mjdiloreto

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by mjdiloreto 29d ago
Thanks for sharing this insight! Computer Science majors at Northeastern University had a required theater class called "The Eloquent Presenter" when I was there that largely consisted of improv games. Some students dreaded it, b
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A One Word Meta Compiler (1994)(ultratechnology.com)
2 points by mjdiloreto 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mjdiloreto 6mo ago
> On average, heavy social media use (more than five hours per day) is associated with lower wellbeing. Heavy users are significantly more likely to report higher stress and depressive symptoms, and believe they are worse off than their
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by mjdiloreto 7mo ago
I agree with you. I think the "additional guidance" era we are in will be measured in single-digit years.
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by mjdiloreto 7mo ago
It's not that it won't be better at understanding, it's that there's too many possibilities to understand. This is true for humans too, but I can use the output to make money in a particular scenario. Take even 1 simple
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by mjdiloreto 7mo ago
I also believe this must be true. Try asking Claude to program in Forth, I find the results to be unreasonably good. That's probably because most of the available Forth to train on is high quality.
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by mjdiloreto 7mo ago
I asked "what airline should I fly from NY to the Azores?". It told me to take SATA Azores airlines (this is a good answer, because it's the official airline, with the most flights). This is the answer I asked for. To your po
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by mjdiloreto 7mo ago
I mostly share your perspective, but I don't know if I would share your emphasis. Lines of code for dollars used to be a trade businesses made with developers out of necessity, but soon it will only be economically viable to make tha
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
The end of an era. This is nothing less than a travesty honestly. The current (now former) curriculum at NEU was uniquely exceptional, and now it will be conformingly adequate. Anyone who complained about the difficulty or lack of "job
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
I appreciate the humor but this confuses me. I also read in a biography of Thomas Jefferson that he reviled Calvinists, going so far as to say their God is not the God of the Bible. I genuinely do not understand what is so reprehensible abo
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
I have a pet project to integrate org mode with LLMs via tags, and the hardest part has been interfacing with the base org-mode tags to provide all the functionality I want. This library is exactly the thing I need to pick it back up!
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
I was a student at Northeastern (where Matthias Felleisen was a professor) from 2016-2020, so I have first-hand experience with exactly this system of teaching. The combination of the "program design" process and the simplicity of
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
> Note that def we have inserted, to define a global variable request. This is a powerful debug mechanism, but a better way to use it is a tool like [snitch]( https://github.com/AbhinavOmprakash/snitch ). Wow, wish I
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
I still feel shame can be noble. To try to live up to the example of others and feel ashamed that you are not anywhere near their greatness. Not guilty, because you have not done wrong, but shame, because you are not enough compared to anot
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
Another perspective: shame can be good. Feel it. Shame for who you are can light a fire in you, can propel you into transformation. Shame for one's past self is normal, if one has undergone any growth, and in time one may forgive himse
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by mjdiloreto 2y ago
Energy use for constant audio monitoring would make that implementation impractical compared to simply monitoring the energy draw from the device.
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by mjdiloreto 3y ago
You missed the big difference between the GUI and CLI. Even if the GUI is completely unfamiliar, and you have to learn it, you can still see the different buttons, menus etc. They often have icons or text that hint at what they do, even i
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by mjdiloreto 3y ago
Yes, people often have a shocking misunderstanding of historical attitudes, and attribute modern sensibilities to people way too far back in time. They obviously also haven't read Marx, who literally argued the exact opposite. He belie
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by mjdiloreto 3y ago
Seems like quality is lacking in this case also, considering the plagiarism.
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by mjdiloreto 3y ago
It will never be tidy enough to show other people, or at least that's the way it will feel. People would love to see what is done anyway, as this sounds like a fascinating project. Even just a basic walkthrough of how you currently use
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by mjdiloreto 3y ago
I think this is an absolutely critical point. From my own tutoring experience insight with troubled students usually comes only _after_ engaging many "bad" questions in a row. Usually I find that students struggle because they do
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
Who is John Galt?
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
A stack is a great idea! Peter's initial implementation was a vertical "shelf" like this, so I just stuck with that.
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
That's way cooler than this! Makes extensive use of canvas though, so I'm inclined to consider it cheating ;)
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
This issue should be fixed now. You originally had to click the popup again to make it close, but now you can click anywhere outside.
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
Yeah I found this limitation, didn't have quite enough time to work out all the kinks this weekend. I comment on this at the bottom of the page, I believe the mouse events go through the summary due to the 3D transformation. I'll
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I don't use Chrome so it didn't cross my radar. I'll have to install it and make the fix.
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
No there is a small bit of JavaScript for the open/peek/close state machine. The interaction is a bit of an oversight on my part, you have to click the pop-up to close it.
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I made a virtual bookshelf for book reviews(mjdiloreto.github.io)
31 points by mjdiloreto 4y ago|18 comments
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by mjdiloreto 4y ago
This is based on Peter Gyurov's work which he shared here a couple months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293727 . I loved the idea and wanted to use it for my site, but I also wanted to give my reviews of th

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