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by rplevy 18y ago
I could be wrong about this, but I think the mesh capabilities depend on some of the intricacies of Sugar/Bitfrost and you lose that when running Ubuntu. Admittedly meshing is not a practical need (I mostly use it for reading books, but al
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Parsing's not just for languages anymore(lispcast.com)
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A History of Macro Systems(wisdomandwonder.com)
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Es: A shell with higher-order functions(192.220.96.201)
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by rplevy 18y ago
When did you first know that you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?
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by rplevy 18y ago
I read somewhere that Javascript was originally implemented in Lisp. Wouldn't it be so much better if they stuck with Lisp as the basis for extending Firefox (Netscape at the time)? Maybe in that alternate history it would have seemed obv
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by rplevy 18y ago
One can only express so much in a short sentence, but McCarthy's reply does sum up one version of a traditional cognitivist understanding of perception. That is the idea that knowledge is raw data, and that thought is processing. It seems
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by rplevy 18y ago
This is interesting. I haven't read the Curry-Howard stuff myself, but I found this article interesting. Aaron Sloman argues that Turing machines (or related formalisms like lambda calculus) are actually irrelevant to how computers have d
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by rplevy 18y ago
The non-scribd pdf is here: www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/publications/white-marino-feinerCHI07.pdf
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Designing a Mobile User Interface for Automated Species Identification(scribd.com)
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by rplevy 18y ago
I remember reading a news story about this exact type of thing a few years ago. I can't find the article but it might have been about LeafView: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/efg/uist06-abs... http://www.cs.columbia.edu/
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by rplevy 18y ago
You are very right. And I read pg's essay on how to disagree too. While I (for this audience I will assume-- obviously) agree with jmc's objections to intelligent design on that page, pretty much all of his politically-geared statements
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by rplevy 18y ago
McCarthy is clearly a legend and a genius in the domain of computer science. Unfortunately he also has the political imagination of a developmentally disabled love child of G. W. Bush and Ayn Rand. For additional political commentary by J
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by rplevy 19y ago
I agree with the advice to read Higher Order Perl, but read Wall's (Blue Camel) book Programming Perl first. Both are fun to read, but I found HOP much more useful after reading Wall's book. If you don't already know regular expressions,
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by rplevy 19y ago
I realize that in a way I am just restating what other people have said, but it seems very odd to me that this complaint would even come up in 2008. We are living in a time when Linux distributions have amazing package management that make
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Tron in Cardboard Stop-Motion Animation(dailymotion.com)
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by rplevy 19y ago
There were a bunch of bulletin boards that I used as a teenager in upstate/central NY. My favorite in terms of bulletin board software were the the ones using Citadel.
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by rplevy 19y ago
underground 1960s and 70s psychedelic, modern composers, electroacoustic noise, idigenous folk art, (Joik anyone?), mentally ill street buskers, field recordings, fractal and tesellation sound structures, Heitor Villa-Lobos, evolutionary al
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Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban(newscientist.com)
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by rplevy 19y ago
I have not had that experience myself as I am pretty happy with the lisp books I have read. Maybe it's because I took lisp courses in undergrad, and then worked on projects where my figuring things out was driven by specific projects. I w