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Trying to find an article about the extreme lasting value of Text
So I read this deeply inspiring article/blog post which discussed in detail concepts such as hieroglyphics, compressibility, comparison to imagery, lasting value, communication per bit value, explanatory power, non-degradable characteristics of the text format. And more.

I really want to find it again, but seem to be having trouble. Would appreciate anyone's help; I know one of you here has also read it, and if not, when we find it, you definitely should.

Thanks so much!
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Yeah. There's a related XKCD[0], but let's just have an irony free moment of total seriousness for the following: be alert when walking places, getting hit by a car is extremely unpleasant.

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0. https://xkcd.com/356/
That makes zero sense. Why would you run them out of the same instance / with the same configuration? Mike is already running a second process for caching; he'd simply replace it with a different instance of Redis.
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Not to mention that it can either be 'mass' or 'tracking' not both, at least not with the implied meaning that 'no individual is tracked'.

Tracking is by definition of an identifiable group or individual. If you can't be sure that the track you are looking at refers to the same individual throughout its length then you are not tracking, at least not successfully. Conversely if you are tracking you cannot reasonably also claim that you don't know who you are tracking except in the trivial sense that you, perhaps, don't know their name or some other attribute; although you could look it up.
One way to think about strong typing is that type matters when performing operations on a variable. If the type is not as expected, a language that complains is strongly typed (python/java) and one that isn't is weakly typed (javascript)

Dynamically typed languages(python) are those which allow the type of a variable to change at runtime whereas statically typed languages(java) do not allow this once a variable is declared
Wonder what's the word for games bought but never played. ;)
You're taking things way too seriously. Besides, there really aren't any other practical deep learning solutions right now besides NVIDIA. And that's because AMD and Intel dropped the ball NVIDIA carried for the last 10 years until they finally knocked one out of the park here. No sympathy whatsoever to the pack of narrow-minded neck beards that didn't see the locomotive chugging down the tunnel until it ran them over. Even NVIDIA almost missed this one. Just ask Geoffrey Hinton about this some time.

The OpenCL port Caffe has abysmal performance on AMD GPUs (see Caffe-CLGreenTea on Soumith's chart).

https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/2195

Intel isn't even on the map yet, and there's no good training code for FPGAs. And ASICs? Maybe when Moore's Law slows down.

And it's not a trap at all. Now that DNNs are seen as a multibillion dollar industry, the status quo will change in a few years. But until then, it's NVIDIA's gravy train, and they earned it by taking a huge risk on GPGPU.

Now if you think you can build the competitor to NVIDIA and save us all from the looming trap, go for it! Meanwhile, all other things equal, use Caffe with cuDNN until someone earns your business with something better. As long as you're running at the API level, it really doesn't matter what's going on under the hood.
Right. It's neat seeing this kind of mix of linear algebra + CS come together.
>OF COURSE I want new products. But I want ones that become popular because they're good, not because someone paid to shove them in my face when I was looking for something else.

You want new products, and you want organic search results, but you don't want ads to promote a product.

You just want heuristics that can determine what's a good product (or other search result) and show it to you even when no one has ever seen or evaluated the product before. (If everyone blocked all ads and all spam, how would you bootstrap a new product? Spamming bloggers?)

That's called a nondeterministic algorithm. An algorithm that magically "does the right thing."

>This is true now, but it wouldn't be true if we could get rid of advertisers completely and only have word of mouth and organic search results.

Because no one will ever be able to exploit those magical heuristics you're positing above.

Waiting for word of mouth to promote a product is equally magical thinking, unless you have unlimited money to burn. If someone has put up the investment to create a new product, they don't have time to wait for potentially years for the product to end up popular. You need to fail or succeed quickly.

Just developing a product sometimes needs enough eyes to get the feedback you need to improve your product to be useful, to tune the product to be what people need.

You want the awesome new products, but only after other people have vetted them for you. Other people who have looked at and evaluated product they've found through ads. Which you don't want to look at. Read about Kant's Categorical Imperative to understand my opinion of that behavior.
You're right. It doesn't make sense. Does that prevent tons of people from doing it? Nope.
Then what is preventing an open source implementation from exceeding the 60,000 ft and 999mph limits imposed by the US DoD?
I agree. In my native language, "huh" means okay or affirmative.
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"Esoteric" as in "the esoteric", its nominalized adjectival [0] guise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalized_adjective
This is one of the silliest things I have ever read in Slate, and as it is Slate we're talking about: that's saying a lot. But hey, what do I know, I only do machine learning for a living... Presumably the knucklehead who wrote this finds linear regression and matrix decomposition to be extremely mysterious....
I'd say yes. The whole weak conformance stuff is terrible, not well-designed, and (in Scala) only exists for "Java compatibility" (the worst reason one can think of).

