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Allocations don't have to be expensive if your GC is smart. Smart as C++ destructors positioning :D

Yep, as you acknowledge, your reasoning is irrational. Replacing regular milk with coconut milk is more environmentally friendly, medium-chain fatty acids are better for the liver …

The author could change the generation of piece by generating a short theme, then fixing that theme at particular points in the note sequence and then generate the gaps, and then r…

Why do they need a deep learning model for this? They are obviously targeting signs, product names, menus and similar. Model will obviously fail in translating large texts. Was the…

http://musicbrainz.org/ already has this data available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW39Mt5kscQ Another interesting alternative. Prettier than QR and IMO meshtag.

There's also a compiler for Haskell to JavaScript called GHCJS[0]. Many of Haskell libraries can be compiled easily. I think someone compiled Pandoc directly to JS and made a web i…

This doesn't seem to solve the puzzle. As much as DSL processing part is done, the whole point of the puzzle was to make the operations sublinear in time complexity.

Any generative model can be used to generate a follow up chord. Of course, you need to learn it on a significant amount of data. There has been some generative modelling of CNNs bu…

I'm really interested to see how the author will turn Cover Trees into a generic inference algorithm for bunch of models in HLearn library.

Why are archaeologists concluding that this was used for religious purposes? Why is religion always the central theme in those old findings?

The Age of Decadence.

I did chuckle as it reminded me of the "curing cancer" talk Gavin Belson gives in the Silicon Valley series :D

Fundamentally, I guess the difference is that one is type-safe, and the other isn't. You can get compile time errors instead of runtime for bunch of things.

Sampling should at most take linear time in the number of pixels (ignoring the edge detection). Even less if edge detection result is represented as a sparse array.

Microsoft case has nothing to do with this - even the market share numbers (that are obviously way smaller in case of Apple) do not influence the absence of lawsuits. Apple produce…

I think I saw a talk, or a statement somewhere, made by Rich Hickey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342718 . I believe it was in this talk. Not that I was being negative ab…

It improves the performance by fusing some of the operations doing them in one pass instead of multiple passes, and it does so generically - operations are composed regardless of t…

This is only slightly complicated if you're writing your own transducer operation. What is interesting is that these transducing operations can be written quite generically - code …

Large dictionaries (set of words) can compactly be represented with tries. For words with similar prefixes and suffixes directed acyclic word graph is a much better option (reuses …

Interesting, so much corn being used to feed animals, so little for humans. A gigantic energy loss trying to raise an animal first, then meat. It's good to see that efficiency of p…

There's a lovely book called The Limits to Growth published in 1972, through the years authors have updated their book and their models (there's more than 20). It turned out that b…