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by sn9 4y ago
There's a sense in which people are saying it's easier to learn other languages than Rust because it's easier to get to code that compiles so you can start building new features. There's a different sense that I feel is
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by sn9 4y ago
Do you have any materials about your course online?
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by sn9 4y ago
A good rule of thumb is to average 2-3 hours out of class studying for every hour spent in class. For the more difficult classes, that number can be even higher. So for a class that has 3 hours of lecture time per week, that's 9+ hours
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by sn9 4y ago
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
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by sn9 4y ago
Mario Fusco gave a talk showing how to implement monadic patterns in Java years ago. I never found the talk online, but here's the speaker deck: https://speakerdeck.com/mariofusco/monadic-java
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by sn9 4y ago
Your comment seems as good a place as any to drop the requisite Yegge compiler evangelism piece: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
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by sn9 4y ago
There's also a new book out that might be worth a look that uses an incremental approach with Racket. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila...
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by sn9 4y ago
It would probably be best to use the AoPS books in conjunction with the site as a supplement.
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by sn9 4y ago
F# is heavily based on OCaml and Rust was heavily inspired by the ML family of languages, and I've often heard it described as an ML without GC and with memory management and a C++ style syntax. You're noticing a very real relatio
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by sn9 4y ago
You can always minor in CS and get most of the benefit while studying ME.
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by sn9 4y ago
The great thing about Scheme is that you can learn it in less than 10 minutes and focus on the ideas.
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by sn9 4y ago
Either this [0] or build something that scratches an itch. [0] https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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by sn9 4y ago
The problem is that if you don't personally know the views of the people involved, racist jokes are often indistinguishable from hate. Outside of a context where the humor is understood by all like a stand-up comedy act, you aren'
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by sn9 4y ago
If you know a bit of programming, that's actually sufficient to explore these ideas and verify them for yourself. Allen Downey has a ton of open source books that use this philosophy [0] and Peter Norvig has used Python notebooks in a
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by sn9 4y ago
I found it really amusing and thought it was clear it was all a bit tongue in cheek.
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by sn9 4y ago
Yeah that's a little more accurate. Analogies are usually limited. But though it's not literally about locations in the sense of physical coordinates, the way cell signalling and the molecular feedback loops that drive development
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by sn9 4y ago
Whoops! Definitely a mistake on my part! Here was the intended second link: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-...
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by sn9 4y ago
Here's a potentially relevant post about unusually effective ways to structure a formal math class like LA: https://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebr... Could be a source of inspiration for
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by sn9 4y ago
Nah that's just the standard library. Anyone can access it.
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by sn9 4y ago
Is the training the hard part? Is that not what humanity has developed from centuries/millennia of experience with all the approaches to child raising and education? Engineering something trainable is clearly the difficult part given
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by sn9 4y ago
He's talking about sentience. He admits that the equivalent of years of "training" would still be needed to take an toddler-level consciousness to something approaching an adult human.
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by sn9 4y ago
They're encoded in the laws of physics. Kinda like asking if gravity and fluid dynamics are encoded in the blueprint for an aircraft. The design relies on them, and exists in the form it does because of them.
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by sn9 4y ago
You're on the right track but you can get more benefits out of doing work at a rate of 120-150 bpm and still be considered "low intensity" aerobic work. You can even do this while incline walking at a moderate pace. 100 bpm i
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by sn9 4y ago
This is an interesting algorithm problem. Given the parameters to maximize detection and minimize time/resources, how would you direct a drone or something to find the capsule? How would that change with 2 drones? 4? 8? As many drones
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by sn9 4y ago
These aren't ad hominem attacks. I explained to you that you have fundamental misunderstandings so vast in scope that it would take several hours to explain them to you. This criticism was rooted in years of education and research that
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by sn9 4y ago
Would you bother reading the textbooks worth of information I've consumed first? You aren't entitled to another person's time and effort when you've decided your googling is in any way comparable to literal years of stud
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by sn9 4y ago
That's not necessary at all. People who maintain the same weight simply eat their maintenance calories on average over the long term. That's just how averages work. I feel like you have some kinda fundamental misunderstanding of s
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by sn9 4y ago
It's because people are talking about all sorts of irrelevant stuff that has no effect on what one has to do to manipulate their weight. It's missing the forest for the chlorophyll.
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by sn9 4y ago
I have a literal degree in biology and have been reading about physiology, health and fitness, and related topics for well over a decade. You have no idea what you're talking about. This is textbook level stuff and you clearly haven&#x
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by sn9 4y ago
I have no idea what you're trying to say. It is an objective fact that caloric surpluses and deficits are fundamental to manipulating bodyweight. Any solution will be about getting people to maintain a surplus or deficit long enough to

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