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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I’ve wondered for a while—very non-scientifically, just idly—if atmospheric CO₂ could account for increased rates of neurological/psychological conditions such as ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADD (attention deficit disorder)—to a
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
The NYT article is definitely overblown. It’s popular to hate on Facebook about privacy, and yeah, they’ve made mistakes in the past, but that’s largely because they’re just engineers trying their best to do the right thing. IMO they need m
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I can definitely imagine the stereotype being caused by a combination of climate differences and lactose intolerance with ethnic prejudice. That is: —“I hear they take a lot of milk, butter, and cheese, every day!” —“Every day?! But those t
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I always felt like negative bases are just strange enough, yet just practical enough, that they almost could have arisen as a system of numbers in a natural language. For example, phrasing 11 as 191, “one more than 90 less than 100”, woul
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Dogs seem to eat feces for many reasons, such as poor digestion, hunger, boredom, stress, curiosity, seeing mom do it when cleaning up after her litter, getting attention, or avoiding punishment by hiding “accidents”.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
It’s the same for any “high-technique” thing, really. I’m into pixel art, or at least I used to be. I’ve spent hundreds of hours doing it, and I’m still not all that good, but I’m at least familiar with all the techniques. It’s a painstakin
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
In the past 7–8 years I’ve come around to the realisation that programming truly is a branch of mathematics, in a deep sense—and a strange one at that. It makes sense that they would share a lot of lessons. In my experience, those who say p
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Hoo boy, time to lay some knowledge on ya. It makes me less prone to runaway trains of thought, sub-panic attacks I guess you might call them. I can just chill and focus on what’s in front of me. It’s also great for relieving some chronic p
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Thanks, I’m aware. :) Ironically, my diet was never healthier than when I was drinking too much, too often. I craved all the things that I was depleting, especially magnesium, and that my body needed to repair the damage I was doing to it.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I never had it (or didn’t notice) until I heard of it. Much like “exploding head syndrome”, it appears to be slightly contagious (suggestible). Even then, it wasn’t the usual “falling out”, but rather my jaw squeezing tighter and tighter, u
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah, it’s definitely a bad idea to press on beyond the point where you can reasonably recover, and actually better to err on the side of fewer diagnostics and less information per message if it means the messages aren’t misleading. For e
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
It works best in an IDE, or in my case in Emacs where I can jump to each error in turn. On the command line or in an interactive mode (REPL, notebook, &c.) I usually just want one error at a time. I’ve had fairly good luck with this in
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
One thing I’ve learned in my years of working on compilers & programming language tech, which at first is counterintuitive, is that for the best user experience in a compiler, often you want your parser to be “total”, and not to rejec
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
(Disclaimer: I’m into phonetics but not a dialect expert.) I imagine it would be a blend of his probable native language in Benin, Yoruba, with the English of 1860s Alabama, Older Southern American English[1]. My best guess for the sound wo
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I always like when it’s written “Yahoo!” because I read it with an alveolar click, as /jahu!/. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_clicks>
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Whenever I see prime visualisations, I go down a rabbit hole of investigating prime numbers in search of a better factoring algorithm. I’m no great mathematician, so I always come up better educated but ultimately fruitless. :) I have this
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Come to think of it, I find Zendo much harder than the game described in the article. I think it’s because the inputs (arrangements of shapes) are more complex than numbers, and the outputs (Booleans) give you less information than numbers.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Because few social liberals would take the risk of coming out and saying “Black people in the US have lower IQ on average”, even though what it’s really saying is “Black people are often victims of a class divide, rooted in racism, that res
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I actually like the way it is (or can be) done in Haskell: since polling an “interrupted” status would be a side effect, instead they turn the problem on its head: you can throw an async exception to the task you want to interrupt, give
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
That’s a problem I’ve occasionally considered working on—modern alternatives with tractable, incremental migration paths away from COBOL/RPG/MUMPS—but I hardly know where to begin. I’m sure for a lot of these companies, due to the
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
And that quote is immediately followed in the article by—what else?—an ad. I have to wonder if that bit of irony was deliberate.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah, speaking of graph traversal, when I was working on the Mono runtime performance team at Xamarin, it helped considerably in the garbage collector (SGen) when we added some manual prefetching to scanning the object graph, but it took a
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
This is why I don’t like when emoticons are automatically replaced with emoji or graphical emoticons. If I had wanted a standard face I’d’ve used one! It’s definitely a hack, but you can illustrate a lot of nuance with textual emoticons&#x2
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Exactly, I think the semantics & interactive mode of programming have a lot of value, and it’s a shame they seem to get less attention than they deserve just because the notation is inscrutable to newcomers.
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah, that’s fair. I don’t imagine such a language would be well liked by the APL/J/K purists (“You’re missing the point!”), just that it could bring the school of thought to the masses—and maybe as a side effect, encourage people
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I understand that the compactness is a feature, and I don’t have any gripes with the symbolic notation personally, I just think a more verbose notation might avoid turning people off too early. By starting from familiar territory, you can g
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Composition lends itself to point-free code, but not all point-free code is built from composition. By “it’s not compositional” I mean a few things: 1. Tacit programming in APL-family languages is very much about application of functions
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Sure, I’ve read Iverson’s paper. I think the notation is perhaps what enabled him to come up with what I feel is the important thing: the semantics. I care a lot about function-level programming, tacit programming, implicit iteration, and d
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I wonder if array languages will find wider popularity some day with a bit more verbose notation. Take “Array Indexing” (#29): {(,⍺)[(⊂⍴⍺)⊥¨⊃∘.,/⍵]} Or “Inverted Table Index-Of” (#31): (⍉↑x⍳¨x) ⍳ (⍉↑x⍳¨y) These could
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by evincarofautumn 8y ago
Yeah, that is a common trap. When I was taking language classes in college, I noticed that some people were definitely reading text as though it were just “funny English”. However, the problem still happened (albeit less often) with differe

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