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   by disqard 6y ago

   Having seen world-class researchers up close, and having experienced their teaching first-hand over many years, I don't believe that being one is any guarantee of also being the other.
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   by disqard 6y ago

   I implemented the BlockStudio visual programming language (authoring environment + runtime) in haxe [0]. I'm also migrating the website (currently Python) over to it -- I can share data type declarations between server and client-side
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   by disqard 6y ago

   Thanks for sharing your "phased transition" strategy. Things aren't all-or-nothing, and taking this sort of approach can definitely help with making such a non-trivial change.
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   An Onion's Genome Has Five Times More DNA Than Humans (2019)(geneticsunzipped.com)

   51 points by disqard 6y ago|27 comments
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   by disqard 6y ago

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   by disqard 6y ago

   ...but hindsight is 2020
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   Google employees will return to work in September 2021(nytimes.com)

   6 points by disqard 6y ago|1 comments
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   by disqard 6y ago

   You could check out BlockStudio [0], a programming environment without text (I created it). It might make teaching/explaining computational concepts more tractable with such a young child. [0] https://www.blockstud.io
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   by disqard 6y ago

   Please check out https://www.blockstudio.app (Disclaimer: I built it) It currently lacks sound, but a lot of young people seem to be having fun using it to create games, animations, stories, puzzles, etc.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    I just installed and tried out Beekeeper. Thank you so much for making this!
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    by disqard 6y ago

    That's very neat, especially because it takes the demo idea and turns it into a tangible artifact!
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    by disqard 6y ago

    The ideas behind this project are similar to the goals of BlockStudio [0], a project of mine. The core idea is to build computational logic by choreographing movements of blocks/images on a digital canvas. [0] https://www.bl
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing this.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Thank you for those links. In particular, Orcutt's writing process makes a lot of sense!
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Your comment echoes one aspect of the article discussed here recently (authored by Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl), arguing that "AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology": people should be compensated for generating data used to train mod
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    by disqard 6y ago

    A beautiful summary, compressing decades of experience into a pithy "Big Picture". Thank you for writing this, Chuck!
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    by disqard 6y ago

    I'll second this. I'm currently migrating away from Firebase to MySQL, and I'm glad I didn't wait any longer.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    This reminded me of a comment from a thread ~1 week ago: > I've slaughtered more machines than any of you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24603393
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Strongly agree about the difficulty of maintaining a Django project due to its lack of type system -- though tbf, it's imposed by Python, the underlying language. And, one can annotate Python3 to make it typed, so things might improve.
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    Ask HN: People getting a “Hug of Death” from a “Show HN” Post, what was it like?

    1 points by disqard 6y ago|0 comments
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    by disqard 6y ago

    It's important to realize that "reading a book" is no guarantee of learning any more than (say) "watching a Khan Academy video". Knowledge isn't "downloaded" into one's head by passively consumin
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    by disqard 6y ago

    I'm 39 and still recovering from a wrist injury from trying to learn snowboarding last year. One's body does not heal quickly after a certain age -- and beyond some point, I imagine it never really recovers from certain kinds of p
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    by disqard 6y ago

    This is an insightful comment and applies to other pursuits as well — and don’t forget Sturgeon’s Law.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Fascinating! Thank you for sharing. They really do look like alien creatures.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    I wonder if this ongoing genocide is mostly unknown by the general public, or if it's known and not regularly on the front pages of mainstream media (and therefore perceived as unimportant).
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    by disqard 6y ago

    I hear what you are saying. Check out BlockStudio: www.blockstudio.app It uses extended graphical rewrite rules, so you define the “logic” for your program by manipulating the objects that define your program. I could write more words here,
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Thank you for asking this question! Like you, I have some experience with microcontrollers and have lately been kinda curious about getting into FPGAs. I learned some good perspectives from the replies to your query.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Beautiful! Please consider adding a dark mode option.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    Thank you for making and sharing! I hope this was an educational endeavor. Whatever feedback you receive here, remember to think of it as suggestions that only you can interpret and assimilate.
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    by disqard 6y ago

    The article you linked to, does not appear to debunk the thesis mentioned in TFA, namely, most academic papers are never read by anyone other than the author(s) and the reviewers.