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by aufreak3 17y ago
My original reaction to this was "WTF. There should be a class action suit against Apple by developers along the lines of hindering freedom of speech". ... but then, any compiler that can generate the processor's instructions can obviously
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by aufreak3 17y ago
For comparison, checkout Rodney Brook's robot "Domo" - http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/currentrobots.html
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by aufreak3 17y ago
How does this approach relate to the value of "don't make me think" in design? How "good" is, for example, a digital watch that asks you to enter the time you want to set expressed in base-4 by selecting one button from a set of 4 at a time
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by aufreak3 17y ago
The robot is, true to its species description to date, robotic. It is performing the exact same sequence of operations - almost like first trying to generate a 3D model of the towel (the spin) followed by some cross checks (the twists) and
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Given that its probably a piece of python or java code spitting that out, it shouldn't be too surprising really. If it is C++, hmmm ... maybe they need a better compiler.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
"The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dorner This is a particularly good book that ought to be spread around more.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
"We are worried that we would hit a dead-end and not be able to build what we set out to build." Listen attentively to your intuition. Your "worry" can stop you faster than any statistical or third opinion about whether AI is a hard problem
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The Legion of eXtraordinary Dancers(thelxd.com)
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Hmmm.. I'll see if I can answer this tomorrow :P Heheh .. more seriously sometimes I find my tendency to procrastinate is telling me exactly what I should be putting off. So instead of going "I have this stuff to do and I don't know where t
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by aufreak3 17y ago
For quite a while now, I really did feel that Joel has run out of things to say and stopped reading him. So this comes as no surprise (and no loss). His books are still good reads though. Wisdom is also something that is subject to evolutio
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by aufreak3 17y ago
To clarify, I meant "Don't listen to gurus. Build your own idioms instead."
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by aufreak3 17y ago
<sigh> .. I'd like to say "mu", but here's a bit more. If your project has enough idiosyncrasies to demand C++, then you are best placed to attain guru status in that aspect. So don't listen to gurus and build your own "idioms". T
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by aufreak3 17y ago
There's a kindle reader for iPhone, right? Won't that work on the iPad?
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by aufreak3 17y ago
This is a leisure device, even if iWork is available for it. I was really hoping for something I can use at college, like the ability to load up PDFs, annotate them, search, report, sync, share with classmates, etc. I suppose someone will w
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by aufreak3 17y ago
PLT's "scribble" tool is cool too.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Compared to some of the other frenzied write ups about the coming of the great white tablet, I liked this one. It felt like an honest and intelligent rumination with an undercurrent of anticipation about the device. Good job.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Understanding how a computer works is a somewhat different goal from that of infusing computational thinking. anything command line will seem boring to kids nowadays Not quite. Remote control, for example, will always have its appeal
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Nice link. Instant gratification is central for any environment targeted at kids. That said, Logo's motive was to have a low threshold and no ceiling, whereas CoolBasic's motive seems to be a low threshold, but a fairly low ceiling as well.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Coincidental to this topic, I posted a roughly recollected memory of my first ever encounter with a computer. http://connecting2u.blogspot.com/2009/12/basic-stuff.html
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by aufreak3 17y ago
A very interesting angle indeed. MIT recently switched their SICP based course to a robot-centric course for teaching computer "science". It is certainly more fun to infuse some hardware work into the curriculum. It is much more fun these d
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by aufreak3 17y ago
The answer to the problem of introducing computational thinking to kids surely doesn't lie in a straightforward return to the past. For some notable efforts, see http://scratch.mit.edu/ , http://www.agentsheets.com/ , or the older http:/
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by aufreak3 17y ago
Incredibly happy to see this. This could tip the balance in favour of Haskell as a viable platform for web development, given it is as or better performing than something like Go.
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by aufreak3 17y ago
I suppose the "I don't lie to my kids" gang tells their kids the real truth about how they were born when asked? Give the kids a break. Let them have some fun and holidays. They don't need to grow up on day one, do they? ... further more,
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by aufreak3 17y ago
.. and they can install Ubuntu!
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by aufreak3 17y ago
In many places, it beautifully treads the thin line between humour and wisdom - Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine. When he awoke, he exclaimed: "I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machin