jsyedidia

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by jsyedidia 18y ago
You write that "More explicit notations were always available and physicists, being more intelligent than computers, were capable of resolving the ambiguities to reveal the fully rigorous structure underneath." I doubt that's true. For exam
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
I agree. The original post is echoing many of the views expressed at more length by Sussman and Wisdom in their book "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics." There they showed that a computational expression of classical mecha
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
You should read "The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach," by Caltech professor Christof Koch, which is a book about this subject.
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
It is currently #3 on news.google.com and on the front-page of nytimes.com. It's not exactly being ignored.
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
Lots of people. There's nothing wrong with loving life. In my opinion, a stance against trying to extend life-span perhaps make sense if such efforts are doomed to failure, and are therefore a waste of time. But it seems that extending life
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
Yes, FPGA design is more like programming than it is like analog electronic circuit design. No need for soldering, or for thinking about analog equations. I think a lot of the audience of Hacker News would find it an interesting way to lear
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
I would recommend considering being more ambitious and learning how to design and prototype digital circuits on an FPGA development board. Pong Chu's book "FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples--Xilinx Spartan-3 Version" is really excellent, wi
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
Please send me your CV, or link to a web-site, or an email that says more about your skills. I may be able to help you with an internship, or if not, at least give you some better advice.
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
The following looks like a good starting point, with an Arduino tutorial, a recommended starting kit, plus recommendations on tool kits: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
You don't have to use the browser-based interface if you don't like it. There's also a standard shell based on iPython if you prefer. If you want, just treat it as Python with a ton of mathematical stuff built in.
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by jsyedidia 18y ago
You might want to look at Nu ( http://programming.nu ). It's a new Lisp built on Objective-C, designed to make it extremely easy to call C or Objective-C libraries and frameworks (particularly Cocoa). It's a wonderful merger of Lisp, Object
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The MIT Scheme scmutils library, and how to run it on Mac OS X(nerdwisdom.com)
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On Blogs and Books(nerdwisdom.com)
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Jeff Hawkins' "On Intelligence" and Numenta startup(nerdwisdom.com)
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Programming Erlang(nerdwisdom.com)
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