eric_bullington

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by eric_bullington 6y ago
Yes. As someone who at one time spoke fluent Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, I can confirm that "spomenik" can be (and sometimes is!) translated as "memorial". Indeed, the root of the word is a verb that in its archa
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by eric_bullington 7y ago
With modern genomic science, we can pinpoint almost the exact time and place Covid-19 jumped from an animal host (likely pangolins intermediate host from bat reservoir) to humans. It almost certainly jumped hosts to humans in November of 20
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by eric_bullington 8y ago
Exactly. The attacker would have to try a word-based attack to benefit from the ~7 hour time-to-crack. So I disagree with the article's advice: "Don't use words in passwords. Ever." Yes, you should use caution when us
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by eric_bullington 8y ago
Cryptography can solve social problems, but the problems need to be approached from a social perspective, not a computer science perspective. There's a hint of this type of approach in the work of Keybase.
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by eric_bullington 8y ago
Don't know if you're familiar with the Dragonbox apps (original for algebra and Dragonbox Elements for geometry). Those are incredible learning experiences that would not be possible on paper. Even a desktop w/mouse for those
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> You're also most likely going to pay per word, so if you can figure out a good way to not send them sentences you've already had translated you can save some money The typical process would be to send them the translated sent
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> Fiver and maybe Upwork If you're going that route of finding a translator for each language yourself, I strongly suggest a translator community like proz.com, translatorscafe.com, or linguaquote.com (founded by HNer luxpir). Or a
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I'm glad that you're integrating grammar into Chatterbug, even if it's implicit. I do believe that learning a foreign language's grammar implicitly (via immersion) is an inefficient way to pick up grammar. I tutored lang
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
@schacon Interesting post. I agree that language-learning is more of a marathon than a sprint. As someone who speaks several languages[1], it was interesting to read about your perception of how polyglots learn languages. You picked up on s
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> The API has _zero_ provision for streaming MP3. Did you look into Media Source Extensions[0,1]? Fetching and playing the various audio formats is a bit outside the purview of Web Audio. But you can feed streaming MSE into Web Audio. I
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
When did you last use sanic? It's far from limited, and advancing quickly. However, it's a microframework, so it's true that you'll not get a full Django-like experience (and Meteor isn't even in the same class of
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> I do exactly this, AM(A)A. Thanks! Do you do this kind of work as a contractor, presumably? Do you also typically write documentation for the projects you're working on (inside from inline comments)? How did you get started in thi
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I'm with you. This is the second time I'm reading about this niche and would love to find out more info about getting into the field. I used to work as a scientific/medical translator and one of the things I loved about my wo
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
It's behind a flag now, but they're eliminating it, so it will not be released.
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> 1200 people is a fairly huge study, 1200 people is a huge, convincing study for a well-executed prospective, interventional study, like a clinical trial. This is a cross-sectional retrospective study, using merged data from several d
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I'm afraid that's not it, but rather (probably for the reasons I outlined above), people who crossed the race line made up fake ancestry to explain their "different" appearance without admitting to African heritage. I k
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I've been doing a lot of self-study online, and two things jump to mind: 1) There should be many more interactive exercises during and after instruction, and not just multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. There's a lot of pote
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America Needs a Centrist Party Now More Than Ever(medium.com)
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
Yep, both of my "Native American" family branches turned out to be in fact African American. You should look into your ancestry, you may be able to track it down. Just be sure to depend only on primary documents (birth certificat
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I am a (mostly) white American with some African-American ancestry, including several freed slaves. You're absolutely correct that freed slaves were always at risk of being re-enslaved in slave states and even sometimes in states wher
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
Others have noted Feynman, Ramanujan. Walter Pitts is another one, who had a very rough childhood with poor, working class parents.
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I agree with many of your criticisms (and have other ones for Solidity as well), but the lack of floating point is absolutely a feature, not a bug. There's no reason for floating point in a contract language. Floats should never be u
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
Oh awesome, glad you mentioned your project. I've actually been writing a blog post that parallels a lot of your complaints right here about Ethereum. For safety as well as implementation complexity, Turing completeness is a signific
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
The "Mostly Adequate Guide" is a tremendous intro to functional programming for any frontend/JS developer. I challenge anyone who knows a bit of JS and is not convinced of functional programming's advantages to read the
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> even though React components are classes... Since 0.14, React components can be functions, too: https://hackernoon.com/react-stateless-functional-components...
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
I really enjoy your blog. When are you going to publish a math book for programmers, covering a broad selection of programming-related math topics? I think you mentioned this possibility in a past blog post. I'd buy it. I'll al
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by eric_bullington 9y ago
> Best tool to build a single page, text-focused static content site? Vim. Ok, seriously. You probably want Sphinx. Some very nice, mobile-friendly themes (I like Paramiko), and it can easily build a single page with table of contents
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by eric_bullington 10y ago
I strongly agree. Dealing with a language in development is hard enough when you're an experienced programmer, I can't imagine trying to learn programming with an unstable language.
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by eric_bullington 10y ago
For many years, I worked on the periphery of the programming world, but with a very superficial level of programming knowledge. I was a "webmaster" back in the mid 90s, working with simple PHP, JavaScript and VB scripts. I then w
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by eric_bullington 10y ago
As someone who recently went back and did an extensive review of college math, I got a lot out of your site. I'm looking forward to your book!

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