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by todd8 8y ago
I thought I was a pretty hot Pascal programmer in grad school. Then, for a period of time, I was tasked with teaching Pascal to professional programmers and engineers throughout Texas Instruments. I quickly discovered that there were aspect
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by todd8 8y ago
Unfortunately, the structure of American universities seem to celebrate all fields of study equally. While I find the opportunities to learn about so many different areas quite fantastic, I'm afraid that young students aren't give
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by todd8 8y ago
I think I understand why the two ads are there, Siemens and iBoss would like MIT students to consider applying for employment, but how would this invalidate the information in the handbook? The contents of the handbook look pretty objective
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by todd8 8y ago
I've had to just stop worrying about the generic State of California cancer warnings. Why can't they at least indicate the level of risk and/or the source of the risk?
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by todd8 8y ago
There are risks associated with arsenic in rice. I've cut way back on my rice consumption. See [1], from Consumer Reports, for a table with suggested limits for adults and children (rice drinks, rice based cereals, etc.). [1] https:&#
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by todd8 8y ago
Interestingly, it can be done even with a single sensor. We can map object’s 3D positions with just one eye. The brain uses the relative motion of various object in the scene due to forward motion induced parallax and other clues such as ob
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by todd8 8y ago
My recommendations, for what they are work, are based on what worked for me. Learn programming and CS. Work for a large, well run, company as a developer for a few years--you will learn a lot about software development at scale; Next, supp
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by todd8 8y ago
Barbara Liskov, who won the 2008 Turing Award for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Her work at MIT on the CLU programming language influence
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by todd8 8y ago
One of the things I like about go is that the path of least resistance is straightforward code. Getting a program working and working correctly while being straightforward is usually the starting point to getting a correct program that run
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by todd8 8y ago
Are you saying that the "phony concept" of copyrights shouldn't exist? Authors and artists (and software developers) would have little incentive to produce in such an environment.
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by todd8 8y ago
> Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide Yes, but that same source for population indicates that Phoenix is only the 169th most congested city in the U.S. It's suburbs are presumably even less congested.
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by todd8 8y ago
Yes, I've heard this argument before (from my father), but I don't buy it. First, I'm not, perhaps, what you are claiming, a close minded inflexible atheist. I am perfectly willing to consider claims backed by evidence. So fa
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by todd8 8y ago
I feel like this is missing from many of the most important projects (especially big government projects, e.g. war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror, inner city education). I’d like to see an honest application on these points. Especi
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by todd8 8y ago
I have had extensive conversations with a theologian, my father (he has a doctorate in theology). I finally decided that I don’t have to change his mind, he has faith and that’s all there is to it. He’s well read, believes in science, evolu
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by todd8 8y ago
See [1] and [2]. For example, 2015 median household income for Indian Asians is $100K while the same statistic for white non-hispanics appears to be $63K. [1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-in
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by todd8 8y ago
My point is that it isn’t wrong to choose a place to incorporate based on a state’s laws. Just as it isn’t wrong to choose to live in Texas because it has no income tax or California for its recreational marijuana. It’s not breaking the law
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by todd8 8y ago
Thanks for your insights. I’ve always liked the language Dart. It seems to me to be a fine language—a design that could be widely adopted. I was disappointed to see Google fail to achieve goal #1, I’ll be watching flutter. Good luck and tha
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by todd8 8y ago
Growing up I read every monthly edition Scientific American’s The Amateur Scientist column by C. L. Strong. In the May 1964 column there was a great “getting started” introduction to laboratory glassblowing for the complete amateur. I was
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by todd8 8y ago
Is it shady to live in Washington instead of California because of state income tax laws?
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[US]Electric power sector consumption of fossil fuels at lowest level since 1994(eia.gov)
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by todd8 8y ago
The undo system is confusing if you are accustomed to undo/redo in practically every other piece of software, but it does make sense (in its own kind of way). See the documentation for the undo commmand[1]. Emacs undo is powerful albei
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by todd8 8y ago
Even the simplest three way games have perplexing strategies. Consider splitting one dollar three ways by majority vote. The obvious strategy is for player A and player B to agree to 50-50 and leave out C. Of course, C offers A a better 60-
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by todd8 8y ago
That was the title of the original blog post and I simply read it as “Even with ...”. I did’t even notice the error!
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Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults (2014)(jamanetwork.com)
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Red meat intake of ≥0.5 servings/d does not negatively influence CVD risk(academic.oup.com)
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Even Without Retractions, ‘Top’ Journals Publish the Least Reliable Science(bjoern.brembs.net)
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Impairment of NAD+-H2S Signaling Is a Reversible Cause of Vascular Aging(cell.com)
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by todd8 8y ago
Yes, thanks for the correction. You are right, it is possible to learn to Prolog without understanding the inner workings of the compiler or even the Warren Abstract Machine, but that is how I understood why I had to put up with the cut ope
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by todd8 8y ago
Is Prolog really used for medical-system software? It seems to me that it turned out to be the wrong path taken by Japan's Fifth Generation Project. In the early 80's I experimented with Prolog. Simple ideas were simply coded into
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by todd8 8y ago
Fifty years ago I tried to figure out how to write a program. I found a IBM026 keypunch machine in my high school and used it to punch what I hoped would be my first program: A Fortran implementation of the simplex method for solving linear

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