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by arthev 5y ago
Read actively, think deeply. In other words, https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thin...
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by arthev 6y ago
The most Pythonic spoken language is English, because Monty Python was British.
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by arthev 6y ago
Depends on if you're primarily interested in getting utility as soon as possible, in which case use whatever solves the problem you'd most like to solve. If that is making some web app, that'd be Javascript. If you're in
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by arthev 6y ago
Trivially leads to local optima only, though. You're intentionally making a stake somewhere with no reasonable expectation of high quality, after all.
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by arthev 6y ago
"Therefore... what? Just give up? Or start over from a non-flawed base?" - those would both be ways to avoid the presumed local optima, yes. "Which is what? Still to be created, or does it exist?" - several different &#x
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by arthev 6y ago
"The encouraging thing today is that we're kind of converging on good practices in language design." - doubtful that we'll arrive at good practices in language design through incremental steps from a flawed base. All the
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by arthev 6y ago
The site implies assembly is how computers really work. IMO, assembly is just an incidental implementation detail of little note. High level language chips are possible, after all.
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by arthev 6y ago
Check out Lockhart's Lament.
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by arthev 6y ago
Good Metaprogramming tooling
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by arthev 7y ago
Solve problems! Caveat: Many books seem to have bad problems. If the majority of the problems seem to be the same problem with different parameters, that might raise a warning.
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by arthev 7y ago
To quote Hamming: """In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.""" It follows that regurgitating answe
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by arthev 7y ago
You're missing out. For one, relying on information to surface in light-weight form means that - even if it surfaced - you would be behind the curve. Secondly, it probably doesn't surface. A heavy book you engage with builds rich
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by arthev 7y ago
2) just stop reading news
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by arthev 7y ago
No :)
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by arthev 7y ago
The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition might interest you if you're interested in these lines of thought.
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by arthev 7y ago
You're the co-founder. Unless you'd genuinely prefer to stay quiet about that, put yourself in there. (If some investor gets put off, chances are he wouldn't have been the best to work with anyway.) Armchair advice, though.
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by arthev 7y ago
Yes.
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by arthev 7y ago
Get a different house?
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by arthev 7y ago
I'll be upgrading to a dumbphone once my current smartphone croaks. I haven't noticed any significant benefit from having a smartphone. Admittedly, gps maps are somewhat convenient.
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by arthev 7y ago
Probably vanity? https://www.notechmagazine.com/2017/08/non-electric-hearing-...
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by arthev 7y ago
someone has to have some sense of taste, rather than be fashionistas. e.g. I see more than 2-3 posts a day about non-lisps. What's so good about those?
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by arthev 7y ago
It doesn't. There's a few math heavy exercises in the first chapter, and the math is generally explained as it goes along too. Except for the first chapter, it's pretty math-free.
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by arthev 7y ago
How many artefacts that show imagination and will survive >70k years have you made lately? Are you intelligent?
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by arthev 7y ago
Sounds like you might have a case of the fallacy fallacy :)
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by arthev 7y ago
"The Machine Stops" by Forster sent me for a loop back in high school.
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by arthev 7y ago
Intelligence may have been dropping since Victorian times: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961...
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by arthev 7y ago
While usually focusing on smaller snippets, thedailywtf.com is a site about (mostly) code wtfs. A fair number of management wtfs too, though.
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by arthev 7y ago
For a counterpoint, see Celia Green's 'Human Evasion' (available at http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html ), which argues that preoccupation with the social sphere is just a psychological def
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by arthev 7y ago
After employment? Fuck that. They better be prepared to pay out $300K per year indefinitely in that case.
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by arthev 7y ago
Yeah, for some odd reason it doesn't load when I click it either. If I refresh the new tab, it loads though. Weird. Anyway, you should be able to find it easily by doing a web search for 'supermemo sleep'.

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