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by sullyj3 10y ago
> The opinion that a point-free style is "beautiful code" seems pretty esotheric to me. It feels to me like there's this weird disconnect between people who talk about beautiful code and those who don't. For me, the a
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Yes, that's the whole point of abstraction, to reduce cognitive load by ignoring irrelevant implementation details.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
The type and lifetime annotations can get pretty confusing.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
This seems disingenuous. I mean, the "as long as" is the key qualifier. If I showed you someone who uses sublime and someone who does all their coding in notepad, and asked you to bet on which was a better programmer (for some met
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I was kind of vaguely gesturing towards that idea, but you crystallized and articulated it much better than I could :)
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by sullyj3 10y ago
well, the upper bound for the amount you'd have to simulate would be smaller than the universe, you'd only need to simulate a volume containing all particles that could causally affect you within the duration of the simulation, wh
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by sullyj3 10y ago
How could a company called "Google" not acquire a company called "Kaggle"? This makes me giggle.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
It literally says that in the second paragraph.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I don't think the article was advocating any specific course of action, but it's good to be aware of the scope of the information they have available in any case.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
On a side note, why is it that I see battery capacity measured in both mAh and wH? One is charge, the other is energy. Which is more relevant?
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by sullyj3 10y ago
The complexity of a theory is in how long the theory itself is, not how big the objects it generates are. The peano axioms are extremely simple, despite generating an Infinity of numbers.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
This is just getting at the basic insight that probabilities are most usefully thought of as being subjective. The coin will land on either side depending on the torque applied and air resistance and whatnot. 50% is only a measure of our su
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by sullyj3 10y ago
w irritates me, because it always traverses a bunch of miscellaneous symbols, and my brain can't parse fast enough to easily tell in advance how many times I'll have to press w in order to get where I want. Extremely minor, but ex
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Fantastic game! It'd be awesome if you could spectate after you were killed.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
What? The claim was that it doesn't require learning to use. If lack of experience is detrimental, then it needs to be learned.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Phrasing like this pisses me off: "Climate scientists argue that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps heat radiating from earth, creating global warming." The words "argue that" imply that the matter is still
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by sullyj3 10y ago
MVC was a bad example imo. It's closer to trying to build something interesting without knowing what a conditional. It's possible, but why would you do it when they're so easy to learn? Scales are the same. It's not diff
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by sullyj3 10y ago
You're right, it doesn't take much skepticism, because that sort of conspiracy theorising is basically the opposite of skepticism, it's uncritical thinking.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Sure, but it's not that bad. Cargo is fantastic, once you have the dependencies in your manifest, `cargo build` downloads and compiles all your dependencies for you. It's pretty hassle free.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
"The truth, or validity of Clifford Algebra is confirmed by Occam’s Razor, it provides a simpler model of mathematical objects than does vector algebra [...]" What? No. No. That's not how Math works.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) kind of does what you want. If you type svn commit ./path/to/<Star><Star><tab> It launches a fuzzy Finder (within the terminal) that you can use t
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Is the author unaware that you don't need to click activities, you can just mouse to the top left corner of the screen? This is Linux, it doesn't have to say activities if you don't want it to. You can get themes with OS logo
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by sullyj3 10y ago
You can't think of an electron as a little ball whose behavior is described by a weird quantum mathematical formula. The universe is really made of quantum mechanics. The electron is actually an excitation in the wave function, a funda
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by sullyj3 10y ago
> This is sort of like the absurdity in a rational agent always knowing what is best for them: it disregards computational complexity. Somewhat off-topic, but have you seen this? Seems interesting: https://intelligence.org&#x2
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Imagine how that headline would look to non-programmers
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by sullyj3 10y ago
It's not just repetition of say, do this command more times to words. There are more nouns available to apply your verbs to. You can "change a paragraph": `cap`, change the contents of some brackets: `ci(`. I find myself us
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I think that the just world fallacy is an enormous contributor to the existence of religion in the first place.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
One way of looking at it is that some robots know how to walk, and this knowledge is encoded as a string of ones and zeros on a storage medium.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I don't think raw feels, qualia type stuff really counts as information in the information theoretic sense. Nor is understanding its nature necessary for artificial general intelligence (though perhaps it is (or perhaps not) for artifi
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by sullyj3 10y ago
This sort of anthropomorphic intuition pump is counter production. It would be much easier to believe that a baby could do that if we designed the baby's brain from scratch to be able to.

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