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ThrustVectoring
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It implies that you're thinking about probability wrong. Probability is in the mind - it is a state of partial information. If you have more information, you can make a better guess as to what is going to happen. If you have less, you can't make as good of a guess. If you know the initial position and velocity of a co...
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quayo
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Last one did not go on into the new year.
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grauenwolf
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So it makes you happy?
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captainbarky
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Upvote for you. I overlooked the coffeescript. Please excuse my ignorance.
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What is the deadline?
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Yeah, you're right. It went from September to December.
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Tordek
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Hmm... let's assume we have a (very extremely) time-biased generator, where P(h) = sin(t) [0] and we generate a flip every 0.1 units of time. Can we calculate the "debiased" P? [0]: Of course this is an extreme example, but a more realistic example would be a temperature-biased generator, where P(1) ~ sin(t) k1 + sin(...
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Jonkie
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**HEY EVERYBODY**
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having a presentation layer depending on the transport cant be blamed on google.
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NruJaC
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Not true at all. One of the fundamental results of QM was to disprove that notion: even if you perfectly know the states and forces acting on a group of objects, you *can't* predict their future states except in the macroscopic limit (and there its an approximation; the possible quantum states are difficult to differen...
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kolm
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First sentence of the abstract: "We give new algorithms for simulating a flip of an unbiased coin by flipping a coin of unknown bias."
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[Like this?](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlos.bueno.org%2F2011%2F10%2Ffair-coin.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML5&group=0) Which piece of invalid HTML do you think is causing the issue?
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superiority
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I was talking to a guy once who was doing some research for his sociology PhD or something. He mentioned how he had an 80,000-point dataset and he had done all the statistical analysis on it in shell script because he didn't know anything else. I cringed a little when I heard that.
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nexes300
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Why do they even try? Distributing a runtime with the decryption keys? What do they think they're buying with that?
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knejk
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Agreed. Most of the code I write is pretty straightforward linear algebra and data processing, so I guess Matlab is just the right tool for me. If most of the application is not data processing, Matlab may not be the right tool. As for testing, I am trying to show my fellow scientists the the light. It's hard to int...
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knejk
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Wow, that looks great. How does it scale? Is it shared-memory or do I have to copy data around?
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nwmcsween
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Linux has 'kernel same page merging' similar but different.
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knejk
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I haven't really tried Mathematica. How does it handle large numerical linear algebra problems?
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thavi
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Oh...my...god
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MATLAB ~~'s function syntax~~ is abysmal
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knejk
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Yes, I keep hoping that the Mathworks will Fix this in every release. It can be hard to JIT dynamic languages though, just look at Unladen Swallow.
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DullBoyJack
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The social features *in their current configuration* are being retired, so the headline is completely accurate. There are multiple applications for mobile devices, a couple of desktop apps, and some other web-based solutions that all interface with google reader, and use some of the functions listed (stars, likes, etc...
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elder_george
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OK. Why Chrome (and some other browsers, e.g. IE) has this dialog in the first place? Because jurisdictions of many countries think that tying popular browser to particular search engine gives owner of this search engine competitive advantage (which it probably does). Why could this dialog be disabled in a particular...
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ecomputation
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I created a [/r/aichallenge](http://www.reddit.com/r/aichallenge) subreddit.
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aboeing
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Does anyone have any good tutorials/info for AI relevant to this kind of thing? I seem to recall a starcraft AI competition a while ago that I guess would have similar concepts.
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Let's see, how much is that in metric - double it and add 30, as in beer?
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Bleary_Eyed
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From what I can see, if one of your ants positions itself on the hill of an enemy then it gets razed.
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That means the method of flipping has the bias, not the coin itself.
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apullin
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**Yep**. I can't believe they teach people MATLAB. It's just horrible. When I teach classes, I *force* everyone to use Mathematica.
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I don't get it, what's he asking for and why is it stupid?
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SnakeJG
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>Closing date will be in December sometime. According to the forum post in announcements: http://aichallenge.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1499
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ecomputation
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[/r/aichallenge](http://www.reddit.com/r/aichallenge)
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bastawhiz
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This only adds insult to injury for the folks that built a bookmarking tool for Google Reader in Silverlight.
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djrubbie
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This April fools joke just keeps on giving. Edit: Apparently the downvoters did not know about this [announcement that was made on April 1st, 2010](https://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support).
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flat5
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I hope they have decent compute resources at hand this year. Last year was pretty rough.
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vfadz
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His expected number of flips is incorrect. E(F) = .21(2) + .21(2) + .49(E(F) + 2) + .09(E(F) + 2) solving for E(F), E(F) = 4.76 (I'm studying for a stochastic calculus test and this bothered me enough that I had to post it)
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>See, personally, I would argue that a static type system is simpler than a dynamic type system because (to use Hickey's words) you don't complect what something is with its value. The effect of separating these two things (and being explicit about it) is that suddenly, you can leverage the power of mathematics (esp...
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im_perkisizing
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Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that kind of a necessity if you are going to use tail recursion?
