sweeneyrod

32 ms·

301.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
"selfishness, superficiality and female independence" One of these things is not like the others.
302.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
Yes, the idea that quantum mechanics are involved in producing consciousness is not crazy (although I think Penrose would admit it is pretty speculative). His book The Emperor's New Mind discusses it. But the idea that consciousness pr
303.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
That changes things a bit, it's definitely worth doing then. I think St Andrews and Edinburgh have especially good reputations for CS.
304.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
You can get the "Python dogma" with `import this`. "Explicit is better than implicit" is part of it, but so is "practicality beats purity" (and "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way
305.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
Do women receive more than 40% of degrees in CS (or CS, maths, engineering, physics which I think are the other degrees likely to feed into a programming job)? My estimate is that the figure is more likely to be 5-20%.
306.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
When I heard about this, I wrote a Python script to search allrecipes and find solutions (see here: https://github.com/sweeneyrod/three-food-problem ). Unfortunately they seem to have changed their website format, so th
307.
by sweeneyrod 10y ago
Unless you are already a good chess player, 10 years isn't long enough to become world class, even for a talented youngster. Thousands of hours of practice is necessary, but not sufficient, to become truly world class. You could become
308.
by sweeneyrod 11y ago
2 trillion dollars is roughly the amount currently spent on social security, unemployment benefits, and the military. Surely the bureaucracy would decrease if there was no means testing?
309.
by sweeneyrod 11y ago
But you've got to be careful not to make the mistake of incorrectly accusing someone of committing Lewontin's fallacy. Saying that race isn't real is clearly wrong, in the sense that people reliably fit into racial categories