), those type errors can be extremely powerful
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by NickPollard 10y ago
You don't have to clean up everything at once - it's possible to put items on a queue to be cleaned up when refcounts hit zero, and you can then control at what rate the queue is emptied.
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by NickPollard 11y ago
Because the display is normally running at 60hz, so if you don't want tearing (where the frame to be displayed changes halfway through monitor refresh, leading to a sharp tear across the screen), you need to run at an integer number of
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by NickPollard 11y ago
This is, generally, undecidable. In fact, it's one of the most famous results in Computer Science, known as The Halting Problem[1]. Alan Turing showed that, for a program run on a particularly definition of a computer (a 'Turing M
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by NickPollard 11y ago
Indeed: static const int eight = 8; x * eight; Sometimes magic numbers are just that - numbers. Adding constant definitions is often a good thing, but sometimes just adds noise.
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by NickPollard 11y ago
A good portion of this stuff does still go on in Games Development. I don't work in games any more, but on the last title I worked on (Forza Horizon, Xbox 360), one of my colleagues engaged in a very similar exercise in order to allow
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by NickPollard 11y ago
It shows Eric Clapton, widely considered one of the most skilled and successful blues guitarists, chauffeuring B.B. King, implying that Clapton honours and reveres him.
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by NickPollard 11y ago
Weird, or unsupported by any evidence or logical foundation? Religious beliefs are obviously very common, and not suprising for humans. That doesn't mean they have any scientific underpinning, and just because they are commonly believe
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by NickPollard 11y ago
You misread that chart; The video game industry pulled in $887M in the US in One Month (February) of 2014. For scale, bear in mind that GTA5 made worldwide revenue of $1billion in it's first three days. If we go by Gartner[1], the
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by NickPollard 11y ago
Until you claim that your (indistinguishable) copy is the real thing, at which point theirs is ruined.
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by NickPollard 12y ago
I think the point is that Eliezer's main strength - at least as I expect he would espouse himself - is his rationality or metacognition. This is what he would bring to those endeavours. In the same way that a clever computer science ca
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by NickPollard 12y ago
Sam's last post on Machine Intelligence, and the worries regarding it, received a lot of dismissal here on HN from people who thought that the idea is completely unfounded and implausible.
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by NickPollard 12y ago
Another version I've heard of this is with film censorship - apparently when Hitchcock made Psycho , the film censor (I think in the UK - the BBFC) wouldn't give the film a certificate because it was too extreme for the era - too
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by NickPollard 12y ago
At many previous times, on days when important, influential or otherwise respected persons have died, the site turns the header bar (normally orange) black, as a mark of respect.
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by NickPollard 12y ago
To address this complete non-sequitur: Why the hell do you want to stop HFT? I have never heard a single good argument against HFT. HFT does not make ridiculous amounts of money these days - and the money it does make is at the expense of
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by NickPollard 12y ago
There are definitely things wrong with financial markets, but automated trading is not one of them. Just like anything else, using computers to be more efficient is a good thing. Are you going to complain about Amazon and wait for 'r

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