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by sriku 6y ago
I've been frustrated by the magnified expectations of kids w.r.t. programming because they play sophisticated games compared to the pong/bricks/tetris of my highschool days. Very hard to satisfy my kids with doing, say, turtl
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I was curious about the "why it matters" .. but it seemed like the section be better called "rituals matter" .. as it had no sense of explaining why rituals have the stated impact.
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by sriku 6y ago
The body is complex. Try not to box its functioning into simplistic principles like "it's not moving". Zen practice, for example, involves sitting as still as you can for 25 mins at a stretch, followed by a meditation walk fo
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Apache Superset: A modern data exploration and visualization platform(superset.apache.org)
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"calliagnosia" or "the inability to perceive prettiness". Ted Chiang's works are mind-blowing and I recommend this. It is a great piece on giving different perspectives on this issue from different parties' per
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by sriku 6y ago
HOPL by Diarmuid Pigott ( https://hopl.info/home.prx ) is a pretty thorough picture of a vast number of programming languages (8945 of them).
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by sriku 6y ago
I'm not a fan of rigid formats for human-entered metadata structures like config. I think it violates a kind of Postel's law .. where there ought to be considerable flexibility for the human to specify the structure (and therefore
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by sriku 6y ago
The intelligence of crows takes part in many folk tales in India. Even the venerable kids mag "Tinkle" picked up on this in the "Kalia the crow" series. Crows are also fed by staunch Hindus in the belief that they repres
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Right.
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An aside - I loved the simplicity of the "do you accept our cookies" banner - it just has two buttons "accept" and "decline". Every other design is evil.
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This has to be the biggest "jump cut" in the history of compilers! ref: 2001 A Space Odyssey: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Spa... ) "Arthur C. Clarke, in the TV documentary 20
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The Jaron Lanier quote (with the first part paraphrased but the rest exact) is this - "that we are the product being sold to advertisers is too simplistic. It is the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behaviour and perc
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Agree. That was a sharp observation by Jaron Lanier (father of VR?)
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Much of the work on realising quantum computers seems.to be happening in industry, no?
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The biggest loss of privacy (my personal view) is that we've lost the ability to read without being observed and that's important to maintain a healthy and diverse mindset in society. It enables people to read without fear of &quo
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Ah yes! Let's just call it the "spoon feed".
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One big difference though is jitter tolerance. To some extent, dropping visual frames will be seen as a reduction in average frame rate. For example, if scroll stutters, people may brush it off as "oh yeah the machine's loaded rig
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by sriku 6y ago
On a slight tangent ... the one thing about HN that lets me breathe is that the links that turn up are the same for everyone on the planet and is not "personalized". If it were, I'd be gone in a jiffy. Maybe we should rename
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by sriku 6y ago
I've always been amaZed by the collaboration and synthesis of ideas that happened during Einstein's time. Consider how important and contributive the following were to the famous relativity theories and the other names involved -
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"more important" than they are for short stints of the lockdown intervention. I'm not dismissing first order effects. They are important. However higher order effects are where feedback cycles usually reside (ex: whats happen
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Most of these are what one might call "first order effects" - i.e. factors immediately associatable with work location. For prolonged situation, higher order effects are going to become more important. Here are some candidates - 1
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C doesn't "run on hardware" .. unless you're talking interpreted C. Of course compiled machine code is running on more hardware but that's just a truism. The question is are people using C to program these hardware
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I saw a program in which a geneticist described the gene editing precision prior to CRISPR as about 2-3% and after CRISPR as about 50%. That's a big jump, but as you say, what happens in those other 50% cases is of concern too when it
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If employees of tech companies have to argue about whether parents can be afforded concession due to the pandemic situation/home-schooling/etc, I wonder what improvement in quality of life that technology has actually yielded. Is
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If I disable the file system API, can an "is file system API available" check be used as a bit to fingerprint my browser?
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"And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ….." .. so mixed on hearing that. On one hand, this gives so much hope under the direst of circumstances. On the other, it says a lot about human nature too .. which can steadfas
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The alternative "Euclidean distance" is already half way there and is better since we at least know it's about "distance". At this point, offering any alternative will feel alien and unfamiliar, but "Linear dis
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If they genuinely ran this experiment without a time bound, I'd easily have at least $3k by now.
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At least having a word like "filter" in it narrows down the choices even if it doesn't make it unique. If instead it was "Bloom's construction" or "Bloom's algorithm", or "Tim's procedu
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Don't reward raw metrics. Goodhart's law is too real in this context.

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