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> Sorry I don't know how to predict the temperature of earth for the next 100 years, but maybe I should say that I can't see that anyone else knows how either. In that case, my view is that carbon taxes are not justified.

That summarizes how you see the issue. If the scientists can't convince you that they can "predict" the values exactly in the shortest time period ("100 years") the "carbon taxes are not justified."

Everything else is trying to rationalize that, taking the info from these who cherry-pick their argument of the day that nothing important is going on.

In reality the global warming issue is not about meteorologically "predicting" "100 years" at all. It's about recognizing the impact, which will happen no matter how much cherry-picking origin-adjusting short-term charts could be produced.

Yes, "the models" are not giving meteorological predictions. I don't know how old are you, but if you're going to live even just the next 20 years, you'll see for yourself that in the 20 years even if "the models" would wiggle between, the Earth will be much warmer on average, just like 2016 broke all the records since we measure. It will happen again and again. And if you plan to have children or have them already, please write one single letter to them with your "predictions" of how they are going experience Earth warming. You probably won't live enough to see that, but they will be able to see how much you were wrong, that's I'm sure.
I imagine that creates a special bond over time. :) In Sweden there are two municipalities who shared a website for a long time. Ironically? the HÅBO muni got to keep http://HABO.se while the HABO muni had to settle for http://HABOkommun.se
What? Is Sonic the Hedgehog inflation fetish porn not your thing?
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On top of all the complete and utterly ... WRONG ... things that Centrelink have been doing lately, a billion dollar entity attacking a single, disadvantaged person furthers the depths of the inethical behaviours at display by the Australian government.

The list of wrong things include knowingly issuing pay-us-back-or-we'll-empty-your-bank-account legal notices incorrectly, when they clearly averaged e.g. a single high payment month over the whole period when the rules state this is not to be done. Then saying just call us, knowing the call wait lines are so horrid it is a whole day project just to get in touch with anyone.

I'm so over this government.
IPsec, not IPSec

It's been 10 years since I worked on a VPN stack, but naming pedantry dies hard.
> Of course, it's not fine to ask "Does the result of this computation equal this value?", but everyone knows that.

How about "Does the result of this computation equal the result of this exact same computation?"? That's the issue here.
It depends. MMO's can generally handle thousands of users per second, but realistically those generate only one event per second. There's faster-paced games like Planetside and Battlefield which allow for hundreds of users per server though.
Goldeneye had the same controls, it just wasn't the default.

C-Pad was used like WASD and the stick to look.
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This is really attractive, SD card, bluetooth, long battery life. But there is no GPS, so no maps. That's a lot to compromise.

Seems they really went all out in not making it a smart phone replacement.
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Just to clear up a common point of confusion: the "Robin Hood" scheme that is commonly used these days is not a multiple hashing solution like the original research paper from the 1980s (and Cuckoo hash table).

What's used these days should be called "Robin Hood linear probing" or something else. It's just a variant of linear probing where an entry occupying a "better" slot than the one being inserted gets pushed back.

It might still be an interesting comparison but I'm under the impression that Robin Hood is a very good solution for a general purpose hash table.
I thought that till I tried it. The experience is impressive, not at all like the gimmicky 3D TV.
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It is historically true that energy had been one of the most important factors in the rise of civilizations. It is now quite clear, however, that information, genetic, and AI technologies will likely become the decisive sources of power and influence in the world.

Even 'primitive' information technologies like complex language, paper, and the printing press might have played as large a role as energy in history, if not more so.

We can argue that scientific knowledge and its spread is the principal key to industrialization. China clearly had sufficient energy sources to invent the modern world; but Europe had the information and institutions to enable it first.

Energy will continue to be important but its commodity nature and the rise of renewables mean that it is not the most crucial edge that leading nations can use to outmatch one another.
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Thanks for your answers David! Too bad it's not feasible yet.
I agree that's a limitation of the proof, but this is a thread about journalism tone. What alternative headline would you or the OP prefer? How much weaker does it need to be? Is "could theoretically help" weak enough, or do we need to go all the way to "could hypothetically, maybe, possibly help"?