Things which silently throw away precision, change values and semantics in dangerous ways should never happen automatically.
This was a very kind and thoughtful way of putting this. I absolutely agree and really hate to see people rely on frameworks in Go (like Gorilla or Alice). These frameworks certainly have a place. But if you haven't written vanilla Go, you are really missing the point.

As jonesb6 mentions, Go really gives you a whole lot more than other languages like Python, Ruby, or Node. It has fantastic built-in routing (though I opt for httprouter) and a great template library (though I sometimes use Pongo2 to aid the port from Jinja2).

It appears to be very common for developers coming from Rails or Django or Express to try to find some other framework to force on Go. I'd just recommend that you give vanilla Go (possibly with some small libraries) a chance.
The Russian example in the paper is something like "a?". Part of their hypothesis that makes "huh" a word is that it is calibrated to the phonetic system of its language.
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Cute story, but I don't think this is an example of "huh" as a "repair initiator" (i.e. "what did you say?") that the paper investigates.
The important issue is that we might want different identities for every protocol. Right now, lots of people prefer to have different identities on youtube than on gmail.
LFE - Lisp Flavoried Erlang - is also an option. Created by Robert Virding, one of the creators of Erlang, it is a Lisp-2 with full access to Erlang and the OTP.
Elixir is cool though too, and certainly is similar to Ruby.
Looks like it's just something to harvest email addresses.
I meant "preposition" in the first sentence there.
They don't do it for the job offers :-) They do it because it's a challenge. An amazing mind-bending challenge. Just a chance to compete with some of the smartest people in the trade, stays with you for life.

At http://InterviewKickstart.com, we sometimes borrow problems from these competitions. They are hard as hell.
Or generically how about a word to describe a customer that buys your stuff, but never opens it?

I have been thinking of kickstarting a board game where there will be 500 boxes, 499 contain blank stuff, 1 contains the stuff with the printing materials etc. As long as you leave your copy shrink wrapped yours might be the really valuable one.
Fab ook are not gonna do the right thing. They're gonna try to maximize their profits.
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You know you "unsubscribe" from people while remaining friends with them? (or have different circles of people as another poster noted).

Facebook actually makes it easy to avoid uninteresting posts with a small amount of effort.
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So .. enlighten me, Japanese-speakers .. would the word for "Apps I bought from the App Store but never use" be something like .. "Tsunappu" .. or, something? Because I have, literally, hundreds of those ..
> Everybody knows Redis is single threaded.

You would be surprised.

The whole point of Redis is to run it on powerful single treaded machines. I can count number of times how 'experts' threw it on multi-core beasts of systems and were surprised a single core machine that cost /2 of that system destroyed their provisions.

At the end of the day; latency is the king.
Nice, framework, good luck for your job search, i'm sure you'll get some good opportunity to do remote work eventually.
Do you boycott every company that has any questionable people on their board? This feels like cherry picking because of how high profile Rice is. Her only crimes are being in the Bush administration and doing her job, and being on the board of an oil company. That's pretty weak.
Adding a "/sarcasm" after hurtful words doesn't make it ok.
Diaspora was written by a bunch of college students who were unqualified to be implementing the security protocols necessary. Given that one of the biggest reasons people want to move off Facebook is security, that's a no-go. The fact that Diaspora failed at implementing this idea doesn't mean that the idea is bad.
You can't "choose to believe" that there is meaning in life for the same reason that I can't "choose to believe" that God exists, or that the moon is made of cheese, or that Saturn has 28 moons, or that the world is 8.7 billion years old (I just made that number up).

If you "choose to believe" something, it's just a fantasy. If you "choose to believe" something, you don't really believe it. To really believe something, you have to have enough evidence to be certain about it.

Fortunately, pleasure is inherently valuable (this is given by biology), and moreover, our brains supply us with pleasure (in the form of brain chemistry). So now we have a basic value that we can erect other values around. Of course only if they are valid. I can value preserving my life (for instance), art, my loved ones, and so on, but I can't value something arbitrarily.

(The exact psychological mechanism of genuinely enjoying and thus valuing art and loved ones, and such things, is not straighforward, but it's there. Seeing how preserving one's own life is a value is more straightforward. I am a total egoist, by the way, because you can't out of that with the framework I am describing.)
It seems uBlock (Safari 9) doesn't recognise this when i add it to the 3th party filters/custom URLs - when i click "parse" i don't get to see a new row with a checkbox. example:

this works: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-s...

this doesn't work: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtr...
It must be evident at this late juncture, Chancellor Yarvin, a full half decade since your Durdenesque doppelganger deemed the denizens of earth prepared for his prolix proclamation of Martian supremacy, that the more Carlylean your Urbit apologetics, the deeper your detractors' disposition for derisory dismissal of your loving labors as the grandiloquent, malformed products of, inter alia, luddite nostalgia for the apocryphal elegance of antediluvian computing, a nocturnal-emission inducing fetish for a fascist technocratic telos, viz automation of global autocracy, or a perniciously persuasive strain of neo-Swiftian satire, which advocates Kafkaesque madness with Kaufmanesque earnestness.

