blake_himself

Dude, we evolved on different continents for 50,000 years. We look different. Our bodies' biochemistry differs (different medications for whites + blacks for blood pressure). Why do you think brains came out the same? They didn't, and all the hard data, and all the evidence of everyone's eyes - how black vs white, or other populations, live, shows that. It's ugly, it's not nice, people don't know what to do about it, it's a can of worms, but it's true.

muh can't we all just get along

Take the Hitler / Darwin pill: as long as there are separate entities and limited resources, they will be in conflict. Accept it, it's a part of nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjMmeNS9wA&t=2m53s

This video puts a lot of it together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_Of0WGkEs

He starts with science and reaches into speculation, but, there's real, interesting science in it.

baas

Unironically, the origin of the word 'boss'.

Right - it should be harder to get money for less-productive specialty degrees in the humanities. Creditors would have to decide whether to risk their money, and become gatekeepers.

Can't read the specs, but loverpi.com has up-powered versions - notably, with up to 4GB memory.

In English there's 'silence is golden', but, lacks the 'silver' part.

Somewhere poor, where labor is cheap and people are still susceptible to bribes?

clang modernize? It'll do the small-scale fixes for you. But, though this was a while ago, it messed up the text when I used it. You could tell what it was /supposed/ to be, though, and wouldn't compile. But it may be better, now.

So this is not the denouement, he's still on hiatus, the situation is not resolved. It's a real shame that Linus thinks that mouthing off at people is the same as being a Nazi. I feel sure his daughter had something to do with it.

An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. It is more certain; and it's better style. To get the man's soul and give him nothing in return -that is what really gladdens our Father's(0) heart. - C.S. Lewis, senior demon to a junior, 'Screwtape Letters'. (0) Satan

There's Framenet, a computational collection of frames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrameNet

https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/

    x = stuff
    while x:
        x = stuff

There was an article somewhere recently, of someone proposing changes to CPython for just that reason. Guido had already resisted several attempts at the kind of thing he was doing, from a desire to keep the CPython implementation simple.

It's a competitive region.

I voted for it before reading it - it sucks. The title makes it sound like Glenn Greenwald is saying sorry - I don't see anything like that in there. His name gets a couple of mentions, but it's about some no-name former marine changing /his/ mind. I regret my upvote.

edit: Ah, I mis-read the title, I see he's saying sorry to Glenn Greenwald. No harm no foul, but I still wouldn't have upvoted.

I'll venture Radiohead's 'Reckoner': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCJPm19XYQ

http://www.areweblazingfastyet.org is free - you'd better grab it before I do :). If you don't take it, I'll just make it return those pieces of the language shootout.

I've heard that DeBeers kind of runs the place. I don't remember where I heard that though.

Will Rust always be faster than C?

(By 'always' did you mean 'ever'?)

That may be so, but their advertising gives the wrong impression. They should keep their claims muted until they can back them up.

It's as 'blazingly fast' as Java:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

or go:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Here's what it's not as 'blazingly fast' as:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

That point about employees not having friends at work being at risk is true in my case - if I don't have friends where I work I don't feel at home, and am indeed more likely to leave. Which is a force for anti-diversity, since I only rarely make friends with Asians (of either sort). And I'd bet that this is the rule, not the exception.

When you are playing chess, at some point you make a mistake, you may go back several steps that were “correct” to find the one that was wrong. When you fall off a bicycle, you think of when you lost your balance. Deep learning does that. The credit assignment in a deep learning exercise can be tens, even hundreds, of levels deep.

This sounds like reinforcement learning. Anyone know what he's talking about, some RNN with 'tens, even hundreds' of levels of feedback that hasn't died away?

For NLP. Presumably you could extract it from sentences with techniques like Socher's:

http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/ParsingNaturalScenesAnd...

There was an example in Socher's paper of a tree of logic - ands, ors, nots (not shown on that site, but in the paper) - which logic, he showed his RNN technique can represent. The OP paper I imagine is more along those lines. Being able to capture full logic like that gets you that much closer to being able to extract the full meaning from language, not just words that provide a general flavor.

Losing, compared to what he could have been making.

'CSAPP' = ?

Its ideas have 'leaked out into the culture'. I doubt it was all so obvious when it first came out.