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by octatoan 11y ago
I like how Norvig isn't a Real Programmer. His way of describing the problem before starting to work on it is refreshing.
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by octatoan 11y ago
"We must away / We must away / We must away ere break of day / . . ."
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by octatoan 11y ago
Is that something like "Ich muss nach der Zahnarzt . . ."?
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by octatoan 11y ago
I'm very sad that Hacker School had to change its name (for entirely valid reasons, although it's sad they're there). "Recurse Center" makes it sound like some . . . creationist think-tank.
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by octatoan 11y ago
Sown?
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by octatoan 11y ago
It's been felt all over India too.
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by octatoan 11y ago
I think you meant "whetting". :)
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by octatoan 11y ago
Functors and monads are somewhat not going to change their names, partly because Haskell derives from math and those are what they're called over there. But foldl' is horrible, I agree.
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by octatoan 12y ago
If I remember correctly, isn't this one of the problems Idris and Agda are good at solving?
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by octatoan 12y ago
He was in the Princeton Companion, right? The advice section?
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by octatoan 12y ago
He's probably poking fun at the "gurls arent creative loool' trope.
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by octatoan 12y ago
Burritos!
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Underwater Street View, now at a Loch Ness near you(google.com)
3 points by octatoan 12y ago|1 comments
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by octatoan 12y ago
What the hell is "the Hindustani Classical Scale"?!
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by octatoan 12y ago
Could you explain?
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Tips for learning advanced math (or CS, physics etc.) while in HS?
10 points by octatoan 12y ago|5 comments
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by octatoan 12y ago
Yes, I've been doing this for a while and I think it just might be working.
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by octatoan 12y ago
If Mark really believes in what he's saying, he shouldn't object to only making nonprofits like Wikipedia or OCW a part of the initiative. Facebook isn't an essential good.
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Schröder–Bernstein theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by octatoan 12y ago|0 comments
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Simulating a simple harmonic oscillator in Python(ham.so)
8 points by octatoan 12y ago|0 comments
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by octatoan 12y ago
It was painful to realise that you'd spent two years of German thinking " also " meant "also". :(
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Hofstadter's Triangles-in-Squares Sequence [video](youtube.com)
2 points by octatoan 12y ago|0 comments
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The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds(grantland.com)
4 points by octatoan 12y ago|1 comments
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Maillard reactions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by octatoan 12y ago|0 comments
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by octatoan 12y ago
> The typical M.O. of American business and industry is to drive a species right to the edge of extinction and then let some minor weather event finish the job. That's what's happening here. Brilliantly put.
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by octatoan 12y ago
And that correlation does not imply causation.
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by octatoan 12y ago
That was fun!
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by octatoan 12y ago
"Username checks out"
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by octatoan 12y ago
Sleep enough and well . Sleep quality is really important, too.
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by octatoan 12y ago
I don't think this is as easy as you make it seem. A whole bunch of problems in typing and deduction are undecidable in the general case. (Don't know about this one, but just saying.) Also, you seem a little aggressive toward &quo

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