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Wave Reflections(alarmingdevelopment.org)
1 points by rw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rw 17y ago
"So I avoid those most of all. Back in the 90s, I was unkown to the powers that be and could not get into TED. I don't forget that and that's why I'll never go to it. I don't want to play that game."
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by rw 17y ago
Is this inhumane?
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by rw 17y ago
Recommendation: Python, commandline; then wrap a GUI around it.
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by rw 17y ago
From the OP: "For those of you who refuse to read the article, " Maybe some of us already know what hemispatial neglect is, Zed.
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Motorcycle Maintenance and the Matter with Kansas(initforthegold.blogspot.com)
1 points by rw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rw 17y ago
When you can modify the semantics of the entire language , you can use any paradigm you want.
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by rw 17y ago
A Lisper myself, what I really want from Python are its libraries. I don't care about its syntactical "elegance" at all.
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The Axiom of Choice is Wrong (2007)(cornellmath.wordpress.com)
35 points by rw 17y ago|19 comments
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by rw 17y ago
This is a great reference, better than the clojure.org website.
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by rw 17y ago
Steve is saying that miraculous things can happen even without a god or gods around to make them happen. All that is needed is a sufficiently-sophisticated (insert ironic reference to compiler optimization here) understanding of physics. Re
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by rw 17y ago
Steve, please continue blogging. Nobody's figured it out yet, or if they have, we probably have few ways to confirm their correctness.
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by rw 17y ago
More likely, the "programming language" is going to be about programming the universe. Here's some inspiration: And then there's the weirdness beyond M31: According to the more conservative cosmologists, an alien superpower – maybe a colle
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by rw 17y ago
gcc (not installed by default)
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by rw 17y ago
Thanks for the alley-oop? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612002
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by rw 17y ago
Aaronson rips NKS a new one in this review: http://scottaaronson.com/papers/nks.pdf
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by rw 17y ago
"Problems On Algorithms" (Parberry, Gasarch): A slim volume containing ~700 exercises on proving various properties of algorithms. And it teaches you most of what is needed. Download it from: http://www.eng.unt.edu/ian/books/free/ "Elemen
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by rw 17y ago
I've been here long enough... since February or so I've drastically decreased my voting participation. I perceive that my votes won't counteract the effects of the (well-intentioned) flood of newcomers.
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Is the use of computers harmful to introductory CS pedagogy?(groups.google.com)
1 points by rw 17y ago|1 comments
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by rw 17y ago
Some anti-nuclear activists do. Have you only ever seen whiny and blind activism?
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Two nanotech optical cloaking prototypes (technologyreview.com)
1 points by rw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rw 17y ago
The books you buy for the Kindle are physical books, i.e. they are made of electrons.
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by rw 17y ago
This analogy goes a long way in explaining what we do to those not steeped in the creative aspects of programming.
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Different problems aren't always different(hbfs.wordpress.com)
2 points by rw 18y ago|0 comments
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by rw 18y ago
So, how might they have been using it internally?
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by rw 18y ago
"When Sun liberated the Solaris source code, the company deliberately chose a license that would make it difficult for the code to be adapted for use in the Linux kernel. Oracle will probably dual-license the Solaris code so that it is avai
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by rw 18y ago
"just" a philosophical problem!
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by rw 18y ago
A large reason to do this research is that our intuitions are often wrong. Your instrospective conclusions could easily have credited your father's early influence on you, instead of genetics.
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by rw 18y ago
What sad language do you use? :(
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Measure the gravitational constant like Cavendish did in 1798(funcall.blogspot.com)
35 points by rw 18y ago|20 comments

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