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by partition 15y ago
I completely agree with your general sentiment. I think everyone who is downvoting you has installed in themselves a despicable world-view: that professional psychiatric support along with medication is a necessary part of having a fulfilli
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by partition 15y ago
I say that "depression" along with "mental illness" are cop-out concepts used to shift the burden off society and onto the individual, by placing blame on some nebulous, bullshit entity. I believe that the "root causes" of depression are wh
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by partition 15y ago
This looks like just another computer with a lot of cores. What are the physically-based arguments against large advances in speed of _serial_ processors besides the cliched "Moore's Law isn't working anymore" semantic stopsign? http://mat
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by partition 15y ago
Even in the GPS example, it's not a poor choice. What if there are places you decide to visit or not visit, based on the availability of GPS? For example, exploring a new city in your car; if I didn't have my iPhone so I could search intere
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by partition 15y ago
This touches on an ethical problem that is also briefly mentioned in the book "Programming by Demonstration," which I think restates the problem in the best way: http://acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/index.html#Foreword "In any case, I thin
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by partition 15y ago
Yes! So can we stop pretending (through monetary and social credit) that for everything worth developing, it was just one guy acting alone?
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by partition 15y ago
I think what might be more problematic is our systemic bias toward attributing the "credit" (monetary and social credit) to any significant work to one person. This just causes pretty much any collaborative work that is not between "pure" f
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by partition 15y ago
I agree that this is suboptimal. But it's true that you need both business and technical skills to get something out the door competently. And for these engineers and workers, the feeling of fulfillment that they have working for Steve is r
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by partition 15y ago
Here are some points I'd like to discuss: 1. It's clearly not beneficial to "never settle" for everything. Some things you _do_ settle on, hell you settle on them _out of habit_. Other things, like your career or love life, is not so cle
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‘Never Settle’ Is A Brag(overcomingbias.com)
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by partition 16y ago
Great idea. But what if no one loves you? To address this, you might be able to automatically generate moral support. You just need to add a 'link to Facebook' feature along with a little machine learning + speech->text->speech algo
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by partition 16y ago
This 'article' is very clearly another instance of trollish, uninformed misleading shit designed to sell copies of <author>'s book. The whole piece is pretty much 'Revenge of the Nerds' tripe, containing the usual, trite anti-jock (
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by partition 16y ago
This is excellent. Thanks for linking this. I'm still kind of new to PL research and this looks like a ''who's who'' of higher-level PL topics. Anyone have recommendations on the right books to read, by the way? I'm working through Pierce'
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by partition 16y ago
I pretty much agree with this. In fact, when execution can be cast as implementing a computer program, one can be very formal about comparing ideas and execution; they are related the same way theorems and proofs are. If we use the Curry-Ho
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by partition 16y ago
Would you mind sending some my way too? My specialization is more in applications; in libraries/domain specific languages, particularly ones for AI/statistics applications and functional logic programming. Email's in my profile.
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by partition 16y ago
I'm taken aback by this whole discussion. For all the bashing that goes on in HN about schools being glorified test prep centers and not living up to their potential for educating students, we sure are quick to accept "studies" like this th
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by partition 16y ago
> I think the escape hatch is that the information conveyed is not the points on the screen, but the rule on how to generate those points. Going back to my other post this means that the city builder conveys no information about a parti
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by partition 16y ago
You touch on a very interesting and general concept, and that is the correspondence between lossless compression algorithms and probability distributions, and the subsequent correspondence between probability distributions and procedural ge
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by partition 16y ago
OK, I should check out the ACM article. It definitely seems like one needs to pare down the interactions with the provider to some bare minimum. Limiting it to single, uncorrelated map-reduce (or even just reduce) steps seems like it would
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by partition 16y ago
I have a question about homomorphic encryption and information leakage. Do I have this right: A homomorphic encryption is a function e :: P -> C between groups (P, -) and (C, +), where P is the set of plaintext and C is the se
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by partition 16y ago
While programming in Haskell I also struggled with Haskell's brand of whitespace indentation, even though I come from Python. The key difference in usability between Python's whitespace indentation system and Haskell's indentation system is
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by partition 16y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the peer review system was designed specifically to keep out the low-quality material that blogs let through for free because of their more inherently democractic nature; I can't be the onl
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by partition 16y ago
While browsing for related source after making my post I found this site: http://tunes.org/wiki/category_20theory_20101.html I liked their explanations of algebras and coalgebras.
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by partition 16y ago
I thought group theory was the easy part. Indeed, that's pretty much what crypto is based on. Many other security applications in CS also rely on group-theoretic notions. Consider homomorphic encryption; the idea that one can develop an enc
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by partition 16y ago
Discrete math and probability have been done to death as computer science-related topics. You cannot get far in a CS program without learning these topics forward and back. That being said, this book is good as a starting point that collect
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by partition 16y ago
I would personally caution against the championing, if not the individual embracing of such an idea. This looks like a 'race to the bottom' to me. Consider what happens in the long run. Sooner or later people will either catch on or get use
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by partition 16y ago
I'm curious about the general effectiveness of the latest versions of GHC in optimizing single-threaded code. We know of huge gains with the parallelism libraries, but I'm wondering what the consensus is for code that's more inherently sequ
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by partition 16y ago
There are two things I like about paper that make it superior to viewing text on an LCD or CRT (for most forms of text that exist), that unfortunately the article, which is FUD shill from the paper industry, doesn't cover. 1. Ease of annota
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by partition 16y ago
It's worse than the actions of individual students being dishonest. The fact that someone can do this, for so many students, in so little time, along with the fact that the students themselves have not been called out for the obvious mismat
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by partition 16y ago
Something like this has been sorely needed. I'm wondering if it's possible to generalize this over different OSes, if the code itself is multi-platform, or there is some way to specify hints for it (or should there be). I also go to Stanfor

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