jrrrp

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by jrrrp 11mo ago
I would suggest you read the Gates report. I'm not sure how much to engage here, except to say emphatically that Gates said nothing of the sort. TL;DR - health and development funding should be considered as a more marginally impactful
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by jrrrp 11mo ago
To me, this article demonstrated the value of knowing your domain and its particular constraints, as well as a good understanding of prior art. Together with the only 1000 line demo it took to produce (which I suppose could have been aided
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by jrrrp 1y ago
That sounds fair enough, I'd be interested in reading your thoughts at a later date on the experience!
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by jrrrp 1y ago
I highlight as a way to categorize my annotations. I highlight in Zotero as I go, and in the highlight's comment section briefly jot down why (e.g. something to follow up on, or whether this reminded me of something else it contrasts w
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by jrrrp 1y ago
It does seem to depend highly on the context in which the array is used. Strictly defined algorithm with an off-by-one: bug. User-defined indexing as you say is a counter. I suppose it is hinging on arrays being used in less dynamic context
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by jrrrp 1y ago
Just looking at the language myself, but it seems that it treats out-of-bounds array access as a non-recoverable bug and panics [1, 2], whilst map access returns Option [3]. Exceptions are a language construct only to enable Java compatibil
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by jrrrp 1y ago
It's good to read this while being in one of those nothing-months myself. I have extended the deadlines and my goals are not clear. Incidentally, I have a supervisor who felt the exact same way when he was doing his PhD and fled to ind
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by jrrrp 2y ago
How do you manage having thousands of tags? What is your use case? I quite quickly moved away from them because I couldn't have a strict/normalised system for it. E.g., I would end up with #a, #as, #<synonym of a>, #parent&#