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by sn9 2y ago
These are measurably used orders of magnitude less than the flagship languages for those platforms.
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by sn9 2y ago
This is a great example. Learning someone enjoys Rand's writing/philosophy diminishes them in my eyes, but Heinlein is just good taste in scifi.
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by sn9 2y ago
Overly literal bad faith interpretations are a waste of everyone's time. Try using context and engaging in good faith to deal with the intended meaning of someone's words or don't bother interacting.
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by sn9 2y ago
The ability to focus on some things but not others is perfectly consistent with ADHD. Disordered attention is the whole deal. You might find it easy but that doesn't mean others will.
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by sn9 2y ago
Am I the only one who just uses my name? As in "MYNAME: " prefixed to whatever useful information I might need.
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by sn9 2y ago
What are they gonna do? Blow up their kids phone in the middle of a shooting, risking the shooter discovering their kid's location if the phone isn't on silent? What does this actually accomplish that improves kids' safety? E
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by sn9 2y ago
You can do that on a dumb Nokia brick. Solutions exist for those who care to look.
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by sn9 2y ago
Students have gotten smartphones at younger and younger ages since you were in school. They got addicted to the dopamine feedback loop smartphones provide when their brains were even further undeveloped and don't remember a time before
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by sn9 2y ago
Recommending AI or cognitive science over math or CS for her given her interests is insane. Math and CS are timeless and directly related to what she wants.
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by sn9 2y ago
This episode of the podcast Invisibilia covers a man who teaches blind children the skill of echolocation: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be...
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by sn9 2y ago
That's just "structural racism" which is a subset of "racism". If we were to believe that structural racism was the only kind of racism, we'd be forced to conclude that people can't be racist because peopl
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by sn9 2y ago
Probably something like 95% or more of people aren't even doing the basics for health: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
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by sn9 2y ago
That's not true at all. You can literally learn how to write proofs using Lean: https://djvelleman.github.io/HTPIwL/
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by sn9 2y ago
Anyone intelligent enough to make a living programming likely has more than enough IQ to become a mediocre somewhat competent graduate student in math. They just don't have the background, and probably lack the interest to dedicate stu
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by sn9 2y ago
People who have that much of an issue with sobriety have other demons they need to address in therapy.
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by sn9 2y ago
C is basically portable assembly so handwritten C can be as fast as the hardware can allow. High-level languages like Haskell can and do approach the performance of handwritten C if you encode enough information to get the optimizations for
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by sn9 2y ago
Safe compared to meth maybe but not compared to caffeine. Setting aside alcohol addiction, the costs of alcohol abuse to your health (e.g., brain damage, liver disease, etc.), and the risk of killing yourself by drinking too much in a sitti
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by sn9 2y ago
Start working your way through this: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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by sn9 2y ago
Try Richard Bird's latest two books for Haskell to see how pure functional programming and allows for equational reasoning and the power that grants you. Try a lisp and work your way through SICP . Try Forth using Starting Forth and
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by sn9 2y ago
Haskell and SML are even older.
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by sn9 2y ago
I mean if you're regularly trying to read papers in a particular field, just follow the curricula for undergraduate degrees in that field.
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by sn9 2y ago
Here's an Anki deck for the unit circle: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1813562307
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by sn9 2y ago
Yeah there's definitely a gap between functionally fluent and being mistaken for a native that requires some intentionality and effective study that is unlikely to be crossed accidentally/passively or by focusing on the wrong thin
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by sn9 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_instruction
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by sn9 2y ago
They might be overkill, but I don't see why not. I guess it depends on what you mean by "general education". They have great explanations of the fundamental concepts but use problems that really stretch you more than typical
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by sn9 2y ago
Running out of gas in the ground will do that though.
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by sn9 2y ago
> The cost estimates seem to be 4-10 times as expensive as fossil fuels. Importantly, this cost is expected to decrease precipitously as the cost of solar energy declines exponentially and as the the conversion technology continues to im
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by sn9 2y ago
He also later expanded it into a blog post: https://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebr...
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by sn9 2y ago
The AOPS Counting & Probability books are shockingly good discrete math books that come with complete solutions manuals: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store
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by sn9 2y ago
Do not waste your time studying business for your degree. It's useless. It's for people who lack intellectual curiosity. You can learn it on your own time if you need it. Study something that you want to study. Study something tha

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