DalekBaldwin

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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
Funny, as of 5-10 years ago, I heard they refuse to entertain anybody affiliated with Caltech due to repeated trolling incidents. I guess you didn't cut him off soon enough.
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
It was largely designed by Bret Victor while he was an undergraduate. It had its own operating system! You can find the documentation here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080229205618/http://www.cs.cal...
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
"You always need more bits of axioms than of program if you want to prove theorems about your programs." Fascinating. Is that a quote? I've never seen it stated that way. I think something about it just clicked for me.
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
I found it rather peculiar that someone started spray-painting over one of his freshly painted works and was wrestled to the ground because of it. [1] If Banksy's work is meant to raise the question of who in our society gets to determ
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
One feature I've added to my own generative testing tool [1] to mitigate this problem is to save the random value that made the test fail and add it to a set of deterministic test cases that always need to pass before the tool will try
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A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar(lindzey.github.io)
79 points by DalekBaldwin 11y ago|16 comments
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A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar(lindzey.github.io)
2 points by DalekBaldwin 11y ago|0 comments
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
Any non-market action will distort market forces. What he means is that the EITC is a softer kind of distortion. Since the EITC is essentially a matching contribution to the employee's earnings, it still allows decisions about wages to
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
I've taken courses in quantum mechanics and quantum computing, and I put in the effort to try and actually develop some intuition as to how they work, but I still don't have the slightest clue as to how you could build the actual
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
Who's the contact for these positions? Your jobs page doesn't list anything in the LA area.
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
AOP also encompasses techniques you can't find in CLOS/MOP. The analogues to before/after/around methods are the easiest concepts to implement and reason about, so those are what popular language extensions tend to empha
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
I wonder if the scales would tilt more in favor of separate images if you added a good tree-shaking step. You can bang out useful scripts pretty fast by pulling in a few helper functions from large libraries, but the more scripts share a li
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Doesn't matter. The rules for parking spaces in LA are usually complicated enough that you have to stop to read them anyway.
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
The specific problem is that it's buggy. But the general problem is that it's a massive, fragile hematoma of duplication [ctrl-f "hematoma": http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/efg/517/f00/syllabus
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
The macroexpansion hook isn't nearly as powerful or useful as it could be because the process of macroexpansion is not recursive. Although expansion functions can access information about the lexical environment via an &environment
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Looks like there's some truth to the belief that a photograph steals its subject's soul.
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
The original nonprofit software license isn't suitable for distributing the code through Quicklisp, but I thought I'd put this here for everybody who's wanted to work through the book before and has run into snags. Enjoy!
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Show HN: A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”(github.com)
93 points by DalekBaldwin 12y ago|2 comments
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Your proposed test for bias would be reasonable for a traditional school, but although the linked post focuses on how Hacker School has fared in regard to gender diversity, Hacker School stands out more for its diversity of programming skil
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
> Sadly, one of the biggest hurdles is self preservation because software developers don't want "software development accessible to the widest part of our society". I hate to say it, but there are Luddites among us. It&#x2
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Pascal Costanza exemplifies a lot of what I love about Lisp. It's interesting to note that not too long before this was written, he was highly opinionated about the language in a very different way: > I have participated in one of t
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
We should all just commit to believing that Box A's label actually says "Devote your life to helping create Roko's Basilisk... who will arrive in the form of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man".
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Going further: what if this was broad exploratory study, not meant to test any specific hypothesis? What if they rated posts based on thousands of features, a parameter space large enough to guarantee they would find plenty of correlations
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
I can't find any copies of these papers that aren't behind a paywall. Is there any record of what the visualizations looked like?
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Agreed, I've been thinking too much in code, not enough in English.
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Especially for programming, the tools have to be narrowly tailored to the examples since you're constantly wrestling with the specter of Turing-completeness. Any given program is an instance of an infinite number of more general classe
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by DalekBaldwin 12y ago
Another depression-oriented game. Well, thanks to parallelization, I got to make love during work hours, so I must say my life wasn't all bad.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Honestly, aside from learning to express a few extremely specific patterns in your language of choice concisely and elegantly and reminding yourself of the existence of certain libraries and utility functions so you don't accidentally
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Are you in British Columbia? http://dailyxtra.com/vancouver/news/bcs-new-law-erases-line-... > The qualifications for a common-law relationship, Dahl says, are much lower than they once were. To have a “marriag
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
I'd say it is in fact a familiar abstraction (as the "You Could Have Invented Monads" article shows) that's presented in an unfamiliar way with unfamiliar syntax. Taking something you already understand intuitively and l

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