benkant

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by benkant 14y ago
> Perhaps a mathematical model of computation might help, of computable functions and Kolomogorov/Solomonoff program length to compute them. Using this model, the search space of functions increases exponentially with program length - b
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by benkant 14y ago
Make sure you give RocketPants a look: https://github.com/filtersquad/rocket_pants
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by benkant 14y ago
Ah, finally. I found that site a while ago, didn't bookmark it and couldn't find it again. Thanks. Any others that are similar?
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by benkant 14y ago
> Do you have plans to incorporate recurring charges as well? Yep.
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by benkant 14y ago
K&R is the bible. It's short and sweet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
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by benkant 14y ago
Statistics and probability don't directly relate to anything in TADM from what I can recall. There's not much to the maths beyond high school stuff. Some discrete maths will help though. Graphs theory, trees and functions especially. Schaum
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by benkant 14y ago
Stay in school, it's not much time in the scheme of things.
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by benkant 15y ago
> People could care less I love to be that guy, and I think you mean "couldn't care less".
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by benkant 15y ago
Interesting. Which department/group are you doing this in? It doesn't seem like the type of PhD you'd usually do in CS.
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by benkant 15y ago
s/programmer/web developer And even then it's a stretch.
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by benkant 15y ago
I currently recommend "Python the Hard Way". I learnt using the MicroSoft BASIC manual that was around circa 1986 and I turned out ok.
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by benkant 15y ago
There's a decent collection of resources at Google Code University: http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html
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by benkant 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I figured there was some sort of visa concession as a result of the FTA but didn't know what it was. You made my day.
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by benkant 15y ago
Savitch's Absolute Java is reasonable, if a bit expensive. I found it a tad verbose and slow, but there's many worse. There's a joke in there somewhere.
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by benkant 16y ago
The motherboard was inside with the fan sticking out a hole I cut in the top. The PSU and disks were sitting naked on top.
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by benkant 16y ago
Yes, it happens. Though I'm probably not the best example- I can't say I ever really had much use for shiny. For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and what
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by benkant 16y ago
I just sent something to them regarding this as a student. I planned on using github this semester but I'm worried about having my code copied. I'm assuming they provide private repos for students? I'm not sure how successful I'd be getting
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by benkant 16y ago
> The source would be great for the people looking for evidence of who wrote it and what their intentions were, but that is about it. I think that's more the point than attempting to use it, which like you say, is not really feasible or
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by benkant 16y ago
You probably should have asked that question rather than the one you did.
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by benkant 16y ago
Why do you say that?
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by benkant 16y ago
I just finished The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov which is a similarly sobering take on the effects of social media and technology in general on authoritarian governments. I can't summarise it anywhere as well as this link can: http://www
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by benkant 16y ago
At a guess I'd say that's what happens when you click 'more' on a page that's too old for 'more' to mean anything in that context.
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by benkant 16y ago
Off-topic but why do you have a donate link on your site that goes to PayPal? What are you offering?
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by benkant 16y ago
It's "The Mythical Man-Month". Which makes sense given the content of the book.
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by benkant 16y ago
My problem is not a dearth of maths books, it's a dearth in effort of reading the ones I have.
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by benkant 16y ago
Definitely. Down here in Australia, even before the mining industry boom, there was always a shortage of GIS developers. I did ArcGIS development for a few years, and some other ESRI development before ArcGIS was a twinkle in MapObjects and
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by benkant 16y ago
I read this wondering why it's news. I'm certain this has been done numerous times before. Unfortunately I don't have any links to back that up.
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by benkant 16y ago
That'd be... because he's a vagrant.
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by benkant 16y ago
It's in both the book and the movie. I watch the movie often.
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by benkant 16y ago
+1 for Screenflick. It's great.

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