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by westoncb 8y ago
Anyone one else want to weigh in on that? Sounds intriguing, but Amazon reviews suggest it's ruined by technical inaccuracy.
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by westoncb 8y ago
The core ideas behind Prolog have the feel of something discovered rather than invented, and I bet we'll see significant new forms of it yet. My first encounter with it was while taking a Principles of Programming Languages course th
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by westoncb 8y ago
The basic idea there makes sense to me, but I actually think later writers will be better at putting it into context as well, partly because they have more information on the context, and partly because the tendency when someone is first de
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by westoncb 8y ago
> Concepts usually get diluted as they pass from person to person, not more clear. That is only possible if the concept has no practical utility. If the concept is being used , the historical pattern is improving refinement. The author
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by westoncb 8y ago
Interesting. I was just writing about this yesterday: If the book's ideas were of lasting consequence, it's a near certainty that more clear statements of them have been produced in the intervening years. You may lose some of the
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by westoncb 8y ago
This is just an annoying, lightly disguised advertisement (with a sketchy pop-up begging you for permission to do some undefined thing with your computer—send notifications presumably). Expect things like: > Don’t complain about money of
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Astronaut Scott Kelly: How Tom Wolfe Changed My Life(nytimes.com)
45 points by westoncb 8y ago|4 comments
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Thoughts on How to Find Alternate Algebra-Like Systems(westoncb.blogspot.com)
3 points by westoncb 8y ago|0 comments
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Heuristics for Deciding a Book's Reading-Worthiness(westoncb.blogspot.com)
1 points by westoncb 8y ago|0 comments
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's an interesting example of usage. I was actually familiar with compute shaders but hadn't connected it with the sort of usage we see in the headline. So it seems like a big part of how it's being used is to refer to a g
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by westoncb 8y ago
Would someone explain the purpose/origin of using 'compute' as a noun like this instead of a verb?
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by westoncb 8y ago
I'm tempted to think that's an artifact of a tendency in writers to give their characters thought processes resembling their own. I don't think it's anything especially related to writing; I think everyone does it in the
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by westoncb 8y ago
Haha—this is the first thing I've heard about GEB in years that makes me again somewhat interested in reading it. There was a point when I was a teenager where it seemed like probably the most interesting book on the planet, and I&#x27
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by westoncb 8y ago
I'd be curious too. I read Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Double, and other short stories—and I found them to make quite a bit of sense. I didn't get the sense that I'd extracted everything from "The G
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by westoncb 8y ago
> I could never "get into" American novelists like Hemingway and Steinbeck because I found their characters unrelatably thin automatons ... I pretty much agree with you on Hemingway, and maybe there are examples in Steinbeck&#x
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by westoncb 8y ago
I'll second "The Moviegoer." It's one of the best things I've read in a while, and I think there's a definite connection with 'Notes from Underground,' for instance. Both convincingly portray characte
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by westoncb 8y ago
> If it doesn't make sense to a lot of people after a lot of thought, and there's a lot of rationalization required to plug that gap, it's probably not working out very well. This makes me think of an interesting/both
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by westoncb 8y ago
There is no reason you couldn't use the example QML above in place of JSX and still receive the same benefits. It would still be `View = fn(state)`; it's just a different syntax for specifying `fn`.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Could you link to a standalone Windows MR device with 6dof?
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by westoncb 8y ago
Don't get me wrong, I think positional tracking is very significant, too—but that doesn't mean this "isn't VR". You can still move around fluidly in 3D space, it's just that what triggers that motion won't
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by westoncb 8y ago
Seems like there are some pretty good ideas there in principle, so it would be unfortunate to dismiss their work because maybe it wasn't ready for engineering applications in the 90's.
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by westoncb 8y ago
That is certainly accurate in my case: I was aware of Intellij's reputation of superiority, but used Eclipse until the free version came out, and then never looked back.
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by westoncb 8y ago
The model you're talking about here is a little different from what I had in mind. I'm more interested the succession of ideas, motivations, new data, insights etc. that caused him to 1) decide that the problem might be worth look
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by westoncb 8y ago
Those are a lot of the same people from the Manhattan project though, no? Has something on that scale happened since, with an unrelated set of people?
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by westoncb 8y ago
What I'd really like to hear about is Feynman's thought process for arriving at this...
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by westoncb 8y ago
Do you know of another more objective source, though? Other folks are citing Github and Stack Overflow, but they are just reporting on proportions used on their own sites, and I would not be at all surprised to find that both those sites ar
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by westoncb 8y ago
I didn't see anything on methodology, but I'm assuming they're just surveying their users—in which case, I think it would make some sense for javascript to be overrepresented.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Tiobe index for one. But I just searched Google and checked the top few.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Is it the most used language in the world? Seems like I keep hearing comments like that, but the rankings I've seen don't list it that way.
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by westoncb 9y ago
Actually looks like it's a hybrid approach: you have to move it by hand within a certain range of the path it's attempting to follow/cut, but the path it actually cuts when within range is determined by path data given to it

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