al-king

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by al-king 2y ago
Oh cool, his Bondi Language / Pattern Calculus was the first thing I thought of seeing this, so I guess I wasn't too far wrong.
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by al-king 3y ago
It's recently gotten a great deal easier to play with thanks to Strudel, a JS variant. Strudel REPL: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/ One interesting feature of Tidalcycles is Euclidean Sequences, where various 'n
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by al-king 4y ago
I think _entirely_ ignoring the kinds of considerations it covers is such a typical failure case for inexperienced programmers (or non-career coders) that it's an excellent prod to expand the scope of what enters their awareness when w
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by al-king 4y ago
lexi lambda of "Parse, Don't validate" fame has compared this favourably with SICP ( https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/a/7481 ).
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by al-king 5y ago
Important to note that the book is an adaptation of content from Sussman and Hanson's Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming course[1]. My sense is that the 'Flexibility' angle is a bit of a misframing, making it sound m
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by al-king 5y ago
Peter Norvig and Noam Chomsky ~famously clashed on this, and Norvig's argument shared a lot of similarities. https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
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by al-king 6y ago
My friend Phil put this together for a React Native project, when he got fed up with the mess that standard Javascript module imports and direct dependencies created when introducing testing. It's been really pleasant to use, just a so
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Dagger-DI – lazy JavaScript dependency injection through decorators(github.com)
1 points by al-king 6y ago|1 comments
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by al-king 6y ago
Let's be clear: I don't think this article has created any confusion. It's manipulative, like a lot of headlines that hit the front page - you click on it expecting one thing, and find another. It's not misleading in the
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by al-king 6y ago
If anything WSL2.0 has made it clearer than WSL is a development environment, not a universal compatibility layer.
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by al-king 6y ago
I don't think the advice entails lower quality discourse. The prescription here, read literally, is to say the same thing, phrased in a way that invites relevant discussion. Language emphasising subjectivity can do several things - a)
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by al-king 6y ago
The article is pretty up-front and unapologetic about that conceit: the argument is "that mythology isn't useful, here's a better one." That said, it's certainly a bait-and-switch headline. Kind of par for the cours
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by al-king 7y ago
Clojure isn't a Common Lisp implementation, it's a different Lisp dialect with an emphasis on immutable data and interacting with host systems like the Java VM. This is Clozure: https://ccl.clozure.com/
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by al-king 7y ago
apparently not!
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by al-king 7y ago
ah, well, for preexisting Keybase users with linked GitHub accounts it fits that description - I found out about it because I got given some without doing anything.
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by al-king 7y ago
The 'airdrop' analogy doesn't really capture anything about the involvement of branching ledgers, so it doesn't seem entirely unfair to use the same giveaway jargon the community's previously used. But definitely, a
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by al-king 11y ago
It's mostly interesting biologically - it relates specifically to how synapses' vicinity to the main cell body affects their action, or more generally how the spatial configuration of a neuron's connections affects its comput
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by al-king 11y ago
They're researching the behaviour of real neurons by making computational models, rather than creating a "neural network" model for AI purposes, so the definition of "single neuron" they're using is meant to re
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by al-king 12y ago
'boot repl' works just fine too. Imperative builds are a different mindset - where lein projects feel like a different language which emulates Clojure syntax, boot feels more like a library, and context switching is a favourite HN
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by al-king 12y ago
If you're not into his style, GEB can be a bit perverse, but Hofstadter is genuinely excited by the ideas (and the games and wordplay he uses to convey them). If you look at the sum of his work, its tone comes across as pretty humble -
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by al-king 12y ago
On the thermostat, I get the impression McCarthy was being a bit obtuse just to goad Searle a little. What he was illustrating is that simple systems can exhibit apparent intentionality while remaining simple. A steam governor or a thermost
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by al-king 15y ago
Dead on! Thinking in terms of "choosing" to do things rather than "needing" to do things has really helped me recently.
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by al-king 15y ago
Fry's point in particular is not that IQ is bad or useless; it clearly indicates some kind of talent. It's that treasuring IQ to the point that you join a society for people with high IQ, to Fry, also indicates a vapid intellectual narcissi
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by al-king 15y ago
Point 3 is poorly thought out. Speaking carefully includes emphasising important points. Think of communication the same way Don Norman thinks about design. 15 is iffy. I'd prefer to know about a problem even if someone has no idea how to f
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by al-king 15y ago
I don't think he gets what makes Circles good. Their privacy and asymmetry is exactly why I like them. You don't want other people knowing 'how you classify' them, and it doesn't matter to them, really, unless they're being neurotic. Circle
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by al-king 15y ago
Not sure I follow your last comment. Atheism is not implicitly uncooperative, and regardless Dawkins contends that atheism is correct, not that it's an optimal strategy.
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by al-king 16y ago
Of course, "costly but worthless" is just another way of saying "art".
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by al-king 16y ago
While it's certainly named for bears, that appears to be be a folk etymology: as the Wikipedia article you link suggests, the Arctic is named for the northern bear constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, so called since the time of Homer.