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malf
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
malf
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.
malf
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things

Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).”

Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your significance calculation is now off. Second, xkcd 882.
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
malf
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Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
strace -e open
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.
malf
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It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
malf
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I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
malf
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The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
malf
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I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.

groan
malf
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.