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The problem with this is that it will not actually parse double in IEEE 754, as you will accumulate inaccuracies at every step of the loop. In theory, when parsing a float, you are…

I recently actually tried to do a very similar thing, although a bit tighter in scope. What stopped me what that actually deserializing floating points cannot currently be done at …

I mean, surely if you are doing something that requires this level of precision, you could just ask the user to input its current known location? I doubt that even if the user misd…

Also, in case anyone is interested, the uninformative Jeffreys prior for this in Bayesian statistics (meaning it does not assume anything and is invariant to certain transformation…

There is a Vim plugin called EasyMotion, which I absolutely love, which when invoked creates a simple 1 or 2-key "checkpoint" at the start of every word on your screen, and super i…

> No, not necessarily. Several studies have shown that different people can get different amounts of energy out of the same food, depending amongst others on their gut micro biome,…

Hasn't your bet already been beat in concept by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r ? He is a chess teacher who decided to train his daughters in chess from …

I thought about this for a bit, and I have a feeling that as long as everything is touching the ground, then making covering loops is impossible, and so there exist a simple orderi…

We document that the ban on dumping dioxins in rivers has induced the exit of a number of chemical plants; and following implementation entry of dangerous chemical handling facilit…

I'm not sure I understand why dynamic programming wouldn't work (and the author explicitly mentioned Knuth). Tex's main job is literally doing line breaks, which is the exact same …

Hi, I'm the author of a C++ library focused on tabular bandits, mdps and pomdps. It's called AI-Toolbox, and it's one of the largest non NN libraries out there. The library is full…

When you look at something like Borat's swimming suit, it is ridiculed specifically because it is sexualized. However, for men that swimming suit generally results in a negative se…

> So leave. This is like being unwillingly thrust on the top antenna of a skyscraper, barely hanging on, and you saying "Don't like it here? Then jump."

Nice work! I maintain a library, cpp-readline [1], with a very similar API. The main difference is that relegates the REPL part to GNU readline. You do have the additional dependen…

> you are your job I'm sorry to say this, but this is one of the saddest things a person can say in my opinion. You can definitely become your job, but I can't see myself ever want…

Not an English native as well, but in my language it works in the same way. "My" is used to designate possession of the set, not of the individuals. I don't own "my friends" as a s…

What I realized after many long discussions with my friends is that the largest discrepancies in opinions often originate from a simple different assumption. The difficult part is …

Every time there is a post like this I go check the license of the original project. Invariably, it is MIT. I think this is probably indicative of something, although I couldn't sa…

I maintain a repository of many implementations of classical (tabular) RL algorithms [1] which you might enjoy playing with when starting out. I use it for both research and for st…

Are you sure about this? In my tests floating points are always considered partially ordered, not totally ordered. This page [0] even mentions this in the notes towards the bottom.…

This is what I also do. I rebase all my branches and merge them with a no-fast-forward commit, which does not introduce any changes itself, but can be used to document the overall …

Sorry to sidetrack, but I'm also interested in implementing a Tex engine (in another language though). Any suggestions on how to learn how an engine works?

Yes... and no. It is true that after a result is obtained, one could clean up the code for publication. And it is true that coding is not seen add first class at the moment. At the…

I don't really agree with the reasons given, even though my conclusions are the same. The main reason why research code becomes a tangled mess is due to the intrinsic nature of res…

If you are ever interested in the topic of RL, but wish to start learning the concepts on simpler algorithms and keep the "deep" part for later, I maintain a library that has most …