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by sriku 6y ago
I live in South India and I find Finnish easy to my ears (I speak Tamil) due to the double consonants and double vowels that Tamil shares. In fact a Finnish friend of my dad's learnt Tamil via remote from one of our poets .. to get pro
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by sriku 6y ago
One of the arguments presented in the article is that the program would alter the gene pool by 1% only. I'm curious where the 1% comes from and why something that might feel "small" in another context should also apply here.
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by sriku 6y ago
I ask myself two questions - 1. Is this paper of interest to me? 2. How will I assimilate the knowledge of this paper into my existing framework? For (1), the title+abstract helps a lot. Followed by the conclusion, which can indicate whethe
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by sriku 6y ago
As much as pragmatics would point in this direction, saying "let's be realistic here .. etc.", perhaps nurturing that part of us that dreams in alignment with Vannevar Bush's dreaming up the "memex" or Douglas
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by sriku 6y ago
I suppose I should've just said "it isn't worth using "lambda" to mean a function". Too many comments latched on to "archaic" instead of the intended point.
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by sriku 6y ago
There is enough justice done to the term in Haskell. Won't blame you for it. But other languages aren't on the same footing.
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by sriku 6y ago
The fact that "lambda" came from "lambda calculus" is of such little relevance to mainstream programming today that we don't need to be reminded of it every time we want to write an "anonymous function". I
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by sriku 6y ago
One suggestion - it isn't worth using the archaic "lambda" to mean a function. You could use "function" or some abbreviation of it like "fn" or "fun".
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by sriku 6y ago
It was indeed. It was also nerve-racking in many ways. We were trying to do GPU-based automatic video editing at a time when the Microsoft OSes were evolving rapidly, so were the NVidia and other drivers, and OpenGL itself .. with varied su
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by sriku 6y ago
(shameless plug) In Feb 2020, during the first Clojure meetup organized in Chennai, I gave a talk titled "I'm LisP, I'm inevitable" in which I spoke about the journey towards lisp/scheme in muvee's flagship aut
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by sriku 6y ago
Not clear about the mechanics on reading the site, but it reminded me of AgentSheets by Alexander Repenning ( https://agentsheets.com/ ). It was 2d before "graduating" to "agent cubes".
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by sriku 6y ago
Absolutely this! Another way I express this to my colleagues is to consider that Einstein (and others) took fifteen years to develop the relativity theories that did not require any new theoretical or experimental input. All of that is typi
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by sriku 6y ago
I currently use an email based signin for a site I maintain, which doesn't require a password. (Scheme described here - http://sriku.org/blog/2017/04/29/forget-password/ ) I don't think I
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by sriku 6y ago
We've built and use https://thumbsignin.com (TSI for short) on our intranet apps for simple (i.e. one step and secure) authentication using our mobile phones. ThumbSignin is FIDO certified and we've worked to add more
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by sriku 6y ago
For some reason that didn't hit me at all. Perhaps I was already in a mode to draw a link. Apologies.
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by sriku 6y ago
Not necessary (rgd the edit). Comparative linguistics (however questionable) is a thing. For example, the page for October - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/October - does not mention any connection to indo-germanic lan
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by sriku 6y ago
Not sure if you're seeing something different on that page, but for my view, the "widget" page makes no mention of "wedjat" and vice versa. But it is spelled "wadjet" instead .. and that page makes no ment
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by sriku 6y ago
Is "wedjat" linked to "widget"?
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by sriku 6y ago
We don't go "hey i've saved up $100000, let me buy a Merc". But that's what I see quite a few people doing . They "save up for an iPhone". If you have to save up for it, you better think of other uses for
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by sriku 6y ago
My crib here isn't about those who can afford it. It is about folks (specifically in India) who actually can't afford it and are pushing through for the "prestige". It's their life, but that they would prioritize it
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by sriku 6y ago
Faux analogies and all they indicate is that apple marketing has won in projecting so much "luxury value" on these things. The comparison I'm drawing is what do you get out of this that you don't get out of, say, a $200
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by sriku 6y ago
Those finding the monthly payments attractive should consider bumping that into an SIP (a systematic investment plan). I'm actually pained to watch folks in India to whom that kind of money would be several months salary burn it away l
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by sriku 6y ago
The released phones are priced between $1100 to $2000 (eqv in India). What do these really have to offer that trumps putting that money into a mutual fund if you actually are willing to spend that kind of money? I'm quite sure this pri
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by sriku 6y ago
Very interesting. Not read the paper yet, but plan to. Reversibility is important in quantum computing. Quantum circuits must transform input to output in a "unitary" manner, which is reversible. If you consider the input to outpu
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by sriku 6y ago
> the machine has plenty of memory available On my MacBookAir with 4GB of RAM, Gmail+GCalendar+Slack+GChat+Trello+Docs is enough to put memory pressure on the system. Gmail+Calendar alone end up taking up 1.5-2GB after a while. No respec
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by sriku 6y ago
A scarier thought is that it has been hard to convince people to wear masks to save themselves, so what hope do we have of getting them to save the planet or even just some species that share it with us? (read a tweet to this effect, but di
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by sriku 6y ago
Interesting point. If I implement, say, the List interface for a class in my program, have I violated the API copyright?
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by sriku 6y ago
Yes I share that hunch too and been trying it with the kids off and on. The team's work with Bootstrap ( https://www.bootstrapworld.org ) is actually pretty awesome .. where they're trying to accommodate even kids who ma
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by sriku 6y ago
> In general I think starting from nothing is the original sin of programming pedagogy I think you're right in saying that. Back when I was in school, I learnt a lot by copying BASIC programs from mags and typing them in and then mo
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by sriku 6y ago
I was considering this initially - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/code-minecraft... - but ComputerCraft (& ComputerCraftEdu) look like a lot more fun. Thanks!

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