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by caffeine 17y ago
You know me because of code I've written, books I've published, and my contributions here .... I'm in my early 40s, I've worked for start-ups and big companies. I made a little bit of money in the early 2000s which helped pay off a bit of
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by caffeine 17y ago
Which would deprive his wife and children more? a) Fewer expensive toys, a smaller/no TV, a small house, cheap clothes, and public school? b) A father and husband so busy repressing his pain, so trapped in the anguish of seeing his identity
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by caffeine 17y ago
This right on the heels of Clo[js]ure ... Hey, Google, you can't have all the good names, you know.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yep - the difference between yours and mine is 4 characters, including a space. Language is so sneakily expressive! You're so right! For example, I wrote out a positive interpretation before hand to prime the reader into seeing what I ho
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by caffeine 17y ago
And I disagree, which is the point of the OP's article in the first place. I think the quote can be read as a genuine compliment - saying, "you put yourself down too much - it turns out you really are good at communication, and I'm impresse
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by caffeine 17y ago
I wasn't at the talk - was there anything he said that particularly surprised you? The list above looks like the fairly standard list of "what's going on now"...
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by caffeine 17y ago
I miss _why ...
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by caffeine 17y ago
This is actually more like science than TLB says. If you've been working on something for a few months and you haven't published or at least given a talk about it somewhere, one of two things is probably true: a) You're a reclusive genius
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by caffeine 17y ago
Why is it called Closure? Does it close stuff? Does it pass functions and bindings? What could possibly have inspired them to use this particular name?
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by caffeine 17y ago
The overlap of people interested in Clojure and people interested in Closure is rather small. This entire thread is evidence against that point.
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by caffeine 17y ago
:) I don't think he's talking about clock cycles...
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by caffeine 17y ago
This is an excellent comment, and you are correct that we forget too quickly the abuses of the past. Like Socrates' Apology. I am reminded of the post a while ago regarding a man whose family was hounded out of their home at gunpoint by th
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by caffeine 17y ago
CRF statistical models Yeah, so, read ITILA, and do all problems up to 3 , and attempt as many 4 as possible. You can skip the info. theory half and go straight to Bayesian stats and then neural nets - but you'll want to go back and lea
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by caffeine 17y ago
Could you be more specific about what kind of math you've been seeing in the papers that you'd like to understand (and/or link some of the papers)? What you need to know is on this list http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ml1-200
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by caffeine 17y ago
In any fucked up system, one should look first to the incentives, right? Which takes us to the journal system itself. To me it seems hopelessly outdated, at least in some areas. So here's a thought experiment: Science (especially now) see
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by caffeine 17y ago
Careful Chris Hansen doesn't mess around Yikes :( I guess the post wasn't clear enough, I'll edit it. I meant that I eventually want "Kindle in my web browser", with regular (not just children's) books .. followed up with some kind of so
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by caffeine 17y ago
Do you think only one out of every 73 is capable...? Less, actually. The evidence being that of those who make it, many barely make a single useful contribution over a lifetime of research. The question is really about whether more than
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by caffeine 17y ago
1/73 of the newly minted Ph.D.s should reasonably go on to start a lab of their own (from your linked comment) Playing devil's advocate: Isn't this winnowing process necessary to identify those capable of starting a successful lab? Resear
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by caffeine 17y ago
Now that that's out of the way, some comments about your site itself (these are unordered, but I hope they're useful): (disclaimer: I don't have kids, so mentions of my kids are hypothetical) - The DESIGN! It's beautiful, charming, and make
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think TV shows and movies are weaker. Movies can't do what books can do because you don't create them in your mind as you consume them (or at least not in the same way). But I can see why for some people, the basic realism of film might
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by caffeine 17y ago
Well at this point I think you're just getting -'d for whining about being -'d ... Be that as it may - I'm not certain what the mortality statistics are on cars vs bikes. I would prefer to avoid accidents in either modality. I found it unc
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by caffeine 17y ago
I watch movies and I'll watch TV shows ... There's plenty of creativity in the real world You realize that movies and TV shows most certainly do not constitute the "real world"? Nobody says you have to read fiction. But it's really a
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by caffeine 17y ago
Your site would be 10x more useful if you pasted the above comment directly onto the home page.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted so much - fiscal darwinism is exactly what it is. We appear to have poorly calibrated selection pressures in these industries: bad regulation and stupid users. Therefore "fitness" in such an area involves f
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by caffeine 17y ago
And what is the correct size ball? I can only seem to find them going up to 75 cm in diameter in my local sports stores - is that sufficient?
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by caffeine 17y ago
I hate to tell you this but ... most people do both :) Don't think of them as crises, though, because they're not - they're just what it feels like to outgrow your life. The more often it happens, the more you're growing, so take heart in
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by caffeine 17y ago
Dear Tired and Lost, Welcome to your life. You are the latest man in a chain many thousands of years long to wake from his deep sleep and discover that he is incomplete without a purpose. First, the bad news: the pain won't go away by itse
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by caffeine 17y ago
Seriously? This kid unloads his complete existential disillusion, and your advice is "join a startup"? HN is starting to smell like Kool-Aid..
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by caffeine 17y ago
That is interesting - have you done this? How did it go?
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by caffeine 17y ago
However, the wannabe founders reading it are also probably single males who don't understand marriage. We do, however, probably all share a very similar caricature of marriage - and thus the analogy is useful in communicating the bizar

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