ryanartecona

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   by ryanartecona 11mo ago

   Wow! I'd never heard of gollygang/ready before, but it looks extremely cool. Thanks for sharing.
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   by ryanartecona 2y ago

   This reminds me of this other work[1], which is also a fascinating example of emergence from a dynamical system. Instead of a chemical reaction model, it's a model of slime mold growth, as a system of particles and some update rules. T
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   by ryanartecona 11y ago

   Huge missed opportunity to name this thing `scat`, and claim the poop emoji as a logo.
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   Systems at Facebook Scale (Applicative 2015 Keynote)(youtube.com)

   1 points by ryanartecona 11y ago|0 comments
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   Game-playing software holds lessons for neuroscience(nature.com)

   1 points by ryanartecona 12y ago|0 comments
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   by ryanartecona 12y ago

   Seconded. To elaborate, it is essentially a lightly edited transcription of all the lectures of an undergraduate introduction to categories course, complete with diagrams, exercises, and dialogue, and even including students' answers (
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   by ryanartecona 12y ago

   I'll add: if all this seems too opaque to jump into at once (and especially if you're unfamiliar with Haskell or other FP languages), don't give up on FP! A "functional" language is not always a "pure" lan