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malf
·2 anni fa·discuss
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
malf
·2 anni fa·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
·2 anni fa·discuss
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things

Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs
malf
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·discuss
> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
malf
·3 anni fa·discuss
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
malf
·3 anni fa·discuss
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
malf
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·discuss
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
malf
·3 anni fa·discuss
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
·3 anni fa·discuss
strace -e open
malf
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·discuss
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.