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by ced 19y ago
Your upbringing has a big influence on the type of career that you'll consider. Someone who is "startup material" might simply not have been exposed to the right stimuli.
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by ced 19y ago
I had to look up what a Fantasy Sport was. Perhaps a one-liner in your FAQ could help.
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by ced 19y ago
I personally don't have anything to oppose to the maths. Wolfram goes pretty deep, and nothing is obviously wrong, although some of it didn't feel right. This review, however, goes into the details: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/
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by ced 19y ago
He claims that what he's shown in A New Kind of Science is revolutionary, but the revolution has yet to happen. Maybe he's the only one to really get it and he doesn't have enough time to better show "us" the way. It seems unlikely though.
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by ced 19y ago
The author has decades of experience with people, and has written a full essay about it. How do you support your claim that he "errs"? For me, it resonated similarly to the Bipolar Lisp Programmer: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipol
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by ced 19y ago
People pay because they have to (excluding tipping), not because they want.
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by ced 19y ago
I think of a list just as "a list". An ordered collection of anything. "Linked list" is not an abstraction (at least, not in Python), it's an implementation detail. And IIRC, Python lists are not actually implemented as linked cells, so the
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by ced 19y ago
I started a year and a half ago to live without a home internet connection to save money. It ended up being a rather substantial productivity boost. I'd recommend it.
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by ced 19y ago
Women could have genes that promote old age so that they can feed and raise their children longer. Children of long-living mothers have a better chance of survival, and thus a selective advantage, all other things being equal. My point is n
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by ced 19y ago
Yeah, I know. I meant to say that the article is not very convincing and thus that it (arguably) shouldn't deserve much attention. I feel the same way about most science articles in the mainstream press. Unlike all the other hard sciences I
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by ced 19y ago
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ has more articles (some science fiction as well)
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Marvin Minsky: Symbolic vs. Connectionist(web.media.mit.edu)
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by ced 19y ago
Not very convincing. 1. Why do men reach puberty later than females? 2. Men can have children even when they're very old, women can't. This should promote longer lifespans. Here's another hypothesis. Quoting the Wikipedia article on the Med
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by ced 19y ago
He, I was just saying. I've always coded alone, or with only one other person. And that person was using my code as a library. I figured that working like this would scale, modular and bottom-up. Maybe not. (besides, isn't VC a relatively n
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by ced 19y ago
How about cycling?
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by ced 19y ago
I've never used one. Much like version control, I've never felt the need for it. If you have a team of 2-4 coders, and aren't preparing the next version of Firefox, why aren't text files/emails sufficient?
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by ced 19y ago
I find it a bit jarring. Can you imagine a celebrity doing a TV spot starting with: "If I'm going to be doing chemically enhanced social interaction, my substance of choice is kratom." And then cite benefits and studies. YCers might put the
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by ced 19y ago
I think the article posted on reddit is probably more honest (it uses the same numbers): http://www.theseminal.com/2007/10/16/so-one-week-later-is-th... Along with the top comment: > Yeah, I'll wait for something a bit more substantia
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by ced 19y ago
I'd rather read a clear problem description and come up with my own solution than infer the problem from the code...
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by ced 19y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I'd be curious to know if anyone has a problem with moving to the US, and "supporting the war" through taxes. Personally, I'm pretty ambivalent about it, but in the end, I would probably do whatever I thin
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by ced 19y ago
The book seems interesting: http://bdm.cqpress.com/
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by ced 19y ago
Is it legal to scrape from other news sites? Wouldn't that scare off acquirers? I would start a new reddit, scraping unofficially at first until the bird can fly on its own, and then dropping it.
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by ced 19y ago
And he should coevolve knights, removing the need for humans altogether.
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by ced 19y ago
Probably not. All I know: using one star on each sides of something for italics, two for bold, and if you put a space at the beginning of a line, you get fixed-width font (for code).
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by ced 19y ago
I also had problems with the sentence, probably because it doesn't ring especially true. I can name the discoverer of most of what I know about physics, right from the names: Newtonian physics, Bohr's model, the Schrodinger equation, Euclid
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by ced 19y ago
-They've used Fortran 77 which requires 6 whitespaces before a normal statement, 5 + any character for line continuations, and which truncates silently (as in, without warning) any line longer than 72 characters.
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by ced 19y ago
The Evolution of Cooperation. It puts in formal terms some common sense about interactions among self-interested individuals.
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by ced 19y ago
Most novels can be condensed, yet, it'd suck to read the condensed version. I'd say the same of GEB.
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by ced 19y ago
Given your username, that's just weird, but I loaded it from Germany, and I got a web page in Spanish. Google correctly loads as google.de, so something must be wrong on your side.
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by ced 19y ago
First, I do think that modelling is in the realm of physics, biology, etc. Mathematicians might make unambiguous statements about these, but they never claim that the model is a good representation of reality. Second, Godel's incompleteness

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