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by lg 19y ago
If this is for real, let's see them film an electron during a double-slit experiment.
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by lg 19y ago
I just tried it, and I love that it starts off with Hacker News on the restricted list :) I guess they know their audience.
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by lg 19y ago
Clarifying: hey mine were pretty short bla bla bla
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by lg 19y ago
I was saying that failing to achieve your goals can be moral. I'll add that it can be morally better than succeeding at them. Now you say, well yes but it'd be better if you had better goals in the first place. So I think the lesson is:
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by lg 19y ago
It's funny that you think a lifestyle is immoral if it doesn't accomplish its own "internal goals." I think that's wrong, and not just in pathological cases. I might be an ultracompetitive misanthrope who lives to be on top (gordon-gecko-
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by lg 19y ago
Seems you're right. That was a nice foray. Back to Scheme I go...
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by lg 19y ago
So my small problem sounds like a bigger problem. Why won't Erlang let me specify the order of evaluation? You know, like, left to right?
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by lg 19y ago
You said it. I checked out the Erlang tutorial just now, and apparently you can't use user-defined functions in the test-expression of a conditional, to prevent people from putting side-effecty functions in there? Now maybe there's some g
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by lg 19y ago
Well the PS3 has 9 cores, or something like that. Don't you think that says something about the computers we'll all be using, and by extension, the parallel-processing capabilities we'll have to take advantage of in the future? Personally
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by lg 19y ago
Just read the first half, very good explanations in minimal verbiage. Arc looks beautiful here even if only for the de-parenning of so many CL operators (i.e. let). In fact I'm a little sad to still see so many parens in the code... I gue
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by lg 19y ago
I like music with nonsense lyrics for the same reason, i.e. cocteau twins, sigur ros, dead can dance. Otherwise, ambient stuff like explosions in the sky, god is an astronaut, mono (the japanese mono).
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by lg 19y ago
PG: Can an arc instance distribute its threads across multiple cpu's? I'm not asking "can-in-principle" but rather whether the current implementation has that feature.
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Do We Know Our Own Minds?(salon.com)
2 points by lg 19y ago|0 comments
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by lg 19y ago
I live near philly and there's always "brain drain" talk (aka how can we keep wharton grads in the city?) It looks like a lot of their speakers and mentors are in finance/accounting. So whatever they say, I think this project is not reall
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by lg 19y ago
Thanks, that's the kind of comment I was afraid of :) ...my mind is now pretty much made up.
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by lg 19y ago
Yeah the gimmicky feel counts against it (also the lack of web 2.0 slides compared to the other topics...maybe they just show the youtube bubble video?) But I know a guy who works at Google and has taken it and says he learned a lot, and I
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by lg 19y ago
Thanks for the feedback; that's partly my motivation with wanting to take logic--if math requires me to think more, then I should take that, because developing good thinking habits is so valuable. But a bunch of the comments here suggest t
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Ask YC: is networking class worth it?
10 points by lg 19y ago|16 comments
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by lg 19y ago
They rake in huge revenue, but most programs are in the red. Former UMich president James Duderstadt wrote a book (Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University) where he claimed that the reported profits for most college football t
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by lg 19y ago
just curious--anyone know what LED bulbs are like, vis a vis warm glowing warming glow? If they're similar enough to incandescents, we won't have to turn our homes into cold fluorescent ice palaces to save the whales.
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by lg 19y ago
Well the big push in xphi is coming from places like Rutgers, where guys like Stich, Maudlin, Goldman, just do very theoretical science.
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by lg 19y ago
"papers and talks explaining and advocating new ideas might sound like propaganda or fiction or even poetry" Well this talk reads like literary theory, and that's no compliment.
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by lg 19y ago
i wonder if the world would be better once we can cheaply subsidize everyone's basic needs. i think everyone would just become even more of a zombie, because electronic entertainment is so easy and you don't have the office as an automatic
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by lg 19y ago
so paul buchheit leaves and they start being evil.