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by auvrw 10y ago
tao's stages of math is relevant https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...
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by auvrw 10y ago
the deps for 1999 consist of request and a date/time lib ... cool. someone else mentioned ghost, and i'm posting mainly to link that project https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost and thank the author b/c i l
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by auvrw 10y ago
i often like dnolen's blog posts for the links as much as the nominal content .. i thought "tools for thought was a dennet ref, but no, http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/ also, i'm now aware of ht
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by auvrw 10y ago
> to a first approximation late reply, but something occurred to me to say more as a (hopefully funny) witticism than an actual talking point: if we approximate usage in terms of a poly sum w/ coeff derivatives wrt time (Taylor seri
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by auvrw 10y ago
maybe i haven't read this thread closely enough ... the parent to this post mentions "lessons of the past" and its parent mentions typed languages, so uh, what lessons are being discussed here? certainty not "the past t
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by auvrw 11y ago
i get that, and i'm probably oversensitive. there is some semi-açcurate analogy to be made w/ the use of racial epithets w/in and outside of racial groups here. playfulness can be fine (to a point) in polite company, but it
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by auvrw 11y ago
> Sleep is really important. so true. remember it's cumulative, too, so you can't miss a bunch of sleep, sleep 8hrs one night and then be alright. >This can happen to anyone, even you. not as concerned a/b this, but i
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by auvrw 11y ago
idk, could imagine wanting computation to run on the client when it's a desktop (to save server cycles) or the server when it's mobile (to save battery)... not a level of optimization i practically run into, but not an unreasonabl
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by auvrw 11y ago
>> JS is a much more powerful language than the normal preprocessors to add to the points in the parent post, i'd add that the word "powerful" is being tossed around w/o much consideration here. GOTO is a "po
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by auvrw 11y ago
reframing the question to "python vs. node" on the server-side, the answer seems very dependent on the use-case. there's not (to my knowledge?) much agreement in the python community about how to compile to javascript, much
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by auvrw 11y ago
in addition to the flask documentation http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/ the snippets page is really helpful http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/ also, I've some boilerplate https:/&#x
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by auvrw 11y ago
really appreciated this b/c I've lately felt bad a/b not "getting it right the first time," and one point here seems to be that that never happens, exactly; that development always involves some amount of evolving a
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by auvrw 11y ago
yep, "Impact Factor" (IF) is the term, and (just to clarify) it encourages but does not force. there are open access journals like PLoS w/ significant IF, albeit not comparable to Nature. since the link below was written, PLo
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by auvrw 11y ago
why Ruby instead of Python? why Java instead of... well, i guess there isn't a language w/ GC and an ecosystem as "mature" as Java. with clojure, which is indeed shiny and new, some people have cake and eat it too: spee
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by auvrw 11y ago
tried to use ember-cli w/o enforcing some certain opinions (e.g. directory structure) on a project and reached out to the community via slack, but it hasn't really taken so far. maybe Goya was a bad choice? someone on the slack u
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by auvrw 11y ago
woah, this would've been much more fun to play than my qbasic space shooter: i did not know about timers, etc. and focused on making graphics out of draw primitives. i wonder, what were others using for documentation? as i recall, i&
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by auvrw 11y ago
check out http://hood.ie for a client-side api backed by couch
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by auvrw 11y ago
idk.. we really haven't had empirical (e.g. molecular biology) data for as long as physical (e.g. position of the planets). and even w/ the position of galaxies or fluid flow, there it's not clear what can and can't be
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by auvrw 11y ago
good point, tho.. i'm really appreciative of lists like this b/c, while i don't use spreadsheets, for instance, a i can immediately see why an "excel imgur" is a seriously good idea. but then doesn't "ope
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by auvrw 11y ago
backbone.marionette, anyone? its maintainers are kicking around incremental-dom ideas..
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by auvrw 11y ago
i really appreciated this writeup.. silly things like 'you're not architecture material', 'you did surprisingly well on the programming test', and being openly berated for not wanting to 'step up' to a no
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by auvrw 11y ago
thanks for the &replies ;-) ... tbh, Go vs. Rust for the, "i wanna write a Docker-thing!" use case was pretty much the question i had in mind. the Rust ppl are looking toward static linking [links]... https://intern
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by auvrw 11y ago
i do wonder what aspects of Go make it good for the container use-case. both Docker and the other container system mentioned at the top of the article are written in Go.
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by auvrw 11y ago
the last sentence is also positive as well as insightful Gradient descent in neural networks may well play a big part in helping to build the components of thinking machines, but it is not, itself, the stuff of thought. statistical techni
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by auvrw 11y ago
which <executable> dpkg -L <package> will find anything that's in program files. i think this is a really good post, though, b/c it demonstrates something that happens when we use engineered things on al
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by auvrw 11y ago
> Nowhere is the categorical view more visible than in Haskell and the author's point when he writes In ... Haskell ... types ... are built in, rather than being defined by universal constructions [+] is indeed that current progr
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by auvrw 11y ago
noooooo!!!! i now understand why some prefer to think Elvis is still alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUK4FMAGc4M&index=4&list=PLJ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOETfTI62A&index=2&amp
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by auvrw 11y ago
heh, Swing is part of the android api now.
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by auvrw 11y ago
modal logic is an equally valid way to get at a lot of the quandaries associated with bayesian ideas. bayes' thm by itself is totally not a "big deal." the idea that every probability has an associated prior, even if it&#x
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by auvrw 11y ago
i also think it's also possible to disagree on some points. moreover, i think a lot of the people that disagree do not have the time to fully research the issue that some people do or the platform to be heard that pg has. finally, i wo

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