Interesting approach. Thanks for sharing. I should send my students your way for internships!
The rabbit hole goes deep fast with this one! https://rcoh.me/posts/linear-time-median-finding/ I vaguely recall learning a randomized (approximate) streaming median algorithm in grad school, but the details have left…
As a non-Australian I just have to know what “chippies” and “sparkies” are!
The first time I attended a selective school was graduate school. Like you, I was extremely nervous. “They’re all going to be smarter than me. I’m going to feel like an idiot.” And it turned out to be true. Many of the…
It is. I think the professor here was being naive, but I appreciate his optimism. When I was in college (in the 90s), take home exams allowed a knowledgeable student to really shine. I’m not saying that they weren’t…
I am a little surprised that they rewrote the compiler in Go instead of just compiling the existing compiler to WASM. The linked announcement does not talk about a WASM alternative at all (rewriting a compiler is a…
When I was a teenager, my very first real job (after being a paperboy) was being a dishwasher in a popular local seafood restaurant. Minimum wage at the time was $4.25/hr but they offered me $5.50/hr. Boy howdy! On one…
That’s a strange delineation. Engineering is essentially about designing a thing, asking whether that thing really does satisfy the desired criteria, and then iterating when it does not. Mathematical models of the world…
You definitely needed the manual. But an 8-year old version of me mastered the game so it couldn't have been that hard. FWIW, the manual is a masterpiece. I really miss all the ancillaries that came with early computer…
F-19 is a great game and one of my favorite Sid Meier titles ever. I remember buying it from Electronics Boutique in the late 1980s and playing it on our Packard Bell 286. The game's copy protection mechanism required…
> Throughout it I continued reading to him daily, mostly stuff that he comprehends just find but find too difficult to read on his own. This reminds me of the father-son scenes in Zen and the Art and of Motorcycle…
My parents had a rule where the default answer when I asked them to buy me things was no—except for books. Combined with the fact that we lived in the middle of nowhere and did not have cable TV, books were by far the…
For what it’s worth I think people have always been this way. I used to read during recess when I was in middle school. I usually could not wait to get back to my books. But the other kids saw this as profoundly…
> I don’t have the same thing for the ebooks I’ve read, and it gives me a weird feeling of amnesia. I have a similar feeling when it comes to my music collection, some of which includes rare recordings. I ripped…
> The world is changing, and it's moving away from long-form reading and writing. The kids (as usual) are adapting faster than us oldies. Perhaps this is the case, but it is a great loss to civilization if true. The…
Obviously my experience is a little dated (graduated high school in 1997), but Shakespeare was a recurring theme throughout my high school English classes. We read The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, and a number of poems,…
The last time Facebook reported its monthly active user base they were at 3 billion. [1] So I guess the answer to your question is… everyone? [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...
> I think the right way to go about this is to tax consumption. The most efficient one would just be a co2 tax, to not favoritize some emission over others. I too thought this for a long time. But after watching taxes…
Awesome! I am going to try this when I have some time next week. Fantasizing about how to make a better SimCity 25 years ago is what inspired me to pursue a computer science degree. I got sidetracked by a PhD and never…
I worked at Bedford/St. Martin, now Macmillan Education. It would be hilarious if you worked there (or at our nemesis one floor down in the same building).
> Overall, as a technical writeup I enjoyed the article; however, I would caution that the author seems to approach publishing from an amateur perspective. I also worked at a publishing company (for ~6 years) in the…
I’d like to know what the advantage is over KL divergence. It seems like the important idea is symmetry? Not clear to me why that matters; I’d love to know what application this is used for.
I was told by an engineer at Microsoft that Excel's formula interpreter is essentially a kind of bytecode-based stack machine. This came up in the context of a bug I found (while working on a project with Microsoft)…
I’ve also seen this. It’s completely insane. Especially when I consider how many times a sound alerted me to a danger while I was on my bike.
The way I read the post is that the author is disappointed that the community is gone. The CTF was just a reason for a number of like-minded people to organize around an activity. Indeed, in the real world, plenty of…
Interesting approach. Thanks for sharing. I should send my students your way for internships!
