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mountainreason

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    Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph. Point 22 seems to imply that the other …

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    Comment #46090570

    Yeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible?

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    Comment #46084342

    What would that look like. Is there an implementation of the finite difference method in biology somehow?

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    Comment #36644183

    I dont get this. Just because you don't have the GIL doesnt mean that your previously single threaded code is now multithreaded and stepping on itself.

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    Comment #35293163

    I think the idea with localized access is that reads coming in after the initial commit can hit a nearby db instance, rather than the single global instance. I agree with you about…

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    Comment #34990514

    Even with a transaction, if the processing involves external side effects, e.g. sending and email, the rollback won't matter and you still get at least once.

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    Comment #34197370

    I dont have an answer, I'm just curious about something. I thought that the point of an outbox was that it was local, and could therefore be updated atomically along with any local…

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    Comment #32191770

    Yeah. I know. Why would the data already be sorted?

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    Comment #32188321

    Wouldn't you at least be looking at nlog(n) for the sort in the merge join?