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by esfandia 4y ago
The paragraph-by-paragraph contextual help provided here makes the interaction with AI much smoother! Makes me think something like this would also be a natural fit for Jupyter notebooks.
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by esfandia 4y ago
A .tex export format would make this super attractive to researchers writing scientific articles.
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by esfandia 4y ago
> There will always be an artisan making the first version of anything. Until we reach the bootstrap point (the singularity?), i.e. when the GPT-making machine is GPT itself. Or maybe we're still one level behind, and the GPT-making
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by esfandia 4y ago
This could be the next project for SciHub?
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by esfandia 4y ago
There was a Black Mirror episode on something like that.
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by esfandia 4y ago
Grades are also needed in university to check for prerequisite knowledge for courses. You waste everybody's time and resources if you let people into courses who think or pretend that they have the prerequisite knowledge. People who ar
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by esfandia 4y ago
I am marking exams. My deadline to enter the final grades is December 27th.
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by esfandia 4y ago
Isn't this how Operational Semantics works for describing formally a given programming language? You define what the state of execution of the program is made of, and how state transitions occur during one execution step. The wikipedia
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by esfandia 4y ago
I like mixing metaphors, in this case "the cat's out of the tube". ("the toothpaste's out of the bag" doesn't work as well though)
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by esfandia 4y ago
Which one of these free alternatives would work best for a Spring Boot deployment, ideally with a PostgreSQL database?
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by esfandia 4y ago
So it's free for students... I wonder what consequences it will have for coding assignments and projects. At the minimum I hope it will also be free for instructors so they learn to know what to expect and how to design assignments tha
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by esfandia 4y ago
She also worked on reflection in programming languages. Also, her work (with her students) on "interface agents", i.e. programs that learn what to do by observing and imitating the user, was the inspiration for my own PhD thesis w
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by esfandia 5y ago
> A B@; # B is a pointer to type A IIRC that's how Pascal did it, using a caret ^ for denoting a pointer.
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by esfandia 5y ago
I don't know about the current state of Smalltalk, but back in the late 90s there was a very elegant version control system for Smalltalk called Envy. It provided version control at the level of each method, and it was integrated nicel
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by esfandia 5y ago
Almost all the comments here pertain to the 10-factor authentication mechanism in the title of the article, but the article really is a criticism of the current education system.
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by esfandia 5y ago
I don't have data to back this up, but it seems to me most people were racist back then and there, but most people didn't save Britain from the Nazis, so from a PCA perspective one dimension is more significant than the other.
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by esfandia 5y ago
I also learned programming in college with TurboPascal and absolutely loved it. Learning Smalltalk was also a pleasure due to not only the beauty of its concepts but also the development environment. The closest thing in Java for teaching t
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by esfandia 5y ago
Reasoning under uncertainty isn't the sole focus of the book, but Russell & Norvig's AI textbook has a couple of chapters on the topic that are pretty good, with the right amount of detail for the uninitiated.
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by esfandia 5y ago
Yeah, she's a WGM. Her brother Greg Shahade is an IM. Both occasionally stream on Twitch.
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by esfandia 5y ago
The problem with not checking email during weekends or vacation is that the emails don't go away, they accumulate. So when you're back to work you have even more stress trying to catch up.
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by esfandia 5y ago
Are there any plans for full integration of Thunderbird's calendar with iCloud Calendar? I still have to use a web browser to access iCloud Calendar when on Windows, and I don't want to use Outlook.
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by esfandia 5y ago
We already have "Pattern Recognition", not sure why it got absorbed by Machine Learning (the two terms seemed to co-exist with some overlap on what they covered), and then ML got absorbed by AI.
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by esfandia 5y ago
Is it just me or Sgt. Pepper always sounded a bit "muffled" to me?
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by esfandia 5y ago
The original red/blue article said that Java /didn't/ have function coloring, and that's because it didn't rely on callbacks but rather on threads. Project Loom may in fact be introducing function coloring if I
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by esfandia 5y ago
I used to collect stamps till I was about 14, then had to leave the country and leave the collection behind. 30 years or so later, my mom managed to find and send me my old collection (well, some of it, and with none of the valuable stamps
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by esfandia 6y ago
How do you know they don't have a second phone hidden somewhere that they can check when they go to the bathroom?
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by esfandia 6y ago
Aren't they starting by giving the vaccines to the most vulnerable first though? For them, the risk is worth it. And those further down the list will get to wait and figure out the risks with the vaccine, if there are any.
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by esfandia 6y ago
I've noticed a big time day-to-day correlation between my chess performance and the amount of sleep I had. Also, coming back refreshed from a 1 or 2-week vacation (with plenty of sleep) leads to an immediate boost as well.
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by esfandia 6y ago
Francois Hollande is the one who campaigned on the fact that he wanted to be a "normal" president, as opposed to Sarkozy's taste for the spotlight.
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by esfandia 6y ago
But "I love Chips Ahoy" isn't really interesting except to the person in your household doing the shopping. "I prefer Chips Ahoy to Oreos" is what creates discussion and debate. The trick is for the discussion to be

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