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by aisofteng 10y ago
Generally you get put in jail for committing crimes. How about we try to fix the reasons leading to people committing those crimes instead? Why is it so outlandish to suggest that people shouldn't commit crime in the first place? You b
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by aisofteng 10y ago
It is my personal experience that bad science persists not only because it is rewarded but also because a large portion of scientists just don't do good work.
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by aisofteng 10y ago
As someone with a graduate degree in mathematics, I not only find the result with blind people unsurprising but also doubt the veracity of the results with sighted people. Let me elaborate. Pure mathematics, at a high level, seeks for forma
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by aisofteng 10y ago
This is an excellent question, and an unanswered one. I want to add that functional areas of the brain are not 100% consistent and in fact vary not only by handedness but also by enough that a neurosurgeon cannot confidently operate on a sp
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by aisofteng 10y ago
>the cortex implements some kind of general purpose algorithm That algorithm is really just the laws of physics being followed in a very, very complex system. Not to be overly pedantic, but when you say "some sort of general algorit
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by aisofteng 10y ago
While I understand where you're coming from, I expect that if you've had to manage application deployment and configuration in a large-scale environment you would be quite aware of how much work it is to develop even a one-off rob
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by aisofteng 10y ago
I feel it's pretty clear that the purpose of this article is to illustrate this general methodology using these tools and is not "how to deploy a Flask app." The nature of the app itself is largely inconsequential to what is
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The Humble Programmer (1972)(cs.utexas.edu)
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My interpretation of the significance of the study this article is about was that it is a very longitudinal study, demonstrating the patterns you mention across thousands of languages. Anecdotally speaking as a multilingual person, I'v
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by aisofteng 10y ago
I agree and want to corroborate from another point of view, speaking as someone that's hired at and been a technical lead at multiple organizations: it's very hard to find actual talent, and paying a higher salary for one actually
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by aisofteng 10y ago
Tangentially related, in the sense of inspiring imagination - this summer I was in Switzerland and looked up Wiki articles on where I was visiting, and came across this Tolkien-related tidbit: >J. R. R. Tolkien hiked from Interlaken to t
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by aisofteng 10y ago
Could you speak a bit of the use cases you've found this to be a better tool than competing alternatives, whatever they may be, if you're able to?
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by aisofteng 10y ago
>Why an external program and not something in PG/SQL or at least a PG extension. I have no association with the linked project, but here are some reasons why I might take the same approach: 1. Source control. Code at the level of PG