Forgive me, but it's frustrating to see Monday morning quarterbacking on a huge, important result that was the culmination of decades of work by the authors. Prior to this, the most general result in boundary rigidity was https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6425, which only works on simple metrics.
> Even when a couple of dozen of their citizens flew airplanes into our buildings, what did we do?

I never hear a convincing answer to a question: what should US have done instead? Stop supporting House of Saud and let their internal enemies, as radical as ISIS, take power instead, turning the country into another Syria?

Yes, supporting bad guys feels bad - but you have to consider the alternative.
Invest heavily in creating crop-destroying pests and as bread gets more expensive, so will your gold reserves. Genius!
Do you know of any good beginner tutorials for Stan or probabilistic programming in general? All the examples that I found seemed quite complex and I was a bit overwhelmed by all the math. Which might also be a sign that I should brush up my math skills. What kind of math/stats should I revise to be able to better understand probabilistic programming?
I have too much Ikea furniture because, after moving to Denmark, it was the easiest way to buy everything I needed in just a couple of trips. My table seems to be good quality, but the sofa and bed are disappointing. I didn't like any of the coffee tables (sofaborde) so I have the 299kr "Lack" until I find something better.

It was difficult to find a shop selling better furniture than Ikea, except for the designer furniture stores in the centre of Copenhagen -- and I'm not ready to spend over 5000kr on a concrete-topped table.
Though they still do the odd manual stop and search in my experience. When my son and I were returning from Singapore a couple of years ago, my son had bought a guitar over there and had it in a gig bag strapped to his back in the immigration line as we came back into Australia.

Immigration let everyone through without question, but as soon as they saw him with the guitar they asked him to step forward to an inspection point. I went along to observe, and it was quite interesting. The guy and the lady at the inspection desk asked him to put the guitar case flat on the desk and open it to remove the guitar.

While he did this, I noted that they never took their eyes off his face. They never even glanced at the guitar or the case. He was halfway through taking it out when they told him it was all OK and to stow it away again and be on our way.

I had always heard that the officers watched for your reaction which 9 times out of 10 gives the person away if they are trying to hide something, but this was the first time I had witnessed it first hand.
One "other suitable solution" could be to use Quickscript (http://quickscript.sourceforge.net/index.html). It is a Postscript based document formatter. The markup format it uses is relatively straighforward. You would output a suitable "qs" file, and then feed the document formatting code plus the "qs" file through ghostscript to generate a pdf.
It is beyond bizarre that their own legal counsel approved the release, especially since they're also under the spotlight at the moment. I'm not sure how they expect to 'maintain public trust by showing their side of the story' when that involves violating privacy.
And people could just all get along. And everything just could be good forever and ever. This "could" you used is far into hypothetical that I can't really understand your point here.
Most importantly, I think that even if structural discrimination exists, artificially penalising other people is not the way to rectify it.

On whether structural discrimination exists, the question feels like a trap (even if not intentional) since we could probably spend hours arguing about what "structural" actually means.

But I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, in general, I don't think it does exist anymore, in the western world. Gender discrimination against women is now both socially taboo and illegal. And yet this perceived victimhood is increasingly used to justify very real (and openly practised) discrimination against men.

We're going to raise a generation of young men who are continually told how "privileged" they are, while feeling anything but privileged.
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Security is quite often about the amount of money you have to put in to get something or somebody hacked.

110,000 USD is in the ballpark of state level players when we are talking about forging documents to avoid any sort of tampering detection. It has practically zero use of small time hackers or script kiddies. Why would anybody invest 110K into a collision? What is the practical use of it?
I've seen the term "Rhetological Fallacies" used - there's no shortage of resources enumerating them online. Wikipedia has a whole section, there's a website called rationalwiki and commonly cited (though I have yet to read) is Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit".

For a more askew look at the topic check out Derailing for Dummies :)

http://www.derailingfordummies.com

FWIW I think its important to be careful with these concepts. I often see a perfectly valid point though a poorly constructed argument blown out of the water by reference to these techniques. There's an awful lot of subtlety to this stuff which if misapplied can cause you to miss out on certain valuable points being made just because of how they're being made. Also important to remember that these "weapons" can also be abused by the hypothetical ne'er-do-wells to prevent novel contributions to discussion ...
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>Besides, the world could become a better place the day the wahhabism oil-funding fades and vanishes.

