zenogais

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by zenogais 6mo ago
Yeah, I fully believe independent invention by mapping "the dark forest" onto the internet is very possible.
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by zenogais 6mo ago
Might just be independent discovery, but the main idea of this blog post is more or less the exact theory advanced in the recent book "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" by Bogna Konior ( https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by zenogais 5y ago
Like the author said this is completely unoptimized. The natural next step in optimization might be to profile and then SIMD optimize the slow bits in compression and decompression. This would likely produce a significant speedup and may ev
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by zenogais 5y ago
What you're looking for exists today and is called a stable-coin (for example, USDC).
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by zenogais 5y ago
Agree with this and I think it's the crucial point. Where I've had the most success with UML-like tools and diagrams is early on in a project since its much faster to rip up and rebuild a few diagrams. The diagrams also help with
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by zenogais 6y ago
But it links to the Coinbase blog post in the "Inspirations" section on the front page?
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by zenogais 7y ago
Cars aren't killing people though, it's the drivers of those cars. Such an odd headline. Better title: "Why are drivers killing more pedestrians?"
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by zenogais 7y ago
Type generic expressions [1] already exist in C11. You can do this without a special compiler front-end if you need it, you would just need to define each variant by hand. These are supported in GCC and Clang with the -std=c11 flag. [1]: h
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by zenogais 7y ago
It should work fine in the examples, but it won't work if you also attempt to use the -1 in the next slot to tell you which items are non-free.
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by zenogais 7y ago
> This way you don't need to worry about keeping track of size and capacity either. The only reason you don't have to worry about this is because std::vector handles it for you, at least in the code examples provided by the aut
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by zenogais 7y ago
Update: I was indeed missing something. I think I've figured out roughly what the author intended, code below [0]. First, it looks like he's relying implicitly on data stored in std::vector. Namely vectors have both a capacity and
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by zenogais 7y ago
I wanted to like this article because I'm been thinking about this a lot in the context of game development, noticed a few things. One thing I'll say from briefly playing with this - the code leaves lots out a looks ostensibly sim
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by zenogais 8y ago
I think the strong counter-argument to this is in [1]. Quite simply we need to make sure we don't get fooled by randomness and see bias where there is none, thereby making good algorithms worse in an attempt to fix imaginary bias. [1]:
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by zenogais 8y ago
Initial thought. This reads largely like a recapitulation of Boehm's 2003 book "Balance Agility and Discipline" [1]. Have you read this and did this provide any inspiration for the article? [1]: https://www.amazon.
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by zenogais 8y ago
^ This is pretty much standard at any startup in my experience.
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by zenogais 9y ago
Pure click-bait headline. It's not bacon that's killing us it's the nitrates used to process it. You can buy uncured, nitrate free bacon.
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by zenogais 9y ago
Can't help but think we'd learn a lot if other industries were as mature in tracking these things as the safety critical ones.
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by zenogais 9y ago
Counterpoint, on the thermodynamics of PoW: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
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by zenogais 9y ago
To be fair, many many authors have posted books of their own aphorisms while still alive. For exmaple Nietzsche, Cioran, de La Rochefoucauld, et al. See this wikipedia page for a list of all such authors: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by zenogais 9y ago
That's fine, but you're not going to change social mores overnight (perhaps ever). The fact that ride sharing apps are helping is a huge plus in my book.
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by zenogais 10y ago
Another one of these? Bad estimation techniques - eg. guesses without a basis in historical data (most developers don't collect historical data) - are usually wrong. No one would argue this point. If you do iterative development with i
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by zenogais 10y ago
With all these competing, possibly contradictory moralities, how do you see this reliably making the world a better place? PS. Understandably, we might not all even agree on what a better world would look like.
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by zenogais 10y ago
I worked on a government defense contract a few years back that used an Arduino to raise a 100-ft tower on a mobile command station.
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by zenogais 10y ago
There we go, just wanted you to backpeddle on this "majority" thing.
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by zenogais 10y ago
So the interesting thing here is the "majority assent" phrase. All the polls I saw included < 15% of Ethereum stakeholders / hashing power. Some included < 5%, but were taking by many (who already had a chosen outcome i
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by zenogais 10y ago
I feel like those fields with highest facility needs / costs would come last if at all. There are many fields that require pretty small amounts of resources for example: Computer Science (I did most of my research on a personal laptop,
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by zenogais 10y ago
Oooo sarcasm. You're probably right though, the old system seems to be working out pretty well. Besides, science is all about never questioning existing institutions right?
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by zenogais 10y ago
Perhaps offering some sort of crowdsourced funding mechanism and a reputation system would go a long way toward correcting some of these incentives? For example, giving authors / organizations a Bitcoin address where they can receive f
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by zenogais 10y ago
The word from the attacker is absolutely a hoax [1] [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oo1io/an_open_le...
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by zenogais 10y ago
You're also talking about systems 20,000x larger than what The DAO contract was [1]. The total DAO contract is roughly 2,000 LOC by my estimate [2]. IMO it probably won't be overly onerous to develop reliable contracts of this siz

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