ChristianMarks

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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   My takeaway: Any other problems left? I can't think of any. That's something to discuss on Twitter. Meaning that the remaining problems are trivial misconceptions that can be disposed of within 140 characters.
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   It used to be, "where do you see yourself in five years." I added one year. The understanding is that people will move around. Divide by two to obtain the mean time to burnout.
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   I change jobs. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. The televisions were trashed over a decade ago. My home page is my personal KanbanFlow page, modified to follow Mark Forster's Final System. It almost works. I make sure n
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   One might not get an honest answer to some of them at any stage of an interview. The question on turnover might be directed to the person responsible for four resignations in the space of two months. But it certainly is a good idea to have
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   Many of the companies I have interviewed with would have ended the interview if I had asked them some of these questions. These are terrific questions though. I was once asked by an interviewer where I saw myself in three years. I said, &q
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   It's hopeless to attempt to extract a correction from a journalist on a matter of interpretation and context. It isn't forthcoming, even though in this case the omission of the qualifier 'these', which selects some subse
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   Now anything you say about a controversial topic has to be unambiguous at the level of individual sentences. This has been true in academia for years.
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   Me three. I was beginning to think that I hadn't programmed the systems I actually had.
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   by ChristianMarks 13y ago

   I am a believer in changing my environment to facilitate what willpower is powerless to accomplish. And one of the changes to my environment, which incidentally exhausted my limited reserve of willpower, was the removal of people from it wh
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    5) Get a dog :) ... Oh and she's very good at solving technical issues. Sounds mad, but sometimes just talking about a problem to her makes it work for me (and makes me look less stupid when I have to discuss the problem with work col
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    There is also the slightly less pointless ordersort , which works only on permutations. The complexity of ordersort is given by the Landau function. It is more efficient than bogosort, however. #!/usr/bin/python def
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    I have a soft spot in my head for turdsort , which attempts to optimize over bogosort , but ends up being no better. #!/usr/bin/python from random import shuffle def turdsort(a): def turds(a): n = 0
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Not to mention paralipsis.
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Krugman is somewhat like Bishop Berkeley, no fool, arguing against infinitesimals before they acquired--in the 20th Century--a rigorous basis. The auditability of Bitcoins distinguishes them from the inaccessibility of the highly mathematiz
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    LMGTFY: Anandi Mani1, Sendhil Mullainathan2, Eldar Shafir3, Jiaying Zhao4. Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Science 30 August 2013: Vol. 341 no. 6149 pp. 976-980 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/9
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    "Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent." Research shows that the cognitive load associated with being broke amounts to a loss of one standard deviation in IQ. The mind is focuse
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    I remember calling my bank one day and hearing that not only was my balance over a billion dollars, but I had a "two day float" of several million dollars. I called back to make sure I had the right number. I did--the amounts were
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    I am using the phrase to refer to the distinction between 'discourse about X' and 'X-discourse', rather than the more limited technical sense given to it in the Wikipedia. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the b
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    I make the assumption that censors, fanatics and some persons in positions of authority either have difficulty distinguishing use from mention, or choose not to make the distinction. For example (at the risk of offending certain sensibiliti
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    So much for the use-mention distinction. Filters so far seem unable to maintain it.
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Let the A-players clean their own toilets.
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Programming may be the wrong profession. Ed Witten says he has the greatest job in the world. Now there are sinecures, but I certainly would not admit to having one, now or in the past...
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    The tl;dr is Google Google Goo.
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    The Java Button Demo translated (or transliterated) into Clojure. If this doesn't lead to instant employment, I'll switch to OCaml. (ns buttondemo.core (:gen-class) (:import [javax.swing AbstractButton JButton JPanel J
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Yes, I knew that, but I didn't let that stop me!
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    Yes, of course, that's how the algorithm is derived. I have to say I prefer the "un-de-obfuscated" version, though it wasn't intentionally obfuscated--the code is the way it is in Kaldewaij's derivation from a matr
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    I have yet to persuade a single chemist, earth scientist or environmental scientist to switch from Word to LaTeX. They can be persuaded to use Libre Office, however.
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    The O(log N) algorithm, in Python: def fib(n): a,b,x,y = 0,1,0,1 while n != 0: if n % 2 == 0: a,b = a * a + b * b, 2 * a * b + b * b n = n // 2 else: x,y = a * x + b * y, b * x + a *
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    There is a calculational school of programming in which algorithms are derived from specifications in a presentation of first-order logic adapted to program derivation. It does not seem to be popular on HN. "Programming: the derivatio
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    by ChristianMarks 13y ago

    This sounds familiar: I am but an impoverished writer who barely makes ends meet...