winxordie

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by winxordie 14y ago
Of course there's nothing wrong with it. If you love it though, you'll probably wind up a deviation or two better than the average. Just understand what you love. If programming is a day job, then that's just that. I happen to love this cra
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by winxordie 14y ago
I think this is more of a meta-level write-up on being a programmer. For example, take a look at the "How to Know When to Apply Fancy Computer Science" and "How to Talk to Non-Engineers" sections. Furthermore, I think that the writing is cl
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by winxordie 14y ago
It's interesting to note that GPGPU is on there but general-purpose computation on FPGAs isn't. It amazes me how the former has taken so much mindshare.
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by winxordie 16y ago
You bring up an interesting phenomenon: well-developed open source environments share a cut-throat competitive culture for consumer mindshare rather similarly to multinational corporations. I wonder if there is a scalability issue in human
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by winxordie 16y ago
This type of lazy thinking in generalizations amazes me. Inefficient at what? If you mean it's inefficient for rapid decision making, I wholeheartedly agree. If you mean inefficient at allowing people to express themselves, I disagree.
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by winxordie 16y ago
I highly encourage playing with Processing.js: http://processingjs.org/ It's art on a web browser!
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by winxordie 16y ago
Atomo's an EDSL in Haskell. I think I'd have to consider Clojure to be a Java dialect by your definition.
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by winxordie 16y ago
Money is exchanged for the rite of ceremonial burial. Most people don't just stick their mum into the ground - it's just not "proper". Social factors require a ritual market in most societies.
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by winxordie 16y ago
You should read more of Chazelle or Tarjan; they both write their maths very clearly. Thank you for an amazing series of faux-blog posts on this thread. As an undergraduate hoping to enter math research, these have been invaluable to me. I
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by winxordie 16y ago
For me at least that's equivalent to solving the knapsack problem, but hey - if it's easy for you to optimize usage of absurd amounts of capital according to your utility function, then more power to you.
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by winxordie 16y ago
Turning programmers into mathematicians and mathematicians into programmers.
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by winxordie 16y ago
I don't know about that. The first wave of 20th century combinatorialists were pretty much all Hungarians (Bollobas, Erdos, Polya, Szekeres). Hungary hasn't stopped churning them out either. I'd argue that their education system's just fine
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by winxordie 16y ago
"This better way of computing variance goes back to a 1962 paper by B. P. Welford and is presented in Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2, page 232, 3rd edition. Although this solution has been known for decades, not enough pe
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by winxordie 16y ago
They disappeared off the face of the earth about 5 years apart, but other than that, I can't tell too much of a difference. :)