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by pgbovine 9y ago
several of my blog posts have had high google scholar citation counts; doesn't make them scientific articles, though. still just my personal opinions.
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by pgbovine 9y ago
yep we had 7am start times. wake up at 5:30am then wait for the school bus. i think they've pushed back to 8am or even 9am lately
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by pgbovine 10y ago
code release isn't always the most important. bret victor never released code to any of his prototypes, but the ideas conveyed in his interactive essays have inspired many hackers to come up with their own solutions, or to adapt his id
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by pgbovine 10y ago
webfaction is great
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by pgbovine 10y ago
that's a great question! i never did a diff of the source, but a good place to start is to diff ceval.c, which contains the main interpreter loop.
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by pgbovine 10y ago
N=1 personal anecdote: A few years ago I spent a day visiting Wellesley College's CS department (all-women's school) to give a talk and to meet with professors and students. And one of the main vibes I got was that students felt w
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by pgbovine 10y ago
the 'crossover point' is different for everyone. e.g., would you rather be a 60th percentile student at a top-tier, or 90th percentile at a second-tier? (for some fuzzy, ill-defined definition of 'percentile') everyone n
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by pgbovine 10y ago
#meta -- don't report back :) keep those to yourself. make a post at the end of the year to reflect on what you ended up doing, not what you plan to do.
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Blockly has been a reasonably widely-used open-source contribution, especially given that it's mostly a one-person project (the last time I checked, but that was a few yrs ago).
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Sure, there are advantages to both approaches, if done well. But I bet that diving into Linux first would make it really hard for beginners to get a deep grasp of core concepts; may be fine for more advanced learners. e.g., the scheduler is
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by pgbovine 10y ago
What about a 'teaching' OS/compiler/toolchain vs. the 'real' thing? e.g., a stripped-down OS kernel with minimal clean code optimized for teaching vs. throwing someone into Linux source. or a teaching-oriented
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by pgbovine 10y ago
technical paper is online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07862
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by pgbovine 10y ago
UIST is one of the premier human-computer interaction tools conferences, so it's the closest that accepts "SIGGRAPH-like" technique papers for audio. Maneesh Agrawala from Stanford has several great papers in this space of au
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by pgbovine 10y ago
best "well-actually" of the day
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by pgbovine 10y ago
best comment today :) thanks. i managed to recover, though, thankfully. should write a new epilogue sometime, but haven't gotten around to it.
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by pgbovine 10y ago
My unsolicited advice: Don't change a word. At most, link to this HN thread so that readers can see different perspectives, but you wrote the article you wanted to write, not the one that anonymous online critics wanted you to write. I
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by pgbovine 10y ago
If you want a CS Ph.D., demonstrate that you're a REALLY REALLY GOOD programmer; that can make up for lack of significant research experience. I've advised a few dozen students of various ranks, and I still rate programming abilit
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Having spent time at schools of various "ranks" (whatever that means), "politics" (whatever that means ... that's super vague) is everywhere. It's what you make of it. Whenever you have people, money, and statu
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by pgbovine 10y ago
That's not exactly how it works. Professors can use grant money to buy out of teaching; they are not forfeiting their base salary. That money will be (indirectly) used to fund other instructors, which may be grad students. It's no
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Thanks everyone! Recording lectures has been great since it doesn't take much extra work than not recording; just takes some time to render the final videos and upload. Ideally I'd have time to split the videos up into smaller chu
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by pgbovine 10y ago
(I've visited and been a resident ... I guess I'm one of the non-high-profile ones). From my N=1 anecdotes during several visits, the vast majority of attendees were not "high profile" (whatever that definition is) ... a
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Microsoft Touch Develop is the only thing that comes to mind here: https://www.touchdevelop.com/
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by pgbovine 10y ago
i've never seen this done successfully. what's your motivation for doing this? so that you can code on the go? why not get a tiny laptop?
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by pgbovine 10y ago
also thanks from the countless numbers of additional people who mostly read this site and don't comment much
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by pgbovine 10y ago
I'd go one step further and claim that good papers from reputable researchers (in our sub-fields, at least) are all freely available on the authors' websites. There's loads of shady journals behind paywalls that publish low
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by pgbovine 10y ago
Vim user for ~10 years ... I find Vim more productive for writing prose than coding, since oftentimes the limiting factor when coding isn't pure typing/editing speed. And, as other posters have mentioned, good IDEs nowadays have a
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by pgbovine 11y ago
Yes, this is one path to getting someone hooked on learning CS, which works for a small percentage of students (myself included). However, most learners are motivated by other ideals beyond intrinsic language purity. This academic book high
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by pgbovine 11y ago
i dunno, i'm on the side of Prof. DeNero (who runs this course website) in this rap battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcWL2AfT7k
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by pgbovine 11y ago
hmmm, I thought Jeff Dean was the Chuck Norris of programming: http://www.businessinsider.com/astounding-facts-about-google...
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by pgbovine 11y ago
yep, but if you're good (e.g., a deep learning expert nowadays) and work on mission-critical, visible projects at a company with rising stock prices (Google, FB, etc.), i'm sure you can sustain $200k total comp each year as a fres

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