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by caffeine 17y ago
For programmers wishing to learn to do applied math: I'm very sorry to tell you, the solution is obvious and you've thought of it already: hard graft. Pick a project, work at it, read text books and watch video lectures as you come across
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by caffeine 17y ago
> In other words, that 'whoosh' sound you hear is the point of the whole thing going over your head. That's completely unnecessary and not at all in the spirit of HN. > How is that message in bad taste? What about "I'm a really wi
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by caffeine 17y ago
Sadly, most of the statistics community continues to ignore your pithy lesson, to the great distress of all involved.
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by caffeine 17y ago
He should move back to the U.S. for a while. I bet he lasts two weeks before he's screaming for Chokukuro.
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by caffeine 17y ago
My version would be slightly bigger-picture (some are the same as yours, though): - Functional design is about breaking a problem up into a series of transformations (functions) on data, rather than modelling object states and behaviors. -
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by caffeine 17y ago
I'm curious: what about the JVM?
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by caffeine 17y ago
Could you point to frameworks you consider superior or more promising? I'd be interested..
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China's Cyber Activities that Target the US(uscc.gov)
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by caffeine 17y ago
They are handling this one well ... but try not to give them too much credit. After all, they did just manage to release a literal ripoff of a competitor's site under the MS brand name. Judging by the gushing applause for their apology
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by caffeine 17y ago
Nope. MS is responsible, period. People seem to be amputating MS China from MS as a whole, as if somehow MS were screwed by the Chinese or something. It doesn't work that way. It's like if I murdered someone and then got away by saying "
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by caffeine 17y ago
There's a quote somewhere about every sufficiently complicated program, and every sufficiently developed language, eventually trying to badly replicate Lisp.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I did as well. Savory.
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by caffeine 17y ago
> It doesn't take 10,000 hours to become a master striker in football Wrong. 25 hrs / week * 50 weeks / year = 1250 hours. So 8 years of football = 10k hours. Most pro strikers have been playing since they were 8y/o; by 16y/o, they h
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by caffeine 17y ago
This is really, really cool. And this is obviously how they powered Rama.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Your major doesn't really have much to do with your job. The CS you learn in school doesn't really make you a good programmer anyway...
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by caffeine 17y ago
The only tip is: do it on paper first, with the exact setup, lag times, etc. that you're going to have when doing it live. Do it for a while . And realize that this is a fanciful pursuit which is likely to lose you money, because the guy
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by caffeine 17y ago
Also a GNU screen implementation would be nice. ^A-D during certain interminable lectures, particularly.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Please search HN for this topic. I've probably answered it 10 times here at least, and other have answered it even more.
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by caffeine 17y ago
The problem is that there are two bottom boxes and both of them are empty. So it looks like they're asking 8+3=11, 10+?=?. They should've formatted it like 8+3=11=10+? Then it'd be clear we have 11=10+?, 1 equ. & 1 unknown, BAM! solv
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by caffeine 17y ago
maybe the act of doing boring work teaches a useful life skill Yes - it teaches passive compliance. But this life skill is more useful to those assigning the drudgery than to those doing it.
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by caffeine 17y ago
If you're contacting people about this (and you should), try to do some reading beforehand. In particular this bit: I've always wanted to work with new biological technologies, for example figuring out what genes do, or how proteins fold,
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by caffeine 17y ago
Go just strikes me as profoundly boring. "Uh, we do lots of C. Yeah, and lots of Python. Dude. Let's make a language that's like, uh ... C and Python! Yes! Awesome." In a world where the only thing harder than Haskell is Google's inter
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by caffeine 17y ago
Here's the UK situation with bags: The Waitrose near me has makes a half-assed effort, whereby no matter how much stuff you have (literally, a heaped shopping cart), the lady will look at you and ask "Do you need a bag?" The idea is that i
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by caffeine 17y ago
Every year you learn more and put yourself in a better position ... to die, eventually. If his 20s suck, something crazy has to happen at some point for his 30s to start to rock all of a sudden. If his 20s had rocked, all he'd have to do
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by caffeine 17y ago
Only if your self-esteem is tied to your wealth. That would be a shame.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I just had to accept that my self-identity needs to change You're a brave guy, that takes guts.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I'm really interested in this. How do you deal with stopping doing something you're half way to getting good at (c.f. it takes 10 years to get good at anything)? - Are you just a freakish genius, - or do you not consider the feeling of mas
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by caffeine 17y ago
I am utterly unhappy with my life. How is that not pain?
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by caffeine 17y ago
That's probably true for average joes You mean the correlates? Yes, you're right. But it probably helps the 2-sigma people too. More importantly, it's immediate, and depends on nobody else's aid or acquiescence. Personally, I get 70%
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by caffeine 17y ago
Here's a summary of your summary: Algorithms are cool. Traditional mathematics isn't enough for modern science; in the future there'll be lots of simulations and computer models -- algorithms. But we know how to reason with mathematical fo

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