turkeysandwich

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1. 31.▲
   by turkeysandwich 11y ago

   Any algorithms we use to simulate intelligence with machines are excessively wasteful. There's not enough energy to simulate human intelligence at the same speed that humans think, without just essentially producing biological computer
2. 32.▲
   by turkeysandwich 11y ago

   I don't think there's any reason to think that functional programmers are more arrogant now than advocates of new programming paradigms were in the past. You could call them architecture astronauts: http://www.joelonsof
3. 33.▲
   by turkeysandwich 11y ago

   His parenting isn't worse than her abuse, obviously. But he should still chill the fuck out. Yes, bad things happen. But no, you're not permanently broken. You can grow up and have a normal life.
4. 34.▲
   by turkeysandwich 11y ago

   Second hand smoke has a much weaker connection to health issues than actual smoking. And the "collective cost" argument is silly, because it can be applied to any personal liberty that negatively affects health.
5. 35.▲
   by turkeysandwich 15y ago

   What, are you implying that infinite copyright exists now? Because copyright now is lifetime plus 70 years.
6. 36.▲
   by turkeysandwich 15y ago

   The type of REPL he's referring to has very specific features. Read returns a parsed structure, eval evaluates a parsed structure and print writes a parsed structure. Python's REPL just deals with strings, I believe.