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by sevensor 6y ago
Interesting project! In a past life I worked on a project that used PyQt; on the one hand, I enjoyed using a very mature toolkit with lots of features, but on the other hand the Qt way of doing things often clashed with the Python way of d
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by sevensor 6y ago
I think there are a couple of shortcomings to this argument. First, it seems to be arguing that there is no infection at all. Reports of people dying of a new form of pneumonia would argue to the contrary, regardless of test results. Sec
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by sevensor 6y ago
To be honest, I've never taken the time to figure out how MacOS works. It's like an OS written for cultists. From the strange way the pointing device works, to the icons that don't mean anything to me, to the names that don
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by sevensor 6y ago
Nope. I only use Windows if I'm getting paid to, and in that case system administration is Somebody Else's Problem. I've never been to CCleaner's website, let alone installed or run it. I'm going off second-hand
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by sevensor 6y ago
Microsoft should take a hard look at why people feel the need to use software like this. Personally I just accept that using Windows is going to be a terrible experience, something that you do for work because you have to, but people I&#x2
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by sevensor 6y ago
I used NetLogo at one point in my education. It was a lot of fun. Maybe too much fun. So easy to get sucked in to tweaking a parameter here and there and watching the same initial conditions evolve in different directions. Simulation re
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by sevensor 6y ago
Exactly. My kid is playing Tchaikovski on the piano at this very moment. (Well, a for-beginners version of one of his themes, but still.) She's happy playing it, I'm happy hearing it. If nobody gets any smarter, who cares? We
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by sevensor 6y ago
Thanks for a response that cuts right to the premises of my comment! Your approach is incredibly bleak, but if you reject the premise that being able to focus is desirable, then your conclusion is spot-on. I hope my response gives you the
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by sevensor 6y ago
We use digital devices for distraction from our anxieties when what we need is calm. I recommend something compelling, work-related, and thoroughly analog: get a really nice engineering notebook and give yourself permission to write all ov
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by sevensor 6y ago
I had the great fortune to get my start programming as an REU for George. We were visualizing non-Euclidean spaces in VR, in the UIUC CAVE around the turn of the millenium. He also had an animated (minimax) sphere eversion with special au
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by sevensor 6y ago
Well done emphasizing the value of the preface! It always amazes me how little attention the preface gets from readers. It's the one place where the author gets to explain why the book exists, and why you should care. If you really w
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by sevensor 6y ago
The article makes an interesting connection to the gap in England's mythology, between the earliest tales and the present day. I have just finished reading Howard's End , and Forster makes a similar observation -- England has wi
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by sevensor 6y ago
I love the mature version too -- 1950s Gould sounds like he's in a terrible hurry, 1980s Gould feels entirely in control of his performance.
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by sevensor 6y ago
I had a similar setup at a previous job -- one of the early 39" TVs. It could only drive 4k at 30Hz, but for staring at text, nothing could beat it. It takes a good tiling window manager to get the most out of this setup. By the sam
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by sevensor 6y ago
This looks really good, from a quick skim. I would definitely consider using it if I had to teach an intro to Python. It reads like material that's been taught before.
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by sevensor 6y ago
I work in this space, and you've called out the thing that drives me absolutely bonkers. No matter how accurately I can diagnose the state of the equipment, what everybody wants is to know how long until it explodes, so that they can
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by sevensor 6y ago
One of my favorite pieces about this is Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace : http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html The short of it is that during a crucial point in tim
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by sevensor 6y ago
What you need is gprof2dot. It will chew up your pstats file and spit out a dot file. Enjoy!
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by sevensor 6y ago
I never really got into Facebook, but as far as I can tell LinkedIn is mandatory Facebook for work. TFA hit the nail on the head with "I don't want people to think I'm a weirdo" being the reason to use LinkedIn. The on
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by sevensor 6y ago
I really like graphviz for visualizing the call graphs generated by the Python profiler.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Amazon's own-brand goods are generally servicible from what I've seen. It puts them at a competitive advantage that their own items are quite unlikely to be counterfeit, while all other brands are subject to suspicion.
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by sevensor 6y ago
A friend of mine did exactly this. Physics Ph.D., was being courted for postdocs. Decided to go work for a Beltway consulting firm. Left after a few years to work for a startup in Virginia, still works there and feels not an ounce of reg
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by sevensor 6y ago
After hitting some weird PyInstaller bugs, I gave up and started compiling Python myself. One interpreter for every project. Shell scripts to set the paths. All libraries go directly in site-packages, not some other layer. A little more
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by sevensor 6y ago
> everything from cleaning to child care You cannot overstate the difficulty of putting in eight, or even six, solid hours of work in a day where you also have to coordinate your children's schooling, prepare meals, arbitrate disagr
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by sevensor 6y ago
I wish I could! Proprietary work pays my bills at the moment.
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by sevensor 6y ago
> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving. Finding routes for drivers and deliveries, planning schedules, optimizing store layouts, etc. -- that's AI. Is it? These have largely been done with MI
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by sevensor 6y ago
I would also move up the second year "intro to AI" course to the first year, with an emphasis on history. You shouldn't be hearing about AI Winter for the first time after already spending a year on the subject.
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by sevensor 6y ago
I've had a lot of success with even less organization -- writing one giant append-only markdown file per project. Search for the thing you want and it usually comes up. Notes have a timestamp and they're in order, so it's n
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by sevensor 7y ago
My experience has been that, for sane libraries, the configuration process supports installing to an arbitrary prefix. In general, I end up making a new prefix for every project. And if doing this turns into dependecy hell, shouldn't
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by sevensor 7y ago
Submitted because this book was one of my favorites as a child and I appreciated the extra context from the article. I recently gave this book to one of my children, who is at just the right age for it.

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