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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Oh, just type C-h t and a very simple tutorial will get you going.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
for sure the issue of dynamic scope is important. I often wonder how even more successful emacs would have become had Guile worked out.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I'm really confused by this. Lisp has hardly any syntax at all, it's just lists.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Great resolution, but I'm surprised by this. Type C-h i in most emacsen and you should see a great elisp tutorial as well as the full elisp manual. All you need is the space bar to read it.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
"The versioning system in couchdb is only there.." CouchDB does not version, period.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
"That may be true of a couple of the others, but for some (like CouchDB) it isn't a design goal at all." actually it is, you might take a peek at BigCouch[1], it puts the C in CouchDB. [1] https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I certainly agree that both groups have bridged the gap. Haskell is one of the best tools available when you absolutely have to get programs correct. Companies like Galois[1] for example are big Haskell users. I think it's very practical. H
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
sort of, I work in description logics, they are used to build medical terminologies. NCI has used them over the years in cancer genomics. A good amount has rubbed off just hanging out with these folks but recently I've become keen to learn
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I see, well I'll certainly take your word for it. I really need to read more of this literature as I've been working with these folks quite a bit, and hardly know the difference between a gene and a protein.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Well as a programmer I won't dispute your assertion, but what I heard at a keynote from a very prestigious scientist is that we will actually start targeting the patient, not just the specific cancer. He cited some examples where certain kn
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Well I can empathize with the author. I too feel almost everything of importance that I've ever accomplished intellectually or mathematically, however modest, emerged as the result of intense collaboration with colleagues, complete with rig
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Having just spent 3 days at an annual NCI meeting this article sort of made sense to me. What's fascinating is that the state of the art is moving so fast in this field that many are predicting within a few years we'll be able to deliver in
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Thanks for saying this. I think it's best to compare this kind of freedom to freedoms we get from our constitution. You can't deny others those freedoms.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Do you have any numbers to support this assertion?
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing Vaughan Pratt has an excellent paper explaining all this mindy/body dualism using Chu spaces[1]. When I was reading linear logic I found it a pleasant diversion [1] http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/r
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Well I never understood the phrase "normal people", that's sort of like "the real world", but given that "most people"(choose your study and scary high percentage) can't identify which century the civil was fought it and believe the preside
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
Well I would have to respectfully disagree. They are calling it what it is. I appreciate the simple and direct language.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
That sounds correct, but also embeddable and callable from C. It's unfortunate it didn't succeed in replacing elisp. Emacs would be even more awesome than it is today. I'd love to see the same thing done with Clojure and Go.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
If I recall correctly this was one of the goals of Guile, which is essentially Scheme, arguably cleaner than common lisp.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
The best way to reduce the amount of email you get is to reduce the amount you send. Works like a charm.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
What I don't understand is why all the idiots who haven't learned statistics yet are still alive. Wasn't Mr. Zed Shaw going to kill them all?
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
sorry but these prices are way out of line. It's a monthly and with all due respect, I've read a couple issues, it doesn't compare to something like Harpers which if I recall is about 17/yr. for high quality print and incredible content.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I think the state department does, or did at one point
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
I think there are other motivations involved here. Much of what's called open source these days has commercial aspirations. Often a lot of source code is developed and then published when it's quite far along, after the sheer volume of it p
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
there's also one of my favorites, Swinger, http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/ which is like powerpoint except it's free and it works. It's great for pitching to folks
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
interesting, I actually like it. The syntax took some getting used to but I find with functional languages I think more and write a lot less and spend a lot less time debugging. I found Armstrong's book useful also, as well as the tutorial
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
couch hits a number of sweet spots. Documents can have attachments so you can build a complete application out of html,css, and javascript and have the entire app reside in a couch database. Coupled with P2P replication this make for some i
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CouchDB 1.0(couch.io)
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
excellent points about the failures of SQL as a declarative language and optimizers in general. I'm sure that's part of the reason there is so much crappy SQL out there.
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by bitdiddle 16y ago
"God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man." -- Kronecker[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preintuitionism

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