miloshh

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by miloshh 16y ago
Is there some serious reason you need to upgrade? If so, then I think you can just unzip a fresh install and copy over the plugins you want (as .jar files) into the new directory structure. Apparently there are more ways to do this, though
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by miloshh 16y ago
Those are pretty strange. I am using it on a Mac right now, with no serious problems. I'm not sure about the bundle creator, I never used that, but not being able to create a new file seems like some random little issue that's most likely f
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by miloshh 16y ago
> Then there is the beast called Eclipse. It certainly seems like it should be able to do everything in the world... Yet it is buggy, its plugin architecture is a conflicting mess, and its performance is so abysmal... I have used Eclips
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by miloshh 16y ago
Indeed, Eclipse for Java is just unbeatable. I just recently started using it for C++ and it also works surprisingly well. I find myself much more productive than in a text editor, especially in a large code base I didn't know before.
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by miloshh 16y ago
That is a cool story... Though, may I add that Python (or any other modern programming language) can manipulate its own code as data - only not as gracefully as Lisp. In other words, a Lisp program is its own AST - but in other languages th
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by miloshh 16y ago
Agreed; unfortunately, the people that will immediately imagine hordes of terrorists entering the country pretending to be entrepreneurs form a significant portion of the electorate.
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by miloshh 16y ago
These kids are first generation Americans - they went to school in the US.
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by miloshh 16y ago
I meant intensity resolution (or color depth, as you say). Dynamic range is something else - it is the interval [darkest, brightest], or their ratio if you prefer.
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by miloshh 16y ago
That would just increase the resolution. The real problem is that the device is way too dark to display the levels of radiance you see on a bright day. Tone-mapping has to be used to bring those levels down, and there is no "correct" way to
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by miloshh 16y ago
A much simpler explanation would be - people that are wealthy enough to choose where they would like to live are predominantly not African-American.
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by miloshh 16y ago
Doctors are actually very careful not to be overzealous in diagnosis. To meet the criteria for a real diagnosis, the symptoms must be "excessive, long-term, and pervasive". Similarly, not everyone with "blues" is clinically depressed, and n
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by miloshh 16y ago
Actually, it might be that doctors are quite accurate with diagnosing ADHD. The problem is that the sample of kids that they even get to examine is already biased - they may be the younger ones, in which parents or teachers just observed im
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by miloshh 16y ago
Note that I defined n as the input size...
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by miloshh 16y ago
You just painstakingly carried out the absolute analysis, which I know works. Let X be the value in the envelope you have, and Y in the other one (X and Y are both random variables with well-known distributions). Then E[Y/X] = 1.25. That's
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by miloshh 16y ago
I agree the blog is excellent, and provides a great answer to the original question of this thread. Check it out!
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by miloshh 16y ago
That's not a very good example - square matrix multiplication is O(n^1.5) (where n is the input size) and extremely fast in practice. (Though, as you say, there could still be an O(n) algorithm - this is not known). What I said is true even
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by miloshh 16y ago
Very good summary. Though I was just reading the synopsis, and the statistical physics part seems to be proven: "The 1RSB ansatz of statistical mechanics says that the space of solutions of random k-SAT shatters into exponentially many clus
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by miloshh 16y ago
Yeah, the common complaint against "P=NP would break cryptography" is "but what if the polynomial algorithm for (say) SAT is n^10000?". That is not very likely, in my opinion. Even though "polynomial" is not equivalent to "efficient", in pr
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by miloshh 16y ago
I do not necessarily agree. There is a large number of open problems in computer science (especially in theory of complexity), and a correct proof of P != NP is very likely to use techniques that will help in resolving the other open prob
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by miloshh 16y ago
Ad 1 - Not sure what you're trying to say, all I said is that you don't know the distribution of A - if you knew it, you could make an informed decision on whether to switch. Ad 2 - If you carry out the analysis you're trying to teach me,
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by miloshh 16y ago
"Nothing interesting about that scenario." OK, but let's say you're not allowed to see the contents of the envelope you picked. In this case, the argument that by switching you get 125% on average still holds! I'd claim that this is even mo
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by miloshh 16y ago
OK, now I see there are two slightly different possible formalizations of the problem: 1. You are told that the two envelopes contain amounts A and 2A, but you aren't told what A is. After you pick one envelope, you are allowed to open it
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by miloshh 16y ago
Which three worlds? After you have picked one envelope, there are two possible relative outcomes - 2 and 0.5. The average is 1.25 - there is nothing wrong with the math, the only problem is that taking an average of two relative quantitie
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by miloshh 16y ago
"use of an impossible probability distribution" - this sounds interesting. Which exact distribution do you mean? To me it seems (though I might be wrong) that the distributions are perfectly valid. You have a pair of random variables (X, Y)
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by miloshh 16y ago
Well, of course you're right, as is yanowitz. But there is something unsatisfying about this explanation. Intuitively it is obvious, but why is the relative reasoning incorrect? There is no formal distinction between absolute and relative q
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by miloshh 16y ago
I was just typing my comment while you posted yours. I absolutely agree with this. Especially the "fluidity of the hacky code" - the environment that makes cool research happen is often the opposite of clean software engineering.
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by miloshh 16y ago
Source code publication along with the paper is a great idea in theory, but there are several problems with it in practice. The reason CS researchers do not usually publish their code has nothing to do with dishonesty - nobody is trying to
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by miloshh 16y ago
Yes, but I think the GPU designers did the right thing here by not injecting "magic" gamma-correction functionality into the texture sampler. There are many operations done on textures before they become pixel colors, plus they are often us
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by miloshh 16y ago
I just checked the public transit, and it's about 1.5 hours (BART to Union City, then bus to Palo Alto). So that's also viable, I'd say.
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by miloshh 17y ago
The GPU cores share RAM, so there is no need to have local copies. Though if you run out of the 4GB available on Tesla/Quadro cards, it gets more complicated (but so would it on the CPU).

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