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by hexagonc 12y ago
I think the important thing about the language being free is that it is key enabling feature of the list you just gave. If the Wolfram Language truly was free then Wolfram Research should be able to publish and distribute a language specif
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by hexagonc 12y ago
Because you couldn't pass a Turing test, even for practical purposes with that approach. Passing the Turing test is a problem that cannot be solved by big data alone. You have to model not just language patterns and word sequences bu
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by hexagonc 12y ago
Jane grew up in an idyllic rural area. I'm currently working on a system for understanding natural language and you might be surprised by how many assumptions one must make in order to understand just this simple sentence. The only
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by hexagonc 13y ago
My first and only encounter with "Concatenative Languages" was programming the HP48GX[1] graphing calculator in highschool. Thinking back to it, I'm amazed by what you could do with it. It was very powerful even by today&#x
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by hexagonc 13y ago
* Overriding almost necessarily means tight coupling - you need to understand at some level how the internal state of the superclass works to replace calls (even those that the superclass itself makes!) to methods of the superclass.* Your p
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by hexagonc 13y ago
If david@gmail.com then sends an email to onion2k@myemailprovider.com Google know that david@ has a second order link to alice@, bob@ and charlie@ I'm not sure at all that it is clear what the nature of that link is. I have no insig
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Or rather, the scientific method from. . . other ways of "knowing"
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Even in America, there was a distinction, or at least there used to be. If it was a "college" then that meant there was limited to no opportunity for graduate studies. On the other hand, a "university" offered full und
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Why not? It worked in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_...
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by hexagonc 13y ago
The interesting thing is that if the apocalypse or "doomsday" is due to climate change, then we don't know yet where the safe places to setup are. Somewhere that is warm now could be cold or flooded or infested with some new
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Yeah, I can see how too much passion can burn you out. I'm borderline obsessive about some of the things I do in my spare time. The thing is that I really like doing them but taking a break from too much intellectual stimulation is p
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by hexagonc 13y ago
But I'm not just talking about blind, unfocused and overly enthusiastic passion. I'm talking about the passion that drives people to go beyond the call of duty, not because it is part of the job but because it is what they like t
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Oh, and good luck hiring anyone right out of college this way. I think it is a fantastic question to ask someone out of college. It shows those people who are passionate about something and went beyond the minimal requirements for their
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by hexagonc 13y ago
A recruiter from Nokia contacted me about a Android developer job. I'm not sure if this was the Microsoft Nokia or the other Nokia.
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by hexagonc 13y ago
One question I have for European companies with branches in America: do the US arm of these companies have similarly good benefits for their US employees or do they revert to the norm for American companies?
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Problems with poor morale on missile bases? The second in command at Stratcom[1] with gambling problems? Looks like we need to take humans out of the loop when it comes to nuclear decision making. We need something that will not be subje
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by hexagonc 13y ago
If I recall correctly, Apple didn't really take off until they released a Windows compatible iPod. That singular decision to leap out of the Apple-only ecosystem is what set the stage for the iPhone and the iPad and all other success
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by hexagonc 13y ago
It's been beaten, stepped on, splashed on. Stepped on by a baby? I'd be surprised if it could survive being stepped on by an adult. Especially the screen.
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by hexagonc 13y ago
This seems kinda interesting. I don't know if it would solve all the problems of global state but it would definitely make serialization of the program state simple. It wouldn't even be that difficult to implement in a language
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by hexagonc 13y ago
> Baloney: multimedia classrooms - CORRECT Khan Academy says "hi!"[1]. I'd only give half credit for this, considering the success that Khan Academy has had in schools and with individual learners. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Not sure why people are fixating on autonomous drones. If this happens at all, the first drones will clearly be human controlled from the point they leave the warehouse to when they reach the delivery zone. They will be teleoperated and p
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Here is a very good interview with economist William Sharpe (Nobel prize winner, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forsyth_Sharpe ) that also explains why cheap index funds are better for most investors. The whole i
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Yes, it's just a script, but you know that there was a human behind that script. Someone at Google, probably pretty high up, made a decision that they're going to keep pestering you, and making your experience as shitty as poss
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Digital frog rots before your eyes(bbc.co.uk)
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Small animals perceive time slower than larger animals(bbc.co.uk)
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Birmingham opens £189m library(bbc.co.uk)
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by hexagonc 13y ago
In regards to the role of HR in hiring a candidate, I think it is a bit more complicated then you make it out to be. The problem is that a candidate won't just exist in isolation on the team he/she was hired to. There needs to b
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Despite its origin as a "web language", it looks like just about the last place you want to use Java is in the browser.
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Yeah, this is very surprising to me. I simply didn't know that java worked that way and I've been programming in java for many years. I assumed that the memory that "currentPos" would eventually be bound to was fully i
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by hexagonc 13y ago
Actually, I suspect that pre-schizophrenic people might use marijuana not for self-medication, because they think something is wrong, but rather because early onset schizophrenia may intensify the pleasurable effects of marijuana.

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