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by goatlover 8y ago
Wait, is Java point particles and Ruby superstrings, with LISP being quantum fields?
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by goatlover 8y ago
And even today if you have to do a lot of heavy duty or specialized statistics, does Python match R, Matlab or SPSS libraries?
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by goatlover 8y ago
Fortran was released in 1957 as the first compiled language. Guess what it was for ... scientific computing.
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by goatlover 8y ago
> There is also plenty of cause for concern about human extinction- between the insect die off and the marine die off it is unclear how we will be able to produce food going forward. Has there been a noticeable reduction in human food su
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by goatlover 8y ago
That's a good one!
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by goatlover 8y ago
Ruby is more like SmallTalk than Python.
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by goatlover 8y ago
> I think people are fond of trying to separate perception and experience, but I'm not sure that's valid. I don't think an eliminativist would make this distinction, for example. Problem for the eliminativist is that there
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by goatlover 8y ago
It's more correct to say you have experiences of perception. But those experiences are not always true (the tree you dream of seeing is imaginary), and thus it's possible to doubt them, and also create skeptical scenarios where yo
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by goatlover 8y ago
> Maybe it's a sort of self-modeling feedback loop. Our brains model our physical bodies, mental state and the mental state of others. At some point, this modeling becomes sophisticated enough to become recursive. The model includes
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by goatlover 8y ago
> Because a) humans have been wildly successful, and b) the fact that our brain is inordinately expensive, so if a new class of non-conscious humans that were equally adept as conscious ones ever arose, they would easily outcompete us fo
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by goatlover 8y ago
> I do not doubt that I perceive things via my senses You could if you were stuck in Inception land. We dream that we perceive things. Also if you were a brain in a vat, you would not be perceiving anything.
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by goatlover 8y ago
> Consciousness must serve a functional, adaptive purpose, Why? Not all of evolution is adaptive. It's also possible that consciousness is something more fundamental that strongly emerges when the right sort of physical activity tak
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by goatlover 8y ago
And that's because the web wasn't meant to be an application platform. It got turned into one on top of html/css.
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by goatlover 8y ago
Some more would be statistical (R, Matlab, SPSS), gaming outside the web (C, C++, Java), scientific computing (Python, Fortran, Julia), supercomputing simulations (Fortran, C++, C), embedded devices (C, C++, Rust), server farms (C++, Go, Ja
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by goatlover 8y ago
Does it mean that you're creating an anonymous new class that inherits from an anonymous async function, since it's really prototype objects all the way down in JS? In Chrome: > (new class {}).__proto__ {constructor: ƒ}
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by goatlover 8y ago
It runs successfully in Chrome returning: foo {<suspended>} That's the craziest statement I've ever seen!
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by goatlover 8y ago
Why not just start at the REPL or with a Notebook? Having an interactive environment seems like it would be easier to learn the language. Then they can move to a code editor when they're ready for writing more complex programs. It&#x27
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by goatlover 8y ago
Probably because you don't need to do things that Node isn't well suited for. If you did, then other languages which did those things well would become useful to you.
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by goatlover 8y ago
That was supposed to take place generations in the future.
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by goatlover 8y ago
> So when you learn a new concept via language, it can have a dramatic effect on your life. But whether you learn it in English or Russian isn't going to make a huge difference, because they aren't that different in terms of wh
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by goatlover 8y ago
I understand wanting to use map or filter when things get more complex. Pandas has filter and apply methods for that. I agree that the JS versions are quite nice with the arrow functions and method chaining. But for simpler operations, if y
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by goatlover 8y ago
Broadcasting is even better than both for vector arithmetic and comparison operators, which is what you get with Python libraries built on top of NumPy arrays. > a = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) > a * 10 array([10, 20, 30, 40, 50
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by goatlover 8y ago
One thing that Python has that JS lacks is operator overloading, which allows for adding broadcasting. It's really nice to be able to do builtin math operations on Pandas columns or NumPy arrays. That's why languages like R, Julia
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by goatlover 8y ago
Maybe React hooks are a bit different, but Drupal was heavily hook based, and then starting going away from that in favor of Symfony components in recent years, which are class based and utilize inheritance. Also, UI has typically been cons
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by goatlover 8y ago
Is all this because inheritance is discouraged? Seems weird to got to that much trouble to avoid a builtin language feature that does the thing you want, which is reuse methods across components.
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by goatlover 8y ago
I prefer reading black text on white screens, thank you very much. Code in an editor is different because syntax highlighting is better on black.
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by goatlover 8y ago
Xerox Parc had early personal computers and developed GUI/mouse driven software with email, word processor and paint programs and an IDE meant for kids to be able to learn and use. But it was some college dropouts in their garages that
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by goatlover 8y ago
> Nobody tries to design GUIs in IDEs. Smalltalk would be an exception. The graphical elements are provided for you to make your own inside the image on the fly, or you can modify the IDE as needed.
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by goatlover 8y ago
> Without the UNIX philosophy none of this would even get off the ground. So the UNIX philosophy was the only possible way computing could have gone to result in a diverse set of systems that communicate with each other? Is there some so
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by goatlover 8y ago
It looks odd, but the pound sign isn't a comment character in JS, so ... I guess it's like @ for Ruby.

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