elf_m_sternberg

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by elf_m_sternberg 8y ago
I recently wrote an article called "So You Want To Get Into Theoretical Computer Science," which is mostly about how to read a bunch of papers to figure out some obscure, heretofore unimplemented (outside of academia) algorithm. T
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by elf_m_sternberg 9y ago
I found "Writing an Interpreter in Go" to be a much better read. It was actually completely portable to C++ and Rust, and that made it useful to pretty much anyone.
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by elf_m_sternberg 9y ago
Olympus WS-600 dictation device. It's a slim thing about the size of a cigarette lighter, but it has actual physical buttons, and a built-in USB connector to dump it to my laptop. I review it every morning, and depending on the natur
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by elf_m_sternberg 9y ago
There are a few projects on my github (elfsternberg) that I've used Hy for. One thing that I've also done is write the first draft in Hy, and then used Hy2Py to generate the version that I'm going to publish. This does resul
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by elf_m_sternberg 10y ago
It's sorta clever how Elon Musk convinced Ayn Rand-besotted train-crazy tech bros to invest in his testbed for a Clarke Mass Driver.
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by elf_m_sternberg 11y ago
I had two beers Wednesday. A glass of wine Monday night. The week prior was a bit like the same. Some weeks it's "none", some weeks it's "more than seven times in seven days." I don't think that constit
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by elf_m_sternberg 11y ago
Ditto. Used them all of my professional life. I've also had a Dell, a Toshiba, an HP, and two Macbooks. The Thinkpads were the only things that worked well. I've been using an IdeaPad (The Thinkpad's consumer-oriented co-b
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by elf_m_sternberg 12y ago
Interesting, but woefully incomplete since it doesn't include a single turnstile-based statement. I'm still looking for the cheat sheet that includes an explanation for how to read and comprehend anything written by Simon Peyton-J
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by elf_m_sternberg 12y ago
Yes. Liferea. I've been using it pretty much since the Death of Usenet.
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by elf_m_sternberg 12y ago
I don't see any suggestions for a replacement technology.
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by elf_m_sternberg 12y ago
Great work! There are a couple of other projects like this. Are you familiar with Wisp or Outlet? This is good work; I've been trying to hack my own Lisp -> JS transpiler, and not having much work. Your 'Nodes' file sho
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by elf_m_sternberg 13y ago
Ditto everyone else's comments. This is a really good book. Readers should be aware that Irvine's goal of "persistent tranquility" isn't really what the Stoics had in mind; their objective was much more radical, i