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by electronvolt 12y ago
I have moderate-to-severe apnea, but nothing that might have caused it (not overweight, don't smoke, etc.) and didn't find out until I was 21. Using a CPAP is a night and day difference--whereas I used to require 10-12 hours to fu
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think it's a combination of playing around and math chops. Without any mathematical knowledge, you probably couldn't come up with something like the s(i,k,o) function (which, as far as I can tell from just looking/playing a
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Just from a game consumer point of view, as opposed to a marketer (although, for the record, partly due to my childhood being largely devoid of regular advertising on cable/etc., I am, for better or worse, hard to market to): An articl
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think hatred on reddit is a complicated mess of legitimately bizarre people being given a forum for the first time, trolls, signalling, and groupthink, depending heavily on the topic and subreddit. Signalling of social and political group
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think even among those who don't necessarily care for sports, calling them 'sports-hating snobs' is often at odds with reality. I grew up in an academic family. My parents were at the top of their respective fields, and th
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Question: if it came out that Eich had donated to, say, the KKK, would you feel the same way? I have mixed feelings over the way he was treated, but your argument actually seems the opposite of nuanced: the blanket claim that someone shou
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by electronvolt 12y ago
From my experience at one of the elite public universities: Something I noticed as a student who spent time around activists (I wouldn't say I am one--I fundamentally agree with many pretty far-left social and economic ideas but I didn
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by electronvolt 12y ago
You're correct that CS isn't about code. Programming is, and that's what I was drawing the comparison with. Most of the CS we have from pre-1950 is fundamentally mathematics: algorithms, theory of computation, etc.
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I'm fairly certain it's this, given the history of CS and programming. It started as a branch of mathematics. As an academic field, even in the 1980s/1990s and in some places today, it was/is taught as a branch of math
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I mean, the often cited model of depression as a serotonin 'deficiency'--e.x. "I'm depressed because I don't have enough serotonin" is definitely not supported by the science/literature that I'm famil
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by electronvolt 12y ago
> except that the serotonin model of depression has been disproven without a shadow of a doubt I'd hesitate to say that. First, treatment and cause are obviously not the same thing: increasing serotonin levels in a person and that
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I'd actually wonder (and somewhat worry) what effect that has from a social perspective on future generations of programmers. Certainly not all programmers start as kids, but it seems like a huge number of them do, and it seems like al
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by electronvolt 12y ago
What about dropping support for the Equal Rights Amendment and attempting to reinforce/reinstate "traditional gender roles" isn't about putting the breaks on the advancement of women in society? The issue wasn't jus
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Any prior Republican support for women's reproductive rights/etc. had dried up at that time because of their alignment in the '80s with the evangelical Christian right. In the '80s the party platform dropped support for
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by electronvolt 12y ago
> You can't become better by taking a drug I'm going to mostly point out that although this is an appealing idea: that we only get out of ourselves what we put in/etc./etc. there's no reason for it to be true.
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Interesting papers! I appreciate the links. >a) boxes are a mean of dealing with complexity - less complexity means we can have bigger boxes and more opportunities for cross-layer optimisation b) the places we have drawn those boxes are
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I feel like this is a kind of naive approach that might work for some end user programs, but isn't a good principle in general. Large/monolithic programs like databases, operating systems, compilers, etc. all can benefit from add
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think that you're right about this. People with poor social skills are going to be worse at negotiating pay and in much lower demand, overall. On the other hand, I'd assert that they're going to be harder to manage and le
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think that falling into the trap of treating social skills and technical ability as a trade-off is a mistake. It's a hackneyed stereotype that I don't think has ever been true--but I'd imagine it has sometimes led to peopl
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by electronvolt 12y ago
This is actually one of the few reasons I wouldn't be totally against this kind of technology. (For security reasons, I think that putting software with open on the air connections into a 1-2+ ton metal machine powered by explosions th
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think that's more a sign of the current pressures to succeed (get good grades) in college and double major and etc. are extremely high and the perceived penalties for 'failing' also quite high. A combination of a high pres
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by electronvolt 12y ago
In this case, it's being compared to the normal demographics of people doing programming/CS related stuff. The demographics here are pretty stark: the percentage of women, and the percentages of hispanic and black people in progr
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Functional programming has been around since the late 50s/early 60s, depending on what you count as the start of LISP as a programming language. In some ways the reason it isn't used a lot is for historic reasons as much as anythi
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Just on the subject of not medicating, specifically for bipolar disorder: in the case of bipolar disorder, medication is considered the only completely responsible primary treatment, with anything else acting as a supplemental treatment. (
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Pointing out that categories are used to create a false dichotomy in public discourse is not "playing coy", or a "quibble". Unless you can show scientific research that firmly differentiates the addictivity and/or h
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Pointing out that what are usually stigmatized as 'hard drugs' are used in medical situations is meaningful, because it puts into question the categorization of a substance as 'hard' versus 'soft' drugs, which
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I recently finished up my undergraduate education and realized there were certain large important parts of computer science I knew very little to nothing about (I stopped really taking CS classes to go take a lot of advanced math courses my
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by electronvolt 12y ago
If you want to improve at programming: follow the advice about either making a personal project or working on an open source project. The fastest way to get better at programming is to program more. However: it sounds like your interests
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by electronvolt 12y ago
Dijkstra (the one who has a graph algorithm named after him, aside from being a really influential computer scientist in many ways) argued more or less exactly what you're arguing: that formal methods (that is, formally proving, mathe
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by electronvolt 12y ago
> I don't know what the most advanced classes were in your field, but Berkeley (and other top top schools) teach classes that are unimaginable at other universities. An undergraduate SDE class really is "unimaginable" most

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