turingspiritfly

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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Why not The Princeton Companion to Mathematics?
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Ask HN: Ideas for projects (excluding data analysis)that use probability theory
1 points by turingspiritfly 8y ago|0 comments
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Not really sure what the author thinks he got right about Zuckerberg
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
> “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful. This really sounds like an attack on masculinity. One must never forget, the age of information with all it's fl
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
I think there hardly is any field out there where once the roadmap is mapped, the roadmap doesn't look long and convoluted. Overcoming being overwhelmed is something your relative should get a grip of from the get go, or atleast be awa
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
"the theory that would not die" I didn't expect much, and don't think I was a fan of the first chapter because the story is pretty well known atleast in my circles. But it grows exponentially interesting as the chapters
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Is it bad to have expected to the article to be all about how his alleged virtue help become the famed figure he is today? This was just another portrait of his work.
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
so in summary: 1. get something started 2. surround yourself with a good community 3. pace yourself 4. be realistic
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
The things I have learnt from Haskell 1. Functors, Monads, Applicative Functors, Monoids are extremely good design patterns, and to me seems like at some point you invent approximations of them if you're not using them 2. Raw recursio
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
> Recursion is a bad idea Raw recursion or recursion using recursive schemes?
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Those massive gains have yet to considered reliable enough to be considered trusthworthy. Would you consider them trusthworthy in court, where lives are at stake? Gains are nice but we are still so far from the essence of AI systems and con
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
So this is the part I don't get, re: "What's pushing us to go to Mars?", some time ago someone said the same of going to the Moon. There was no good main reason for going to the moon, other than the US and the USSR havi
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11494645_21 seemingly states ODEs can simulate turing machines. Is the simulation enough proof ofit's turing completeness, and in what sense can PDEs be called a languag
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Sometimes I feel, when papers that have grand speculations contained in them, should be made available to the public without the author(s) name tacked on it, and only be released after the public comes to a consensus. Why? science is about
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Doesn't Simon Marlow explain the difference very well? Concurrency is implementation detail and parallelism is an execution detail?
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Pretty cool. Out of curiosity, who stashes these books (the hardcopy version) on their bookshelves and why? Am very interested to know
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by turingspiritfly 8y ago
Bayesian updates to beliefs
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Ask HN: Your subjective takes on living a non-boring and pleasant life?
38 points by turingspiritfly 8y ago|37 comments
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Year 2038 problem(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by turingspiritfly 8y ago|4 comments