Instability and collapse in Saudi Arabia or the wider Arab world would be good for nobody, even if it's inevitable. Lack of oil funds isn't going to make Wahabism go away or reduce the threat it poses, in fact IMHO quite the opposite. A triumphal raised finger in that direction is likely to get bitten off.
There is a fascinating talk by Cliff Click "A JVM Does That?" At the end he shares some opinion about what should be done by JVM or OS and what should change.

video: https://youtu.be/uL2D3qzHtqY

slides: http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2...

I remember a talk, where he was also talking about hardware. It does not seem to be this one. For example, a time register would be useful. Syscalls like clock_gettime are too slow. CPU info like cycle counts fail with dynamic frequency scaling.
Looks like this is related to https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792, which is a bit different. So nevermind.
Not sure if Abu Dhabi still does it. It has, however, been an unmitigated disaster:

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2014/09/07/etihads-ab...
Doing separated-grade (that extension is mostly underground) in the middle of a dense urban area is going to cost tremendously more per mile than an HSR line whose tracks are mostly outside urban areas.
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I live in a country with a guaranteed level of education and healthcare (I guess that's what you mean) and I love it. No need to worry when I go to a doctor or whether I can afford university.

As far as I know what has never been tried on a large scale is to give everyone a no-strings-attached 'salary' and let them do whatever they want, without consequences for that income.

Communism definitely didn't let you do whatever you want, while still paying you for it. And in all socialist countries I know of unemployment benefits are decreased as soon as you start working, sometimes even at a net-negative rate (yes, I consider that stupid as well).

I don't know what you mean with a basic home. I guess you could call where I live right now 'basic', but only because I don't care enough to spend more for it.
Background: I built this after using the official SDK and finding it less than ideal. The pipelining concept is inspired by the likes of node's express and C#'s OWIN as a neat, extensible way of adding things like logging and authentication etc.

It's also designed to take advantage of TypeScript's static type checker and autocompletion, while still being very concise to use from vanilla JavaScript.
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If you're building your backend in Python with Django or Tornado you could use ReportLab's open source PDF generator [1]. ReportLab's founder, Andy Robinson was Mark Hammond's co author on Python Programming for Win32.

[1] http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/
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If I'm not mistaken, the US doesn't consume that much Saudi oil anyway.

So may be it's more about protecting the interests of American Oil companies rather than direct consumption.
> the speed ratio between CPU and main memory is several orders of magnitude

What if you compare scratchpad SRAM and an energy-efficient CPU?
I can't agree more. Seems like such an a NB feature to skimp on. I might even still buy this for the SD card / bluetooth, which I want for playing music, but the lack of GPS really kills it's chances of being a primary phone.
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>What ends up happening in practice instead is that large projects using dynamic languages are hesitant to change anything like that.

I have seen this "code fear" in both statically and dynamically typed languages and fixed it. When I have worked through it, it has been roughly an equal amount of work to solve it in dynamically and statically typed languages.

Integration tests are usually the key to getting over the code fear hump.

>The equivalent would be to have integration tests that exercise the entire system with all its functions and code paths checking for basic data compatibility.

Integration tests that exercise every relevant user story are a prerequisite for avoiding code fear in any language - statically OR dynamically typed.

In addition to this sprinkling additional type checks around the code helps give confidence that the code is indeed working and gives you additional freedom to refactor. This is something I do when:

A) I encounter a type related error that an assertion would have caught.

B) I was previously confused about what type a var is or if just by looking at it I think somebody else might be confused.

People who have terrible test suites for their code written in statically typed languages are usually insistent that it's best practice to have types checked by the compiler. This means two things about their development practice A) they don't drive development with tests (TDD) and B) they often push unexercised code.
Interesting...

The beloved leaders have reached the third generation: that could represent some hope to North Korea inhabitants.
> There's a fair bit of evidence that things we've traditionally assumed belong in the kernel actually belong in userspace, and they're being reinvented in userspace as a result.

That's basically the pitch given by unikernels like Mirage: functionality which was traditionally implemented by an OS, like storage, is turned into a library that gets compiled into the application like any other. If an application wants to access a filesystem on the disk it can use an appropriate library; if instead it wants to manage the data being stored on (some section of) the disk directly, it just needs a different library. That way, applications like relational databases can claim their own section of the disk and read/write it directly, to avoid the performance and reliability (e.g. caching/flushing) penalties of going via a filesystem.
Probabilistic graphical models.

