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12y ago
Crazy smart people often believe crazy things. I'll let you into a little secret - it's because they are very smart. They have the mental horsepower to ignore the wisdom of the crowd and look at the facts for themselves. Sometimes
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12y ago
Yeah I was disappointed, I thought maybe I was going to see some cool new compliant software engineering principles.
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12y ago
This could be nice for modelling UI state
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12y ago
Exactly, this is why you need to make lobbying a criminal offence. Seriously, jail time. Money must not be allowed to buy political power.
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12y ago
Not really. Mental arithmetic is the ability to move numbers around in your head, it really is equivalent to being able to type as a programmer. Mental arithmetic is to number theory as being able to type is to programming. That you do not
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12y ago
Arithmetic != Mathematics just as Typing != Programming Sure, typing is a useful skill, it's part of programming, but is it programming? - no of course not. In fact it's insulting to programmers to make the confusion. It's th
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12y ago
Vortex should be Vertex in the article... Just appeasing my OCD monster
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12y ago
I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to construct the universe in as general a way as possible. Every now and then I feel like I 'level up' and the picture becomes clearer. Then usually about the same time I learn something
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12y ago
Yes, isn't it. But we shouldn't be too surprised. The universe appears to me to profoundly self similar.