ibebrett

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by ibebrett 11y ago
Just out of curiosity why? I personally can't imagine why someone would choose it as a favorite. Not because I think it is bad, but because I feel its kind of a kitchen sink language that doesn't really have any clear advantages o
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by ibebrett 11y ago
"We assume that microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war" Did anyone actually have this assumption?
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by ibebrett 12y ago
What makes you think that? I have had the opposite experience with Scala/Haskell
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by ibebrett 12y ago
there is a difference between it being cool and being acceptable. you had an identity as a nerd. you were accepted as a nerd, and cool people were probably happy that you were because it put you lower on the totem pole.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I would disagree. Would you leave a typo on your resume?
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Actually I have been able to do this pretty easily, but its probably because I commute an hour and a half each way to work on a train. So I get 3 hours a day to work on things I want to work on.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
If you hadn't beat me to it, this is exactly what I would have suggested
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I think it should be pointed out that bayesian's believe bayes theorem as a statement about plausibility of statements, so intuitions about an event space (which are obvious statements about sets) don't carry over to the general c
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by ibebrett 12y ago
They clearly know what they are doing. They definitely need people with prolog experience
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I tend to disagree slightly. I have a math/cs degree, but work with a lot of physicists turned programmers. They are all smart and have plenty of experience at doing what they are doing, but have no idea what is out there CS wise. The
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Because in silicon valley and the startup scene in general you will see mostly 20 somethings as software engineers. Companies like that they can pay them less and get long hours out of them . (No children, work is #1 priority, etc).
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Its just as arbitrary as "why do you like me?" "we happened to be in the same bar, which is randomness+a bit of factors based on our personalities" just because a computer is not causing you to randomly meetup at say a p
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I may have been to harsh in my assessment. But still, how many of these people are sitting down and working on some puzzle/problem/project they find interesting vs saying I know I need rails, and angular to make web apps and then
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by ibebrett 12y ago
This may be thinking back on things with rose tinted glasses, but I learned to code in qbasic when I was 12 or so at a Boys and Girls club after school and fell in love. It was entirely effortless and fun to me. I think the difference is at
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I feel like that might be the wrong question. If you wanted to really study formal computer science you could learn things like model theory. If you want to study the analysis of algorithm run times you may want to study something like comp
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by ibebrett 12y ago
"changing them when they become a problem" is a huge understatement. changing economic systems is incredibly complex and extremely hard to predict. even just engineering enough people to collectively act is very difficult.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I have a feeling if this person had actually gone to school for CS they would have thought it equally useless. Most CS programs don't concentrate on say building iOS apps etc.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Not sure I agree. When I was a child I knew my family was struggling, but had I actually been burdened with knowing how far behind we were on paying for housing etc I might have had a nervous break down. There is some information that may b
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I work in the industry, so I kind of picked this up through osmosis. I will ask someone at work if they have any good literature.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Volunteering for a volunteer project is noble. Volunteering so that someone else can take your fair share of profit is not so much. If you are taking a hit in salary for society at large then I would compliment you on your generosity. If yo
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by ibebrett 12y ago
They don't care that you aren't clicking. The ad industry is moving towards impressions. That you are seeing the content.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
but computer like structures do pop up in incredibly simple situations. seashells for instance.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Isn't this one of the homework's in the stanford/coursera ml course? I feel like this is not really original content
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I totally agree. I have worked in two "startups" (both great experiences). My father started an electrical contracting business when he was in his 20s. No one called him an entrepreneur or said he was building a startup.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
That makes very little sense. You shouldn't start a company unless you have a very strong idea, evidence that it makes sense, capital etc.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
she was involved in commutative algebra. she had a nice little section in my undergrad abstract algebra book. i'm not saying anything negative about her, just that if you are going to list the most brilliant/productive scientists
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Why is grace hopper on here? She was brilliant, but the gap between her and euler is immense. There were a ton of brilliant minds, but it doesn't make a ton of sense to throw her in.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
She was brilliant, but lets not go overboard. She's not even the biggest name in the fields of math she contributed to.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
most alcoholics i know don't spend money this way. they buy cheap vodka and drink alone, not out going from bar to bar.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
how do you "share" objects that multiple pieces of code wan't to own. you need to copy if you are passing around a mutable string.

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