Dn_Ab

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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
We would also be able to receive messages from distant species before they sent them.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Well the concept of observation and causality would be broken/meaningless because this would imply an infinite speed of light. Hence there would be no limit to the speed with which information could be transmitted. We would have much more i
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Prolog is another that passes. The Pure language - interpreted but not compiled - should count. Compile time self modification is still there though. In terms of macros for code generation, syntactic extensibility, runtime+compile time refl
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
According to [1] tuition was $150 in 1900. According to [2] average annual wage was $450. Assuming women in the work place was a lot less common I will bump it to $500. So about 30% of household income? Harvard costs $34,976 in 2010. Accord
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I don't know prolog but it seems to operate on relations and not functions. So my guess it that you are right and it is not a functional language.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
That is like saying a racecar tuned for closed tracks is more impressive than a general purpose modern car because its faster. Both leverage the same principles and similar components but with different focuses and optimize for different re
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I am self taught with no degree :( and think that the key is in being curious and exploring. A constant pressure/feeling of greater ignorance also helps drive that. I learned to program cause I wanted to make games so from there I picked up
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Sadly I can attest to this. Disparaged by every society western, eastern and I strongly suspect even Africans themselves.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It only makes sense to have experts on topics that are clearly objectively and experimentally verifiable. Otherwise there is no way to identify truth and we abuse statistics to go in circles - this would be okay except it has the conseque
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I am not arguing with you since I agree. I am just saying you are going after the extreme and ignoring the much more useful and mundane aspects to non-verbal communication. All I am saying is that there are non-verbal components when two or
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I agree with you except on the point of body language. It doesn't have to be mind reading, neuro-linguistic programming magic. Simple things like paying attention to tone and volume, position of limbs and posture, eye movement and facial e
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
You would be surprised to find out how interesting it is to read a long discussion [1] on the physics of the ideal bed. And how hard the physics is considering how obvious the answer seems at first. Essentially distribution of force and res
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It's common in statically typed functional languages and an old notation. I believe a key motivation is the analogy between a Set and a Type. Then saying x : Int is like similar to saying x ∈ Z, x is an element of the integers.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I noticed the possibility of that semantic ambiguity, that is why I switched to noting static/dynamic typing instead of retaining your distinction on compiled/intepretated.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
>I'm not sure I understand you. You can't just start typing and getting instant feedback in Java simply because Java is not interpreted (well, actually, it is, but you have to compile to bytecode first). So, what you're saying about Ja
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It was not so much a rejection but a point he was making. He was not saying that why is invalid. rather, that without a certain context why is not meaningfully answerable for any thing that is outside your domain of regular experience (reme
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Minimizing the effect of embarrassment on your psyche reduces a lot of friction in life.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The article title is a bit misleading. It looks like they done a blind search on foods the children ate and by process of elimination found foods whose removal caused the reduction of ADHD like symptoms from 64% of kids in their sample. The
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
First, I am not against nuclear and hope the fallout from this incident isn't used as fuel for damaging propaganda. But this >Solar? Workable on small scale, physically impossible to provide the majority of humanity's energy needs. is
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I was arguing your assertion that maths is not creative, even in the basic level. I completely agree that non uniform pacing is a really great breakthrough and do not argue the efficacy of these videos. Nor their impact on the future of edu
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I disagree with you assertion on creativity in maths. Maths allows creativity and is very open ended. You can do things that are not required but are creative - leveraging identities and properties to vastly simplify a problem, reframing th
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Yes I'm talking about being able to stop early for one example. Or if the thing you are dealing with is not actually a sequence for another.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Java's younger cousin C# also has this with Select, Where and Aggregate. But sometimes the foreach and even the for loop actually makes more sense, in particular when dealing with very imperative algorithms or are not acting over a (full) s
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I feel this post is more an argument for first class functions than closures. It is true that much of the usefulness of first class functions is lost without closures, so having useful first class function almost necessitates (though does n
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Wow I could actually read the emotions on the guy's face and it didn't feel too uncanny to me at least. But calling this real-time I think is stretching things a bit, even if its using the game engine and not prerendered. The demo and asset
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I mean no offence but I think the term you are looking for is raytracing not raycasting. Raycasting is kind of a stilted version of raytracing and was used in Wolfenstein3D and those old 3D games from the DOS days.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
That first example could do with some monadic sugar - similar to how F# does Async. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/02/15/async-and-p...
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The article is actually quite forthright. Singhal implies that the core of this uses some form of machine learning. Looks like a binary good-bad classifier that can give confidence or a probability in its predictions. Negative ratings have
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Even if not everyone starts at the same point that doesn't mean they will continue to stay ahead. People operate under the assumption of a constant veclocity in development. And that development is non-inertial (in the physics sense). The r
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Not a given. This will depend on how directed your training was and how good Lebron James was at 12 and how long he had been playing at that point. Getting good at something is like any other type of optimization, getting that final bit of

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