That confuses the hell out of me, because I think your plan is brilliant. What gives, broseph?

My only formal CS-education was at summer camp learning Logo when I was nine. In my early 20s, I taught myself LISP from PG's book purely so I could start wasting a few weekends a year coding an urGAI. The first practical coding I've ever done was this year, when I finally bit the bullet and learned Python and Java.

Is your vision convincing to me because I'm clueless about the harsh realities of programming useful things? Or am I able to discern its splendor because I avoided exposure to the false conventional wisdom that blinds other coders to your insights?

If you put a gun to my head, I'd have to pick door number one. Actually, if you put a gun to my head I'd say Urbit was the best thing since Filmer and then apologize for that over-the-top pastiche. But you see my dilemma.

[Edit: Serious question. You came up with Watt/Hoon 5+ years ago, and you claim it's not much harder to use than Lisp. If that's true, where is all the useful Hoon-coded software?

If I gave you five years to write things in Lisp, you could produce an incredible library of offerings... No?]
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Related to this is the concept of arrays of structures (AoS) vs. structures of arrays (SoA). Do you store all of the data that makes up one "object" in a single data structure, or do you store all of each "member" of each object in separate flat arrays?

If you need to use all of the "members" of an "object" at once, AoS is more efficient. But if you only need to use 1 or 2 members for a certain task, you will waste lots of memory bandwidth on data that isn't needed for the current operation. In this case, an SoA layout can improve your performance by an order of magnitude, by insuring that only the data that is actually necessary for your task is loaded into cache.

The same principle applies to row vs. column-oriented databases, which obviously are orders of magnitude more sensitive to IO bandwidth usage.

One of the most damning criticisms of OOP, from this perspective, is that it encourages you to wrap up lots of potentially unnecessary data into monolithic "objects" without concern to memory layout or usage patterns, giving you AoS and bloated data structures.
This series? http://crackingthenutshell.com/what-is-information-part-2a-i...

I don't think you mean this one: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cryptography/cryptography_quic...

Maybe this? http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/bit-rot-the-...

From this forum post: https://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1117...
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Soon the community will be able to selectively un-auto-[dead] comments. We've been working on this for a long time. It's currently in alpha testing, and indeed the alpha-testers (not moderators) unkilled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10282575, which is precisely the intent of the feature.
The report is exaggerating. That's expected and not surprising.

Groups within UN are fighting for funding. You won't get funded if the problem you aim for does not receive attention. It won't receive attention unless it's shoking in some way. That's why's there "pandemic proportion", "staggering number", "sheer volume"--not exactly scientific terminology.

The "report" should be called a "proposal".
> calibrated to the phonetic system of its language

The funny thing about that, though, is that English "huh" has a phonetic feature that's almost nonexistent in the language otherwise: a nasal vowel not followed by a nasal consonant.
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Always Bet On Text: http://graydon.livejournal.com/196162.html (original: http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html)
- French: "Hein?" which is a nasalized sound without an English counterpart. Pronounce "Haaaaa" then let some air go through your nose by raising your uvula/lowering the back of your tongue a bit.

This voice synth is accurate: https://translate.google.com/#fr/fr/hein%3F (click on the speaker at the bottom left of the text box).

Edit: It's pretty close to its portugese counterpart: https://translate.google.com/#pt/fr/ahn%3F
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The quote from Andy Ihnatko repeats a common meme:

The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content illegally is their smug sense of entitlement

Framing it as an issue of entitlement is not very good. A lot of folks who pirate can't afford entertainment otherwise, and to tell folks who, say, are working multiple jobs and who have shitty healthcare and whatnot that they're "entitled* is just dickish.

Moreover, the truly "entitled" behavior being displayed is by the publishers: they promote user-harming DRM, they cripple technologies with things like DHCP, they push spyware onto users' machines, they waste the time of consumers with pointless ads and notices, and so on and so forth.

It's just a really bad direction to argue on. A better one is "Hey, this AAA entertainment you are consuming doesn't pay for itself...how can we get you to pay us to make things you want?". Unfortunately, instead, the argument is typically "No artists would ever produce anything without money and oh just ignore the fact that we publishers are fleecing the artists as much as you are".

Sigh.

