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by mafribe 10mo ago
Exactly. Taiwan has spent the approx 120 years on a very different political, economic, cultural track from the mainland. Taiwan diverged from the other subject of the Qing dynasty before Han nationalists began their century long project to
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by mafribe 1y ago
Could you give some evidence for this claim? Here is some counterevidence: [1] says that the top buyers of Russian energy include: • Hungary: 416 million euros ($488m) • Slovakia: 275 million euros ($323m) • France: 157 million euros ($184m
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by mafribe 1y ago
> How the parameters are passed must be decided by the compiler, not by the programmer. Consider the program def f(x): return 17 If omega is a non-terminating expression then the call f(omega) might or might not te
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by mafribe 1y ago
The history of exceptions is discussed in [1]. I am not a historian, but think that Milner's ML was the first language with a type-safe exception mechanism. [2] Discusses, among many other things, Lisp's relation with exceptions.
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by mafribe 1y ago
One might decide to act out one's entrepreneurial spirit in a different country ...
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by mafribe 1y ago
TikTok, YMTC, DJI, DeekSeek, ZTE, Huawei, SMIC, BYD use ``slave labour''? Have you been at recent top conferences in computer science? Every year the number of top papers coming from China increases. A direct consequence of the su
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by mafribe 2y ago
Samsung is not exactly averse to IP theft eg [1, 2] ... If you are responsible for 22.4% of South Korea's GDP [3], one may wonder if we even hear about all other cases ... [1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/08
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by mafribe 2y ago
Country C's regulators can sanction the companies entities in C including denying access to the market in C. (C.f. how the US got Swiss banks to comply with financial transparency laws.) It would not matter if C == Lichtenstein, but Ch
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by mafribe 2y ago
The pipeline stages (say: fetch, decode, execute, memory access, register write back), are organised "parallel in space" as transistors on chip. The point of having a pipeline is so the stages can execute "parallel in time
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by mafribe 2y ago
Can you explain why starting a war (still ongoing), killing >10k people, and converting Africa's best functioning and richest country into one of the world's worst functioning places is positive outcome? I don't understand
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by mafribe 2y ago
Neuromorphic has been an ongoing failure (for general purpose processors or even AI accelerators), ever since Carver Mead introduced (and quickly abandoned them) them nearly half a century ago. Bill Dally (NVidia CTO) concurs: "I keep
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by mafribe 2y ago
The paper goes out of its way not to compare the 42% figure with anything. Is "42% within the top 5 suggestions" good or bad? How would an experienced engineer score on the same task?
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by mafribe 3y ago
Note that "some sort of partitioning" isn't a hyperplane. A partition is a set-theoretic concept. A hyperplane is (a generalisation of) a geometric concept, so has much more structure.
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by mafribe 3y ago
This is wrong! The term hyperplane already assumes that the hypothesis space that your learning algorithm searches has some kind of dimension and is some variant of an Euclidean / vector space (and its generalisations). This is not
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by mafribe 3y ago
Multi-paradigm languages, and there are several popular ones including Scala, need strong software architecture enforcement. The software architects need to decide which style to use, e.g. purely functional and monadic, vs nicer-looking Jav
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by mafribe 3y ago
What 3.0 debacle? I've just started a new project and we are using Scala 3. It's wonderful. (Admittedly, it's blank-slate, so no dependencies to previous Scala, e.g. the old Scala approach to meta-programming.) > expressi
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by mafribe 3y ago
Hard drug addicts prefer using their limited income for drugs rather than rent. (Note that as of Jun 2023, hard drug addiction has no known cure.)
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by mafribe 3y ago
Without wishing to engage in a discussion of the merits of the respective positions, it might be interesting to know that Maturana rejected Luhmann's use of autopoiesis in social systems.
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by mafribe 3y ago
> Throughout the history of the US Is the US the world's only country? Throughout the history of the world , who counts as XYZ has been redefined many times to suit the political goals of the people at the time. I recall when w
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by mafribe 3y ago
> money are kept by the people in banks and not released The banks will reinvest this money. (Cf Fractional-reserve banking).
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by mafribe 3y ago
Since there is often a misconception that formally verified software must be absolutely free from problems, from the conclusion of the paper: "Extensive testing on formally verified software is necessary for at least two reasons. Firs
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by mafribe 3y ago
> lot of people that use drugs recreationally. We all know them. HN is full of them. They are the reason why the production and distribution of drugs is financially viable, why we have functioning markets for illegal drugs. Consequent
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by mafribe 3y ago
Do you think this has something to do with the fact that turnstile jumping has been effectively legalised (in the sense of not being prosecuted) in NY? Question for you: can you quantify, what fraction of crime and other forms of sociopathy
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by mafribe 3y ago
I did not bring up US public transport as an example of "best practises". I agree that Berlin has a extensive and well-developed public transport, and that is commendable. > Turnstiles don’t solve homelessness. Nobody claims
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by mafribe 3y ago
Could you justify the term "best practises" ? Last time I took an U-Bahn in Berlin, a guy was urinating in front of me. I have not seen such sociopathic behaviour in public transport in Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Hong K
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by mafribe 3y ago
> 1970s I wonder what fraction of the HN readership gets this joke ...
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by mafribe 3y ago
CNNs are from the 1980s (the "neocognitron" by Kunihiko Fukushima [1]), while the MLP is from 1958 [2]. So nearly half a century, resp. a century old. [1] K. Fukushima, Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model for a M
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by mafribe 3y ago
Yes, Hinton was on a temporary position at the University of Sussex (IIRC, the Centre for Cognitive Science) for a while, but was not offered a permanent academic position there when he applied.
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by mafribe 3y ago
SIMD is orthogonal to clock-speed. There is indeed a lot to gain from having a single instruction trigger more complex behaviour, for example better instruction density, less instruction decoding needed, but all of this is independent of cl
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by mafribe 3y ago
Interesting, I had no idea. Wilkes doesn't cite Babbage, oh dear!

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