juliangamble

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by juliangamble 4y ago
Bring back the Apple II Broderbund program "The Toy Shop" for online prints. That was amazing. https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/
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All online social networks eventually turn into a swampy mush of spam. (2007)(gapingvoid.com)
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by juliangamble 4y ago
I think I've heard something similar in a science fiction movie... "It's a single celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." ... "If you close your eyes, it al
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by juliangamble 4y ago
This.
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by juliangamble 4y ago
> BR largely created that bucket. Combined with William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It was a combined effort.
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by juliangamble 4y ago
This debate doesn’t mention software transactional memory which as a programming model, in languages like Clojure and Scala and Haskell has a much lower cognitive overhead for multi-thread scenarios. Ie it is much easier to ensure you have
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by juliangamble 5y ago
This time of new Java features under Oracle is such a great contrast compared to the days of Sun as the Java Steward with no funding for features. (I understand why people might have issues with Oracle, but they provide some funding).
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by juliangamble 5y ago
I thought it was going to be a sortable tree-table like MacOS 8. I saw a tree like this in Java Applets in 1994.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Is the source available? (Assuming it is CM-Lisp)
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Sounds like an @siracusa review meme.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Disagree. As a science, Psychology is largely based on self-reporting.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Similar themes are echoed in Steven Pinker's 'Rationality' or 'Enlightenment Now'.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
I love that Paul Krugman implies that Foundation copied Star Wars. (Ie Foundation was the original Empire Space Opera from which many Sci Fi authors cribbed including George Lucas)
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by juliangamble 5y ago
“Magic numbers.” You are, after all, a witch. “Every class begins with a babe, in a cafe.” Including a reference to the first 8 hex characters of every Java class. Such detail and prose!
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by juliangamble 5y ago
“The developmental psychologist Jean Mandlar says that image schemas make up the foundation of human thought.” Interesting that the author refutes that the brain thinks in symbols.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Look at which airlines have “Chinese Taipei” vs plain old “Taipei”. (Malaysian airlines is not intimidated.) Corporations can and do recognise a state.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
This site reckons there are 10: http://hyperpolyglot.wikidot.com/lisp#ten-primitives Steve Yegge said there were seven (or five): McCarthy had five. On an x86 architecture - you can do it with one. https://stacko
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Fixing link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Definitely a fun article. This was the key takeaway for me. SubtransControlLock indicates that the query is waiting for PostgreSQL to load subtransaction data from disk into shared memory. I felt the article fell down for two reaso
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Theory of Mind/Metacognition/Sense of Agency is well defined in the literature based on decades of research: https://aeon.co/essays/is-there-a-symmetry-between-metacogni... For the latest in consciousness res
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Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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Warning: Australian Humour – Stay the F#$% at Home(youtube.com)
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by juliangamble 5y ago
I accept your broader point. I have a minor quibble on invention of the steam engine: First rudimentary steam engine was the Aeolipile produced in the first century in Roman Egypt. In this light one can also say China had the steam engine
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More on Types with Uncle Bob Martin(blog.cleancoder.com)
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Most psychology research is based on self reporting. It is the standard in that field.
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by juliangamble 5y ago
This post brings me back to this idea for industrial programmers: https://www.simplehaskell.org/
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Could you provide a link or example?
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by juliangamble 5y ago
This talk by Chuck Moore at Strange Loop was amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PclgBd6_Zs "Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power"
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by juliangamble 5y ago
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf TLDR: Fallacy 1: Narrow intelligence is on a continuum with general intelligence (solving an easy AI problem doesn't immediately lead to being able to solve a ha
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by juliangamble 5y ago
> acquisition of knowledge metaphysically requires distance from, and ultimately denial of, God Historians James R. Jacob and Margaret C. Jacob have argued for a linkage between seventeenth-century Anglican intellectual transformations a

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