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by nessus42 14y ago
Personally, I feel that to focus on trivialities such as the difference between "it's" and "its" to be morally indefensible. It's like being unwilling to hire people who are blind or deaf, or who need a wheel chair. (Uh oh! Is "wheel chair"
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by nessus42 14y ago
Thanks again! You restore my faith that it is possible to have a reasonable conversation around here. This leads me to a question: Do mathematicians actually try to analyze primes by looking at a function that is created by combining a set
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by nessus42 14y ago
Dude, I think that you are less intellectually rigorous than you strive to appear, and rude to boot. Did you look at the paper that the visualization cites? It provides both the semicircular version and a sine-wave version. The paper does s
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by nessus42 14y ago
Are you claiming that I've gleaned no insight at all as to why Fourier transforms are used in number theory? Or are you claiming that I just didn't acquire this insight from the visualization? If you claim the latter, then just where did I
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by nessus42 14y ago
I thought that it was debunked decades ago that dietary cholesterol significantly increases bad serum cholesterol (i.e., LDL). Dr. Agatston, the famous cardiologist who invented what is now the standard test for coronary calcification, cert
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by nessus42 14y ago
Thank you. I don't know what's up with the increasing trend around here for people to imply you are an idiot over some nitpick that seems to reveal only that the nitpicker spent no effort to try understanding what you had to say, and would
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by nessus42 14y ago
The reason for all the math proofs in the real Stanford class is, I assume, because it is training you to have a deep understanding of Machine Learning, and perhaps even to become a Machine Learning researcher. This is the type of education
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by nessus42 14y ago
SICP is overrated to whom ? For me, it was the most profound and wonderful educational experience of my life. I found it to be profoundly inspirational and educational. I found it to be beautiful, uplifting, moving, rewarding, and just i
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by nessus42 14y ago
I think there's some benefit in figuring out the math well-enough so that you can translate each formula into a small number of linear algebra operations without any loops. They weren't always expressed that way. If they had been, then the
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by nessus42 14y ago
You keep expressing your opinion. Please tell me how there is no "I" in your opinion. I see two of them: o-p-I-n-I-o-n. Also, I never said not to listen to any of these other folks. It was you who told me that I didn't learn to program in m
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by nessus42 14y ago
Indeed the title did not stand. The title was recently changed, just as you asserted it "should" be.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I take it, then, that you find nothing inspirational in the videos made by Vi Hart either. To each, their own. As to the diagrams you pointed me at, they mean nothing to me, and do not inspire me. If I knew more about number theory, perhaps
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by nessus42 14y ago
It tells you that prime numbers and periodic curves might be related more than you might have thought at first blush. I.e., if you can mathematically describe and analyze this set of periodic curves, then you have also described and can ana
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by nessus42 14y ago
Odersky's own Scala book has some large examples that are based on sections of SICP. E.g., the digital circuit simulator.
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by nessus42 14y ago
You thought that figuring out how to vectorize the solutions was "child's play"? Sure, coming up with any-ol' working solution was child's play, but figuring how how to get the solutions to be one or two lines of code containing only matrix
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by nessus42 14y ago
First of all, as I have mentioned, I have implemented programs using real nand gates, with my very own hands, using copper wires and microcode. Furthermore, my CPU is made out of nand gates, so yes I do program nand gates every day. If
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by nessus42 14y ago
I don't know much about number theory, but I think this visualization probably provides significant intuition as to why number theory, which contains only theorems about integers, uses tons of math that is about a lot more than integers. E
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by nessus42 14y ago
Everything we do in any high level programming languages is an illusion. In fact, even assembly language is an illusion. The only thing that isn't an illusion is building a computer out of nand gates, and the like. In my education, we START
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by nessus42 14y ago
Here's Logo in the wild: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ It's used to do all sorts of interesting things, including real economic modeling. I.e., I've seen it used by real economists. When I first saw NetLogo being used by an e
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by nessus42 14y ago
As to that quote, firstly you give it stronger weight than it was intended to convey. It was someone's opinion on the best way to educate, not a statement about use of force to allow or disallow anything. More importantly, that quote is nei
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by nessus42 14y ago
> And now you're telling me that you had access to much better education and that my education surely sucked ass. Your education is obviously lacking because you say uneducated things. It's as simple as that. For instance, you asserte
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by nessus42 14y ago
> And you can explain those to 6 yr old child. The most popular programming language for teaching children is Logo, a FUNCTIONAL programming language!
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by nessus42 14y ago
> And there you go again, as the OP did. Self-praise, deprecation of others. What happened to humility? That's surely the pot calling the kettle black! First of all, I didn't praise myself--I praised the education that I was fortunate
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by nessus42 14y ago
Where do you get the crazy idea that you can't write functional programs? Or that SICP didn't have you write programs? SICP didn't start off with "theory"--it started off with PROGRAMMING. The programming that you did at first, however, jus
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by nessus42 14y ago
That was a great conceipt for the TV series "Caprica". In reality, it's completely nonsensical!
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by nessus42 14y ago
I like this part of the OP: "If singularitarians were 19th century engineers, they’d be the ones talking about our glorious future of transportation by proposing to hack up horses and replace their muscles with hydraulics. Yes, that’s the
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by nessus42 14y ago
Yes, the class was SICP. I can't say enough good things about how it influenced my still-forming mind. I went to MIT because I wanted to study black holes and neutron stars, and after this class, I learned that there was something even cool
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by nessus42 14y ago
>It means the course wasn't about programming. Maybe it was misnamed or maybe you approximate its real title. Oops, my mistake. I took you for a serious poster, not a troll. The class I took at MIT (SICP) and the textbook that was use
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by nessus42 14y ago
>Immutable data objects and all the stuff are not the basics of programming. They never were. Unless you single-handedly redefine the meaning of "programming". Immutability was considered to be more fundamental when I took my first pr
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by nessus42 14y ago
How is that not OO then? OO is not defined by Java. The first OO languages and systems were descended from Lisp or built within Lisp, a functional programming language. OO without inheritance is still OO. OO with immutability is sill OO. En

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