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by happy4crazy 7y ago
Interesting! I have the opposite experience. I've gone on a bunch of very low-carb diets, maybe ten at this point (not sure if they were exactly ketogenic or not), and I've enjoyed them. But every time I try low-carb, my sleep get
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by happy4crazy 8y ago
It's analogous to the real and imaginary parts of a complex number. Does it makes sense to add a real number and a purely imaginary number? Aren't they different kinds of things? Yes, and yes!
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by happy4crazy 8y ago
I personally don't find the "bits"y explanation of entropy/cross-entropy/KL etc. to be all that intuitive; as fundamental as it may be, I don't think about compression/encodings all that often. I've a
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by happy4crazy 8y ago
Hard to say if it's worth the effort, but I've taught myself enough French to read classics (e.g. Hugo, Déscartes, Tocqueville), and it really is an immense pleasure. I imagine I'll get a kick out of it for the rest of my lif
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Flow cookbook (gradual typechecker for js)(sitr.us)
1 points by happy4crazy 10y ago|0 comments
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by happy4crazy 10y ago
I've been teaching myself French (from scratch) for the past two years. I read nearly as well as I do in English, and I listen well (some slangy television dialogue is still a bit tough). Some things that have worked for me: 0. Goes wi
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by happy4crazy 10y ago
For another resource, Alan Macdonald has some nice videos that accompany his books, "Linear and Geometric Algebra" and "Vector and Geometric Calculus": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCymE67THrWoeTA
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by happy4crazy 11y ago
My favorite Pynchon name is Carmine "Two-Ton" Torpidini, from Vineland.
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by happy4crazy 11y ago
I like to think of a functor/applicative/monad f a as being "more or less" an a. For example, take a list of Strings. It's "more or less" a single string, it just hasn't made up its mind yet :) When y
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by happy4crazy 12y ago
Hakan Calhanoglu's absurd free-kick from near the half-field line has to rank up there with Roberto Carlos's: http://www.highlighthub.com/hakan-calhanoglu-scores-amazing-...
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Intuitionistic mathematics for physics(math.andrej.com)
1 points by happy4crazy 12y ago|0 comments
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Smooth infinitesimal analysis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by happy4crazy 12y ago|0 comments
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by happy4crazy 12y ago
Neat, I was just wondering about this. I'm using the same idea with core.async channels in ClojureScript to parse the BitTorrent peer protocol[0], but I wasn't sure how to describe it. [0] https://github.com/happy4
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by happy4crazy 13y ago
Here's what I want: "Study Grouper". Grouper but you go do something educational, e.g. a wine class, cooking class, dance class, amateur astronomy class, painting class...
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by happy4crazy 13y ago
If you'd like to read a deep investigation into writing styles, let me suggest Clear and Simple as the Truth[0]. Steven Pinker discusses the book in a fun talk on communicating science[1]. [0] http://classicprose.com/
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by happy4crazy 13y ago
Can you expand on the CanBuildFrom travesty? (It seems like you've got interesting things to say, but you're being a bit strident. It bums me out that Scala discussions on HN take such a heated tone.)
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by happy4crazy 13y ago
Pinker references the book Clear and Simple as the Truth at the end of his talk. It's one of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-ebook/dp/B0...
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by happy4crazy 13y ago
I'm not remotely qualified to comment on the content, but I was very lucky to have Nima as a professor in college. He was an incredibly exciting lecturer--he practically glowed with intellectual energy.
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
Yes! I was just telling my coworkers how these interviews sound like they're lifted straight from American Psycho.
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Ask HN: How do you get your code reviewed?
8 points by happy4crazy 14y ago|6 comments
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
Be sure to check out Pierce's new book, Software Foundations[0], which is available for free online. Learning how to use Coq is quite an amazing experience. [0] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/current/index.html
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High Performance Computing(youtube.com)
2 points by happy4crazy 14y ago|0 comments
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
Haha, this is really fun :) I'm looking forward to exploring your blog.
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
We don't address this in the post, but adding :while conditions is quite a fun challenge. This is the best I could come up with (in Emacs Lisp): https://gist.github.com/4356261 . It's rather hacky :D Darius Bacon (abecedarius) came up wit
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
Your guide was indeed very helpful when I was getting to know Emacs. Thanks!
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
I haven't. Oddly, I find that the Vim and Emacs parts of my brain are completely separate. When I open Vim, my fingers do Vim stuff, and when I open Emacs, my fingers do Emacs stuff.
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
This is my experience exactly. I was a long-time, very fast Vim user, but I wanted to play around with Proof General, an Emacs mode for using proof assistants like Coq[0]. Emacs slowly cannibalized my Vim usage from there: I started using i
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Exploring Emacs(hackerschool.com)
125 points by happy4crazy 14y ago|40 comments
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
That's my favorite too :)
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by happy4crazy 14y ago
If you're on a Mac (pre 10.8, which unfortunately messes things up), I recommend biting the bullet and reinstalling gdb. The process is a bit annoying[0], but tui mode is worth the effort. [0] http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwi

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