samograd

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by samograd 13y ago
I thought this was pretty awesome when I found it a couple of years ago, especially since it's multicore.
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by samograd 13y ago
Not yet. Why don't you work on it?
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by samograd 13y ago
https://plus.google.com/107658132793132845562/posts/ANMCqxcB...
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by samograd 13y ago
I have a copy titled 'The Art of Strategy'. The author states that the proper translation of 'bing' was 'strategy' rather than 'war'. I asked a friend from China what he thought 'bing' mea
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by samograd 13y ago
Thanks. I lost my card years ago...but I don't think I forgot what it said. Maybe I can order a replacement to carry with me to show people at parties.
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by samograd 13y ago
> Evil behavior, however precisely defined, has been and always will be with us. But from what I've heard, Zarathustra was the first to tell people of the difference so that they could see it. No reference, just something I think I&
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by samograd 13y ago
This is so awesome to see the robots coming and not having them being programmed kill people. Thanks Jeff.
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by samograd 13y ago
Obamba...isn't he that guy that won the Nobel Peace Prize?
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by samograd 13y ago
And I'm not the only person on the Internet to know that what Snowden released has been 'known' to the internet community for 20+ years. A release of documents does not consititute proof of what one already knows, because we
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by samograd 13y ago
I think I'm the only person on the Internet that didn't see that Miley Cyrus video.
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Rat Park - Addiction vs. Living Conditions [WP](en.wikipedia.org)
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by samograd 13y ago
I'll usually ask at least one question in an interview to see if the candidate will answer with "I don't know" or ramble on incoherently making something up. Guess which I prefer.
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by samograd 13y ago
That's what options are and there are pricing models that take into account high volatility accordingly. I call them 'insurance' because that's how I see them after learning and working with them. They are simply a tran
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by samograd 13y ago
The OP was talking about shorting so I mentioned Calls because of the buy back at the end. There's not a lot of historical BTC price data and the volatility is all over the place, so using mathematical option value models would be pret
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by samograd 13y ago
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” ― Albert Einstein ie. We are peaceful, they are not, so we must not rest lest they destroy us while we sleep, and we must destroy them while they are.
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by samograd 13y ago
I'm sure the financial sector is ready to take on such a challenge.
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by samograd 13y ago
void decide() { while(((float)rand() / RAND_MAX) > 0.00000001); push_the_button(); } int main() { decide(); } Relevant: http://www.vagrearg.org/content/edm
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by samograd 13y ago
That was the basis of these thoughts, except for the fact that in that episode they would calculate the casualties and vaporize them; my idea is based on the pure transfer of 'wealth' that would have occurred through the destructi
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by samograd 13y ago
Can't we just do that in a computer and pretend that things were destroyed and killed? Maybe calculate the transfer of wealth that would have occurred as a consequence of inferior algorithms leading to the destruction of your virtual s
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by samograd 13y ago
I'm sure you could buy Call options[1] to eliminate that downside risk, if someone is willing to price and sell such an option to take that risk for you. [1] Call options[2] give you the right, but not obligation, to sell an asset at a
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by samograd 13y ago
Silicon Spectrum is running a Kickstarter to GPL their GPU: https://www.facebook.com/siliconspectrum
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by samograd 13y ago
For a very approachable view of Russel's thoughts and work, you can try reading his own writing: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355 My personal favourite so far has been 'Mysticism and Logic and
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by samograd 13y ago
Thanks, I'll take a closer look then. How do you think it would handle with rendering massive images for canvas printing, like, say 3'x2'@300dpi or bigger pixels?
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by samograd 13y ago
@julesrms: I'm looking through the docs and can't find the answer: Do the drawing functions support anti-aliased 2d primitives (lines, circles, etc)? I'm looking for a C++ 'Canvas' type object that's requires
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by samograd 13y ago
I think I see the insides of a Lisp hiding inside ;-) http://www.juce.com/documentation/tutorials/valuetree-class
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by samograd 13y ago
My take on hoon is to use[2] the alphabetic names of the line noise operators to create words and use them to make a non-symbolic (if you take alphanumeric characters as non-symbolic) functional, executable conlang[3]. To me it's what
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by samograd 13y ago
(_Gonadic combinators_? Yes - using our gonad rune, semsig or ;~. If you are a sophisticated professor type and understand monads, gonads may seem real familiar to you. Out here in Urbit world we are just dumb country
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by samograd 13y ago
Inner-platform effect: A system so customizable as to become a poor replica of the software development platform Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engine...
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by samograd 13y ago
> and all the effort you will do is configure and glue stuff together I've been assigned to my first Java project at work, and during training they would show how much you could do without 'coding'. I guess editing XML fi
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by samograd 13y ago
My mistake is thinking that the dimensions above 3+1 (space + time) are not part of spacetime proper, which I why I would say /out there/ because these dimensions are not apparent although theoretically defined. My argument is ba

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