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by anttipoi 5y ago
Human hearing is very prone to priming: if you know what to expect, you can easily hear it even if the original sound is quite garbled. My favorite demo is by Michael Shermer (after 9 minutes): https://www.ted.com/talks&#x2F
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by anttipoi 7y ago
It is. You're free to start learning. Today's announcement means more translations in European languauges.
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by anttipoi 7y ago
It is completely free, globally. This announcement was more about translations, really.
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by anttipoi 8y ago
https://www.elementsofai.com It's not a course where you learn how to implement algorithms, but a general introduction to the concepts and problems that typically are treated under the label 'AI'.
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by anttipoi 8y ago
DrRacket? ( https://racket-lang.org ) That is what I gave my mom when she asked what she could try programming on. It features a simple whole window editor/repl where you can get straight into business. What failed was the su
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by anttipoi 9y ago
Tip: Claude Shannon's new biography [ https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio... ] is an enjoyable read.
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by anttipoi 11y ago
I found the O'Reilly book Mastering Bitcoin excellent. It's been a while since a tech book gave me such enjoyment. In an age when when word innovation typically is used to mean "I duck-taped these two turds together" it
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by anttipoi 11y ago
"Tomorrow is the question" is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVURhB4bsE Less free, more rooted in traditional tonality, yet playful and creative.
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by anttipoi 12y ago
I believe Erlang will be supported, so just enlist :)
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by anttipoi 14y ago
Products that make their users look like dorks seldom succeed.
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by anttipoi 14y ago
Some breeds of dogs are very good listeners. I've heard of libraries where they occasionally have a dog around for children to read to: it apparently is a good experience to learn to read by reading out loud to a patient listener. I've want
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by anttipoi 15y ago
A friend entered a fake birthday when joining FB, thinking it was not really something FB needs to know about. The amount of greetings and happy wishes on one random winter day greatly amused him.
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by anttipoi 15y ago
+1 to this. No matter what you end up doing in your career, having a good idea about what's going on the wire is never wasted.
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by anttipoi 15y ago
Damn. A time machine is what I want for Christmas. Or a recording of this lecture. Any ideas on if this was recorded?
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by anttipoi 15y ago
Closures/lambdas in Java may affect how implementations of other JVM languages implement their corresponding features. This may affect interoperability between languages positively. Currently JVM languages interoperate nicely with Java but
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by anttipoi 15y ago
I've now been involved in two projects where I would have needed a queue with following characteristics: - simple pub-sub, queue-like: m producers, n consumers - decent performance (order of hundreds of requests per second) - high availabil
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by anttipoi 16y ago
Results are out. http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5111 Quite a few of those who voted yes added comments about the yes being on technical merit, not licensing.
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by anttipoi 16y ago
Note that you can also subscribe to their RSS feed on these offers (beware: could be expensive) http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday