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by greatzebu 6y ago
Wouldn't that make them entirely beholden to search engines that rely on ad revenue to pay Chrome? It doesn't seem to change the underlying incentives very much.
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by greatzebu 8y ago
In 2018, 53% of votes for Wisconsin State Assembly went to Democrats, and Republicans won 64% of the seats (see https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/blogs/wisconsin-voter/20... ). So in this case it's
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by greatzebu 8y ago
Grades are also fraught with bias, and in a lot of cases measure compliance more than mastery of the material.
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by greatzebu 8y ago
I don't think this is borne out by the data on manufacturing output: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
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by greatzebu 11y ago
The tip is for the person coming up with the rule--even rules that seem very simple will be harder to figure out than you expect.
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by greatzebu 12y ago
See "Considered Harmful Essays Considered Harmful" ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html ) "We should stop doing X" will always be a popular essay topic, but the "X Considered Harmfu
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by greatzebu 12y ago
It never attracted a giant user base. I miss Reader (especially the pre-G+ integration version) and I wish it was still around, but it's not mysterious why it got killed. If it had hundreds of millions of users it wouldn't have di
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by greatzebu 12y ago
This is a very reasonable question. One way to get at the question of whether the reduction is real is to look at crimes where it's hard to game the statistics and see if they follow the same trends as other crimes. One of the best cri
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by greatzebu 12y ago
I think this should be read as "kids under 6 failed [to perform better than chance] every time"
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by greatzebu 12y ago
The principled way to avoid bad worst-case performance for quicksort is to select the pivot using a median of medians approach. That gives you good asymptotic performance even for adversarial inputs, but in practice it tends to be slower. W
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by greatzebu 12y ago
> A "Pareto optimal" solution is one which, given all the possibilities of action, produces the best outcome for both parties (with some negotiable surplus). This isn't quite right. In a Pareto optimal solution, there&#x27
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by greatzebu 12y ago
The network looks relatively anemic at first glance. I would guess that this will be a LINPACK monster, but it'll be difficult to scale applications that aren't pure linear algebra up to the point that justifies a single machine t
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by greatzebu 12y ago
"Lede" is supposedly a holdover from the time when news was printed using actual metal lead type, and "lead" was accordingly shorthand for type itself. The alternate spelling avoids a potentially confusing homograph.
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by greatzebu 12y ago
I'd say that the two communities here are just people working at opposite ends of a continuum of applications that run on large clusters. The HPC community is all the way at the end with tightly coupled applications, low data to comput
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by greatzebu 12y ago
One possible explanation: the cost of initial IO to write your data is amortized over that data's lifetime. The early-delete penalty ensures that Amazon always makes enough on your data to justify the cost of writing it into their syst
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by greatzebu 12y ago
If you have a lot of heavily-read data distributed across machines, you're probably constrained by available spindles rather than available storage space. So co-locating data that will almost never be read with heavily-read data is eff
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by greatzebu 13y ago
The difficulty ratings on these questions are cruel mockery.
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by greatzebu 13y ago
I was trying to build WRF from source a few years ago for a project in grad school, and the bulk of the program was one giant file that crashed gfortran when you tried to compile it. So compiling with a non-Intel compiler can present some p
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by greatzebu 13y ago
Does it? I've always thought of a mid-life crisis as an attempt to recapture the thrills of youth, whether through a fast new car or a hot young fling or whatever. If you take him at his word, he's trying to do the opposite and mo
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by greatzebu 13y ago
One of the biggest ways I became a better programmer in 2013 was essentially the opposite of this advice from item 3: "Don’t be afraid of your code. Who cares if something gets temporarily broken while you move things around? A paralyz
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by greatzebu 13y ago
If you want to get into proper parallel numerical algorithms, most useful programs are C, C++, or Fortran, sometimes with CUDA or OpenCL kernels. I don't think I've seen any large-scale HPC applications in Haskell, as much as like
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by greatzebu 13y ago
> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it. I would assume this is because a lot of Google engineers read Hacker News and they want to defe
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by greatzebu 13y ago
I clicked through in the hope that it would say "it barely matters, just get started and fix mistakes as you go". It started off with promise when he asserted that the people asking this question usually didn't actually care
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by greatzebu 13y ago
If you're relying on giant corporations to engage in coordinated civil disobedience on your behalf, you're in a pretty bad place.
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by greatzebu 13y ago
I usually enjoy math problems that are motivated by some interesting real scenario like a man evading a lion, but in this case I don't think it works very well. You end up concluding that the man can evade the lion, but the solution on
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by greatzebu 13y ago
The moral compass that led us to slavery, the genocide of the Native Americans, and Japanese internment camps? The idea that the USA was formerly moral but has given it up lately isn't really supported by history.
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by greatzebu 14y ago
There's no bright line between food and drugs. Alcohol is a caloric substance, and also an addictive one. That's not to say that we shouldn't distinguish between potato chips and heroin, but it's not clear to me that foods are unproblematic
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by greatzebu 14y ago
You're taking a pretty narrow view of parallel computing. For example, there are plenty of systems that use essentially actor models for large-scale parallel computation, e.g. Charm++ and HPX.
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by greatzebu 14y ago
There's a sense in which this is true, but it's a really facile argument that doesn't get to the heart of the relationship between Google and the people who use it. "You're the product" implies that they're just using you, man , and that i
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by greatzebu 14y ago
It seems more likely that the reporter made a mistake, and there are actually a quintillion possible internal states generated from a relatively small number of variables, not a quintillion variables.

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