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by esfandia 7y ago
But his book is freely available as a PDF.
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A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are the Deleted Years(esquire.com)
4 points by esfandia 7y ago|0 comments
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by esfandia 7y ago
Well, maybe not for every language, but probably for a language where simplicity has been a major feature.
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by esfandia 7y ago
Datalog indeed is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
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by esfandia 7y ago
- Wasserman has a book called "All of statistics" that gives a lot of the background required to understand modern machine learning - Hastie is a co-author of two machine learning books, one is "Elements of Statistical Learni
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by esfandia 8y ago
Wouldn't your customer lose all their data if the app crashes?
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by esfandia 8y ago
If you're mathematically minded (really just basic set theory), maybe try learning relational calculus. You'll express database queries in terms of Cartesian products, selections and projections. These operations translate directl
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by esfandia 8y ago
Maybe a cleaned-up Pascal would do the trick? It was a great teaching language back when I was a student. Low complexity, strong static typing, compiled language, no GC, pretty fast. No pointer arithmetic, harder to shoot oneself in the foo
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by esfandia 8y ago
How many days in a row do you need to take it to fix your rhythm?
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by esfandia 8y ago
Social Network Analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis
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by esfandia 8y ago
> You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business. That's right, and that's also why the prestigious researchers and universities, those with an already established reputation, have a responsibility: collectively
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by esfandia 8y ago
"Pattern Recognition" is the most accurate term IMO (at least as far as this particular tech is concerned, and yes it is a subset of Machine Learning), and it doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
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by esfandia 8y ago
Thank you very much! I shall investigate these!
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by esfandia 8y ago
Do you mind sharing what kind of music triggers this in you? The closest to this for me has been late 60's psychedelic music.
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by esfandia 8y ago
Exactly.
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by esfandia 8y ago
You're right, I guess I'm comparing against both those axes at the same time, since I'm relating to my own experience as a kid 30 years ago vs as someone working in tech today. Indeed, that's not really a fair comparison
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by esfandia 8y ago
The nature of programming has changed so much since then. Back then, you could get going by knowing a very limited set of building blocks (BASIC keywords, all described in a single manual). The challenge was to build something meaningful ou
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by esfandia 8y ago
Even before Hebdogiciel (or maybe at about the same time?) there was "Jeux et Strategies", and it came also with BASIC listings for adventure games. Mind you, I don't recall ever getting one to work...
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by esfandia 8y ago
Yup, Star Trek is probably much more of a common ground these days than ancient Greek literature. Don't know if it's a good or a bad thing though.
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by esfandia 8y ago
I've always thought that before forcing us to read a classic they should get us to attempt writing one (or, more realistically just a few pages). Get us to create a relatable character, come up with an engaging and original plot, descr
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by esfandia 8y ago
> "I don’t necessarily see this is as a crisis, kids really passionate about humanities will always pursue the humanities. The net effect of this is those classes will have fewer kids just there for their degree. This isn’t a bad th
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by esfandia 8y ago
The answer might be obvious, but I'm not a hardware guy: couldn't they use a FPGA to do the compilation itself, or at least the bin-packing part? Is there a way to code a general SAT-solver in FPGA?
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by esfandia 8y ago
It introduces a nice level of indirection between different actors, so that they don't need to know about each other's existence in order to communicate and solve problems together. The actors can be added and removed dynamically,
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by esfandia 8y ago
In Persian, "orange" as a fruit is also "portaghal". But the color is "narenji". And then there's another citrus fruit quite close to the orange called a "narenj", that you can't usually fin
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by esfandia 8y ago
In Ontario (and probably other provinces in Canada), there is a strong financial incentive by the province to universities (in the form of tuition matching) to maintain a high retention rate.
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by esfandia 8y ago
Is your course online? If so, do you mind sharing a link?
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by esfandia 8y ago
Jason seems like the most stable of available implementations, still actively maintained and well documented: https://github.com/jason-lang/jason
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by esfandia 8y ago
Has the Classic Theme Restorer add-on been ported to the new extension API? Until then, I'm staying with my old version of Firefox.
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by esfandia 8y ago
How many of these people get prosecuted every year? Is there some sort of Interpol of spam/scam/phishing to coordinate efforts against these guys? They should be easy enough to catch. It seems that right now there's not enoug
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by esfandia 9y ago
Very good point. I guess if we're going to use email as a substitute for Facebook we could use messages containing deletion/update directives. Clients could still of course decide to ignore them or interpret them however they wish

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