jarekr

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by jarekr 14y ago
This is systemic engineering incompetence that apparently pervades an entire language community This is master level, "Captain Obvious"-style trolling, beyond me how this is the top comment in a place like HN.
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by jarekr 15y ago
I obviously won't doubt the genius of Terrence Tao, but reading about PhD level research from any other discipline without knowing a yota about it would leave exactly the same impression, even from a lesser scientist. Of course some people
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by jarekr 15y ago
"How? Because people in the field of neural networks and AI would never claim that Minsky "pioneered neural networks". To the contrary (and as Minsky's wikipedia article – i'm sure the source of this claim – obliquely notes), Minsky's pessi
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by jarekr 15y ago
It is easy if the language your compiler is written in is itself running on the JVM and you can access the nice libraries for generating the bytecode, for example ASM ( http://asm.ow2.org/ ) which Clojure uses. I built a toy compiler for a
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by jarekr 16y ago
I think the following sums it up quite nicely: "Of course you need good scores and good grades to get into MIT. But most people who apply to MIT have good grades and scores. Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I'm sorry
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by jarekr 16y ago
They have stats publicly available, so everyone can judge it themselves: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statist... If you look at percentage rates, the self-selection of the candidates might make it look like it is n
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by jarekr 16y ago
Speaking as someone who applied for MIT a few years ago, something like this is no longer possible and the "rat race" description used for comparision is now in fact valid for MIT as well. Nowhere in the recrutation process you have much po
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by jarekr 17y ago
That's one of the most useful comments I have seen here for quite some time, thank you.
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by jarekr 18y ago
Zsh has a module called zmv which lets you do things like: zmv '(??)-(*).mp3' '$1 - ${(C)2:gs/_/ }.mp3' Which would change "01-foo_bar_baz.mp3" into "01 - Foo Bar Baz.mp3"
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by jarekr 18y ago
I think you're overgeneralizing, especially 100 various things can be understood under the term "meditation". There is a program for mindfulness-based stress reduction using meditation as one of the elements, with scientifically proven effe