dill_day

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by dill_day 7y ago
Melville was a new discovery for me in the last couple years. 7 of his films are streaming on the Criterion Channel: https://films.criterionchannel.com/?director=melville-jean-p...
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by dill_day 10y ago
Check out Racket's syntax-parse and the "Fortifying Macros" paper for macros with better error reporting: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket&#x
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by dill_day 12y ago
I wouldn't guess so, for example it's used in the CLRS textbook. What did you call it instead?
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by dill_day 13y ago
I think your thinking is right, machine learning is probably a good area as far as jobs go. Depending on your CS interests you'll find what areas of math they use most. AI / machine learning, learn lots of probability and statisti
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by dill_day 13y ago
If there's "every reason to believe" it's the opposition forces and not the Syrian government in control of and using chemical weapons, what good does it do for the Syrian government to "place its chemical arsenal u
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by dill_day 13y ago
I guess it must be a joke, but that's a fun review. "I accidently bought this book thinking I was buying a traditional calculus book in order to prepare for a standardized test I had to take. After a few chapters I realized this w
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by dill_day 13y ago
There are two universal properties in the sense that a universal property is either defined in terms of a "terminal morphism" or (dually) an "initial morphism" (see the Formal Definition in the wiki article) -- the examples are particular i
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by dill_day 14y ago
You might like to check out this blog post by Cristina Videira Lopes (though it's not about Go in particular): http://tagide.com/blog/2012/03/research-in-programming-langu...
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by dill_day 14y ago
Many great films are made on a fraction of the budget required to produce something like Toy Story. And anyway I don't think it's hard to imagine Pixar artists saying they were more motivated by the pure joy of creating something than by th
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by dill_day 14y ago
I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundametally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. When you start Lisp, it does `read', `eval', and `print', all of which are missing in Python. Could someone
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by dill_day 15y ago
See also: Taming Wildcards in Java's Type System http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~rtate/publications/tamewild/tamewild... (Section 3 Non-Termination in Subtyping)
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by dill_day 15y ago
Another one they linked to was Randy Pausch's last lecture.
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by dill_day 15y ago
FWIW, if you follow the link to his compilers class page, you can see that the projects do in fact deal with traditional topics: Lexical analyzer Parser High-level translator Normalizer & CPS converter Low-level translator
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by dill_day 15y ago
Interesting, but I think there are some good comments (at the article) too -- pointing out that it also just seems to make sense -- like, Undergraduates write to professors with singular first person pronouns because they are often requesti
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by dill_day 15y ago
The syllabus says "A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required." -- I imagine programming experience and knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures would be helpful as well.
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by dill_day 15y ago
You are probably a very smart person, but your replies in this thread read like the epitome of academic pedantry, verbosity, pomposity, etc... the `my claim is (1) (2) and (3), my qualifications are these, my blah blah blah' -- Google is an
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by dill_day 15y ago
Definitely! I felt the same way. I'm just finishing my undergrad CS degree and I think there was maybe one AI lecture that mentioned Alan Turing-the-human-being out of all the classes I took... I would sometimes wonder.. are there other stu
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by dill_day 15y ago
Yeah, I agree. I think I remember reading maybe in the Hodges biography that there unfortunately isn't any; I think there was some sort of recorded radio interview that got lost somehow...
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by dill_day 16y ago
Maybe it's the time of day?
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by dill_day 16y ago
I think you're talking about different things-- there's the monthly CACM magazine, and then there are the huge books of conference proceedings and journals.
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by dill_day 16y ago
There was a really cool parsing paper at POPL this year [1] that goes 'beyond CFGs'... but as far as I know their system YAKKER is still in development / unreleased. I think from a user's perspective, e.g. someone wanting to design a DSL, i
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by dill_day 16y ago
I've always liked §295 of The Gay Science where Nietzsche makes the distinction between "brief" and "enduring" habits: "I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things and states, down to the bot
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by dill_day 16y ago
I think in this case it's probably best as is...reading the title as 'Lisp syntax' before English.
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by dill_day 16y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511332
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by dill_day 16y ago
Thanks for the link- I love romantic music especially, and Chopin is the epitome of that...beautiful. The études are also some of my favorite music.
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Update on Deolalikar’s Proof that P≠NP(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
7 points by dill_day 16y ago|0 comments
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by dill_day 16y ago
I just finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's a 1000-page kind of experimental fiction about entertainment/addiction. It took me a while to read, but is something I'd recommend, anyway.
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by dill_day 16y ago
I really like how on HN the content of the comments is emphasized -- no colorful avatars or signatures or any of that stuff. I wonder if that maybe helps add to...like subconsciously, all the comments appear the same so you start feeling li
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by dill_day 16y ago
Piano, guitar
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by dill_day 17y ago
I think this is interesting, but wonder if the change people talk about could be more in the quality of discussion than type of submitted articles?

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