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by szany 15y ago
Sean Carroll did it in 420 characters: http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741225250963456 http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741443379920896 http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741774100799488 (Background: h
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by szany 15y ago
As a Haskell user I have to say I love the "declarative leadership" idea...
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by szany 15y ago
My instantaneous gut reaction is discomfort. These are all good things, but the tone puts me off. As someone who appreciates autonomy, I would rather be given an objective with advice on how to attain it than rules to follow. Even if the co
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by szany 15y ago
Think of a black and white image like a surface. image :: (R, R) -> R
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by szany 15y ago
More on said problems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8v7juSgRw#t=54m55s "The machine is a beautiful, wonderful piece of hardware. The orbiter system, the most complex system ever built by man to fly has never [...] had a failure that w
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by szany 15y ago
All of your posts since http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698286 are dead actually. A mistake, I hope.
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by szany 15y ago
Actually it's a science thing. In a scientific context "code" is understood to mean "program". For example: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22population+synthesis+... I'm not sure why this is though.
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by szany 15y ago
Motl thinks everybody is on crack.
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Why scientific programming does not compute(nature.com)
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by szany 15y ago
By being around truly inspired/motivated people (peers especially). The attitude is contagious.
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by szany 15y ago
Why is NY_USA_Hacker's helpful comment dead? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723941
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by szany 15y ago
"I listen closely for the subtle misunderstandings that are inevitably lurking underneath this newly-minted zealotry. And I am seldom disappointed." Can anyone elaborate?
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by szany 15y ago
cf. http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional-programming-be-li...
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by szany 15y ago
Nested data parallelism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWSZ4c9yqW8
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by szany 15y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but it's worth pointing out that this might not always be the case: "Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously
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by szany 15y ago
THANK YOU I've been mystified by that formula ever since I found it. I'll have to spend some time reverse engineering it tonight.
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by szany 15y ago
Feynman on physics education in Brazil: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
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by szany 15y ago
Yes! http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...
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by szany 15y ago
I cannot get over how beautiful that site design is.
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Steve Jobs foreshadows Apple's cloud strategy in '97(youtube.com)
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by szany 15y ago
From p. 3 of the paper "Why Dependent Types Matter": "We have given a complete program, but Epigram can also typecheck and evaluate incomplete programs with unfinished sections sitting in sheds, [···], where the typechecker is forbidden to
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A Thiel Fellow's Retort(akiselev.com)
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Peter Thiel interviewed on CNN [video](cnn.com)
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Isn't it funny? A ship that leaks from the top.
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I reckon you'd need two groups. I agree. It's not really a valid experiment, which is why I said "might plausibly be" instead of "is", just to acknowledge some connection with the education bubble debate. Though two things to keep in mind
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by szany 15y ago
See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584159
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by szany 15y ago
There seems to be a common misconception about the purpose of the Thiel Fellowship. Two things the Fellowship is not claiming to do: 1) Testing the hypothesis that university is bad 2) Testing the hypothesis that university is not worth the
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by szany 15y ago
It's ageist only because it's targeting college students before they accumulate tons of student loan debt.
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by szany 15y ago
The 100K is meant for living expenses. Getting outside funding is encouraged (just not a job). A lot of these kids are frighteningly smart, and yeah some of the ideas are very lofty (asteroid mining!) and probably will change in time, but p
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by szany 15y ago
Source? I hope you're not implying that the point of the Fellowship is to destroy academia.

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