jimmahoney

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by jimmahoney 4y ago
I used janet for Advent of Code 2021 too. My first exploration of the language. Small world. I found janet fun but quirky. My work is at https://github.com/jimmahoney/advent-of-code/tree/master/202... .
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by jimmahoney 4y ago
FWIW here are my CS courses including notes, assignments, and resources: https://cs.bennington.college/ (2020 - 2022) & https://cs.marlboro.college/ (2010 - 2020)
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by jimmahoney 5y ago
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Best scifi I've read in awhile; a really nice one in the first-person-nonhuman genre.
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by jimmahoney 6y ago
Faculty Position in Computer Science at Bennington College Full time on site starting Fall 2021 Would you like to teach and help design a broad cross-disciplinary computing curriculum at a small liberal arts college in southern Vermont? App
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by jimmahoney 7y ago
I have the Ikea Markus at home and it's been fine, especially for a $200 chair. I use a Herman-Miller Aeron in my work office that I got when I was having back problems, and like it a lot ... but I've found the Markus to be a good
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by jimmahoney 7y ago
I second "Eloquent Javascript" - it's excellent.
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points(rachelandrew.co.uk)
4 points by jimmahoney 8y ago|0 comments
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Winners of the Information Is Beautiful Awards for 2018(kottke.org)
2 points by jimmahoney 8y ago|0 comments
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by jimmahoney 8y ago
Anonymous Pro https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Anonymous+Pro
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by jimmahoney 8y ago
Argentine tango : check out the "my double life" TED talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdI3FNItHk .
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by jimmahoney 8y ago
lighthearted and fun : "The Crown Jewels" by Walter John Williams. Definitely. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Maijstral
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by jimmahoney 8y ago
Lois McMaster Bujold is just the best - almost everything she's written.
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by jimmahoney 8y ago
I teach intro programming using python, and use it regularly for various projects. But I agree with the author's central point that the language has a number of issues. He mentions the python2 vs python3 issues, but doesn't discus
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by jimmahoney 9y ago
"Life. Don't talk to me about life." - Marvin. http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Marvin
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by jimmahoney 9y ago
It looks cool, but I don't really want to wait half a minute for it to do anything. $ time curl cs.marlboro.college <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html>&l
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by jimmahoney 9y ago
Yes - I use this and the CMU labs for an undergrad course, and it's excellent.
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by jimmahoney 9y ago
The statistically significant result is that scores on this test : "in each trial set, participants complete a series of math problems (information processing) while simultaneously updating and remembering a randomly generated letter s
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
Ready Player One. Though the recent second time was as an audio book on a long car trip.
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
I'm typing from an Ikea Marcus which is my home office chair. While I agree that the Aeron is great (and have one at work that I use regularly), the Marcus fit in my budget ($200 for the Marcus vs $800+ for a new Aeron) and is perfectl
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
Here's a different sort-of-functional python fizzbuzz. While it doesn't use the spiffy lazy lists of itertools, and does have the typical "if x % n == 0" test, it does generalize easily to the "and print Baz every
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
A few others that I don't think have been mentioned, in no particular order. - Guardians of the Galaxy - Back to the Future series - Men in Black - Groundhog Day - Elysium - Planet of the Apes (old & new) - Ender's Game - Inde
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
This free online textbook using R is what I used when I last taught statistics in a college setting : https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php .
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by jimmahoney 10y ago
I like this notion of "political compass" : https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2 (not unique to this author), in which liberal vs conservative (left vs right) is an axis , but with a second one authoritarian
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
Having done a variety of data analysis and computational modeling while working as a PhD physics student and postdoc, I can attest that many of my colleagues wrote terrible code. The problem wasn't that their code didn't have a ni
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
I teach a systems course at Marlboro College which covers some x86 assembler and C, using Bryant and O'Hallaron's "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" textook. ( http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ )
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
Argentine tango. At its best, a powerful, intimate connection between you, your partner, and the music.
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
I like Dave Barry's explanation of electricity (e.g. http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/Misc/electricity.txt ) including "the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immedi
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
Another vote for Anonymous Pro.
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
It's not entirely coincidence. Four dimensional space-time has a metric analogous to but not quite the same as euclidean space: the time part has the opposite sign from the space parts. ds^2 = (c dt)^2 - (dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2) ds
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by jimmahoney 11y ago
I've always particularly liked the bra-ket notation for making this sort of problem intuitive, typically used by quantum physicists. (There's a wikipedia article on this notation, though I don't think it does it justice.) In

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