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by nhaliday 10y ago
That reasoning is plausible, but a large portion of their longevity could easily be due to network effects (libraries + legacy code) and nothing to do with the quality of the languages.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
There are two more tests used for team selection after the USAMO (during the training camp).
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by nhaliday 10y ago
I'm not sure about expanding on Bayes' theorem, but some other notions from ML/stats that would be good to know are overfitting/the bias-variance tradeoff and base rates. One instance where I've seen the former appl
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by nhaliday 10y ago
I don't think you should claim to be a researcher on the topic if you're not in the academic system and haven't published peer-reviewed quantitative papers. "Independent researcher" (w/ a link to the bibliograp
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by nhaliday 10y ago
There's some prior work in this area: https://hypothes.is/ Very functional, but I stick to private annotations and haven't noticed very many by others. They're also entirely open-source and there are componen
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Why Does Software Rot?(overcomingbias.com)
96 points by nhaliday 10y ago|80 comments
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Yeah, until now I found it discouraging that most freely available material in distributed systems consisted of either reading lists or terse slides. I've seen people compare to the field to the humanities in that reading the primary s
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Notes on CPSC 465/565: Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf](cs.yale.edu)
117 points by nhaliday 10y ago|9 comments
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by nhaliday 10y ago
There have been some efforts along these lines in computer science and math: http://theoryofcomputing.org/ (has some nice surveys if you're into theoretical computer science) http://discreteanalysisjournal.c
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by nhaliday 10y ago
It looks like the first guy's paper is partially based on an idea well-known in the competitive programming community (makes sense given the 3 IOI medals). http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/18051 Cool.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
I don't really think the physical approach is any more concrete than Scott Aaronson's approach (at least in the way most people talk about concreteness wrt pedagogy). The point of having examples is to illustrate how general princ
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Indeed the typical wisdom in math is that the best way to understand a group (and the reason we usually care about one) is its actions. There's some quote to the effect of: "Just as with men, a group is known by its actions.&quot
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by nhaliday 10y ago
One possibility would be to use http://www.openscad.org/ as some sort of intermediate language. edit: And there are apparently a few standardized, lower-level ASCII formats including https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by nhaliday 10y ago
That's fair but Rust has the same primary design goal and yet I find programming in it more ergonomic (despite Rust having a cranky borrow-checker that C++ lacks). I don't know how much of that is due to C++'s historical bagg
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by nhaliday 10y ago
For Rust at least there's been some bikeshedding about that https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/33auoe/idiomatic_rust... .
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Preshing is a smart guy but this seems to miss the point in a way typical of C++ devs. Python—as with other languages—isn't just a list of features. It also has a guiding philosophy (made explicit in Python's case in https:/
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Any comments on how your product and plans compare to https://sourcegraph.com/ ? They seem to have a similar offering with an on-premise version, though lacking the smooth editor integration.
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by nhaliday 10y ago
Another competitor (with a strong focus on polyglot use): http://beakernotebook.com/ . Made by the people at https://www.twosigma.com/ .
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by nhaliday 11y ago
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ is a pretty good source (also Russia-based). I'm not sure whether it covers all textbooks of the more obscure kind, e.g., the ones typically referred to as "monographs," but it has work