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by boothead 11y ago
It's great to read things like this... I wish my GP would do the same. I recently had a really high cholesterol reading (both total cholesterol and LDL). Everything else (blood pressure, blood glucose etc) seems fine. I'm 38, fit
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by boothead 11y ago
Thanks. I've looked at etherium and it's an intriguing idea. How do you think it stacks up vs something like ripple or hyperledger, which are based on the byzantine fault tolerance idea?
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by boothead 11y ago
I've seen a lot of noise that blockchain is going to be a huge disruption for everything recently (yeah I know people have been saying it for a while - I may have been asleep). What would people recommend as the best resource for a) ev
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm a former Marine myself (Royal Marine, not USMC). I never heard explicitly of it during my service, but reaction to events is integral to frontline military ops. The whole point of the commander's intent, and everyone knowing i
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by boothead 11y ago
Commanders already have ample opportunity to micro manage. As Stan McChrystal mentions in his book Team of Teams, he was often watching real time video and had real time comms with troops on the ground carrying out ops. He resisted the desi
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by boothead 11y ago
The amount of time's I've said "No, that's Haskell with an H!". First world problems I guess :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
This looks really useful! Isn't your Transduction the same as doing premap (or lmap from Profunctor)?
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Interactive and composable charts with Haskell(haskellforall.com)
44 points by boothead 11y ago|0 comments
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A neural network in 40 lines of Haskell(www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
5 points by boothead 11y ago|0 comments
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by boothead 11y ago
This is definitely the way I learned Haskell. I spent ages trying to learn by reading and didn't really start making progress until I learned to just write some code and figure it out as I went.
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A lot of websockets in Haskell(blog.wearewizards.io)
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by boothead 11y ago
Fun fact: spread spectrum was invented by a hollywood actress during WWII http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp
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by boothead 11y ago
Clearly rank amateurs to develop a working piece of software from category theory.
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by boothead 11y ago
One of my favourite articles recently was this one by Christopher Olah http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/ . As a haskeller it really helped put things in terms I can understand. I think there's
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm just reading that at the moment. So far it's doing a great job of explaining the concepts in an approachable way.
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by boothead 11y ago
The China Study has been very thoroughly debunked. I think this article is probably the most highly thought of http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...
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by boothead 11y ago
You will almost certainly feel like you're not cut out for programming when you start. Failing is a necessary part of the process, which will make you feel inadequate. My advice would be: don't compare yourself to external measure
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by boothead 11y ago
Correct. I hope they learned some of the lessons from both!
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by boothead 11y ago
And yet GS was the progenator of both Athena and Quartz....
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by boothead 11y ago
There is one (at least) of these systems live based on the original paper by Simon Peyton Jones in a dialect of Haskell. JPM/BAML/GS have fallen down due in large part to their choice of language in my view. A graph database writt
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by boothead 11y ago
Interesting read. I actually used the first Mondex system at Exeter Uni and it worked very well. Never knew why before :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
You can build UIs as a left fold over events, just as you can build backend data processing pipelines. In fact it that is the architecture that makes the most sense to me now. I have a little toy framework here that demos these ideas. htt
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by boothead 11y ago
It's counter intuitive but picking one of these niche technologies means: 1) you'll need less people (better more reusable code) 2) the best people will speak you out. This was very much my experience when I put a Haskell team tog
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by boothead 11y ago
If you're an analytics shop (presumably) working with streams of events, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that not picking a functional language (purescript or elm) is a mistake. It's fits the domain so well, take a loo
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by boothead 11y ago
That is truly amazing! Deren Brown would approve!
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by boothead 11y ago
This is a really great communication hack! It's a pretty poor comment on society at large that you've had to mitigate your communication based purely on how people judge your appearance, but thank you for sharing it.
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by boothead 11y ago
How many of those forgot to lock their computer?
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by boothead 11y ago
This looks really cool! It's also the first thing like this I've seen which includes a nix installation section, double points!!
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by boothead 11y ago
Freeagent also deals quite nicely with VAT, and you can set up for automatic direct debit... In fact I sometimes wonder what I'm paying my accountant > £100/month for :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
Caption reads: "A suffragette defends herself from a policeman's truncheon". Poor choice of words much?

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