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Notably this example is declarative, the original is functional, and neither is imperative.
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The key: > immutable data structures --> "we are fully concurrent, because these are what I often call embarrassingly parallelizable problems" The relationship of their performance gains to functional programming ideas is ex
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Perhaps nerve endings within "sense organs" offer a level of abstraction in propagating information to a consciousness somewhere else. Consider happiness. Possibly a cell feels happy when there's plenty of energy and its cell
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Interpersonal connections can matter more than results for one’s career. Spotting an influencer’s error risks closing important doors.
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Panpsychism in various forms has historically held sway with many philosophers. It’s really the Occam’s razor for consciousness.
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Imagine that every individual cell is conscious, and that consciousness is a binary quality.
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> The idea that trauma and violence can have repercussions into future generations should help people be more empathetic, help policymakers pay more attention to the problem of violence Alas, a new target for lasting, inter-generational
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I feel that eagles that can fly large distances are in a different category from land animals, which have greater pressures to adapt their lineages to particular geographic ranges, to specialize within the species. For example, the Florida
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It would be nice if more physical copies of books came with a sort of passport for all major digital versions.
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No empirical data observations? Jk, this is an interesting scenario to think about.
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This might sidestep the current order, but the U.K.’s lawyers will just write a new order.
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When someone asks you if you can commit to delivery in the upcoming sprint, they aren’t trying to learn from you. Also, caveats are valuable information. Yes, we can go live next week if the number of users remains under x until we complete
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Is there no molecule that could be designed which would break down microplastics throughout the body, without harming biological materials? Or even just the blood stream? I’m not a chemist, but it seems like if this can be done it would be
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While I still don’t think it’s likely, there’s always the possibility that I’m wrong. The conversation is shifted to a slightly different topic at this point, but going back to the NIH and the NSF, they aren’t exactly democracy’s bulwarks.
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The Alzheimer’s debacle was already a generation. Perhaps a timely retirement or two would have cut that short. When I have the privilege of working with new college graduates, they get me out of my old modes of thinking. And they are quite
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Some Stanford guy caused the NIH to deprioritize the infectious etiology theory for Alzheimer’s for decades. It’s not clear why his research was considered better than the others’, but it did receive a lot of attention and became the drivin
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Surely your request is in jest?
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I think it means the next administration would have to hire new people to offer grants to researchers. This would bring new perspectives into the process. There is never any shortage of researchers to fund. And that the ranks of researchers
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This hurts, but it also presents an opportunity for rebuilding. An outcome could be a greater diversity of voices influencing research, rather than the NSF and NIH continuing to serve as monoliths. The NIH is the dominant force in medical r
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That’s pretty much what I was looking for in clicking on the article, by what logic or rationale they made that statement.
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An academic knows well that grants and other forms of financing are their lifeblood. It’s also how the government chooses its priorities within academia. Admittedly, I don’t know anything about who was on the budget committee to which Dijks
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That is wild
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Thanks, I had unconsciously guessed Oracle, based on Dijkstra’s mention of Java’s expensive promotional campaign. Sun and Oracle were strategically aligned at the time, so it could have been either or both.
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> He lost a political battle. Political campaigns are often bought. He mentions the expensive promotional campaign that was paid towards Java. > the people that actually know something about the topic decided against him already Mat
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My mistake, at the time, Java was being promoted by Sun Microsystems, which only more recently became a part of Oracle. The promotional campaign that Dijkstra mentions was perhaps orchestrated by Sun Microsystems, though perhaps not since O
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You make a good point. A crucial difference, however, is the types of entities and their motives. A conventional U.S. corporation's motive is to generate profits. Efforts stemming from that motive have not always been in the public int
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Easy: reach the future electorate when they’re pre-teens and feed them influences that eschew critical thinking as a core value. If you can believe that lead pipes contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire… well, let’s just say the In
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I appreciate the recommendations. If Book Tab X has a waterproof rating, unfortunately I'm not finding much about it.
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I wouldn’t assume that your colleagues were less capable as undergrads than the students that Dijkstra encountered at UT Austin. Imperative languages do offer many advantages over Haskell, in that most coursework and industry jobs use them
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Oracle influenced / bought academia into teaching Java for a generation. See Dijkstra’s criticisms[1] from the time, from when his department was forced to stop teaching Haskell to undergrads for political reasons. Note that Haskell ha

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