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" Among leading academics also, it's not unusual to find those without formal undergraduate degrees in CS. Many come from mathematics backgrounds, including several Turing Award recipients. " Before 1975, computer science deg
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The are many, many gigabytes of good information available on the Internet. The problem is that they're mixed in with many, many terabytes of not-so-good information. Finding out which is which, when left as an exercise to the reader,
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That is how you get depth with no breadth.
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How do those European (?) universities deal with the difference between theory and practice? I have a hard time imagining how you would understand how to "most efficiently utilize" a given architecture without writing code and try
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Well, let's see. UT Austin's degree requirements are https://www.cs.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/images/BS%20Ch... and course descriptions are https://catalog.utexas.edu/gener
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In the 1970s, the alternative to C was assembly. In fact, I can remember hearing stories of the fights needed to pry every-day, normal developers---not systems programmers, not power users---off of assembly to a "higher level language&
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Note that International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection is a thing. https://www.icnirp.org/
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"Among the authors that have not pointed this out are Ohlin and Samuelson." This is a thing of beauty. "In fact, I will assume that investors, human or otherwise, are able to make perfect forecasts of prices over indefinite p
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This is actually one of the major features of Knuth's tangle/weave: you write the code as a book or article and give information to a compiler that puts everything in the right place for the program.
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Sure, everybody likes greenfield projects the best. But compare this with the consensus wisdom on rewriting important projects. :-)
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Reported on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcabanac/status/1689334454798491648?t=Dv...
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ChatGPT generated text in a published scientific paper(pubpeer.com)
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Well, you see, the potential cost of losing a good candidate is much less than the potential cost of hiring a bad candidate, so every effort should be made to prevent the latter. There's a Joel on Software or Stack Overflow thing on th
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Pardon, but with double quotes, is'nt the expansion going to be done by the current shell anyway?
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<libertarian> What's silent about it? It's right there in the TOS, which you agreed to by using the software. Caveat Emptor, and all that. </libertarian>
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Neither the First Amendment nor any particular set of laws bind the web generally.
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" The application, at least the time of writing, and the installations I’ve been made aware of, makes a lot of connections to https://stubbs.frontgatetickets.com/ , a website that sells tickets to live music events for
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That's the beautiful part. No work necessary.
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My high school math ended with algebra. I placed out of geometry and trig and went into calculus my first semester in college. I was not prepared. Do not recommend.
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Few people mention the difficulties of the other paradigm, though. I've had lot of hallway conversations where, if I don't write down some notes, it's gone. Plus, if you don't have any control over it, having someone sto
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" This is the root of my curmudgeoniness: Magic is never worth it. 99% of the time, Magic breaks. And when it does, and someone inevitably asks me to help fix it, I do it by getting out the machete and chopping out all the happy shiny
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Or a registration fee.
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Tesla, notably, has no dealers. https://www.extremetech.com/cars/tesla-accused-of-secretly-c...
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That's the voice. :-D
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It's hard to find anything about older programs, but they currently put a lot of work into simulators. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ivv_grubb_nasa_ivv_... On the other hand, at one time there
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Ok, what is this quote from?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
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Gary Taubes's Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is pretty good.
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IIRC, there were two groups of groups working on it (the process was simple enough that a description from the press conference was enough to get started): * people looking for fusion neutrons, who did not have much experience with the fini
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Is that a strange way of saying, "if you work with other peoples money, some of it stays with you".

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