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Based on looking at the games at the end of the post, it seems unlikely. Both sides play extremely poorly — gpt-instruct is just slightly less bad — and I don't see any reasonable …

Also a bad argument: rephrasing GP's "We don't know enough to be sure this is safe" as "This is definitely unsafe".

The raycast probably disambiguated the state pretty well, such that it essentially had to memorize a few hundred actions, so that it did end up basically doing a sort of asynchrono…

352 with all options and limit 1000. Anyone do better? :)

This is a misleading article in the following sense: the implication is "here are these seven surprising factors that are correlated with successful marriages". Except, in recent d…

So yes, they would be runtime errors in Python. But that's not such a catastrophe, actually. The way I write Python is by being in an IPython shell, writing short functions, unit-t…

Your type checker catches array indexing bugs? Impressive.

Not a book, but Andrew Ng's coursera course (or Stanford class video lectures) are great and have lots of practical tips.

This blog post? http://antirez.com/post/different-take-sexism-it.html I'd be curious how many people here find this beyond the pale. As a data point, I didn't. I don't agree with a…

Or, perhaps easier: scoped_ptr image(allocate_image(...));

What about the fact that 13 of the warmest years on record happened in the last 15 years?

> He basically wanted to upgrade just one (obscure) app, and the process triggered the automatic removal of Gnome2 and installation of Unity. Just _IMAGINE_ how nightmarish this mu…

I found it interesting that their claimed value of 15-20k a year went unquestioned. At ~300 days a year, that's $60 a day. I'd value free food at a quarter of that at most.

The nice thing is that many commands set the mark automatically. So in your example, there's no need for the initial C-SPC.

The way it works in Jeopardy is that after the question is read, there's a guy who flicks a switch after which the betting window is open (and there's a visual cue so the players k…

How does this compare with OpenCV's existing python interface? The examples at http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/python/cookbook... look fairly simple.

> Wine experts don't judge the quality of the wine but the quality of what the wine is supposed to taste like based on it's appellation controléé If that's really true, why do they…

Partial solution: http://www.bodymedia.com

No guessing needed. You could have just read his comment to find the answer.

The arguments about mature programmers being more efficient with less time are a red herring. The point is, given this guy working 40 hours a week and an equally mature (presumably…

Anyone know the release schedule for this?

I haven't used either of these, but they seem to fill a useful niche. What do you find are the pros and cons of deft vs. org-velocity?