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by ced 18y ago
That's 500 lines of code per hour. 8 per minute. 10 seconds per line. I'm not sure what to think of it. Can someone really be that productive in producing (mostly) debugged quality code? Or maybe he did a mostly literal translation so that
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by ced 18y ago
Thanks a lot.
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by ced 18y ago
One can draw a bifurcation diagram with nothing but a pencil and a pocket calculator, trying different values of r and finding the fixed points / orbits. I think it's the coolest thing one can do with high school arithmetics.
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The Logistic Map, Chaos and Bifurcation Diagrams(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by ced 18y ago|1 comments
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by ced 18y ago
Agreed. My former advisor was as good as anyone in that field. He has a very good introduction (... for a grad course in physics) to the dynamo problem (aka.: the solar cycle) at http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrsp-2005-2/
726.
by ced 18y ago
The magnetic activity doesn't come from the fusion reaction directly. The sun has a differential rotation profile. Some layers rotate faster than others. This stretches the magnetic flux tubes as they pass through these layers, increasing t
727.
by ced 18y ago
Uh, what? Sun spots come from the magnetic flux tubes from the inner layers becoming unstable and rising to the surface, forming loops. If anything, I'd guess that sunspots inhibit the flow. The mixing happens mostly because of the persis
728.
by ced 18y ago
1. I was writing and rewriting a rebuttal, but you're right... There is something cool about achieving self-reference without a name. 2. Really? If you feel like elaborating / providing link, I'd appreciate.
729.
by ced 18y ago
Math envy. Why do hackers focus on it so much? It has only very remote relevance to normal programming. The beautiful idea I see behind the Y combinator is that of formalism. Once you describe something in mathematical terms, magic can happ
730.
by ced 18y ago
Look at the weave, this is how you can tell it is not machine made. I hope he didn't believe that. Turkey is full of fake. People don't have a continuous relationship with the seller, so the seller focuses on selling something that looks
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by ced 18y ago
Then you could always go for scheme, it's smaller. But it doesn't really matter. You can start with a tutorial, and just work with the core vocabulary, then gradually expand. I've been doing CL almost full-time for a year, and still, every
732.
by ced 18y ago
Greenspun on shorting: It is 1986. You buy yourself an IBM PC. You are using MS/DOS and say "This sucks. It isn't even as good as operating systems from 1960." You're a computer expert so you know that the technology is pathetic. You do so
733.
by ced 18y ago
I found recently that I am most productive before eating anything in the morning. That was a study tip from one of my teachers, I should have paid attention.
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by ced 18y ago
Can you give a concrete example of something useful that's hard to do in Python but would be so much easier in Lisp? Languages give you a certain amount of expressive power. By stretching the language, you can always reach a bit higher. Pyt
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by ced 18y ago
See, there is this better-than-Lisp language in the sky, that's not made yet, call it sky-lang. I state that every sufficiently complicated Lisp program contains an ad-hoc, half-broken version of sky-lang. I don't want that. I want the real
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by ced 18y ago
Lisp (1) metaprogramming sucks. I've got a closure. Why can't I know over which variables? Why can't I know which function called foo (ie.: access the stack)? Why can't I know what the fields of my struct are? Even Python knows how to do t
737.
by ced 18y ago
As someone who always uses it from an Internet cafe, I just wish they'd allow only 1 session at all times. Besides, is there really that much benefit to multiple sessions? It's not like there is much state in Gmail.
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by ced 18y ago
I conjecture that the more low-level the language, the more premature optimization is necessary. As an example, an assembly language programmer has to make very early decisions about whether to use a WORD (valuing speed), or a long (valuing
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by ced 18y ago
I went for the sound bite, but the truth is: I left grad school last December, and I've been in Turkey ever since. I'll likely move to India in a few months. Turkey outside of Istanbul is rather cheap, but not incredibly so. My nice 4-bedro
740.
by ced 18y ago
Living in cheap asian countries on savings from my grad school year. Trying to develop AI that isn't Good Old Fashionned AI. Learning music. Learning Turkish. Biology. Reading.
741.
by ced 18y ago
Length? Shorter or longer then?
742.
by ced 19y ago
There's more to the syntax than just the parenthesis. That you write (let ((x 4)) (print x)) instead of (let x 4 (print x)) is part of it. So is the order of arguments.
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by ced 19y ago
The discussion about the existence of sqrt(2) made me wonder: is there any object in mathematics that we know exists, but have no way of calculating it? I.e.: no algorithm has been found, even given a Very Powerful Computer. I miss mathemat
744.
by ced 19y ago
I knew what he was talking about. The article just strikes me as uninspired rather than promotional.
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by ced 19y ago
Where?
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by ced 19y ago
At 21, I was pretty passionate about programming, but I had never dealt with a tar files. I was sticking with Windows because it just worked for me, and the barrier to installing a Linux on my PC seemed so huge (and they were . The first t
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by ced 19y ago
> but a professorship depends only on intelligence Myeah, but personal relationships and contacts play a big role. Along with where you live. Einstein was kept out of academia before his big year, right? How close were we from losing hi
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by ced 19y ago
That's what I meant when I said "accounted for inflation". I'll hunt up the study some day. I'm not so sure about you conclusion, though, but maybe my experience with people was different. I'm also skeptical that most people would reason th
749.
by ced 19y ago
... assuming that being "practically rich" causes happiness. There was some study a while ago that said that most people would rather have 1000$ in a society where others have 10$ than have 1 million in a society where everyone is a billion
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by ced 19y ago
> Economists Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian even proved that the value of a software company is the total lock-in How much lock-in does your start-up have?

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