That's the foundation. The way you set up your model is by nodes and edges that specify the flow of influence (directed or undirected). Then it seems that there are general methods for inference and learning on any kind of graph one might pose.

For simple graphs (and simple is something one might want when modelling) the methods should be fairly effective.

Unfortunately, the biggest book on the subject that I know (Koller & Friedman) isn't accessible. Koller's course is also not that accessible.
> I think the new Stratix might well beat GPUs, not?

Adding to what simias said, even an FPGA with built-in floating-point primitives can beat a GPU (in floating-point-heavy computations when the measure is performance/cost) only if the algorithm doesn't fit well onto the GPU architecture – for example, if you can make use of the highly flexible SRAM banks on the FPGA. I suppose there exist such workloads, but they're rare.

Also, keep in mind that no FPGA comes even close to the raw external memory bandwidth of modern GPUs.
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The Wikimedia foundation provides an public page view API for most Wikimedia projects:

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I'm not even half through this article but I felt an urge to say this: The automatic french-english translation is so good, I didn't even notice it at all. Good work, google!

Edit: now that I'm aware that the text I'm reading is a translation, I see the errors. I guess my brain just filtered it out. Still awesome though!
Wouldn't a deceitful person just claim to have an occupation that they are actually knowledgeable about? This is basically just taking a test where you get to pick the subject.
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> but realistically those generate only one event per second

How does that work with seeing other avatars walking around in real-time in for example WoW? Are their trajectory only updated once a second? In my game it's not really displayed in that way but I'm curious.
You could always use something like Electron if you can get users to download your app, which would allow you to use whatever node native networking libraries there are, I'm sure you could send UDP packets or anything else, and still use web technologies and the browser to develop your app/game.
The exact number of Billies may have been a bit different but the discussion quickly shifted to the ubiquity of the Billy and what it said about the global economy and how easily we adopt custom standards.

I remember being surprised by that new unit but also astonished by the fact that I instinctively understood what he meant.
I can imagine that is "confusing" to you but "what programmers expect" is not what the people who talk about "spills" (like you did) expect. I understand where you come from when you mention them. But spills etc are all irrelevant to how we started this discussion:

As cpreciva stated that Kahan said that the behavior of the given example (the code where two sums of two some numbers are summed to doubles and compared to equality) should never give "false" you wrote "it seems to contradict his attitude ..." and your "proof" was Kahan's Java paper.

I showed that there's nowhere anything in Kahan's Java paper or K&R that would support such behavior. I quoted explicit lines form Kahan's paper which explicitly claim that the explicit evaluation to doubles should properly round away the bits that don't fit. And you continued to claim "but but FLT_EVAL_METHOD" whatever.

> We're talking past each other at this point.

I agree about that. You also gave false example 5/2 and you now explain it was your "intention" even if it's neither K&R nor what Kahan argued. You also use the name of the "optimization" for the basic design property of IEEE 754 operations, probably the best feature of IEEE 754 compared to all "common practices" of the times it was designed. I'd be glad to explain you what it is, you'd actually have to make the effort to understand the design principles of IEEE 754. If you're really interested, please post some place where we could start a new thread for that topic, I won't post in this thread more. There we can also discuss, if you are really interested, what Kahan actually says in the paper you posted.
What is the point of CBP? Can't their jobs just be automated away by immigration kiosks? Surely there's no human value they actually add. What even is the effectiveness of these routine "randomly selected" checks beyond sniffer dogs for cocaine mules.
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Just a dumb question. Will it affect the instruction set of the CPU. Does the programming change fundamentally with async cpu's.
Am in the same camp. Not that into my phone at all, my 16gb iphone is battered and almost entirely unloved, but holy smokes, Maps/Uber can be useful/life saving.
In the UK and Ireland, Argos do it. Similar pricing to IKEA, dramatically worse quality.
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Latin America announcement: https://jolla.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Jalasoft_press_...
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The leadership in that airport sec seams pretty crappy.
Ah, that is a much more sensible request! Sorry for my harsh reply.