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Looks anomalous, but there are 9 data points in the surge.
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PageRanking species for predicting extinctions(wired.com)
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“Pattern recognition is what you fall back on when you don’t quite understand something…” - I've heard this one applied to neural networks. “Startups rarely die from competitors. They die of SUICIDE .” (stupidity, lack of money, lack of
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by 10ren 17y ago
To paraphrase Lennon: "More disciples than Jesus"
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There's much wisdom in this article, but one counter-point is that motivation often comes after you start. A related idea is that "inspiration strikes he who is at the typewriter" (a writer's saying). But perhaps this counter-point is mor
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There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far
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Self-consciousness lowers competence. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important tha
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by 10ren 17y ago
It takes a foreigner to see ourselves. Which dept/chain stores are you thinking of? Owner's names: David Jones, Myers, Fletcher Jones, Woolworths (==Safeway), Dick Smith, Ken Bruce Corporate names: Just Jean
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by 10ren 17y ago
I noticed that one, too. But I think "winning" would really be if MS bought you and incorporated you into the OS (which it has done with an awful lot of stuff). BTW: there was also one before, that PKZip was based on (actually infringing o
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by 10ren 17y ago
I have a couple of manila folders of stuff I'm working on (5-10 sheets in each). These sit on the floor next to my desk. My desk top is clear (apart from pc, speakers, kb, phone etc).
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by 10ren 17y ago
Notepad2 or Notepad++ or E-TextEditor Just because there are two code editors that have every feature you could possibly imagine (and many many many more) doesn't mean you can't write another one (or three) and be successful. So, next tim
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by 10ren 17y ago
You're right, but his has a more memorable take-home: "We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale." For convincing reason X, we create drama and problems for ourselves unnecessarily. We shouldn't do that. It's silly and childish. The
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It was to do with applying a particular aspect of the theory to a particular problem. I guess the lesson is the old one that theories can't always be usefully applied to every problem in practice, even when the theories are perfectly true
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I found some aspects misleading, when applied to some specific problems. It's not in the reading or understanding (though that can be hard!), but in the applying. But on reflection, this is very often the case with theoretical approaches: t
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by 10ren 17y ago
Edison : a Life of Invention , Paul Israel (terribly dense condensation of a 6 volume biography... but it has all the facts. I don't know if Edison was a "genius", but he had lots of ideas, and he did them. BTW Tesla isn't mentioned at
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by 10ren 17y ago
The table of contents doesn't seem to mention LL(*) grammars, which are used by ANTLR. I think this is the same thing as a "pack rat" parser (which from memory has a very straightforward implementation, but isn't an academic concept). I've
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pronunciation (the red loudspeaker icon) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sprezzatura It's quite hard to pronounce, but the speaker makes it sound easy.
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First problem: vim has already implemented any feature you can imagine, with more refinements and related features than you can imagine. But you have to imagine it before you can find it... Second problem: And even then, you can't find it i
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I hate not solving problems. It's that post-modern trope where the super hero realizes he needs the bad guys for his identity. I also hate not coding.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Yes, exactly right! Have you ever read a book for the n th time, and noticed a typo for the first time? Your point makes me think that Java's boiler-plate + modern IDE's are really onto something. They automatically add the boilerplate for
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by 10ren 17y ago
Nice point that redundancy, despite its readability, doesn't scale; and I agreed that abstractions are the answer, and that this schism creates a market opportunity. This market opportunity is traditionally exploited by creating abstraction
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Nor Australia This channel is not available in your country.
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by 10ren 17y ago
He makes a thought-provoking point about a GOSUB or CALL being a design pattern, that explicitly saves the calling location somewhere and then jumps, and a RETURN , but I disagree with this specific example. In Z-80 assembly, the return
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by 10ren 17y ago
Just a counter-point: in human communication, redundancy is good. There's the saying "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em; tell 'em; tell 'em what you told 'em" and the concepts of "topic sentences" and "signposting" in essays (such as pg'
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by 10ren 17y ago
Are you asking about fp, or programming books in general? One approach I took was to go to the (University) library, and find the section on the programming topic of interest. Then grab a few books, and read a paragraph at random. Then borr
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Some examples from chapter one: the concept of local variables (used but not explained); the conventional meaning of recursion (when they argue that TCO only applies to iteration despite having the form of recursion); and (and IIRC) approac
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by 10ren 17y ago
"I think I've saved $64 million since we started talking," replied Google. Google, being founded and run by Comp Sci PhDs, wants to automate everything. Though they don't publicize it, they are practically an AI company. Unfortunately if th
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Unless it is the beginning of a disruption... they do badly at the start, and improve. Such as lighter, thinner, lower-wattage screens. I note that although laptops could have gotten lighter, there have been a tendency to load them up with
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I also found Armstrong's Erlang book excellent for an intro to functional programming (but it's not particularly advanced). I got the pdf-only version, which is a bit cheaper. The obvious recommendation for fp (functional programming) on HN
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by 10ren 17y ago
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