devmacrile

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by devmacrile 5y ago
Yeah the process always struck me as just as much a barrier to exit as a barrier to entry (maybe even more so).
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by devmacrile 5y ago
And the obligatory Alan Perlis epigrams (usually one makes it on a list like this!): http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html .
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by devmacrile 6y ago
Awesome!
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by devmacrile 6y ago
Mainly just improvise on the guitar (and primarily warm acoustic vibes during this pandemic): * https://soundcloud.com/devin-riley-763462550/sunday-brunch * https://soundcloud.com/devin-riley-763462550&
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by devmacrile 6y ago
bute
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by devmacrile 6y ago
Nice! Really like "When You\'re In Town".
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by devmacrile 6y ago
If we are talking blitz though there is an argument to be made for the trickiness of the knight's geometry. Forks abound and no time to calculate.
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by devmacrile 7y ago
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray) is a great historical account and details many of his other contributions (e.g. game theory, automata, but especially meteorology).
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by devmacrile 7y ago
+1 on Mathematics, Form and Function
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by devmacrile 7y ago
Would recommend reading everything in Collected Fictions.
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The OG Nuremberg Trials(fermatslibrary.com)
5 points by devmacrile 7y ago|1 comments
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by devmacrile 7y ago
That is basically the mission statement of Software Carpentry ( https://software-carpentry.org/ ). They have a _ton_ of great material for those in scientific computing wanting to improve their software engineering skills.
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by devmacrile 7y ago
Possibly because the U.S. provides the "best high school education in the world.. It's just a shame you have to go to college to get it." -- Alan Kay, some anecdote I forget how to locate
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by devmacrile 7y ago
Yeah - this is a very good point. At a certain point, the scale of economic activity has to bump up against the finite scale of ecological dynamics upon which it is dependent. As long as negative externalities are treated as such - someth
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Using Design to Make Hard Life Choices(blog.prototypr.io)
1 points by devmacrile 8y ago|0 comments
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by devmacrile 8y ago
In his lecture series on Bach, Robert Greenberg discusses temperament quite a bit and I found it fascinating. He relays all these descriptions that Bach had of different keys that are basically lost on us now as we cannot refer to the spec
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by devmacrile 8y ago
This is a beautiful comment - thanks for sharing. FWIW I have not watched House, but that episode is referencing an actual technique developed by V.S. Ramachandran ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_box ). His book
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by devmacrile 8y ago
The NYT had a great piece a few years back of a similar bent but w.r.t. oranges: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/a-race-to-save-th... . Definitely influenced how I think about this type of iss
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by devmacrile 8y ago
Publishing raw data itself is definitely a good start but there also needs to be a push towards a standardized way of sharing data along with it's lineage (dependent sources, experimental design/generation process, metadata, graph
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by devmacrile 8y ago
Exactly. It's a meaningless and even misleading analogy. If forced to draw a comparison, you could maybe talk about the energy dissipation of a single neuron and compare that to, say, the energy dissipation of a single transistor. An
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by devmacrile 8y ago
Keith Johnstone has a nice passage in his book Impro where he likens adults to atrophied children (which applies to hobbies of a more artistic bent): "If he believed he was a transmitter, rather than a creator, then we'd be able t
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by devmacrile 8y ago
This was circulating around HN a few days ago: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar