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ttesmer

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    > if intelligence is ultimately a function of power input, what is the shape of the curve? According to a quick google search, the human body consumes ~145W of power over 24h (eati…

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    Comment #32883682

    You're absolutely right, it is totally redundant. You could reduce the entire thing even more in size by doing only `D Float Float`, removing the `TypeSynonymInstances` pragma and …

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    As I wrote in the Markdown file, there's also a usable package for Haskell called `ad` on Hackage. It has both forward and backward autodiff and prevents expression swell, among ot…

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    Comment #32881959

    Since the type was made an instance of the Num typeclass, any function that can be used with Num's, can now be used on the type (Dual d). As per the Prelude[1], ^ is part of the Nu…

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    Comment #27809385

    >forced me to learn stuff like: how to manage a monad transformer stack, how to make http requests, how to parse and serialize json, how to write to a database, etc.. I am currentl…