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by nnq 11y ago
Abandoned, but large parts of this seem to be the work of Yann LeCun ( https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151728212367143 ), Facebook's director of AI research, right? ...curious if scraped parts of th
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by nnq 12y ago
I remembered what helped me with a more or less similar problem: plain old "focusing on the now / present / just this second". 1. You can look into plain/western mindfulness meditation (the science-based non-mystica
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by nnq 12y ago
> once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back I don't get it. Can't you retain copyright to code you yourself release under GPL and also use it under a different license or as part of closes source software? As far as I
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by nnq 12y ago
ok, I totally missed his github profile page link. interesting projects, a link to a personal page with more links, so this is probably not his problem. I'll delete my comment to make sure I don'd give him misinformed advice.
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by nnq 12y ago
That's one more reason to also convince your coworkers, acquaintances, friends etc. to download and try it, even if you know they probably won't need it :) The longer the lists, the harder it will be for anyone to be singled out f
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by nnq 12y ago
I thought about something similar, but more like a "monastery-style research institute" where people, with some amount of provable expertise, regardless of credentials or previous publications, would be able to check-in for pre-d
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by nnq 12y ago
You're right but it's not about the dose only. If I blast a millimeter-sized piece of your finger with neutrons the body dose might be extremely small, but that piece of finger tissue might itself become radioactive and the newly-
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by nnq 12y ago
Alpha particles (high energy bare Helium nuclei actually) and beta particles (high energy electrons actually) don't "go into your blood", they are just absorbed by atoms in your skin and they break a few molecules those atoms
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by nnq 12y ago
I'm definitely from the same planet as the parent poster (PP). There is a subset of people, like me and PP (I'd say we're probably < 10% of the general population), for which physical exercise really is "repetitive, b
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by nnq 12y ago
Mostly of off-topic, but I have to ask: what's the state of Go compilers for ARM nowadays? Are they generating optimized code on par with x86 ones?
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by nnq 12y ago
The thing with "undecidable in the general case" is that 80% if the time you can just heuristically guess an be right. Most bugs are shallow. Typos, forgetting operators etc. And even if the guess is just plain wrong, I think that
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by nnq 12y ago
What Haskell is mission in order to be more learnable by anyone imho is sane error messages. The simplest example I can think of is typing foldl + 100 [1, 2, 5] in the repl by mystake instead of foldl (+) 100 [1, 2, 5] and getting a
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by nnq 12y ago
Just to make something clear before going away from this discussion: by "process" I don't necessarily think in terms of the drawing utensils/paper etc., I see it more as a "process of generating pixels or data point
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by nnq 12y ago
> just right for introducing someone with programmer experience but who doesn't have graphics experience Are you kidding? Most programmers with really no graphics experience are along the lines of "wtf is a shader?!" or &q
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by nnq 12y ago
I'm not trying to diminish the greatness of her gesture, but she really was shielded from the "You risk the mob turning on you as well" part by two very simple facts: her skin color and being a young woman... kind of hard to
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by nnq 12y ago
Interesting. It might make be fun to try and look for "process oriented" vs. "existence/properties" oriented people around, and will sure make for some entertaining lunchtime discussions... Like the thing with algeb
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by nnq 12y ago
Indeed, this is how things are described in a textbook. And how they should be. But, for example, after you've learned how to draw an ellipse using a string, a pen and two pins (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UD8
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by nnq 12y ago
> 2) It's closer to mathematics which many people know. No. They don't. Most people have the "how to" knowledge of basic math in their heads. The imperative parts like the algorithm for dividing and multiplying number
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by nnq 12y ago
You can freely mix Hack code and PHP code on the HHVM, calling functions and classes defined in any PHP file inside you Hack app. Then you can slowly evolve the codebase to contain more and more Hack and less and less PHP. That's the
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by nnq 12y ago
Why do we need to duplicate the effort that people (some very smart people, btw!) have put into Hack ( http://hacklang.org/ ), a sane strictly typed PHP successor with many other good stuff added?! (imho, not only good , b
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Ask HN: Why don't most NoSQL DBMSs have “pointers”?
4 points by nnq 12y ago|1 comments
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by nnq 12y ago
> Even when the syntax is simple, the conceptual complexity of the language is quite big. Lisp is a very simple language conceptually. The problem is that it allows you to build insane amounts of complexity in a very "free for all
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Why activist investors are good for the public company(economist.com)
1 points by nnq 12y ago|0 comments
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Programming languages explained for “suits”(itforsuits.com)
1 points by nnq 12y ago|0 comments
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by nnq 12y ago
Organic chemistry and biochemistry are very different from physics, but chemistry is a very large field and these are just a small part of it. You should have been exposed to physical chemistry or computational chemistry or maybe even
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by nnq 12y ago
So if I absolutely hate debugging , it means I'm not meant to be a programmer after all (even if I otherwise love everything about programming)?! I hate debugging (and more generally "diagnostic reasoning" in general... al
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by nnq 12y ago
> Quantum cryptology is currently in limited use and expanding, and may one day offer us all security from the NSA's of the world ..."classic" cryptography done right, and software done right, with verifiable versions of c
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by nnq 12y ago
> Since Node.js runs on a single thread, everything that will block the event loop will block everything. That means that if you have a web server with a thousand connected clients and you happen to block the event loop, every client wil
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by nnq 12y ago
Unfortunately your otherwise correct and very healthy mentality on work/pay ethics is only fashionable in US + Canada + Australia + parts of Europe. The whole rest of the world (that happens to include more than 60% of the planet&#x2
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by nnq 12y ago
Agree! I think the real advice should be: Throw away the first prototype version of a software and rewire v1.0 from scratch that you can use as a solid base for future development (for any application that is expected to have a long life -

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