jgg

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by jgg 12y ago
100 years ago, learning Greek and/or Latin was a large part of all there was to study. Now we have multitudes of fields and subfields regularly generating actual demonstrable progress in the capabilities of humanity, few of which requ
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by jgg 12y ago
Spot on. I also feel like even if you were being charged the tuition of 30+ years ago, you wouldn't be getting nearly as much for your money. I looked through the introductory Russian textbook for my state university and was kind of bl
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by jgg 12y ago
I think you're misinformed if you think brain development can be said to taper off in any way over 18 years. That's not what I said, and the advantage you talked about supposedly does taper off until the child is around 12. (edi
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by jgg 12y ago
Programming and graphic design perhaps (personally, I've yet to meet someone who programmed as a child who was better than a good programmer who learned later), but I really doubt there is much of an advantage to teaching your child De
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by jgg 12y ago
The same encrypted communications that the NSA tries to subvert or sabotage with bribery and legal extortion?
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by jgg 12y ago
Whoa, that's cool. I had no idea people were still working on it at that level. The last thing I saw was a version of OPAM that didn't seem to work that well...I'll have to go look around.
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by jgg 12y ago
Yep, that's what I was trying to convey. Thanks for your work.
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by jgg 12y ago
It's really fast, has minimal boiler plate and supports functional programming without any of the "orthodoxy" of Haskell. That is, you can write a recursive function but also write a for loop. Imagine something that can compe
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by jgg 12y ago
The pretentious view that Haskell's core is a mathematical structure familiar to mathematicians is wrong. Haskell borrows concepts from category theory (a "field" so abstract from most math that most mathematicians don't
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by jgg 12y ago
I once read a textbook I think I've read that book too. For the benefit of anyone following along at home: The unproven-but-accepted Church-Turing thesis states that any algorithm that can be done on a Turing machine (i.e., a Turing-
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by jgg 12y ago
so I think they went a little over your head. I understand lazy evaluation and tail recursion fine. I interpreted your comment as presenting corecursion as the only logical alternative to naive recursive algorithms with or without memoiza
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by jgg 12y ago
Corecursion is useful for taking a recursive algorithm and transforming it to a stream-like output pattern. But this is ridiculously inefficient. Well...you might be surprised in the general case. Because of lazy evaluation, Haskell won&#
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by jgg 12y ago
There's no requirement that the Kickstarter complete the core project - just that they provide any promised reward. That makes no sense. Much of the time, the reward is directly related to the core project. Also, in what way is it n
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by jgg 12y ago
Because you're funding a project that may or may not work out. The whole point of crowdfunding is supposed to be, "You give us money to develop an idea, and you might get a reward in return", not, "I'm paying you $3
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by jgg 12y ago
Well... http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2012/10/10/chocolate... http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/12/can-eating-chocolate-h...
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by jgg 12y ago
...this is meant to be funny, right?
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by jgg 12y ago
The problem is a cultural one, not a technical one. What makes you think this community of people who work for the very companies that are being gagged, backdoored, surveilled and bribed are the ones who are going to fix it with a magic vot
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by jgg 12y ago
Major in something unrelated to CS that will challenge you.
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by jgg 12y ago
However, it is the de-authentication step in the wireless setup that represents a much more accessible entry point for an intruder with the appropriate hacking tools. As part of their purported security protocols routers using WPA2 must re
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by jgg 13y ago
Good luck.
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by jgg 13y ago
I don't know what's in the Python course, and they very well could be doing a decent job of teaching CS concepts. However, I'll assume it's a "here's how a for loop works"-type course. The ultimate utility
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by jgg 13y ago
They also created a pretentious video where they explained that the NSA hacked people's e-mails through a rigged random number generator, complete with an attempt at explaining elliptic curves and modular arithmetic, that ignores the f
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by jgg 13y ago
Are you trolling? I seriously can't tell...
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by jgg 13y ago
It would depend on what you're programming, IMO, but I don't think they're really analogous, and I majored in math and can program.
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by jgg 13y ago
I had no idea it was actively used in Slovenian...I think even Modern Greek has "vestiges" of the dual, though.
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by jgg 13y ago
I definitely do not buy the strong Sapir-Whorf at all. I do not believe someone is explicitly constrained by the language, but I do believe that the explicit existence of certain concepts can facilitate a different kind of thinking more n
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by jgg 13y ago
Well, I was making the point that, at some point, Ancient Greek was more morphologically complex than any variation of English (which is true to my knowledge). I agree that we can accomplish specific meanings without explicit grammatical
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by jgg 13y ago
> No, it wouldn't. It's not the language that is affecting how the brain works here; it's the other way around. The theory of universal grammar can be viewed in part as an explicit rejection of linguistic relativity. I tho
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by jgg 13y ago
It is actually referred to as a "base 20" counting system, although I agree that it isn't a very good one. It's definitely not a "pure" base-20 system, but many numbers are expressed of a multiple of twenty + r
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by jgg 13y ago
I may or may not have learned at a boring job with filing cabinets and other locks...I promise if you hire me, I won't do that, though. Anyway, this is a crazy hard skill to master, simply because of the feel required to actually push

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