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by mpiedrav 7y ago
«I (Bjarne Stroustrup) have also been asked where I find the time to read non-technical books. Actually, it is not a question of finding the time. Reading non-technical stuff is essential. Without it, I'd go nuts and lose my sense of p
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Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)(stroustrup.com)
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Impossibility of communication (because the very physical means necessary are way beyond our capacity as a species) is also a far more plausible idea than anthropomorphic beings (speaking some language that can be deciphered and uttered by
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Ada, Fortran, and even Cobol, satisfy the needs of a given domain: safety-critical environments for Ada, scientific computing for Fortran, business transactions for Cobol. They won't be replaced in the next decades, and even some new s
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El camino que concentra la esencia de Costa Rica(youtube.com)
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Once a case is big enough for improving the reputation of prosecutors and institutions involved, they will go to any length to make it happen. Challenging the US justice system in matters of legal (and even human) rights, more often than n
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Discovering Modern C++: An Intensive Course for Sci., Eng., and Prog. (2015)(informit.com)
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Programming for Computations – Python (2016)(link.springer.com)
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Human as abstraction
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Audiences are "parainformed": not informed about the really important (but "boring") topics and not necessarily told lies all the time, but fed data that apparently seems relevant, but in fact is a lot of noise with a hi
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by mpiedrav 7y ago
According to Stroustrup[1], Adobe builds everything in C++. Perhaps they add some C# shim for Windows and Objective-C (or even Swift) for Mac. A great advantage of choosing C++ as a core language is that the language (albeit syntactically&#
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by mpiedrav 7y ago
Reminds me of "Doctor Diagoras", a short story by Stanislaw Lem. Also known for the "Solaris" novel (adapted by Tarkovsky and Soderbergh) We expect to find alien lifeforms out there, but plenty of species on Earth remain
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Awarding a Nobel Prize (e.g., Literature) is a political statement. The Nobel committee doesn't want to "shake the floor too much" (i.e., wants to avoid controversy with the American/European elites on key topics). Quest
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by mpiedrav 7y ago
> (and we let them win) That's indeed the key point. While the Chinese government can censor whatever it pleases and enforce any policies on its citizens, it's up to US corporations to decide whether they want to keep in line w
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Redirects to Disney Latino (in Costa Rica).
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Winnie the Pooh is a tongue-in-cheek monicker for Xi Jinping. While it's banned behind the Great Firewall, it _should_ be available outside China. But, outside China, the link now redirects to a generic regional Disney site. Nowadays,
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by mpiedrav 7y ago
Python (3.x, as 2.x is mostly deprecated) can do and there are plenty of libraries around. Not just for data science, but about everything under the Sun. For performance-critical sections, you can plug in C/C++, wrapped in Python APIs.
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Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics(morganclaypool.com)
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Timeanddate.com(timeanddate.com)
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Would it be safe to say that CIA (and NSA and other parts of the intelligence community) is the actual "State within the State" (i.e., the so-called "Deep State")? "National security", almost at any cost, becam
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Solving a Danish Defense Intelligence Puzzle (2017)(safiire.github.io)
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Imagining a Time-Literate Society – Marcia Bjornerud at Long Now(youtube.com)
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That would be great! The tech platform shouldn't be too sophisticated. HN uses Arc, a Lisp implemented in Racket ( http://arclanguage.org ). I'm not sure about the DB, though. However, the difficult part, as in every onl
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It doesn't seem like it. But, every now and then, reality calls about the extremes of human nature (those very humans we serve through tech and science) are necessary :/
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If You Liked This, You're Sure to Love That (2008)(nytimes.com)
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What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting (2008)(nytimes.com)
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Oracle Announces Oracle Autonomous Linux(zdnet.com)
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Decision Procedures: An Algorithmic Point of View (2016)(decision-procedures.org)
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What Would Thinking Be Like Without Words or Pictures? (2016)(slate.com)
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Words – Radiolab – WNYC (2010)(wnycstudios.org)
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