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by frig 17y ago
For all the thought you've put into your comment you clearly have a lot of your ego -- probably too much -- invested in being the guy who's not afraid to publicly point out it might be worth making scientific inquiry into racial differences
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by frig 17y ago
The specific example of 'da Bears' was a weak attempt at humor. I can't easily clarify what I'm getting at and keep this short, and I've got limited time so I'll do the best I can. I see a lot of people using "informal" bayesian reasoning (
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by frig 17y ago
Say a proper Bayesian who's a fan of 'da Bears' just saw the bears lose again, badly. How is he supposed to update these two beliefs: - this season 'da Bears' will tear shit up every Sunday (fwiw assume prior on this has it as likely) - I a
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by frig 17y ago
Just something I had a hard time figuring out and seems poorly documented: --type-set=scala=.scala # works in .ackrc --type-set scala=.scala # doesn't work in .ackrc ...despite the version with one equals being correct command-
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by frig 17y ago
I like the look of it. Am I correct that the order the statements are in translates into the order things are evaluated in when the code is called? If eg I edited it to be: do { l <- locations; w <- widgets;
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by frig 17y ago
You'll be thrilled (lol) to know that the lambda-tuple syntax isn't in python 3 (!); it does make my examples more concise. The argument in favor of set-notation being higher level is it's less specific (it doesn't explicitly provide a se
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by frig 17y ago
I'm partially defending list comprehensions here and partially challenging you to consider the possibility that there are higher levels of abstraction out there than those employed by functional programming primitives like map and filter. L
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by frig 17y ago
I have a longer comment here that argues the opposite: list-comprehensions are only a syntactic pun or two away from set-builder notation, which is a higher level-of-abstraction (it declaratively states what it is) than map+filter (which sp
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by frig 17y ago
It depends slightly on how you came to functional programming. You can arguably trace Python's list comprehension syntax all the way back to setl, a "set-theoretic programming language", and the resemblance to mathematical set-builder notat
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by frig 17y ago
Yes, you did miscommunicate; even allowing for the miscommunication you're making an extremely poorly-considered analogy. The kind of peer review that matters for purposes of scientific integrity is review by outsiders; eg, a paper is "peer
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by frig 17y ago
In what meaningful sense do Google or Amazon have peer-reviewed and transparent data sets? Please be specific.
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by frig 17y ago
The fit imho is that at least if you stick to numerics you'd have to try pretty hard not to be writing code in a way that could be easily translated into something that'd be runnable on a gpu (or larrabee). This isn't really a new idea:
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah I've not studied that interpreter so if that's your specific interest no luck sadly; rank is an easy idea but wouldn't surprise me if there's some trick to it in an implementation that short. I think it'd be easier to untangle if you a
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by frig 17y ago
Please take this not as an insult but as invitation to offer help. Rank shouldn't be something to get confused about; if it is you're probably overthinking it. What did you find confusing about it?
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by frig 17y ago
Another point of experience: out of the box it is pretty poor if you work on the macintosh; by default there's nothing mapped to "command" and there're not enough "keys" on it to remap anything to command without giving up something else yo
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by frig 17y ago
If the article's really about catastrophe theory I'd better-motivate the catastrophe reference; dropping it in at the last second is pretty much a wtf moment for a reader not forewarned. Motivate it in the abstract as like (but rephrased to
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by frig 17y ago
I am agnostic on the platonic notion of patents but generally would agree that what we have now is sufficiently far from optimal that the status quo ought not be accorded much deference. I think generally the little-guy versus big-conglomer
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by frig 17y ago
I'd say you're slightly misreading the point of the patent system; I'd argue the underlying "point" is what it says it is in the constitution -- to promote the progress of the useful arts + sciences -- which isn't exactly the same thing a
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by frig 17y ago
Too vague to be helpful; only appeal is a seemingly-more-objective test for non-obviousness (nonobvious iff prerequisites developed AND not solved in previous 10 years), but vagueness of relevant terms negates any putative step forward in "
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by frig 17y ago
In hindsight the present situation is pretty predictable: as the # of goods produced increases and the amount of specialization increases the value supplied by the intermediary network ("the financial system") increases. The way the financi
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by frig 17y ago
Generally overconfidence in our present abilities isn't conducive to stimulating new research. I mean: I give you as much workup on the brain of an unknown individual as you care to have (fMRI, scans, dissection, whatever you want). Can you
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by frig 17y ago
This is bazaar-style development in action: do a crap initial job and troll up helpful comments from people like you.
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks for the response, I do appreciate it. I wasn't aware of how active lojban still is (and it's much more accessible to to get information on thanks to the internet). I should point out that I'm fairly familiar with the general range of
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by frig 17y ago
If dolphins have that much personality there's not much guarantee any two dolphins would act the same way in the same scenario. Additionally, given that dolphins can apparently teach each other behaviors the entire batch of dolphins they've
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks. I figured grammatical # as such would be discarded as unnecessary but the notion of plurality raises semantic issues that natural language sidesteps by ambiguity. Disclaimer/Personal Background (trying to be brief): I've often been
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks for the sentence, that's certainly nontrivial enough (I was just trying to dodge 2-3-word-sentences like "jesus wept" or "i like milk", which rarely show anything interesting at the grammatical level). Not-mocking: there's an apparen
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by frig 17y ago
Can you give a slightly non-trivial lojban sentence with translation? I'd prefer it be one you create so I can more easily ask you questions about it (as opposed to a web example).
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by frig 17y ago
Overall there's nothing I disagree with in what you wrote. One thing worth point out though is that affiliate marketing is a huge force-multiplier for the company selling the product, which is why it exists in the first place. If you have s
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by frig 17y ago
The parents of the kids who sign up for $10/month weekly horoscope sms services.
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by frig 17y ago
A major change is that good search algorithms or giant server farms could become sufficiently useless that a remote search engine makes no economic sense. I don't see that happening in the near term but there are sci-fi scenarios in which i

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