Ahhh - now it makes so much more sense. :-)
The Google etymology thing (I didn't even know it existed - just search for "stuff etymology" and you get a nice little graph) tells me that the word "stuff" came to English from Greek (stuphein) via Old French…
I thought this was interesting (both that the space shuttle still used core memory, and that the challenger memory was retrieved and its contents recovered): > Core memory is non-volatile storage—it can retain its…
It always pains me to see the space program justified on the basis of its spin-offs. The main (civilian) problems that the space program solved were in getting to space, putting a man on the moon, developing a re-usable…
Do you really consider the iPhone 4/4S obsolete? To me this sounds like an unrealistic idea of real-world upgrade schedules. The iPhone 4S was released in October 2011. I would hope that a device of cost O($1000) would…
In German, the word "Land" is used for both states (as in the federal states of Germany, Bundesländer) and countries. Berlin is a City-State in Germany, entirely surrounded by the state of Brandenburg. Thus it's not too…
Important details are really hidden on the webpage. For example, who are the mentors? Second: unlike the Hacker School, it's not free. Both of these items should be addressed under "The Essentials".
"Successful people affirm the consequent" - Not sure what you mean here; you're linking to a description of a logical fallacy.
> Why not have an atomic (nuclear) battery that will be able to send out sonic pings for a year? Are you really proposing to have every commercial airliner fly around with a relatively large lump of plutonium?
This article makes no sense.
LIGO has not failed. The second generation of LIGO detectors, called "advanced LIGO", is currently under construction. It will be around ten times more sensitive than the earlier configuration of LIGO, and is very much…
I completely accept and agree with your criticism of my criticism. My gut sense is that this proposal is simply too amateurish to be worth the effort of thoroughly debunking. Floating point is kind of like cryptography:…
Also, he defines 0*NaN=0, but 0+NaN=NaN.
Just curious, what is your use-case in which you need better support for fractions?
Worse: > DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages.
> I think float will be around for a while, what with the blinding speed in today's processors, and the availability of 80 bit intermediate precision. ...and well-understood numerical behavior...
As a "specification" this document is laughable. For example, rounding modes and overflow behavior are not addressed. The comment that object pointers can be stuffed into the coefficient field (usually called…
Integers are also exactly represented in the standard floating point formats, so this isn't even a particular advantage of DEC64. What is "int truncation" anyway? Overflow?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
"corrected" I love this teleological market-speak.
Dumb Starbucks is a parody of parody. A meta-parody.
> software-defined-radio Can you conjure up a software-defined 70-meter parabolic dish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Network#Antennas
I would love to try a "signals hacking" capture-the-flag.
TeX is written in WEB, a "literate programming" language designed by Knuth, which a pre-processor turns into Pascal. There should be nothing inherently slow about Pascal. In practice, it's compiled using "web2c" which…
Thus it is all the more surprising that in present-day Germany one must register one's residential address and religion with the local government.
Ahhh - now it makes so much more sense. :-)
The Google etymology thing (I didn't even know it existed - just search for "stuff etymology" and you get a nice little graph) tells me that the word "stuff" came to English from Greek (stuphein) via Old French…
I thought this was interesting (both that the space shuttle still used core memory, and that the challenger memory was retrieved and its contents recovered): > Core memory is non-volatile storage—it can retain its…
It always pains me to see the space program justified on the basis of its spin-offs. The main (civilian) problems that the space program solved were in getting to space, putting a man on the moon, developing a re-usable…
Do you really consider the iPhone 4/4S obsolete? To me this sounds like an unrealistic idea of real-world upgrade schedules. The iPhone 4S was released in October 2011. I would hope that a device of cost O($1000) would…
In German, the word "Land" is used for both states (as in the federal states of Germany, Bundesländer) and countries. Berlin is a City-State in Germany, entirely surrounded by the state of Brandenburg. Thus it's not too…
Important details are really hidden on the webpage. For example, who are the mentors? Second: unlike the Hacker School, it's not free. Both of these items should be addressed under "The Essentials".
"Successful people affirm the consequent" - Not sure what you mean here; you're linking to a description of a logical fallacy.
> Why not have an atomic (nuclear) battery that will be able to send out sonic pings for a year? Are you really proposing to have every commercial airliner fly around with a relatively large lump of plutonium?
This article makes no sense.
LIGO has not failed. The second generation of LIGO detectors, called "advanced LIGO", is currently under construction. It will be around ten times more sensitive than the earlier configuration of LIGO, and is very much…
I completely accept and agree with your criticism of my criticism. My gut sense is that this proposal is simply too amateurish to be worth the effort of thoroughly debunking. Floating point is kind of like cryptography:…
Also, he defines 0*NaN=0, but 0+NaN=NaN.
Just curious, what is your use-case in which you need better support for fractions?
Worse: > DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages.
> I think float will be around for a while, what with the blinding speed in today's processors, and the availability of 80 bit intermediate precision. ...and well-understood numerical behavior...
As a "specification" this document is laughable. For example, rounding modes and overflow behavior are not addressed. The comment that object pointers can be stuffed into the coefficient field (usually called…
Integers are also exactly represented in the standard floating point formats, so this isn't even a particular advantage of DEC64. What is "int truncation" anyway? Overflow?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
"corrected" I love this teleological market-speak.
Dumb Starbucks is a parody of parody. A meta-parody.
> software-defined-radio Can you conjure up a software-defined 70-meter parabolic dish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Network#Antennas
I would love to try a "signals hacking" capture-the-flag.
TeX is written in WEB, a "literate programming" language designed by Knuth, which a pre-processor turns into Pascal. There should be nothing inherently slow about Pascal. In practice, it's compiled using "web2c" which…
Thus it is all the more surprising that in present-day Germany one must register one's residential address and religion with the local government.