carterschonwald

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by carterschonwald 19y ago
What I think will be very interesting is when the technology get sophisticated enough that its cost effective to grow the in-vitro meat in various shapes and distributions of mak I mean, cubes are all well and good for storage, transport a
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I have to say that this blog post is a fantastic summary of a lot of the challenges to concurrent programming past and present. I sort of wish that there was at least brief discussion of things like software transactional memory or compare
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
thats pretty cool. One project I'm working on is designing a much of tools for algorithmically determining when either a game design or a map for a game is "fair", for various notions of fair.
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
The title here is a little bit too harsh methinks, give the guy credit for being a recreational academic
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I actually thing the new javascript standard would make an even better language pedagogically speaking! I mean, it supports both dynamic and static typing, and has a number of other really nifty features, such as closures, which python sore
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Ask HN: What sorts of theory work best in practice for you?
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
bah, we can't do any NumPy on appengine!
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
well, as long as they have NumPy, I can deal with rolling my own ontop the rest. OTOH, what would be amazing would be to have some of these hosting services have a setup where you can execute matlab code and extensions on top! I suppose tha
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
An important question at least for me is what sort of libraries will be usable from these python instances? Like, I would like to have NumPy and SciPy libraries available for a lot of the heavy computations I do. (in particular, linear alge
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
actually, I've been told by friends that theres a mailing list used for that sort of thing by certain (relatively) subsets of the MIT undergrad community. they also have a really cool mailing list called "reuse" that everyone on campus ther
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I feel like the core idea is pursue your passions intensely and revel in any opportunity to do so. But maybe I'm over simplifying
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I think that thats a bit premature, given how immature the language specification apparently is, and anyways there are few implementations for languages which have the syntax and runtime error handling capabilities of plt scheme has, and th
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
actually, Bram Cohen's blog on the various version control systems articulates what I was trying to say perfectly "Darcs's big advantage right now is that it have very good extensive support for cherry picking, a feature which is planned fo
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
Wouldn't it be sensible to instead contribute to the compilation framework of PLT Scheme instead since Arc is hosted on PLT scheme, or is there a solid reason to not do that?
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I have to say that Github is pretty awesome, and the fact that it uses a lot of the new "cloud" style backend server setup means that the day that they have scalability issues is the day that you should be worried if the internet has such
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
meh, I prefer darcs, so no loss there. But seriously, does anyone where have any experience wrt the tradeoffs between all these new distributed versioning systems?
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
Anyone who wants to play with some modern linguistic support for concurrency and not having bugs should check out Fortress, it has some pretty slick ideas for both
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
If anyone can find it, I suggest checking out the Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel talk "50 in 50" where they say 50 words each about 50 different languages. I can't seem to find the slides online, but I know that it was presented at the OOPS
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I have to say though, that having an MMO which has an open content creation system and is well architectured would be fun
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
for the NPC ai, I recommend having the online part of the algorithm not use GAs, but just some sort of statistically learning on decision trees, GAs done right are tricky, and its worth pointing out that they're basically an optimization te
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
My understanding of IPOs is that you do an IPO if you want to raise money to grow your company to the next level, could this just be because larger companies are now simply more aggressive about purchasing small promising companies?
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
I think one point thats worth pointing out is that in a lot of Spolsky's opinions regarding whats good and bad CS seem to be highly influence by the fact that he couldn't cut it in terms of theoretical computer science coursework back in
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
Timothy Gowers does some pretty cool research, anything that cross fertilizes analysis and combinatorics is pretty awesome. For the two problems in the talk regarding sequences of prime numbers, I suggest folks check out the green tao theo
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by carterschonwald 19y ago
Speaking as someone who's happiest with haskell and scheme, I have to say that what he needs to learn is that bad type/macro systems are oppressive, but good one's are amazingly powerful and expressive. (As that would be much better than s