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

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

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·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 jaar geleden·discuss
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·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 jaar geleden·discuss
strace -e open
malf
·3 jaar geleden·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 jaar geleden·discuss
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
malf
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.

groan
malf
·3 jaar geleden·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.