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by s_ngularity 9y ago
I don't get that impression at all from the article. I think he's just trying to warn others coming to Go from Python about a particular language quirk. Nothing about the intuitiveness of Go or Python at all
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
I was scratching my head looking at the authors code wondering why he didn't just write it exactly how you did. Although technically he was trying to get a pointer/reference to the student in the array, not a copy of its value
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
Ah, you beat me to it
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
To be more clear, the lecture series you are talking about is called "The Character of Physical Law" and is not the same content that one would get from reading "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", which is a rigorous cour
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
Looks like they've already added GPU mining as a MainNet milestone. ( https://github.com/nimiq-network/core/issues/39 )
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
I fail to see how you couldn't specify a pure language using a pure subset of a sufficiently expressive impure language.
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
The problem is fitness alone is not a cure for obesity. I think diet is the biggest factor in American obesity, even though lack of exercise is obviously a big problem as well. Portion sizes are inflated compared to other countries, soda is
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
What exactly would a mixer with a better ui look like?
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
I think that now having auto, decltype, and decltype(auto) all in the language is confusing at best. constexpr also has slightly unintuitive semantics. The problem with all of the additions to C++ isn't whether they're useful indi
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by s_ngularity 9y ago
I think that's probably true for indie game developers, but in the AAA space C++ is still king
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
Generalist and specialist are not mutually exclusive. Someone can simultaneously have some knowledge of many different areas, and deep knowledge of one particular area. This is in contrast to someone who has no deep knowledge in any area (&
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
Might be related to that GPU-accelerated APL compiler which was on the front page a week or so ago
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
David being classified an underdog doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't actually at an advantage compared to Goliath in some ways, just that it appeared that way. In fact if you read the biblical passage it seems to paint the pictur
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
A young man with no military experience vs. a giant who's killed every soldier in the army who's attempted to fight him qualifies as an underdog story in my book. Also I'd assume archery skill doesn't really transfer ver
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
You can't define a polymorphic function map, but you definitely could definitely define a map method for your own monomorphic container type.
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
Right, but does "for Education" imply something about the license terms? I would presume it does, but I couldn't figure out what
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
It is highly unclear to me from visiting the page what "for Education" actually means here
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
In my current job, I have a docker-compose file that starts four docker containers that are interdependent, two of which frequently need to be rebuilt when I compile. I've found that my code usually compiles the first time even after c
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
A great overview of this stuff is http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/frege/frege.pdf
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
It would be good if it still included a link to the HN comments for each post
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
As a programmer, I'd venture to say it is programmer specific. I know for many creative type jobs a good portfolio is key
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
Looks like standard BSD-3 to me
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
It seems highly unlikely to me that Rust would take over true embedded systems (i.e. EEPROM, no OS, etc.), simply because nobody is going to write a Rust compiler for their custom architecture. The resource constraints are what make C essen
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
Source on this? A quick google search didn't turn up anything
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
I would like to get an introduction to the main ideas in current causality research. Is Pearl's book still the best introduction, or would you recommend something else instead?
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by s_ngularity 10y ago
That might work for some simpler machine learning algorithms, but in deep learning I think you'll have an even harder time correctly figuring out intuitively what's going on than you would learning the math.
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by s_ngularity 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what did your instructor consider the most misinterpreted scripture verse?
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by s_ngularity 11y ago
Lisp-Flavored Erlang, though LFE is probably more commonly written.