digsmahler

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by digsmahler 5y ago
Enlightened people, very boring at parties.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
I had the same question, the piano is already a well developed and standardized instrument from centuries of revision and engineering. Returning to one string seems like a step back into the past. The video is really nice though, explaining
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Oooh, I like that idea! I'm gonna try to figure that out today.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
One of the great beauties of working with scripting languages, they work just fine on lighter laptops. The MacBook Air is a great machine for the node/python/php programmer on the go.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
> It turns out what they had tried to do was harder than expected Literally every business/engineering project ever.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Brain hack: Formulate your thinking in terms of positive statements. Example: * Negative statement: Don't use object inheritance, it leads to confusing code. * Positive statement: Try to make your inheritance tree flatter, this helps m
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by digsmahler 8y ago
There are also way fewer cars in those photos that anywhere comparable in LA today. Maybe these things are related?
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Thank you, that really helps! The original article alone is pretty confusing.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Yes! This makes me so happy that Miyazaki would unretire and make more movies!
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by digsmahler 8y ago
The "where is this child" query is unaffected by the ordering, whether Z-order, Hilbert, or other. However querying "which children are in this area" requires that you come up with corresponding ranges along the curve. T
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by digsmahler 8y ago
> Instead of projecting the Earth directly onto a single square, it projects the Earth onto the 6 faces of a cube enclosing the Earth and then applies an extra non-linear transformations to reduce even more the deformations. Each cell in
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Yes! So much covered in so few words. This ordering works shockingly well for constructing robust solutions to complex problems. Keep it simple. Do what needs to be done now, leave off for later everything else. By the time later arrives, w
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by digsmahler 8y ago
First, it must be said that this is super cool, and I love it so much! I've got questions... 1. What is the relationship between the bottom colored dots and the colored notes? I'm looking in the "scalar" tool, key of C.
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by digsmahler 8y ago
Two weeks. I refer to it as the cussing period because it's full of situations where I know something is possible and easy, but I have to figure out how to find the right documentation and put together the peculiarities of the new lang
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by digsmahler 9y ago
In my circle of peers, and perhaps beyond, we use "clever" as a pejorative. It roughly means what you said in the last sentence, "more of a display of cleverness than actual cleverness." In other words, calling a piece o
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by digsmahler 9y ago
Nice! This is definitely an important tool when creating a site traffic in images to be displayed across a variety different sized screens. Having worked on this type of project before I'll mention a few challenges you have not yet add
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by digsmahler 9y ago
Here is an interesting development contradicting edA-qa mort-ora-y's premise, AI Software Learns To Make AI Software: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603381/ai-software-learns...
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by digsmahler 9y ago
I really love this article about Fan Hui and AlphaGo, [The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google's AI Play Go]( https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-google... ). It's the first time I&#x27
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by digsmahler 9y ago
It's not boorish. I only learned about this practice of new American slavery from a friend who had come out of prison recently. Not enough people are talking about it, so nobody knows this is what's going on. Please, keep talking
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by digsmahler 9y ago
I wonder if this list comes out any differently today, 12 years later.
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by digsmahler 9y ago
It's a secondary work, "The function of criticism: On T. S. Eliot’s essay on the evaluation of literature" by Denis Donoghue.
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by digsmahler 9y ago
Paul Feyerabend argues as much in [Against Method]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method ), that "science is an anarchic enterprise." Our greatest innovations were created by people who were claiming &q
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by digsmahler 10y ago
I'm a 40-something programmer learning to weld. It's really fun! You can do it too.
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by digsmahler 10y ago
We should send even smaller nano-probes that would be even easier to accelerate and would have the capability to collect dust and build it into larger probes that would talk back to us when they come online!
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by digsmahler 10y ago
An oblique point, but we apparently have more in common with apes than monkeys. Admittedly, you could have just as easily compared us with wolverines. Nicely written!
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by digsmahler 10y ago
lol. ty!
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by digsmahler 10y ago
Ironically, the article linked, "Writing good code: how to reduce the cognitive load of your code", itself has a high cognitive load. It's grammatically irksome. The opening sentence has no verb, "Low bug count, good per
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by digsmahler 10y ago
Love it! That's a really clever use of the Set collection type to pair down non-solutions.
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by digsmahler 11y ago
This is a really touching open response to an inner demon that I, and many people, wrestle with. Like Alan, I too have childishly and bitterly demanded recognition from what seems like a cold and uncaring world. But seeing the system from w
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by digsmahler 11y ago
My favorite singer is Céu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9u

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