mesarvagya

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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   Tell us what was your starting point and references used to learn FP
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   If someone is interested in Functional Programming, here are the books which I highly suggest everyone to read: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-functional-programming-P... https://www.amazon.com/Structur
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   Could you share the URL for Brian Harvey's lecture.
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   I was fascinated by Lambda calculus where you could think a number as the times of application of function. That is: Symbol 0 = λs.λz.z Symbol 1 = λs.λz.s(z) Symbol 2 = λs.λz.s(s(z)) and so on. Then we can find n+1 of a given number n as: S
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   I learned a number of great courses in MIT OCW and it deserved donation from me. If you guys have enjoyed learning from OCW, we could raise a little fund on the page.
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   MIT OCW – A 500-Donor Challenge for OCW(crowdfund.mit.edu)

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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   I have found paper by Raúl Rojas, which is also a good start to learn λ-calculus. Here it is http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   I purchased the book about 2 months ago from lulu, but it looks like it is not present there anymore.
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   by mesarvagya 8y ago

   I also brought the book written by Bartosz titled "Category Theory for Programmers", to support his work in this field. Good book.
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    Well you can create just a fake account with all fake information and no friends, so you use it just for getting out some information from FB.
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    The theory of dopamine is that there has to be strong local connections on brain for the activity the person is being kept under. Think of a song that you initially disliked but when you hear the same thing again and again, the neural conne
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    Well I didn't meant it to be in negative way. Sorry its answering the `how` part of question not `why`, but whatever be the reason of `why`, the final thing that brain finds pleasurable is because of dopamine. For example, lets say a p
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    Its because of Dopamine. I think everyone knows this. The same is true for Social media as well.
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    Beej is the man. I liked his networking guide.
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    by mesarvagya 8y ago

    Thanks just bought it.