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by acgan 7y ago
Hi everyone. My name is Adi, and I'm a co-instructor for Stanford's CS43, Functional Programming Paradigms. We are designing our curriculum for the Winter 2020 quarter, so I would be very interested in feedback if people have an
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Show HN: CS43 – Functional Programming Paradigms(github.com)
3 points by acgan 7y ago|1 comments
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by acgan 7y ago
Heavily inspired by SICP, I am co-teaching CS43 during Stanford Winter quarter. Code: https://github.com/stanfordhaskell/cs43 Site: https://stanford-lambda.gitlab.io All of the course materials will be open
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by acgan 7y ago
Thanks! We're currently discussing this with Horace.
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by acgan 7y ago
Yup, this echoes the philosophy at e.g. Tesla. Development speed matters more than performance at first.
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by acgan 7y ago
We really enjoyed editing this piece. Just wanted to doubly highlight a few of Horace's (chillee on HN) resources linked at the bottom: Code: https://github.com/Chillee/pytorch-vs-tensorflow Ablation of claims:
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Incentives for AI practitioners are broken(acgan.sh)
2 points by acgan 7y ago|0 comments
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by acgan 7y ago
That makes sense. I'd hope that Scholar would be different, though. A piece on how a researcher spent a summer filling out CAPTCHAs / scraping: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04190-5
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by acgan 7y ago
Glad to see this important piece here (disclosure: I am one of the editors of The Gradient). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5089308 , from RCIS 2009 (Beel and Gipp) noted that "Google Scholar seems to be more
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Show HN: Fast prime counting algorithms (Euler #543, 120x faster than sieve)
2 points by acgan 7y ago|0 comments
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by acgan 7y ago
One way to think about this is the "barbell strategy" due to Nassim Taleb. Make emails incisive and direct; decks should be contextual and comprehensive.
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by acgan 7y ago
Thanks for sharing! Despite the fact that Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is so accessible, I find that most in our field (stats/ML) don't often think through information-theoretic tools in a &qu
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Entropy can be used to understand systems(acgan.sh)
3 points by acgan 7y ago|2 comments
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by acgan 7y ago
Very cool! Reminds me of https://tldrlegal.com/ and https://fossa.com/ .
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by acgan 7y ago
This was really fun! Here are some thoughts: Most researchers / students I know who are "power-users" of TeX have fairly idiosyncratic editing habits, so it would be nice to support `\newcommands` or eventually editor bindin
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Show HN: Music from Pi's Digits(github.com)
1 points by acgan 12y ago|0 comments