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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Absolutely. The goal is to make ABD status available to anyone. Students learn better with programs than with lectures. Profs have more time because they don't have to lecture. Grad school becomes a more collaborative, research-bas
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I am working on something like this myself. I started by reading the Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, which uses Scheme to teach Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics. And it's much more effective than an ordinary
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Adam Smith: > People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
It turns out the brain actually likes to see concepts broken into pieces and spread out all over the place. To use your example, a better way to learn those things would have been a couple of projects where you used them all together, over
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Writing a computer program is often the best way to convince yourself that you really understand a problem. And an already-written computer program is often a good way to document the behavior of a complex system because you can play with
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Ask HN: Where do I go to learn more about the lambda calculus?
12 points by mnemonicsloth 6y ago|5 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
That's pretty insensitive. Non-English speakers have the option to learn English. It takes a couple of years, but I know a lot of people who have done it. And I can't think of a better investment. Disabled people do not have t
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Agreed that Java is an obnoxious language. I think originally the grandparent and I were talking about Clojure, which uses the Java library ecosystem, and I started talking about Java libs. Clojure is certainly the context I'd use Jav
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I don't buy that argument. I think it's basically the elite's attempt to impose some rationality on Trump's slice of the electorate, when it's pretty clear that his popularity has visceral/emotional/anti-
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
In other words, you'd consider switching to Java if it was exactly like the system you already use. And note the question you didn't ask: does Java do anything better than python? Didn't even cross your mind.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I think you're leaving out the most salient fact. Scientists are smart within their fields, but they're usually terrible at programming. I once saw a hundred-page source file (one file for everything) that defined no functions.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I've read Wolfram's Wikipedia page. It doesn't contain a single word about the controversy that surrounds him and that is in evidence in this discussion thread. On the page for his book, A New Kind of Science , all the all
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
An environment full of misleading information doesn't satisfy intellectual curiosity. It penalizes it. And a one-sided discussion about Stephen Wolfram is highly misleading -- even worse than no discussion at all. So I stand by what
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Right. Except for all this fanfare. Why is it necessary to celebrate the writing of two papers like this?
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
> no more Wolfram Derangement Syndrome comments, please. They're off topic because they're always the same, and they compose into a weird counterversion of the very thing they're deriding. If you really can't stand i
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
You say: > Wolfram [is] acting as though he thought of the ideas first. This is called plagiarism. Independent reinvention is no defense if you keep on acting as though you had the idea first. He has already been informed many times
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I got tired or waiting to find out what Urbit actually does, so I checked Wikipedia: Urbit is a decentralized personal server platform. The platform seeks to deconstruct the client-server model in favor of a federated network of personal
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Hardly anybody remembers nowadays but Elevators and Fridges used to be brand names (of the Otis Elevator company and Frigidaire, respectively). So the endpoint of nobody remembering that your IP is IP has been reached in practice. And more
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AI tool for business naming and logo design(namelix.com)
1 points by mnemonicsloth 7y ago|0 comments
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We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law(technologyreview.com)
2 points by mnemonicsloth 7y ago|0 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Note the spyOnUsers() method
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I write code on the internet every day, and I understood 0% of that article. Abstraction is a powerful thing.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Think of the normal meaning of the word. The residue is what's left over after whatever was going to happen has finished happening. For amino acids, the interesting thing is that they get joined into chains that fold up into proteins
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
You're right. Sometimes the answer key is wrong. I have to explain this to my professors from time to time, and it's always annoying. And in those cases I have paid money to be graded incorrectly. I would be happy if I were you
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Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it(rosalind.info)
167 points by mnemonicsloth 7y ago|40 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
We firmly believe in data privacy, and promise that we will never sell user data. Everybody says that until they get a buyout offer from Google. I like the problem you've chosen but you're asking me to tie your tool into everyt
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the organization that produced it. If you look at a codebase and find that choices in one
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> If scientists find the origin of the virus we can finally say that it wasn't engineered, currently they have not. No, they have. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mining-coronavirus-g... ...s
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I didn't state innuendo. I quoted the leading expert in the world right now saying that the Wuhan virus is not engineered. I don't trust the CPC either, but when the experts speak you have to listen.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
This is fake news. It's kind of repetitive, maybe alarmist. It leans on the idea that the Wuhan virus is HIV-like even after it acknowledges that the paper suggesting the comparison was withdrawn. The blog is about inequality and th

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