The rabbit hole goes deep fast with this one! https://rcoh.me/posts/linear-time-median-finding/ I vaguely recall learning a randomized (approximate) streaming median algorithm in grad school, but the details have left…
As a non-Australian I just have to know what “chippies” and “sparkies” are!
The first time I attended a selective school was graduate school. Like you, I was extremely nervous. “They’re all going to be smarter than me. I’m going to feel like an idiot.” And it turned out to be true. Many of the…
It is. I think the professor here was being naive, but I appreciate his optimism. When I was in college (in the 90s), take home exams allowed a knowledgeable student to really shine. I’m not saying that they weren’t…
I am a little surprised that they rewrote the compiler in Go instead of just compiling the existing compiler to WASM. The linked announcement does not talk about a WASM alternative at all (rewriting a compiler is a…
When I was a teenager, my very first real job (after being a paperboy) was being a dishwasher in a popular local seafood restaurant. Minimum wage at the time was $4.25/hr but they offered me $5.50/hr. Boy howdy! On one…
That’s a strange delineation. Engineering is essentially about designing a thing, asking whether that thing really does satisfy the desired criteria, and then iterating when it does not. Mathematical models of the world…
You definitely needed the manual. But an 8-year old version of me mastered the game so it couldn't have been that hard. FWIW, the manual is a masterpiece. I really miss all the ancillaries that came with early computer…
F-19 is a great game and one of my favorite Sid Meier titles ever. I remember buying it from Electronics Boutique in the late 1980s and playing it on our Packard Bell 286. The game's copy protection mechanism required…
> Throughout it I continued reading to him daily, mostly stuff that he comprehends just find but find too difficult to read on his own. This reminds me of the father-son scenes in Zen and the Art and of Motorcycle…
My parents had a rule where the default answer when I asked them to buy me things was no—except for books. Combined with the fact that we lived in the middle of nowhere and did not have cable TV, books were by far the…
For what it’s worth I think people have always been this way. I used to read during recess when I was in middle school. I usually could not wait to get back to my books. But the other kids saw this as profoundly…
> I don’t have the same thing for the ebooks I’ve read, and it gives me a weird feeling of amnesia. I have a similar feeling when it comes to my music collection, some of which includes rare recordings. I ripped…
> The world is changing, and it's moving away from long-form reading and writing. The kids (as usual) are adapting faster than us oldies. Perhaps this is the case, but it is a great loss to civilization if true. The…
Obviously my experience is a little dated (graduated high school in 1997), but Shakespeare was a recurring theme throughout my high school English classes. We read The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, and a number of poems,…
The last time Facebook reported its monthly active user base they were at 3 billion. [1] So I guess the answer to your question is… everyone? [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...
> I think the right way to go about this is to tax consumption. The most efficient one would just be a co2 tax, to not favoritize some emission over others. I too thought this for a long time. But after watching taxes…
Awesome! I am going to try this when I have some time next week. Fantasizing about how to make a better SimCity 25 years ago is what inspired me to pursue a computer science degree. I got sidetracked by a PhD and never…
I worked at Bedford/St. Martin, now Macmillan Education. It would be hilarious if you worked there (or at our nemesis one floor down in the same building).
> Overall, as a technical writeup I enjoyed the article; however, I would caution that the author seems to approach publishing from an amateur perspective. I also worked at a publishing company (for ~6 years) in the…
I’d like to know what the advantage is over KL divergence. It seems like the important idea is symmetry? Not clear to me why that matters; I’d love to know what application this is used for.
I was told by an engineer at Microsoft that Excel's formula interpreter is essentially a kind of bytecode-based stack machine. This came up in the context of a bug I found (while working on a project with Microsoft)…
I’ve also seen this. It’s completely insane. Especially when I consider how many times a sound alerted me to a danger while I was on my bike.
The way I read the post is that the author is disappointed that the community is gone. The CTF was just a reason for a number of like-minded people to organize around an activity. Indeed, in the real world, plenty of…