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by a-nikolaev 1y ago
It can answer: "I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that" if the question is not detailed enough. But supplied with more context, it can be very helpful.
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by a-nikolaev 3y ago
I'm using gnuplot for plotting too (the actual gnuplot application not a library that uses gnuplot as its backend). And I usually keep computation and plotting separate. Computation produces data files, and a gnuplot script generates p
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by a-nikolaev 3y ago
This is like an artificially created mass extinction event (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event ). Without it the ecosystem could maintain itself for very long time changing slowly and gradually. An ext
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by a-nikolaev 3y ago
jq feels like a much more robust tool than yq. I understand that the task of processing YAML is much harder than JSON, but: - yq changed its syntax between version 3 and 4 to be more like jq (but not quite the same for some reason) - yq has
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by a-nikolaev 3y ago
A collection (e.g. an array or a hash map) that stores things. Maybe more than one collection like that, different for each type of entity: monsters, items, etc. (Separate code paths to handle these different types of things.) Keeping index
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by a-nikolaev 4y ago
I think, Wiki fundraising message should be more informational, not an emotional cry for help and money. I myself don't want to be manipulated, give me the numbers and what you want to do with my money.
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by a-nikolaev 4y ago
I think, Wikimedia's fundraising message should include the amount of money they have, the expenses they expect for the coming years (with a basic breakdown of how it is going to be spent), as well as a link to a detailed report of how
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by a-nikolaev 4y ago
Just to add to this, I wrote additional lecture notes for the class on OCaml I taught, which was largely based on this book. http://a-nikolaev.github.io/fp/ - if anyone is interested in more learning resources.
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by a-nikolaev 4y ago
No parentheses can be nice for cleaner pattern matching, e.g. something like this: match a, b with | 1, 2 -> x | _ -> y
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by a-nikolaev 4y ago
pretty much
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Yeah. Maybe enclosing a particular type of hole could give more points or something like that. Also, one could put wooden pegs with numbers or other tokens in the holes to specify points that can be gained, or those tokens that can be colle
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosian_game
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Dreaming is fine, but Musk has a track record of not delivering on his over-optimistic promises. And a dream is not enough to overpower gravity and the laws of thermodynamics. There are very hard physical limits on how efficient a rocket ca
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Here's a video that's making a basically the same argument (although with a more sarcastic tone) that electric batteries don't have a sufficiently high energy density to power an economically competitive plane https:/&#
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Python is a kind of a new Fortran for this generation of scientists. (And Python makes things even easier, ofc, compared to Fortran.)
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
As a person who lived in that dorm at the time, I don't think that the photo evidence is dangerous or incriminating for the author now. Maybe it could be ..somewhat.. incriminating at the time to share some of these details, but the ex
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
A pedantic comment. I think it should be saying "5000 GitHub stars" instead of "5000 Git stars". Similarly, "GitHub Link" instead of "Git Link". Git ≠ GitHub.
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Okay, yeah, I agree that the more important part in procedural generation is to be able to produce a large population of interesting artifacts. The means to get there can involve more or less randomness (it can be a small seed input, a set
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Demos are fine without randomness, but what we see here is an algorithm or a numerical method to make a mesh.
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Very nice visuals, but "procedural generation" does not seem to be the right term for this code. Maybe it should be called an "algorithmic technique" instead, or something like that? Procedural generation normally is a r
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
> “The ban has drawn the tea industry into complete disarray… If we go completely organic, we will lose 50 per cent of the crop, (but) we are not going to get 50 per cent higher prices,” he reportedly said. To break even, you need to dou
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Emojis are normally used inlined in text. So, I think, they should demo theirs the same size as they would be when inlined in text. Otherwise hard to tell tell the emoji quality. I'm also a bit concerned with the thick black outlines,
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Probably b/c Python abuses the same keywords way too much. (But that shouldn't be such a surprise already to oppose this particular case.)
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A programming game Dwarven Outpost(github.com)
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
It's easier to gain reputation if you are fine with cutting corners here and there, or even make up things as long as no one can see that. And once you are at Harvard (or Duke for that matter), most people wouldn't even question y
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Star Citizen becomes http://progressquest.com/ 2.0 ?
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
Does Stable support polymorphic functions? What kinds of data abstractions are possible? (I.e. something like records / structs / classes / Lua-like tables?)
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
The described way of increasing maximum velocity does not look realistic, it is not based in any kind of physics or bio-mechanics. So, is it a suggestion to implement a broken game mechanic.. so that experienced players can transfer their s
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
My guess us that for the Russian citizens, Putin wants to show that: 1) Lukashenko is the good guy fighting terrorists, 2) EU politicians have mistreated Belavia Belarusian airlines, so Russia had to step in and defend their allies, 3) gene
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by a-nikolaev 5y ago
That's awesome though!

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