CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lol, it's not so good at multiple faces, is it? Still, bravo.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a picture of Jimmy Carter meeting Vladimir Lenin on the ISS.

[–] CanadaPlus -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (20 children)

Third options?

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, subbed.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why doesn't it say fediverse? Even in scare quotes. I don't think they would actually do it, but I'm imagining a nightmare scenario where they try launching their own platform.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago

Realistically it would be, they're not about to cut 99%+ of users off from their announcements.

Hell, for really important stuff they still go with snail mail.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, what glamour! /s

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For your vector issue, I’d go the route of some static examples if possible. Do you have a way to manually work out the answer that your code is trying to achieve?

Not necessarily. In this scenario I'd imagine it's a series of numbers as opposed to something more human-friendly exactly because there's internal complexity that's important but hard to manually survey, let alone generate. If you've worked with GANs at all, maybe it's a point in a latent space.

For side effects, that may indicate what I referred to as tightly coupled code. Could you give an example of what you mean by “side effect”?

I mean it in the standard functional language way, if you're familiar. There's an operation that happens at some step of an algorithm, and it changes a data structure which is referred to or updated at another step. Sometimes you can't really avoid it, because the problem itself has an interconnection like that.

A sorting algorithm example, if that doesn't make this too complicated.

Concurrency it's pretty much guaranteed to do it, so let's say we're trying to implement some sort of bespoke sorting algorithm, where each compare is large and complex enough we have bugs, and which runs in multiple threads.

If threads are interfering with each other in this program, how do you test for that? The whole thing won't give expected results, obviously, but another unsorted array or a failure to terminate doesn't tell you much. Each compare and each swap might look correct at first, and give properly typed results. Let's assume that each thread might traverse to anywhere in the array, so you can't just check when they're overlapping.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder if they might actually allow immigrants, while the birth rate other places is still higher. They have less of a reputation for xenophobia than, say, Japan.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago

IIRC the people at the UN said something similar. They gave a few projections, and commented that the low ones seem most likely and might still be too liberal.

Brave New World baby factories when?

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

It's before they realised that people read Engish left-to-right, and the punchline is best at the end, I guess.

Suggested explanation: Women in educated professions often need their hair out of the way, and not just theoretically. Life sciences being a mostly-female and particularly pus-splattered example.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, I've got to watch that sometime. It's been famously underrated for so long it almost counts as hype.

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