georgewsinger

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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Can someone explain to me Alan Kay's problem with monads in functional programming? He attacks the monad concept several times in this talk rather cryptically.
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Are you saying this is the kind of question that an investor would only have the luxory of asking several weeks into an actual relationship? To be fair, Reid said he spends a long time with people before pulling the trigger (40 hrs+ for fou
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
I didn't realize this was such a big deal. I've been vegan for years and will frequently go for long stretches without explicitly drinking water. The reason is that there is a ton of water in fruit and so don't get thirsty. T
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
> He connected us with Jeff because he knew that Jeff was going to leave to start a web-related business that he had analyzed for this hedge fund. For whatever reason, that company didn’t want to pursue it but Jeff did. This makes it sou
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
The Traitorous Eight. The PayPal Mafia. Any other cohorts famous in Silicon Valley for producing disproportionate excellence?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
I would love to see such a report for VR text rendering.
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
+1
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
This article is the origin of the infamous joke about Haskell: > Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid i
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
clojure due to the release of clojure.spec a few days ago.
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Please explain more what you mean by a "visual language"?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Has she given a video presentation on this yet? If so, link?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
If I'm not hacking on something super low-level, like hardware or an OS, then should I still try Rust? Why not stay within super high-level/expressive programming languages like Haskell/clojure? I ask because a lot of extreme
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Use cases?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Interesting. I don't know what to think. It's a lot to read. But in some ways adds more information than types (you can make reference to values). Maybe you could make it more concise with more definitions? For example: (def
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Will there be performance hits to using this?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
I'm confused what a function spec would look like using fdef (etc). Can someone write an example? If in Haskell we have a type signature f :: Type1 -> Type2 ...what will a clojure function spec roughly look like?
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by georgewsinger 10y ago
Using MAD instead of standard deviation in the formula for correlation would result in the possibility of random values being "correlated" by values that exceed 1 in magnitude (the proof for a correlation coefficient being bounded
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
Einstein and Feynman claimed to think in vivid mental images. Are there examples of people who have exceptional mathematical ability with aphantasia?
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
Does this have any implications for npm addon authors?
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
A winning poker player only needs a tiny edge to be long-term profitable. Yet there will be swings in his bank account, no matter how good his play; there is even a real chance of bankruptcy in his lifetime. The question I would then ask to
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
22 milliseconds? Unless I'm mistaken that's blazing fast?
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
One of the weaknesses of Clojure on the JVM is its ridiculously long startup time. How fast does Frege start up on the JVM?
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
https://github.com/georgewsinger/drop-dot/blob/master/README...
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
You can also target nodejs with ClojureScript, which leads to blazing fast scripts/startup time. See as an example: https://github.com/georgewsinger/yaml-table This script takes about 100 ms on my computer and abo
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
Has anybody tried the ahead of time compilation? Does it significantly reduce script startup time?
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
Cormen.
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
Feature suggestion: allow people to comment on individual tasks (in addition to just tags).
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by georgewsinger 11y ago
The pecking order of quality: text books/journal articles > books >> online articles. I'll try to at least read 1 book per week, but on a good week I can get in up to 3. If the books are technical (i.e., programming) on a