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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
At a few companies I interviewed at, fairly established but not tech centered companies, the interviewers had literally just come out of the companies introductory training program. I don't know if that is really smart, or really dumb.
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
> There's no such thing as a "conversation" between the billions of people with a stake in this. Well, not exactly. That's how you wind up getting diversity of fields. People have different interests and different vis
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
I often wonder half amused, "What Would Dijkstra Do?", every time I see the phrase referenced. It's almost like harmful has lost meaning because of the complexity of the systems of which to it refers. Everything modern is rid
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
Yea, but then it doesn't really make sense to argue about anything, because everything can be statically defined in terms of the environment it exists in. The part can be described in terms of the the discrete whole of which it belongs
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
Reality is really weird though. I really keep trying to think whether aliens existing would actually radically change my life, individually. On one hand, maybe, but on the other, probably not (and this is more likely). I feel like I already
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
I've read from mathematicians who consider their computer to be a tool, and from others who see the computer as a partner. As a hobbyist who studies automated theorem provers (like coq), there is so much elegance that goes into the com
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
> Closed systems exist, there are things that can be understood so fully that you can't think of any new questions to ask about them that you don't already understand. The existence of closed systems does not imply all systems
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
I don't know if I can. What do you mean by concrete? For me, as soon as I use language, it is symbolic. So even if I were to describe the shape of a rock to you, it is still not a concrete example, unless I give you the rock. Maybe tha
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
What is the difference between memorizing a sequence of steps and having a couple of sequences of steps culturally contextualized in a symbolic language? I mean it's literally one language against another one. You can call it 'mea
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by myderpyaccount 11y ago
See, the weird way I always understood NP hardness was by virtue of the impossibility of it. Suppose all NP hard problems are solvable. Assume this knowledge is distributed, a culture surrounds it, eventually that knowledge is structured in