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by arstin 10y ago
Atomic is has been my choice for a long time now and they keep making it better. It's best used as the UI flow tool, complemented with something like Pixelmator and Sketch for asset creation and visual detail work. If I have to show ot
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I like the analogy, but I'm not sure how you intended it since I think it can reasonably make different points. It can surely help if an architect knows about material and construction (see, for example, the work of Christopher Alexand
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Perhaps if you already have tools, a work area, and decent skills you could do this. But speaking as a beginner who had a similar idea not long ago, I realized a workbench required a level of skill I would be unable to achieve without more
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Agreed that it's about priorities. I'm from a poor state that went to Trump in a landslide. I personally know many people who voted for him. Most were somewhat embarrassed by it. They were ones who lied to or ignored pollsters, wh
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Yep! The assertion that Turing was setting a "single target for AI research" in the way you're using the phrase was clearly not what he was doing or, I hope, what I said. My intent was the opposite: to draw attention the mass
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If you take the goalposts to have been set by Turing's 1950 "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", the only people moving them are researchers who want to trump up their own work or marketers who want to sell things. My own
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Oh man you're right aren't you! I just might start doing that!
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by arstin 10y ago
I personally agree with this in the big scheme of things. Computed attribute names seem overkill and I worry about adding logic to JSX. But, honestly, I could care less if they were added if such features get other people all fired up. My p
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by arstin 10y ago
"it does not help for fast prototyping or small apps imo" I can understand this sentiment---React really is meant for serious apps. There is a decent learning curve. There is small overhead. And though it now only requires just a
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I'm a product designer so work at a pretty high level and have no use at all for knowing how to implement different sorting algorithms or data structures. Nor am I sure how acquiring this skill would help me at all in the development I
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Wikipedia entries on philosophy are uniformly bad. Unfortunately I've never read a phil sci introduction that I liked, but if you're interested here is a sampling of notable phil sci books that occurred to me now. Note that many p
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Paglia considers herself "a transgender being" and supports the right for everyone "to modify their body at will" ( http://bit.ly/1rFwGRx ). She also claims to have struggled with gender identity her whole
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Well, I really don't feel like working at the moment so I'll bite! The article, of course, doesn't just give an opinion. It tells an historical story---partly from her own experience as a social justice activist---and makes a
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by arstin 10y ago
One point in defense of books is that by having you focus your attention for an extended period of time, they can unfold an interesting and coherent perspective on their topic. Of course this only holds for good books and most books---like
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by arstin 10y ago
Thanks for this series! I already got one based on an earlier list (a collection of Knuth's papers). I love reading recommended books lists from interesting, informed people. Especially when, like this one, they include a number of ecc
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Why Technological Innovation Relies on Government Support (about Andy Grove)(theatlantic.com)
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Yea that's a good point about just how much better (and...different) Kripkes work is than that which has been produced by the publish or perish academic system in philosophy. As far as I can tell it's been utterly counter-producti
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I enjoy reading Kripke and agree he's done solid work. But I must admit I don't get the "Great Philosopher" thing. He did great work in mathematics as a teenager then basically just applied that model root and branch to
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Some readers here might be interested in the nice blog he kept last year. http://putnamphil.blogspot.com/?m=1
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Sort of a tangent from the thread: I get the point about "good enough" at the moment, but I wonder if car AI really does need to perform much safer than any human driver before truly autonomous vehicles should be allowed to see
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by arstin 11y ago
I also recommend Headspace! Certainly do the free content, and I think it's worth paying for a while longer. You don't pay to learn facts or techniques...get those from books...you pay to be given structure in real-time---the whis
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I only tried Parse for one prototype two years back, but I take it I'm the target audience. Your point is probably valid if you identify as a backend web dev, but different people have different priorities. I'm personally a produc
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I would add Ruth Millikan's work. "Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories" is her masterpiece, but way out of depth for a beginner ("out of depth" in philosophy meaning most people are likely to be bored
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Starting in philosophy is hard because it takes a lot of immersion to begin getting a sense for what people are even talking about. Most fields are like that, but philosophy is notable since it often uses normal words in (many different) te
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You might check out stuff from John Haugeland, who coined "GOFAI" back in the 80s. Here's a nice essay I quickly found online (that's sort of indirectly about AI) for example: http://philosophy.uchicago.edu&#x
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It's not an exact comparison, but this is in the ballpark. https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-shuffle
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This is a great essay. And obviously pertinent!
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Stop the Robot Apocalypse (review of Doing Good Better)(lrb.co.uk)
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If Thrun is right about AI "outsmarting people in every dimension", how in the world could more entertaining job training videos organized into "nanodegrees" help us at all? I know this article was just a free ad for Uda
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by arstin 11y ago
More or less IMO. React+Redux is a solid default choice for any UI. That said, I can't speak about Angular 2, but Ember has been integrating a lot of the good ideas from React with a focus on longer-term support and everything-just-wor

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