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by dchapp 4y ago
I see several people sharing the Stanford bithacks link, so I'll throw in a slightly-less well-known resource that I found particularly instructive. Basically, a collection of the lemmata we can prove about fixed-length sequences of bi
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by dchapp 4y ago
That may be a fair criticism in some cases. For my toy example I don't think it is because it's generally easy (in the languages I work in) to overload arithmetic operators on types that are basically constrained scalars so there&
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by dchapp 4y ago
Readability. In particular, an increase in the rate at which long, verbose names which are mostly the same are confused with one another.
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by dchapp 4y ago
I have. I prefer statically typed languages.
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by dchapp 4y ago
> Long verbose names don't cost anything They absolutely do have a cost. The question is whether the benefit they bring in implicit documentation is worth their cost. > Even beyond the DX of readable names, it also acts like a ty
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by dchapp 4y ago
> the semantics it learns sometimes have significant artifacts resulting from associations that are common in news coverage I think this is largely the point. The game is significantly easier (for me at least) when I limit myself to thin
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by dchapp 4y ago
| It tests my anxiety levels at least 5x more than my skillset. I'm not so convinced that these are two distinct things. I want coworkers who can maintain their level of skill under extremely hostile, stressful conditions. I'm n
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by dchapp 4y ago
Would you have been willing to hire this person without them graduating?
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by dchapp 5y ago
First, I claim there exist disasters that are not simple to mitigate against collectively. Civil unrest (the full spectrum, from vigorous protest to outright governmental collapse) being the big one I have in mind. Second, I claim that th
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by dchapp 5y ago
Exactly one of the characters in that story can weather disasters.
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by dchapp 5y ago
IME, when people say this, they mean that the difference between two quantities varies exponentially with time.
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by dchapp 5y ago
> Yeah, there are reasons to use dynamic linking, but I'm still not sure why dynamic linking gives you better profiling and tracing. It's not so much that the tracing becomes better , but that it becomes feasible at all. Two s
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by dchapp 5y ago
Thanks! Since this was not obvious to me (and maybe isn't to others) here's a summary that cleared things up for me: https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/oxygen-in-t...
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by dchapp 5y ago
Suppose all of those mitigations in your second paragraph are true. If phytoplankton die off in meaningful amounts, where will we get our oxygen?
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by dchapp 5y ago
Landau's "Foundations of Analysis"
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by dchapp 5y ago
Agreed. I remember reading Hinterlands as a high school student and being depressed for the following decade.
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by dchapp 5y ago
Consider a meeting in which you are attempting to read the body language of an adversary. Video chat may not be sufficient. For a concrete example, consider poker. Note that I am taking a fairly broad definition of "meeting" here.
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by dchapp 6y ago
What does OpenMP (the shared memory parallel runtime) have to do with optimizing away less-used branches? Am I missing something here or did you mean something else instead of OpenMP?
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by dchapp 6y ago
> I'm sorry addition isn't commutative... My understanding is that in IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating-point arithmetic, commutativity over "+" holds but not associativity. (With the possible exception t
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by dchapp 7y ago
If you're interested in schools of thought that argue on the side of "better off not having been born at all", take a look at negative utilitarianism.
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by dchapp 8y ago
I suspect that tattoo/piercing artists are simply an affordable set of professionals with the right experience for implanting various body mods.
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by dchapp 8y ago
I certainly understand that it's not legal to turn your house, nor your lunch, into a deathtrap. Nor at any point did I claim that any particular kind of action was legal. I said that Americans generally feel that we're collective
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by dchapp 8y ago
Maybe it is "always wrong" given a particularly rigid and simplistic code of ethics, but in American society at least we are very comfortable with the notion of causing deserved harm (whether physical, financial, or merely emotion
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by dchapp 9y ago
I don't think the author gains anything. On the contrary, as a reader I gain something from this statement. It's not "now would be an excellent time to leave and you should feel bad you stupid person", it's "no
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by dchapp 9y ago
Elite track cyclists--i.e., the ones who ride at 40+ kmph on velodromes--definitely do squat. I wouldn't be surprised if they also incorporated power cleans and deadlifts. Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aOImvJOa
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by dchapp 10y ago
You might be interested in ReproBLAS too.( http://bebop.cs.berkeley.edu/reproblas/ ) It uses a different approach than superaccumulators, which as far as I know was first explored for the purpose of determinizing paralle
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by dchapp 11y ago
I agree that use of "good" is questionable here. One would think that without the skills mentioned, one wouldn't be a theoretical physicist at all . (Is every person who lacks these skills a "bad theoretical physicist&q
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by dchapp 11y ago
Alcohol. Both disinfecting-strength and recreating-strength.
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by dchapp 11y ago
I'm not convinced wind farms wouldn't be affected as well. With an ash cloud large and dense enough to restrict that much sunlight, wouldn't we also get a different distribution of warmed land and therefore different wind pat
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by dchapp 12y ago
His parent edited his comment. Previously it ended with the parent hinting at a "politically incorrect" theory as to why he was not admitted to the Foreign Service while Mr. Paruchuri was. Edit: That said, I'd be disheartened

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