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You didn't play with the slider, did you? :-)
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ZMeson
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No way to call it. I don't see where a need would arise either, but perhaps there is some twisted example where someone might need to do this. However, if someone suggested they needed this, then there's probably need for redisign.
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djrubbie
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At first I thought what he was asking was not completely insensible at a very high level glance, when he mentioned he wanted to maintain the separation of aspects (client/server/whatever) and that he wanted it in Java. However he wanted to run _everything_ in Java because his embedded environment can't use perl, and so...
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luckystarr
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Next: Mercurial?
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wub_wub
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I haven't seen the code for starcraft API, but I guess it's waaay more complex than this. In starcraft you have multiple units, multiple commands for each unit, upgrades etc etc I doubt it would be very useful for this AI challenge.
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biggerthancheeses
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I didn't question the accuracy of the headline. Being misleading is not the same thing as being inaccurate. I am sure the features will be broken between the shutdown of the social features and the introduction of Google+ features. However, by not saying *why* the shutdown is happening, the reader could very likely be ...
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Fair enough, but I'm still referring to a design pattern; not a language facility :)
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ZMeson
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They should start seeking advice from the high-energy physicists.
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runedk
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I agree. She would have been much more valuable as an business analyst. It is too bad that none of her managers through the years did her the favor and tried to offer her that position.
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zhensydow
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Using the same template with Perl syntax, I don't think Perl is better than C: ($x1,$x2) = ($x2,$x1) ($y1,$x2) = ($y2,$y1)
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aaronla
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But, you can invoke the destructor directly. Using standard C++: S destroy_me; destroy_me.~S(); [run on codepad](http://codepad.org/FSPNbVKJ) But why would you? Note if you run this that the object dies twice if you do this, which is bad because no general-purpose object is prepared to die twice. Generally ...
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joelthelion
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When does the contest end? I couldn't find it on the site.
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joelthelion
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Good initiative, but your link isn't working.
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quzox
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Can they port over binaries for which they don't have the source? Would be cool to see Crysis running on NaCl.
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aaronla
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You're entirely correct on both counts. :-) (forgot to say this in the other post)
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wadcann
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What? An 80k dataset isn't that large, and if he's got the shell utilities to do the computations you want, shell doesn't seem unreasonable at all for it. I've processed much larger things from the shell. In fact, if the computations you are doing permit processing a stream and you're running a whole pipeline of com...
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ZMeson
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Only call the destructor directly if you're using placement new. I've done this when creating my own containers, but never ever when I was working with drivers.
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ZMeson
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:)
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omginternets
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>MATLAB is abysmal FTFY
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omginternets
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Lots... **LOTS** of toolboxes.
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streeter
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You may have 10 years experience and a PhD, but you, sir, are an asshole.
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omginternets
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Python can do all of this as well...
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Copersonic
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working link: [http://www.reddit.com/r/aichallenge](http://www.reddit.com/r/aichallenge)
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> The initial condition of the coin is “forgotten” if the uncertainty about when the coin is caught is much greater than the rotation period.
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In case you haven't come across it, OpenOffice supports Python as a scripting language, kind of the inverse of what Pycel does. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Python_as_a_macro_language.
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trades
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Man, what a buzz kill. Next you're going to tell me that you can't hold on to the roof of a car while it takes a 90 degree turn at 70 mph, or something equally egregious, like the Tooth Fairy isn't real.
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ewyll
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Too bad the link was not spoiler free :(
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P1h3r1e3d13
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Well, no. The assumption here is that a coin toss ends when the coin is abruptly stopped from spinning. If you let it bounce, spin, roll, etc., you can bias the heck out of it, just as with dice. But anything you flip this way—a coin, a die, a relatively rigid wombat—will actually come up 50/50, neglecting air resis...
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aaronla
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Since it's sometimes interesting to watch knife juggling, here's this: \[[codepad](http://codepad.org/mPaOgxoI)\]
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wadcann
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This guy wants to ban a GitHub user. Blacklisting doesn't work on systems that have inexpensive identifiers (e.g. Reddit usernames) for users who *want* to avoid your blacklist. If you blacklist someone, they just go get themselves a new identifier and are outside your blacklist. On systems like that, you have to wh...
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ThrustVectoring
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I am aware that QM exists. Under the Many-Worlds interpretation of QM, the uncertainty of the outcome of a quantum experiment (say, a photon passing through a semi-silvered mirror) is still a property of the mind observing the phenomena, and not the phenomena itself. The universe only ever follows the laws of physics e...
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joelthelion
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What's so complicated about this challenge? I'm sure you can find simple strategies that work pretty well.
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P1h3r1e3d13
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> no matter how it's flipped Not quite. Note that this (very smart—thank you) article assumes that a coin toss ends when the coin is abruptly stopped from spinning. If you let it bounce, spin, roll, etc., you can bias the heck out of it, just as with dice. Of course, that can generalize to any object you flip. O...
