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by veddox 8y ago
If your CS degree aims to churn out programmers ready for industry, then a overview of the currently favoured libraries is indeed what you need to teach. If on the other hand, you want to produce actual computer scientists who know how to t
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Hm. Not entirely sure what to think. I find SICP to be a mind-blowing book - a truly enlightening experience. But not, perhaps, entirely suited for beginners. I first started reading it four years ago, just over two years after I had starte
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by veddox 8y ago
The Toqueville argument is a fair point, but the no-agendas-in-public-schools is nonsense. Every school has and actively teaches a worldview (aka an agenda). Banning all non-government schools simply means that all kids are taught the same
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Nice to see some numbers, but not in any ways surprising. The phenomenon is not limited to the Internet. In any group of humans, you will always have a small subgroup of active members and a "silent majority". It doesn't matt
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I follow a discussion I'm in for at least a day. HN commenting is asynchronous - it's not a chat conversation. Work hours, time zones and other "hazards" of modern Internet life all intervene...
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Hardly a novelty, it's been around longer than object-oriented programming has. But apart from that, you are correct to state that it is a minority paradigm on the general job market.
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On the whole, this is one of the more edifying political threads I've read around here...
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Just learnt something new about TCP, thank you :-) (See also this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947 ) And discovered that Animats is in fact John Nagle...
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Why are we spending billions to watch a handful of people kick/throw a ball around a field? I'm not saying we shouldn't think about cost/benefit ratio in big science, but let's not be hypocrites and put all our soci
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I'm more amazed at the opposite: that they're still bringing out new versions. One would have thought ed would be 'finished' by now...
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> “If you decide to fight the squid with your spear gun, hoping to scare it off, turn to page 17,” one book says. “If you decide to signal Maray to pull you up at top speed, knowing you will get the bends, turn to page 19.” I died to tha
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I bought a set of Lowa Renegade boots 1.5y ago: https://www.lowaboots.com/mens/hiking/renegade-gtx-mid-sepia... Originally for hiking, but they have also seen daily service as winter boots. Been very pleased with
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by veddox 8y ago
We had a pretty crazy science teacher when I was in grade 8. If we'd been anywhere in the West he would have probably been suspended for gross negligence faster than anything, but we kids loved him :D One day we were covering chlorine
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Yes. From the Jargon File: > A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is “HAKMEM”, which is a 6-letterism for ‘hacks memo’.) Some of
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That is assuming you have the choice. Many people simply can't afford to "take their business elsewhere". The American system may be great if you have the money - but a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members
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All due respect - I think that for pretty much any simple shape you'll find an actual organism that "looks just like it".
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> Avida is dead, correct? I'm not sure about that. You're right that there doesn't seem to have been much development going on in the last few years, but a quick Google Scholar search indicates that there are still papers
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My comment had nothing to do with the number of dimensions or whether the world is continuous or discrete. (AVIDA and many other biological models are both 2D and discrete.) The two core characteristics of life are metabolism and reproducti
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A short, sweet summary of my opinion :D
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Hm, sounds like mathematician giving fancy biological-sounding names to some procedurally generated abstract art forms. Frankly, I had hoped for more, given the title. There's some really cool work that has been done with digital artif
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Confusingly, biologists use the term "artificial life" to talk about both digital and chemical new-life experiments. Compare Richard Lenskis AVIDA platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida
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Yes, in biology we use in silico to extend this previous distinction between in vivo and in vitro .
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It's all about the people. As a very task-oriented person, this is a lesson I've known for years I ought to learn, but only really understood this year. Of course, executing a task well is important - but in the end, if you don&#x
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by veddox 8y ago
> It's really easy to pick up caricatures of life in foreign countries. I'm a German who's lived abroad for the majority of his life. This statement is so true. I've heard of Africans asking if Hitler was still in pow
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I'm sure. Works both ways, though ;-)
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Honesty is considered one of the highest of virtues in Germany. You can be blunt to the point of rudeness and people will still praise you for being "plainspoken". And talking about plagiarism: at least two federal ministers have
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As well as keeping the conversation going, this has the added benefit of showing the other person that you care about them - great for relationship building! (Pro tip: it works best when you actually do care about them ;-) )
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Unfortunately, I suspect that FB makes a whole lot more money offering a free service than they ever would with a subscription model. And though I very much like the idea: if you look at email, you see how few people are actually prepared t
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by veddox 8y ago
Did that ever take off? I haven't heard about it in ages... There's quite a bit of talk about Mastodon lately, but not about Diaspora...
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My Journey to the Ants(terranostra.one)
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