ljscharen

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   by ljscharen 14y ago

   Another concrete example is to define BL and BW as any point at which a game B has a negative or positive expectation. A real-life example of using the A, BL, BW strategy were the MIT blackjack teams of the 80's and 90's. They had a spotte
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   by ljscharen 15y ago

   Yep. :) Nothing turns you into a morning person faster than the first time you get 6 straight hours of sleep after 6 months of 3am feedings.
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   by ljscharen 16y ago

   These are the biggest AHA! moments that stuck out for me 1. Understanding recursion in C 2. Understanding lazy evaluation in Scheme 3. Figuring out how to implement lazy evaluation in C A lot of superficial differences between la
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   by ljscharen 16y ago

   Well, I can't say that an 11 on the Joel Test is a strict criteria. :) I would say we started at a zero and are at a 2 right now. This "field trip" idea is just a way of trying to accelerate the developer's growth curve. Other ideas are
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   Ask HN: Setting up a developer field trip?

   1 points by ljscharen 16y ago|2 comments
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   by ljscharen 16y ago

   Sure, but Kurzweil's claim is merely that if DNA can encode everything the brain does with N bits of information, then regardless of how the DNA behaves, we have at least a loose estimate of the level of complexity in the brain. The probl