jakear

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by jakear 9y ago
Did you read your own quote? These aren't developers, they're "non-computer science students" who don't need to know underlying memory details, but they're being required to because this class is a prerequisite
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by jakear 9y ago
Right, and if the professor of the intro class decided they didn't want to teach Java, and would prefer C++, they'd "switch" over to it... I don't see the confusion. C++ isn't the only language in the entire sc
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by jakear 9y ago
It's an opinion piece in the student newspaper. So it's just a student saying "this is how I feel".
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by jakear 9y ago
Could anyone explain why POP CS is so "obviously useless"? The author says it is "as obvious as it is useless", and never explains further. As far as I can understand, CS is the top byte of the 16-bit instruction pointer
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by jakear 9y ago
Sure. My university has unsecured 100+ Mbps up/down and free access to libraries during the workday. Other universities I know of (USA) are the same.
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by jakear 9y ago
I like the idea of tutorials for generating language grammars [1]. I've made a couple grammars myself for both Atom and vscode and I can never find as much info as I'd like. For instance, what labels should various tokens get in o
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by jakear 9y ago
To me the last sentence nullifies the entire argument. People doing a lot of numeric computations aren't (typically) doing it all in Python. They write critical sections in C (or some other "fast" language), or use existing l
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by jakear 9y ago
The great part is that using a GAN means we cannot automatically distinguish a fake from a real... because that's the whole point of the GAN.
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by jakear 9y ago
How does this translate over to things like fashion/social trends in general? Something like "Corsets are coming back for spring 2018! Get on top of the trend at XYZ Fash Inc.!" hardly seems like fraud, but by that definition