On a lighter note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtI3ghO4jZ8
> and really hate to see people rely on frameworks in Go (like Gorilla or Alice). These frameworks certainly have a place. But if you haven't written vanilla Go, you are really missing the point.

Just to jump in: Gorilla (a collection of standalone packages) and Alice (a middleware chaining library) are definitely (far) far calls from frameworks - the submission, and other frameworks like Gin/Martini/etc. are more strongly coupled.

I wouldn't blame anyone who uses gorilla/mux and/or gorilla/schema to avoid writing their own a) pattern matching router (which net/http does not provide) and/or a comprehensive, battle-tested r.PostForm to struct mapper.

Otherwise I agree that Go the language—and Go the community—lean towards glueing smaller components together, rather than reaching for a kitchen sink solution.
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I'm just saying that we have the technology to do it today. Of course it's not cheap and probably not legal. But it is possible.
I wish my "Tsundoku" could have been an investment that could generate some passive income. But alas my copy of "Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 hours" circa 1995 (or so), is still untouched. Just never got the necessary 24 hours to learn it. Maybe I can sell it by the tonnage sometime.

I thought that going the Kindle and digital media route would have saved me from adding to my "Tsundoku", but I am back in collection mode again.

There is something about a physical book that the Kindle reading experience could never recreate. In fact I find myself spending almost twice the money because I want both formats.
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Yes, but as soon as someone opens his to find the content, you'll know that your copy isn't valuable even if you kept it shrink wrapped...
GPUs use tiling and morder-order storage for textures for this reason.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/texture-tiling-and-...
Google has recently been sending out warnings to AdSense publishers who serve content to the EU that they will receive a violation if they are not serving these cookie notices.

This accounts for the seeming uptick in cookie notices.
To my knowledge, Google has not enforced this in the past.

My solution was to use CloudFlare to get geotags and PHP to serve the warning to only to those who live in the EU, but to each his own.
I bought mason jars as cups because:

- I'm cheap and would have otherwise wanted to get a bunch of assorted cups from Salvation Army

- I was able to convince my wife they were stylish thanks to trends.
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This is a recent magazine thing - recycled news. I just saw a print magazine at Barnes and Noble with the cover "VE Day - Germany Defeated". Looked like a current magazine. Recycling is so much cheaper than paying reporters to find real news.

Esquire had famous writers in its glory days, so they have good content to recycle. They also used to have cute pinup pictures. Playboy was sort of an Esquire clone, but with sexier pictures, cutting into Esquire's market share.
I believe that you can already do this with python-rq, I understand what persistence means in terms of message queue patterns. There are several persistent queue systems that build on top of redis as a backing store... I was mainly questioning the use of 3 different servers, where 1 would be able to handle the workload.
Strong typing (absence of implicit conversions) is a spectrum, with some aspects being more important than others.

1) Do you allow 1 + 1.5? Most languages say yes, even very disciplined ones like Haskell. Very few languages say no, like Ocaml.

2) Do you allow "hello" + 1? Some languages say yes, like Java. Some languages say no, like Python. It doesn't seem very important either way.

3) Do you allow implicit conversion between pointers and integers? Most languages say no. Very few languages say yes, like C or assembly.

When people ask "is Python strongly typed?", they usually mean either "is Python statically typed?" (no, because a TV with a single color is not a color TV) or "is Python memory-safe?" (yes, unless you make a special effort to break it). Beyond these two questions, there's very little to learn from the fact that Python happens to disallow "hello" + 1.
JSON-Schema and XML-Schema provide the "specify and match" functionality, in the sense of deciding whether or not a given instance of a document conforms to a defined standard. For simple regex-style queries there are XPath and JSONPath expressions.

If you want to actually touch them as plain objects it's a very straightforward task of implementing a data provider to marshal the objects. In Java this is provided by libraries such as Jackson (JSON) and JAXB (XML). These basically work just like Hibernate.

JSON and XML cover many of the real-world use cases of parsing such CFGs. If you make your data fit into one of those boxes it's very straightforward to validate or marshal them according to those schema protocols. They obviously do have a greater complexity than just writing a regex, but that's kind of the nature of using a more expressive language, and it's by no means an insurmountable increase.
Well, just in France. :)
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Thank you for the advice.
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Cool dude, continue your BS Mod policy that allows group think and personal insults but ban the account that points out your double standard.
I have added you to the dossier, Mr. Ehrlich - do not fear, this is a good thing.
A lot of my friends agree that Uber is a pretty bad company, but they are still tons better than Taxis.
Bicycles in the city, what a great idea.
An awesome way to smear or discredit any product or practice is to affix the "hipster" label to it. Seriously, mason jars?
once again im impressed by the expressiveness of the japanese language:) Since i have almost all my books at my kindle at least i dont have to dust them regulary:D