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by kenko 13y ago
When I saw this was hosted at upenn.edu, I was certain it was a Kenneth Goldsmith project.
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by kenko 13y ago
"the actual amounts would be pretty tiny unless you've written a pretty large proportion of the book" What proportion of the book do you expect the editors to write?
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David Brooks: the Last Stalinist(coreyrobin.com)
4 points by kenko 13y ago|0 comments
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The slow poison of the covert imagination(blogs.swarthmore.edu)
3 points by kenko 13y ago|0 comments
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by kenko 13y ago
Speculation: because the heads of those companies think that surveillance is just peachy and it's their business model? That is certainly the case with Facebook, which acknowledges that they try to encourage sharing and break down norm
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by kenko 13y ago
Why? Going to llvm constrains you to do llvm's models. (Also, the timing issue mentioned by a sibling.)
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by kenko 13y ago
... following up to myself (why not?), it's also important, I think, to resist the fallacious inference from "X loves his job" to "X would be happy to work all hours". It really does not hold up, but it's distressingly common in conversatio
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by kenko 13y ago
Being able to do, and get paid to do, something one loves is a luxury that very few people have. ("Do something you love" is actually quite impracticable as advice.) If you happen to love doing something remunerative, bully for you---but pl
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by kenko 13y ago
Totally agreed. One not actually unfortunate aspect of the preferability of sane to insane work hours is that a lot of aspects of corporate culture that are much esteemed in startup-land are really basically designed to get you to work insa
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by kenko 13y ago
Aside from the practical interest in defining zippers as noted in another response, isn't it enough that there be this interesting and (by many, anyway) unsuspected correspondence, that holds fairly deep down? I mean---taking the Taylor ser
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by kenko 13y ago
Regular emails with questions would certainly be possible with snail mail. But the fundamental problem with all of those suggestions is that only reviewers who really wanted to take a lot of time and care with reviewing would take advantage
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by kenko 13y ago
How so? The one time I was a referee I got the paper by downloading a PDF and sent in my comments by entering them into a form. That technology is newer than snail mail.
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by kenko 13y ago
Really? I guess I should've said "this is standard in most disciplines ... that I know about". I'm really surprised that it isn't done in physics!
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by kenko 13y ago
This is the standard in most disciplines. I wish the authors of this article had done the same test with journals that do blind reviewing. I'd bet they still got a lot of rejections of previously accepted articles for bizarre reasons, since
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by kenko 13y ago
And people who've never used vi are ipso facto abysmally bad?
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by kenko 13y ago
"Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Aside from this being false (not everyone arranges his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible), Hand'
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by kenko 13y ago
"I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead." I'm using Gentoo and I don't rea
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The Cartography of Bullshit(africasacountry.com)
2 points by kenko 13y ago|1 comments
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by kenko 13y ago
"I'm sure you've heard this before, but all you have to do is ask whether you can build a Turing machine in whatever language. If you can do this, then you can compute answers to the same things computed by any other Turing complete languag
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by kenko 13y ago
Maybe so, but that completely gives the lie to the idea that two languages are equipotent if they're both Turing complete. The sorts of abstractions you'd need to implement go far beyond what's required for Turing completeness Unlambda, for
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by kenko 13y ago
Well, I must be very confused, then, because I don't see where the input comes in given just the s, k and i combinators. (The Jot programming language, which can be translated into SKI, for instance, doesn't do input or output. You want the
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by kenko 13y ago
"There's not much you can do in Awk that you can't do elsewhere: Turing-completeness and all that." The fact that Awk is Turing-complete has nothing to do with the fact (if it is a fact) that there's not much you can do in it that you can't
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by kenko 13y ago
I saw this with Aaron Swartz's death.
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by kenko 13y ago
The question is what the firefox JS interpreter has to do with baseline performance in CPython.
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by kenko 13y ago
"The firefox JS engine now has a fast interpreter, a quick JIT, and a more optimizing one. This means the baseline performance is better in CPython" Huh?
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by kenko 13y ago
I lost a ton of respect for google when they hired Kurzweil, and more when I realized they put money into the singularity thing. Didn't they realize that Kurzweil will tell them what they want to hear for free, too?
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by kenko 13y ago
Counterpoint: nothing is more middlebrow than thinking that something needs updating just because it's old or not "flashy".
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by kenko 13y ago
What I meant is that "if designed for interop" in the case of numbers is something like "there is no design for numbers, just use the host's numbers", that's not a very interesting design . And it leads to, for instance, huge differences b
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by kenko 13y ago
The cond example isn't related to vector-style syntax. There are two options: either the unpaired elements are the last (so you can get them from rest parameters) or the unpaired elements are already grouped somehow (for instance, by being
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by kenko 13y ago
Actually, I'd appreciate expansion on the respect in which Clojure is designed for interop with an arbitrary host. One (relatively uninteresting) respect in which that might be the case is that Clojure-the-language might not say anything ab

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