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by Err_Eek 8y ago
Pet peeve of mine: people who recommend textbooks they haven't fully went through. Going through Aho's Compilers and Norvig's AI takes at least one year (assuming you have a day job). And since the author of the blog post o
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by Err_Eek 8y ago
I don't think that is entirely true -- surely, "hobbies" is a relatively new word, but even in pre-industrial times people had plenty of spare time to waste on stuff like learning songs/poems/card games/etc. No
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by Err_Eek 8y ago
> The Union of Poland and Lithuania was automatically multi-cultural, multi-racial That's seriously stretching the definition of race tho
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by Err_Eek 9y ago
This is really bad. It's a set of loose analogies that tries to borrow from the language of physics in order to justify some intuitions about software in general. On a quick skim there was no solid empirical principle, only a couple of
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by Err_Eek 9y ago
At one point I a friend was mentioning the regex golf https://xkcd.com/1313/ comic and how some insane person on the internet solved it. I mentioned my pains with the regex bit of the Design of Computer Programs course
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by Err_Eek 9y ago
Tried to go through the course a few years ago. In my case it was the regex bit. Trying to write the code is a massive chore with with very little payoff for going through it, and needing to go through the instructions several times in a ro
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by Err_Eek 10y ago
A person working with ML would have to sink in an incredible amount of time to go through all these books. Doubt I know anyone that read more than two of the listed books, even if I use ML on a daily basis.