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by jfaucett 9y ago
I know this has me really exited too. I think there is so much potential for rust in the embedded space. Personally, I'd be content if the core team just concentrated on making rust the best platform for doing embedded programming. IMH
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Yes. I've been trying to improve this area for a while as well. Here's some things I've come up with. I'd really like to hear about other people's exercises / practices, etc. if they have any. Its hard to measu
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How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician)(hbpms.blogspot.com)
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Hi there, I completely disagree with these other developers. I made it the hard way doing what they are suggesting - taught myself how to program, what SQL was, then JS, php, java, finally rails and ruby, scrounged for work, struggled on my
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I disagree completely. He is doing the right thing. Be upfront, pay the company, this sets the right expectations. The seniors devs have an obligation to mentor him and do it well, not just delegate him internship crap work. It would defini
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks "institute of equality" sounds a little too Orwellian? The Minitrue newspeak scholar might proclaim: let there be no differences in income or outcome let the two words be one, I give you: uncome. In se
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> So I guess my question is, why can’t there be a free or low cost, not for profit, accredited bachelors level computer science degree? I've looked into this topic somewhat, and basically it boils down to dense regulation by governm
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Maybe I'll come to that conclusion at some later point as well. Still, the point about how rules in social systems bias outcomes in subtle ways was an interesting anecdote (the hockey player birthday distribution).
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thanks for the tip!
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> It's remarkable that there is data about the outcomes of billions of lives, but we still have only vague indications about which behaviors lead to which outcomes. Do you really find that remarkable or is that just hyperbole? The f
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Theres a world of ideas between talking about motivations for doing OSS and telling people not to contribute to OSS. As pertains to what you're saying we completely agree.
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I love research like this. Our psyches are so complex and we are so filled with biases and errors in a plethora of ways that the only way IMHO we can compensate for it long term is to understand how those structures work and build social sy
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by jfaucett 9y ago
1. Thinking fast and slow - Kahneman 2. Outliers - Malcom Gladwell 3. How to read and do proofs - Daniel Solow All of these were packed with great insights and are books I'm sure I will return to in the future for multiple re-reads.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
this. Most of us encounter problems i.e. bugs, software we wish existed but doesn't - and then solve them through programming. We'd like to see the solutions get out and help other people too if they care to be helped, but I don&#
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> I somehow doubt you'd be equally in the spirit of discovery of the "experiment" were a commune or large-scale nationalization of industries. No I absolutely would be, so long as it is formed in a traditional experimental
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> We don't need to run an "experiment" to know this would be bad. That's the kind of armchair philosophizing that leads to all kinds of problems, we need more scientific method and less philosophy if we want to get an
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes, I'd like to see experimenting with only a sales tax as well, so no income tax at all. You could then test a combination of the sales tax only with a flat corporate tax. These are all things hypothesized about and there has been a
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by jfaucett 9y ago
completely agree with this sentiment. I've often wished a test city/state would be allowed to just do a flat tax and completely remove all tax code and see what happens. Obviously the convolutedness is a barrier to entry to small
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Absolute vs. Scientific Truth(github.com)
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Well, very sloppily speaking - the median is the first derivative of the mean, and the mode is the second derivative. That would be another way of thinking about this in terms of rates of change in discrepancy.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
this. I looked up some current polling on drug issues and it blew my mind how backwards most of the USA still seems to be on this issue. [1] I mean at least the desire to legalize marijuana is increasing but on other issues in the "war
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Although I agree with your list of considerations, I'm against your advice in general terms, since I think you're only providing part of the picture people need to consider. Here's some situations where you might prefer a sta
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by jfaucett 9y ago
thank you! That makes sense.
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Yes but there must be a actual rigorous notion of this. Like epsilon delta limits in calculus. Close doesn't cut it mathematically, for example what would "very low" mean in your example? 1e-20 is very low, but not very low c
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by jfaucett 9y ago
How can any irrational number x be close to a rational number y? as long as x is irrational it seems to me it would still be infinitely far away from y. What notion of proximity are they talking about?
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Do you think RoR is a good choice when all you really want is a service with a REST API? I'm going to be honest with you. I love building pure REST apis in rails. The experience is so clean and effortless. That being said there is
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Most applications need to be reasonably fast, reasonably responsive, and extremely easy to maintain and extend. Exactly this. I do a lot of freelance rails work and have worked on all kinds of ruby/rails projects. I would say for
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by jfaucett 9y ago
So I think we're just talking by one another and about different concepts entirely. I'm not questioning whether punishment as a deterrent works at all. Obviously it does. I guess my emphasis on the morality imperative implicitly l
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most educated I might agree, but best at teaching the material is a different matter and is something I would really like to see some data on. Experience makes me think, that the biggest factor is probably having the most industry/appl
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by jfaucett 9y ago
On the subject of Phd, does anyone else think the system we have right now of BA in 3-4 yrs, masters 2 yrs, phd 3-7 yrs, is a little suboptimal for people who want to just do research, and even for those who would rather teach? The incentiv

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