ahalay-mahalay

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   by ahalay-mahalay 26d ago

   I’ve seen people here learn programming languages by building a compiler, but my go-to project is usually the ICFP 2006 contest. It has a well defined scope, it is entertaining, gets you into the advanced concepts pretty fast as you debug a
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   by ahalay-mahalay 1mo ago

   I’m pretty sure that same discourse was seen every mass production epoch, from textiles to electronics. Yet here we are, hand-crafted high quality things are rare and expensive.
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   by ahalay-mahalay 1mo ago

   I’m curious who was across the street from whom, I’m assuming Nitobi was one.
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   by ahalay-mahalay 2mo ago

   Fundamentally, the code can be understood by humans, but the volume of the generated code outpaces human capacity to understand it.
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   by ahalay-mahalay 6mo ago

   If you like this kind of stuff, check out sci-fi books by Peter Watts, at least read the epilogue of the Blindsight book which mentions saccades and other ways the brain can be tricked.
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   by ahalay-mahalay 6mo ago

   What’s interesting about that is that brain doesn’t actually give you much access to the sensor information directly, but gives an interpretation instead. There is a thing called Saccadic Suppression that blocks visual data processing for 5