Verdex_2

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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Steve Yegge Story about Jeff Bezos: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Joel on Software Story about Bill Gates: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16&#x
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Hear hear. Bill Gates is trying to kill malaria. He doesn't care about having the biggest number next to his name when he dies. He wants to be the guy who's known for killing hunger in Africa.
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
For some reason, when I started my software engineering career I got it into my head that I needed to learn as much as I could about programming languages. I learned ruby, perl5, python, lisp, forth, ml, ocaml, scheme, haskell, r, c#, java,
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
> So basically you're saying that it is a preferred solution to teach kids math poorly, let them develop insecurity and aversion towards it and then spent a lot of money to let them overcome it than just do it right in the first pla
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I really like type systems. I think that if you take the time to learn about type theory, then you are more likely to create better solutions (both with code and in life in general). However, it isn't free. Type theory is a kind of m
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I'm not sure, but I remember seeing some research into using it for Haskell stream fusion (can't find the video, sorry). I believe that the basic idea was that not all rewrites end up being equally fast ( a * b * c can be fused in
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Yeah, I like the way you're going. I haven't spent much time thinking about how to fit in software engineering, but I did try to think about how to structure programming issues (which is probably the first step if you want to eve
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Checkout the generic formula for any number of dimensions [1]. The function in the denominator is a factorial (except extended to work on decimals instead of just integers). The functions in the numerator are exponents. Factorials grow mu
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
More or less. I'm suggesting a mechanism for why something like the Dunning Kruger effect might occur and where we are likely to see it occurring.
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
If you're an explorer and you live in a small valley, then you will slowly begin to believe yourself a better explorer as time goes on. But one day you will get to the edge of the valley and look out onto a vast landscape and believe
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I spent a couple years figuring out a certain problem. When I was done, it took me six months to be able to write up a blog series about it. I don't think autism has anything to do with it. Some problems are really hard to communica
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I'm 30% through writing a 10-20K word blog series about something that I've been working on for the last 6-8 years. I've probably written ~5K words already on blogs unrelated to my series where I'm kicking around the id
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Apparently washing your hands also causes you to be more lenient. So AI probably shouldn't be used for sentencing, but that's more to do with all the stakeholders being clueless about the technology. The people asking for it, pay
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
Cross pollination of disciplines also seems to bring out great ideas, which makes your (obviously first) proposal sound even better. Unfortunately, I feel this is similar to that one dessert on the front page of the menu at an expensive res
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I would be really interested in someone elaborating on this idea "phd is an apprenticeship for researchers". Several people have insisted that I should go into a phd program, but when I looked into it I saw a lot of: learn how to
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
You're right I think, but what's actually interesting (I think at least) is that time in the gym is more likely to make you a significant social member of a certain group (gym => office, lab, bar, etc). Time spent present is ea
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by Verdex_2 9y ago
I would be interested in some sort of elaboration or source citing here. For example what do you mean by "design". Ants aren't exactly encoding anything into silicon or filling books with mathematics. Can you qualify what
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by Verdex_2 10y ago
Just read On Lisp and find a primer on Scheme macros. Then if you're still interested read Let Over Lambda. Few languages do macros like lisp, so it's worth looking at the macros to understand a new concept. Besides that, thoug
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by Verdex_2 10y ago
Newborn baby, unidentified deceased person, person in police custody who refuse to give name, feral children.