theaeolist

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by theaeolist 2y ago
Recursion is natural and easy to understand when the argument of the function is a recursive data structure, and the cases are patterns on the constructors. These are natural and useful cases, much better than the alternative. Starting with
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After years of zero-Covid China is suddenly opening up(globaltimes.cn)
2 points by theaeolist 4y ago|2 comments
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by theaeolist 4y ago
Even if the Moore's law is not dead, single-thread performance and clock frequency have plateaued 10 years ago. This is the key factor. Because of heating even if you squeeze more transistors onto a chip you need to reduce the clock, s
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by theaeolist 4y ago
"The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,&quot
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by theaeolist 4y ago
Program Committee
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by theaeolist 4y ago
A clear exposition of an obscure and hard to understand result is lack of 'respect for readers' time'? How so?
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by theaeolist 4y ago
> 3. While the size of any one conference has to be fixed, tech has made it infinitely easier to create new conferences and journals with other focus areas. They may not start with the prestige of a larger journal, but if the papers publ
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F Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Hexadecimal(link.springer.com)
2 points by theaeolist 4y ago|0 comments
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SMIC (China) has started shipping 7nm chips despite US sanctions(bloomberg.com)
4 points by theaeolist 4y ago|0 comments
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by theaeolist 4y ago
Journals can still do curation of the stuff that's on preprint archives. Some already do. It's a lot less friction than the current model.
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by theaeolist 4y ago
Maybe not so slow.
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by theaeolist 4y ago
> For example, in Sri Lanka, there is no way for someone to accept payments or send money through PayPal or Stripe. However, people will be able to send money through the blockchain and bypass these restrictions if more people begin to t
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by theaeolist 4y ago
Maybe Google should start a new thing, a "search engine", which actually searches (rather then guess, anticipate, and interpret).
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Deep Hole Geothermal Energy(independent.co.uk)
1 points by theaeolist 5y ago|0 comments
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by theaeolist 5y ago
10 hrs waiting (i.e. catching up on email and social media, eating or shopping) for 4k? Does this seem reasonable to you?
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by theaeolist 5y ago
At the airport I don't merely sit and wait. I catch up on email and paperwork, maybe start watching a movie. It's not wasted time so I don't mind being there 30 mins extra for safety.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
If you need to flip your USB A connector three times before pushing it into the port you are not pushing hard enough.
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A library for effect handlers in C++(github.com)
36 points by theaeolist 5y ago|10 comments
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by theaeolist 5y ago
> Smart contracts offer revolutionary new to transact gloablly. They certainly do that.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
You don't seem to understand what the previous poster said: all of this can be achieved with a database that allows some open access. You don't need a consensus protocol on a distributed system.
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Ask HN: New Programming Language?
29 points by theaeolist 5y ago|98 comments
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Much like mixing garbage into food. You get garbage, not food.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
The article makes some specific points, which you fail to address. Your objection is a generic "never mind that, just give it more time". You can do better.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
You can, however, greatly reduce it. That would be good enough.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
This is so true, yet so totally besides the point.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Everything about fancy hotel bathrooms is a usability nightmare. Sometimes there are two showers (hand-held and ceiling-mounted) operated by a single lever which sets temperature, pressure, and which of the two showers is active. The risk o
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Indeed. I hope posting jokey papers on the Arxiv does not become a thing.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Can you recreate all phenomena computationally? Could you replace the antenna of your radio or mobile phone with a special CPU? Could you bomb a country with CPUs? I don't think so.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
We DO have PB-grade storage facilities and they lack full AI. Moving the memory inside a single box instead of having interconnected devices is not going to bring AI just like that.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
I wonder if there isn't some fundamental misunderstanding here. What if it's not "just the neurons". If you found a Regency TR-1 radio you could wonder "how can this 4-transistor device produce a continuous stream o

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