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by wmsiler 3y ago
I wonder how this would change if you only looked at highly rated chess engines. For example, is a rook pair really not as good as a queen or is it just that _humans_ aren't as good at using the rooks effectively?
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by wmsiler 4y ago
Every time I see this project, I think it looks awesome and useful, but I hate that it's written in python. I love python and I use it all the time, but I hate to see so much effort and innovation going into something that can only be
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by wmsiler 4y ago
>Folks would rather feel good and virtue signal than really solve the problem. The idea that people are using reusable shopping bags because they want to virtue signal and not because of any actual desire to do good is a completely basel
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by wmsiler 5y ago
I see this question getting downvoted, and some of the responses are strangely hostile strawman attacks based on what those posters are guessing this person "really" means. I think this is a perfectly reasonable question. A few ye
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by wmsiler 6y ago
>they chose to have children, and I chose not to Up until the pandemic, my work schedule had almost never been affected by me being parent in any way. I chose to have kids knowing that my wife and I would be able to continue working with
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by wmsiler 7y ago
There's a weird trend on HN. For proprietary products (e.g. slack) I rarely see them getting criticized for having a proprietary license. If you are fully open source, then of course they love you. But if you try to strike a compromise
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by wmsiler 7y ago
>you hit play in Netflix on your phone — how many people would have any way to tell how much of their data plan that used? Instead of focusing on the client, what about the server? How happy would Netflix be to reduce their outbound tra
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by wmsiler 8y ago
Thanks for the response. That all makes sense. I assume the FaunaDB devs would have already tested and fixed all the scenarios they could come up with, so it's reasonable you'd want an outside party to come up with even more scena
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by wmsiler 8y ago
From the post, FaunaDB initially had several issues, which they've generally resolved. Jepsen is open source, so I'm curious why a database company wouldn't run Jepsen internally, work out as many problems as they can, and th
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by wmsiler 8y ago
Despite being written in Java, DBeaver does let you connect to a server, then pick which database you wish to connect to.
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by wmsiler 8y ago
That repo doesn't encourage anything. It's presenting data that the author found useful for another project they were working on, which presumably did benefit from micro-optimization. You are right that micro-optimization is usual
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by wmsiler 9y ago
This is not directly related to this article (which I liked), but instead to the topic in general. I heard of a study a few years ago where researchers divided a bunch of teenagers into a few groups (each of which was quite large), and each
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by wmsiler 9y ago
I'm sure they weren't recommending you read every line and grok the whole code base of each of your dependencies. I don't know how helpful reading source is for determining whether or not to use a dependency, but I find it ve
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by wmsiler 10y ago
I would dial this back a bit. Worst case scenario, the commenter you are responding to is committing confirmation bias by making negative assumptions to match their existing negatives beliefs. Confirmation bias is easy to slip into even if
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by wmsiler 10y ago
You are right that interesting knot theory does exist in higher dimensions. It is appropriately called higher dimensional knot theory. It considers spheres of dimension m embedded in n-dimensional space. When m = 1, you get a 1-dimensional
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by wmsiler 10y ago
Linear algebra is the sort of topic where it seems like you can always go deeper. I also got an A in my linear algebra class in college. When I got to grad school for math, I took the first year graduate course on algebra and saw linear alg
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by wmsiler 11y ago
Unlike most of the other commenters, I'm not a huge fan of this article. From the article, it seems the author hasn't really experienced much, if any, gender discrimination at work. That's great; it really is refreshing to he
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by wmsiler 11y ago
Your description is correct. And to call the y-axis the Betti number is a bit misleading. If you are looking at a barcode for 1-dimensional holes, then at a given radius, the number of bars over that radius is the first Betti number (at tha
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by wmsiler 11y ago
The barcode is not usually showing the zeroth Betti numbers. It's usually showing the first Betti number, which intuitively counts the 1-dimensional holes in the space. For each radius, there could be lots of those (imagine several cir