earl_gray

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   by earl_gray 10mo ago

   Thank you for answering that person’s question so clearly. I was also in the dark and this really helped.
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   by earl_gray 2y ago

   If I had to suggest where the “combination of four languages” idea came from, it would be from Homeric Greek (the language the Iliad and Odyssey were written down in). This was genuinely a complete mess, formed of a hodgepodge of different
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   by earl_gray 4y ago

   Richard Hamming’s “Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics” is a wonderful introduction to calculus from one of those rare individuals who mastered the interplay between applications of mathematics and its th
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   by earl_gray 5y ago

   I feel like I may have misunderstood the point of the article because this seems like an obvious explanation to me. A pair of parentheses in Scheme tells the interpreter that it needs to open a new environment, evaluate the expression insid
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   by earl_gray 10y ago

   That second sentence is very insightful.
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   by earl_gray 11y ago

   This was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are forced to "buy back the fruits of [their] labour a
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   by earl_gray 11y ago

   That reminds me of 'Truman Sleeps' from the Truman Show played, again, very slowly. It's a bit creepy... but I like to listen to it when I'm studying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2i-Qxxpec
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   by earl_gray 11y ago

   Sounds like they need to develop a news feed news feed to keep them fed with all the latest news about their news feed development. Plus side: if it works well, they can just replace their current unspeakable Lovecraftian horror of a system