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frymaster
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the validator can't reach the site any more, but simply being invalid (no doctype, for a start, as I remember from trying last night) will put browsers into quirks modes, at which point all best are off, really.
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P1h3r1e3d13
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> tandom number generator I see what you did there: “tandom” = **t**andem + rand**o**m
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joelthelion
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Numpy/Scipy is the future. Try it! It doesn't have all matlab's functionality yet, but for most applications, it's very good.
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joelthelion
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>The FOSS community has a lot to learn about providing a good user experience. Scipy is improving very fast. In fact, I already prefer the user experience it provides to Matlab: you get a real languages, the libraries are of good quality, visualisation is good (plus you can use VTK if you want to do nice 3D renderi...
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The default rainbow map is _perfectly_ fine for a rather big area of problems: When you want to visualize features that diverge both in positive and negative from a a common offset. Then you get your green "base" level, and red and blue for features in positive and negative direction (for example electric field streng...
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malkarouri
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> using a shell pipeline may well be both vastly more memory-efficient (doesn't need to load the dataset into memory) and faster (pipelines give you some degree of free parallel processing) than the alternative you may have been thinking of What is the alternative you have been thinking of that doesn't support stre...
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Hardware RNGs are always cool. Have you seen Intel's new one? http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0 Neat that you stuck it on an ISA card too.
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malkarouri
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You should lookup ipython and its dreload functionality.
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streeter
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>Yeah i think i have better things to do then wait for gigabytes of content to dl from game link. Yeah, it's not like internet connections are becoming increasingly faster, and you'll be able to download gigabytes of content in seconds in the future. And it's not like NaCl is something designed for future use. &gt...
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P1h3r1e3d13
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Looks like the site got reddited. Care to mirror or post the text?
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julesjacobs
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That's awesome! I don't see any reason why Python should be inherently better than Ruby, it just has more libraries for scientific computing at the moment. In fact I've often longed for a dash of API design awesomeness that you often find in Ruby libraries when using Python for scientific computing.
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Veracity01
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Really?! I have to admit I understand very litttle about hashes but that's amazing. What about if you remove the first 32 bits? Will you still have 128 bits of entropy in there? Or does it literally move the entropy to the front?
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malkarouri
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Useless is too big a word. What's wrong with multiprocessing? Options from outside Python are Parallel Python and the python mpi packages as well as ipython parallel support, but multiprocessing works fine for me.
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mikeyouse
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Sometime in December [http://aichallenge.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1499](http://aichallenge.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1499)
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PLanPLan
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>This program is open to anyone who identifies herself as a woman. I think there is mischievous fun to be had here ...
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malkarouri
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No reason. Except that just as Numerical Python took more than 12 years to get here, sciruby would take a long time to get the trust of the scientific community.
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malkarouri
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As an engineer, I think I can safely say that Python for engineers is Python.
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taejo
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It does decrease the entropy, but it doesn't decrease the entropy *per bit*. The consumer should be assured that if they read 256 bits from /dev/random, they got (almost) 256 bits of entropy. Hashing the input stream is not enough: if it generates one bits 99% of the time, many of the hashed words will be all ones, an...
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CafeNero
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python is glue. C or Fortran for OpenMP calls. There are GPU codes being worked on for python, pyACTs seems cool too. I see doublereedkurt added some existing python example, there are a host of projects and a project in itself to try to sort out a preference. My sense, and I am just offering an impression, is that...
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taejo
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Any fixed set of bit positions should have the full amount of entropy. This is not one of the standard properties of a hash function, but I think it can be derived from them.
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What would you like to know? There are tutorials on the website for downloading the tools and a starter package to get yourself set up, both for developing your bot and testing it locally. Once you can run the starter bot in the language of your choice you should start familiarising yourself with how the starter bot i...
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iLiekCaeks
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I wonder why they had to git rid of all the handwritten assembly. I thought NaCL gets its security from verifying the binary code, not from a compiler that produces only safe code. Were they too "lazy" to make the assembler code NaCL conform so that the verifier would pass it? How are the gcc intrinsics for atomic inst...
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malkarouri
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In certain fields, free systems do offer the same functionality as Matlab or better. The functionality from my point of view is comparable in machine learning between Matlab and the scipy ecosystem, but a large part of the machine learning community prefer R to either.
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malkarouri
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All the things you say are equally available using Python/scipy/Cython, and the syntax is better and it costs less.
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wadcann
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Well, I was thinking of stuff more historically-linked with processing someone's research dataset, like MATLAB (though honestly, it's probably got some sort of way to do stream processing, but the way I'd normally process data in MATLAB isn't stream-based). I admit that the "faster" is a bit of a stretch; it'd require...
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comex
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"Virtual machine" is sometimes, if uncommonly, used to refer to an implementation of a runtime environment even when the environment is significantly higher level than a real machine. In this case, the "machine" is JavaScript.
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Competitors still only need to read state information about the game and output which moves they like with a language of their choice. The game has more depth to it than tron did, but everybody is on an equal playing field in that regard. See my comment [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ljk4v/ai_cha...
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