polos

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by polos 17y ago
Lists are the most ingenious data structures possible; Nature uses them exclusively -- or what do you think DNA or our brain ore molecules are consisting of? (You don't have 'arrays' or 'hashes' in Nature, and why would you need them? Read
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by polos 17y ago
OK, sad, but the problem here is identifying yourself too much with your job (which is always interchangeable and finite, as opposed to identifying yourself with the real value of your person, which is always infinite).
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by polos 17y ago
Having a television is quite strange (except for news): It's like having amazon automatically sending you the (currently) most modern books, without having any real choice. Why on earth should I do so? If I really like a movie, I'll simply
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by polos 17y ago
We should not ignore, once in a while, that we only talk about hypothesis here, quite nothing about his (certainly very interesting theories) can be proven empirically -- so it's far from universally acceptable, real, concrete science. Sad
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by polos 17y ago
Yes, humans are very superficial, most of the time.
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by polos 17y ago
The overall message is: I trust human intelligence -- and this is positive (iff you're actually using your intelligence). In contrast, most crypto rants fall into the "laugh at them, as they're all equally stupid" trap, which is not going
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by polos 17y ago
As much as necessary, and no hour longer. It's not hours that count, but quality. You have to prepare your sleep time, really shutting down as much as possible.
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by polos 17y ago
Teaching has always to do with bringing something really new and perfect to a still quite fresh mind. So, when teaching, you always need to bring the simple and perfect theory. Practice is what your students will make out of your 'perfect'
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by polos 17y ago
I fully understand you -- and I don't understand you at all. If you got all of the revolutionary Lisp ideas, you don't have to worry about the rest -- currently I'm more or less forced to use C++ instead of CL (which is still my favorite la