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by charlysl 9y ago
I am a big fan of Daniel Jackson's approach to teaching programming, and really like his courses, in particular the mindblowing "Elements of Software Construction" [1], which is, by a mile, the best programming course I have
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Thx for the wikipedia link, this is probably the best paper list I've seen so far
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"All essential state takes the form of relations This is a database" - relations are a more abstract concept than this, see relational programming "Logic is expressed using pure user-defined functions This is PHP / CGI &
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[1] Joe Armstrong 2003. "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (the Erlang paper, perhaps the most famous implementation of message passing concurrency). [2] John Backus 1979. "Can programmin
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1984 - because it was the first book in English that I read front to cover, with a dictionary by my side, and learned so much recurring essential vocabulary that after that effort I could read anything; by now I have read much more from the
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It seems to me that much of this can be explained by one of the fundamental principles of machine learning: Training and test samples must be iid (ie independently sampled from the same distribution) to get good performance. Otherwise there
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I learned it as part of speech processing, first for Dynamic Time Warping and then as the Viterbi and Baum Welch algorithms. Together with Hidden Markov Models it's a thing of beauty how it is used to model speech. All of this is expla
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I have the impression from some comments that the term "complexity" in a machine learning context is not well understood. It doesn't mean "complicated" from a human perspective at all, how difficult it is to grok th
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The thing is, and I believe this is key, the relationship is not a colonial one at all, of submission to an alien foreign power. And there is no way the democratic spanish government would react like the colonial british one. Nor would the
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by charlysl 9y ago
First of all, I want to say upfront that I am a Spaniard who, although is against this referendum, is unhappy with how Spain has historically dealt with this issue, its historical hostility to embracing Catalonia's culture, which is on
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Shallow one-sided drivel. Here is a more balanced article by a third party which is not is not exactly known for its authoritarian views: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/23/observ...
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My favourite writer in the english language, grossly underrated. Great to see his cristaline clarity being praised, reading Waugh has made me intolerant of authors that lack this quality. If I could choose to write like anyone I wanted, I w
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In the same spirit: The nice thing about declarative programming is that you can write a specification and run it as a program. The nasty thing about declarative programming is that some clear specifications make incredibly bad programs. T
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Yes, the Bendersky link explains it very well. The c2 wiki Shape example is in fact an instance of the Interpreter pattern (although it doesn't mention this I believe), which is the closest thing to pattern matching in Java (Visitor wo
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I am currently studying the excellent https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-P... , and I believe that this book answers the questions in the OP very clearly, and although maybe you find it too theoretica
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This is copied from the comment section: "Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update" If nothing else that line made the article