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by stiff 14y ago
I guess this is the order mathematics was taught in the authors university, in my experience with taking mathematics courses as part of a engineering degree, way too often there is no attempt at a "pre-rigorous" stage at all, as application
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by stiff 14y ago
RVM is complicated internally (overwrites commands like "cd" with it's own shell functions etc.) and this tends to turn into user-facing problems again and again, I spent several hours getting it to run on my computer and I know other peopl
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by stiff 14y ago
Can anyone recommend other interesting biographies of mathematicians? I personally enjoyed this biography of Alfred Tarski ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski ): http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Tarski-Cambridge-Concise-Histor...
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by stiff 14y ago
Wow, this youtube user also has the complete "Learning to learn" course video lectures available, I made a separate submission out of this as I know the course from Hammings book based on it and it's excellent stuff, I was really happy disc
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by stiff 14y ago
I just saw in a comment from the user dsego in the "You and your research" re-submission a link to a video version of this essay of Hamming (which I have seen before), and I was very surprised to see that the complete "Learning to learn" co
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Richard Hammings "Learning to learn" course video lectures(youtube.com)
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by stiff 14y ago
A complex "number" (don't think of it as of a number! think of it like you would think of a vector, group, ring or any other abstract structure) is just an ordered pair of real numbers that behaves in a certain predefined way when being add
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by stiff 14y ago
Carmack himself adressed your second point pretty well in another post: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm...
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by stiff 14y ago
They are just writing the C interpreter in a style that reassembles the target language as much as it is possible, I guess you would have to understand some K to better understand what they are up to in the C code.
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by stiff 14y ago
On a related note, have a look at the one page prototype interpreter by Arthur Whitney that later became J, a true work of art: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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by stiff 14y ago
This review could be the poster boy for the more and more idiotic consumerism that is the plague of our age.
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by stiff 14y ago
I also found StatSoft's statistics textbook to be useful: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook
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by stiff 14y ago
I hoped people would read the last two sentences as well and really gave some thought to those issues for a while.
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by stiff 14y ago
Religion is not the root, it is just a tool that is used to create the usual "us-they" opposition, and in its absence there are plenty of other ways to create the same opposition, like "patriotism" and so on. In fact you yourself just creat
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by stiff 14y ago
There is only a finite number of living beings this planet can sustain at any given moment - if there really is a possibility to "disable" aging, how do you think we should decide which of all those potential beings will be given a chance t
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by stiff 14y ago
There are at least a few cases where philosophy influenced science in a major way, so while I understand some of the reasons scientists might get tired of philosophy, I don't think it's valid to dismiss its contributions entirely. For an ex
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by stiff 14y ago
The random character situation is a false comparison since that is not the case here. It is a useful model of the situation, you have 50 (lets say) decisions to make (border color, margin height, number of images per row, ...), each with
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by stiff 14y ago
There are lots of pages that use this particular drop shadow but there are also lots of other possible and very popular variants of this particular setting. I am not arguing any of the settings by itself is likely to be unique, I am arguing
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by stiff 14y ago
Maybe a fun way to get started would be taking an old version of a shitty server of some service and try to find possible ways of breaking it by examining the source code. There are really thousands of assumptions each computer program make
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by stiff 14y ago
Have you ever designed a web page from scratch? Let's assume I also decided to design a site with the same core layout - a bar on the top with the logo and the menu, content on the bottom, that's not unusual as you point out, but already a
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by stiff 14y ago
What is written in the first paragraph is used way too often to excuse plagiarism. The probability that starting with a blank HTML page and working honestly you will end up with a design that similar to somebodies else one is very, very clo
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by stiff 14y ago
Antirez also wrote an article in similar spirit to the one discussed here: http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
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by stiff 14y ago
It's just the headline that is stupid (altough note it says may ), the article itself states in the last paragraph: This study was unique in showing that telomere length determination by paternal age was generationally additive. It was n
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by stiff 14y ago
I am not necessarily pessimistic, I do believe smart people will be able to work those things out and some maybe even will put them to good use, I am just an opponent of oversimplifying problems and sceptical of metaphors. You say: You jus
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by stiff 14y ago
First, DNA is not software and second, before we all get too excited about "Arudino for organisms", have a look at the actual parts: http://partsregistry.org/Catalog The biological world is very different from the world of man-made device
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by stiff 14y ago
It seems to be very basic static typing along the lines what Java or C has stashed on top an Smalltalkesque object-oriented language, so I am not surprised, the many years I used dynamically typed languages I maybe once or twice had a type
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by stiff 14y ago
The only way you can be a great programmer in a meaningful sense is by putting in your best effort every single time you do some programming work, always looking out for ways to improve your work and always looking for feedback from other p
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by stiff 14y ago
The problem with JavaScript is, somewhat paradoxically, too much flexibility. There are no standard language features for very basic things like namespaces and modules, also what it provides for OOP is so confusing that it makes people want
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by stiff 14y ago
SICP is not really a book for programming beginners, there are plenty of other books for that, like "How to Design Programs". I detest the idea of using "more appropriate" examples, to me illustrating deep concepts from interesting fields l
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by stiff 14y ago
Modern Java and .NET VMs still have latency issues under GC pressure that were equally visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago. Aren't you jumping to conclusions a little bit too fast? That there are still issues in some applications

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