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by elliptic 10y ago
< A lot of industrial Haskell sadly still uses string interpolation for SQL synthesis, or fall back on libraries that use TemplateHaskell to unsafely lock a specific build to a snapshot of a database at compile-time. This sounds kinda of
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by elliptic 10y ago
Do you have a reference for this? While Greece was strongly influenced by the cultures of the Near East and Egypt, it entirely misstates the situation to say that "most of their culture was handed to them." Edit - Walter Burkert
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by elliptic 11y ago
I noticed that, but haven't any idea what the purpose is?
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by elliptic 11y ago
Perhaps the elegance would be better illustrated if the planets were shown to move in elliptical rather than circular orbits - this of course was the primary historical difficulty in understanding planetary motion
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by elliptic 11y ago
I agree with the main point of the article, but I'm somewhat disturbed by the statistical errors and misconceptions. >Few websites actually get enough traffic for their >audiences to even out into a nice pretty bell curve. If &gt
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by elliptic 11y ago
How is that a 'devil's bargain'? Just seems like an everyday deal to me.
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by elliptic 11y ago
Perhaps your assessment says more about you than it does the actual facts of the case
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by elliptic 11y ago
That is precisely what happened with PDT, correct? It was spin out from MS
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by elliptic 11y ago
Nonsense. Tao is using perfectly idiomatic language here - "The sample space will be a probability space (once we have endowed it with some additional structure)".
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by elliptic 11y ago
Regarding d) - how much do you think the researcher, much of whose work was presumably funded by taxpayer dollars, should get?
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by elliptic 11y ago
Can someone explain the following comments, for someone with some knowledge of ML but none of NLP? "First, it's really much better to use Averaged Perceptron, or some other method which can be trained in an error-driven way. You
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by elliptic 11y ago
Is this claim correct? "You do four of these sequential scans, and in each you write sequentially to one of 256 locations. Four passes, no random access. This is great. I don't even see a log n there, do you?" You're wri
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by elliptic 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how much better, typically, is the 'optimal' blending rule than blending with some random or 'reasonable' weights? Never really thought to ask myself that question...
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by elliptic 11y ago
4-5x extremely minuscule is still minuscule.
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by elliptic 11y ago
Can someone summarize or translate (for non-Britons) the paragraph dealing with the educational background of Classics students?
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by elliptic 11y ago
They take place in the 15th century, and are fictional (although they chronicle many historical events), but I cannot recommend highly enough the 'House of Niccolo' series by Dorothy Dunnett to anyone who is interested in the Medi
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by elliptic 11y ago
How was theoretical physics key to the war?
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by elliptic 11y ago
Your point is well taken, but with some training most healthy men can deadlift 400 pounds.
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by elliptic 11y ago
The GP article seems like self-congratulatory fluff. So, just to be clear, what you're saying is that you're brilliant and this is a problem?
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by elliptic 12y ago
I remember I was incredibly excited about the release; it was some years after QFG IV, right? But I didn't feel it was quite as good as I or (especially) II. Still, even the weaker III and IV had such intellectual variety and even wo
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by elliptic 12y ago
The number-one sign appears to be: You're like the author
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by elliptic 12y ago
Is this not how most 'modern' (read 90s) relational db's work?
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by elliptic 12y ago
Spark the platform seems awesome. I'm somewhat less convinced by mllib - I'm not sure there are as many use cases for distributed machine learning as people seem to think (and I would bet that a good deal of companies that use di
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by elliptic 12y ago
"Now as a European coming from a well developed city with millennia of history, I am rarely impressed by any US city, but man was Houston bad" Europeans are just so charming, aren't they?
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by elliptic 12y ago
I've spent most of my life in Alaska. I don't really know anyone who would hunt brown bear with that cartridge; it would possibly suffice for self-defense. Many "smaller" rounds are fine - plenty of locals hunt with 30
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by elliptic 12y ago
Not all of the reviews are horrible, and not a few of the books are classics only in the sense that they've been successfully crammed into the American high school curriculum. Some of the reviews are dead on - Salinger, Vonnegut, Lee,
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by elliptic 12y ago
Periclean Athens, Elizabethan London, and Quattroceno Florence all had astonishing concentrations of artistic vitality; none of those were in economic decline.
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by elliptic 12y ago
Has anyone had experience training deep nets for domains in which examples are large heterogenous collections (as opposed to speech, or text, or images), like say transactional or click-stream data?
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by elliptic 12y ago
Only in the sense that a team of 11 Ford pickups would be the NFL champion.
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by elliptic 12y ago
"What else falls when you drop it?" A duck!

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