worthless443

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by worthless443 3y ago
Personally I wouldn't make one part of the name linked to the underlying development language, we make software for the users, and the source is often not part of something users have to deal with. Just as is sounds good in my opinion.
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by worthless443 3y ago
And in the end, it feels good and fresh. Just like any other (meaningful) skill, decent social skills put forth significant effects on one's awareness of their local surroundings, and with good social skills, invaluable experiences. I&
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by worthless443 3y ago
Such a transparent and clear post, therefore first, Thank you! Based on my experience with propitiatory IoT devices and protocols, vendors seem to be kind of unwary when it comes to potential security vulnerabilities and exploits in their p
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by worthless443 3y ago
I'm not a mathematician but I enjoy maths both as an anchor to an objective reality and as an art of expression (or rather compression of axiomatic ideas into tight and elegant equations). A shift in the framework of thinking can radi
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by worthless443 3y ago
> They feel strongly drawn to C's virtues, often explicitly in contrast to other languages Can someone point me to which set of virtues you are talking about here? Simplicity? Value semantics and imperatives, little abstractions ove
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Symbiosis Promotes Fitness Improvements in the Game of Life(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
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by worthless443 4y ago
Prof. Leonard Susskind's Lectures on General Relativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZgW1YjCKk&list=PL9YY-u_YWq... . Maybe out of many, this because of a nostalgic attachment of mine.
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by worthless443 4y ago
Last time I checked on blink, it couldn't run dynamic executables (or ELFs that run with the dynamic interpreter), and would result in a segfault. How has it improved since then?
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by worthless443 4y ago
I hope people understand that this process is non-linear.
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by worthless443 4y ago
> it stores data in memory, and async starts writing data to disk in small data chunks called deltas, later these chunks are deleted and replaced with the whole graph snapshot Thanks, that fairly answers my question of recoverability of
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by worthless443 4y ago
If a large graph is needed to be read multiple times, sure memory bandwidth will result in the most performance possible under the context of this workload like interacting with PageRank (and going further with optimization techniques on me
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by worthless443 4y ago
Automatic memory management is indeed the first thing one needs to look for writing performance critical software, and that's a first in my check-list. But > in-memory storage of databases Doesn't that sound a bit expensive to
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The Animate and the Inanimate – William J Sidis [pdf](sidis.net)
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by worthless443 4y ago
Rather than "evil", I would dub it as a little too much confidence on statistical models running on blackbox computers without checking for edge cases of false inference(which could always be plausible).
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by worthless443 4y ago
This to the very extent, is still very valuable for me to a personal level. However I can understand why people would divert away from it, people have grown apathy for comprehensive and deep heap of information and want "quick" lo