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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i don't understand your snark. do you honestly think python, as a programming language, is superior to something like racket or f#? these languages are newer than python of course, but the point is that they are representative of what
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> that and forum posts look to be now down ranked in Google in favor retail sites i find myself having to explicitly add "forum" or "forums" to my google search to find things that might be in a forum, despite them be
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
is he just now becoming aware of it? it seems he had no idea something like sml existed when he first created python. i am sure he had heard of lisp/scheme but probably ignored it.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i am sorry. you are right. i misremembered about sml (haven't written in it much and in a while) and incorrectly lumped in ocaml. i should have been more careful. f# was what was really on my mind.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
f# has white-space oriented formatting.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
their automated systems are fine, but their actual service is terrible. anytime you need to do something outside of their "system", it is a complete mess and most of the time a complete dead end. as an example, in the past year, i
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> Unfortunately nobody has come up with a convincing argument as to exactly why we need tangibles, aside from some philosophical musings that fetishize the supposed "richness" of real-world interaction. i am not sure i understa
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
there is nothing accessible about modern day computers. we can’t see anything that is going on, and it is terribly difficult if not impossible to change things in most cases. almost all of modern computing is a collection of tunnel visioned
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
and since when is that considered okay?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> there are just too many hidden parts which are sometimes faulty i guess you must live in a different universe than me if this doesn’t apply to “normal” and “viable” computer systems and cs education. the entirety of your post seems lik
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
that crash wasn’t because of the markings. saying so, although maybe accurate, softens the issue. it was because tesla has a poor autonomous system that couldn’t plainly see a road splitting and instead hit a barrier at full speed wit no
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
yea, just like we’ve been able to outfit all roads properly for aiding human drivers. you mentioned it’s costly, but this just won’t or can’t happen. we don’t even properly maintain our roads.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> If the majority of your code is map/reduce that's great for you who said it was? (it isn’t.) you asked for examples, and i gave the most recent one. > You need to split up your workload, schedule the work across the cores,
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
are these meetings really so critical that you can’t miss them for a few times a year or even once a month?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
that is true, but even that i find that frustrating. the reality is what it is but it bothers me people working shifts don’t have sick hours or the mobility to take care of themselves during the day like this.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
is it really such a big deal to take sick time or just leave work for these types of appointments though?
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it is a failure by definition. i don’t see the point of letting your love of a company aid in changing the definitions of words and meaning of concepts. and i personally feel this failure is an indication that their product line isn’t as st
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
well, trade offs are trade offs because then one has to worry about intraprocess communication. can you elaborate on security exploits? i would assume a closed off system with interprocess communication would be less vulnerable than that wi
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
well just today i sped up a simple algorithm by a factor of two or three on larger data sets by simply turning on parallelism in a for loop, which distributes iterations across cores and then merges them afterwards. so multicore performance
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> I appreciate that Apple was honest with their communication. why do you assume it was honest? they sold products based upon the impending release of this product, even including it on the packaging of products according to another comm
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
basically every program i have written has been concurrent and benefited from multi core support. a language that doesn’t have it just isn’t an option.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
maybe this is because i am no longer a kid and not spending as much time outside or due to location, but i can’t remember the last time i saw a frog, worm, toad, or turtle in the wild.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
agreed. i had it in mind the person was a math major. although i think topology is approachable without analysis with some dedication, it certainly helps provide context for the abstraction. i listed another nice book in another comment,
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
there is a book by jay cummings called real analysis: a long-form mathematics textbook that i highly recommend checking out. used with a more "advanced" book, it could be a nice complement. Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
just look at his research papers.
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
you will understand very little of the math in this book without a substantial background in mathematics. however, and i think the author would agree, you should jump in anyway. you'll pick up pictures, applications, vocabulary, and so
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
why skeptical when he is a top applied mathematician? and he explains in the preface why it is seemingly light on details. it's because the details (the math) are elsewhere. the applications (as isolated entities) are also out there to
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
> I'll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why what credentials does he have? > Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe the speed of light isn't a limit in the se
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
it’s not about being a charity. that is extreme. it is about not understanding how to grow products. they seem to have no idea how to do this. for example, look at the recent gmail update, which is still objectively worse than it was before
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by nikofeyn 8y ago
i don't think that's true for multiparadigm functional languages like f#, racket, and others. these languages allow you to solve problems in the best way and don't necessarily bind you to some draconian perspective like haske

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