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In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI(lithub.com)
3 points by myg204 1y ago|2 comments
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by myg204 1y ago
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-cliffsnotes-study-guides-in-...
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by myg204 6y ago
Thanks for posting. Others may be interested in this short clip of Weil talking at the 46 minutes mark of “The Story of Maths” documentary: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ejqof A rare sight, as there isn’t a lot
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by myg204 7y ago
"About the series - The Perspectives series is a collection of essays written by individuals from Sun Microsystems Laboratories. These essays express ideas and opinions held by the authors on subjects of general rather than technical i
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by myg204 10y ago
I second that, awk's a very clean language to look at log files or data files and do quick analysis or clean up.
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by myg204 10y ago
Definitely has a Lucida Grande feel to it, which, if I recall correctly, was one of the font on Plan9. The Go Mono isn't close to Lucida Grande Mono, but certainly looks like an interesting update.
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by myg204 10y ago
About 8% of the world is color blind, so having standard positions on traffic light is indeed very important.
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by myg204 10y ago
I am interested and curious. Could you give an example of something you were dissatisfied with, and at which you became great because of those books? Thanks.
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by myg204 10y ago
It clarifies the fact that Go is successful for more reasons than just being pushed by Google. So it focuses the question to "what is it that people like about it". And then we can have a better conversation.
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by myg204 10y ago
Swimming.
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by myg204 10y ago
> Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C. Right, and also fast compilation. I remember reading the goal was ~20% slower than C for overall performance.
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by myg204 10y ago
True. But plaintext is almost a self documented format. The structure/format of an org more file is obvious just by looking at it really. Can't say the same about a binary file.
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by myg204 11y ago
Interesting timing, there's a new Bourbaki volume coming out in a few weeks, the first one in decades: Topologie Algébrique, Chapitre 1 à 4.
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by myg204 11y ago
So Kernighan uses the sam editor, classic.
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by myg204 11y ago
Good comment by Gates. It's the difference between giving out of your excesses and giving out of your poverty.
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by myg204 11y ago
Agreed, I like the design. If you're here checking out the programming language, you're up for an original experience I'd say. I don't mind clicking 'about' to learn the minimum, and dive further on various sec
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by myg204 11y ago
> throwing away all of that familiarity in the name of elegance That looks like a good deal to me! :)
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by myg204 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. The mathematics involved is way above my head, but it's very pleasant to read about this group of mathematicians and particular time. This sentence from Illusie says a lot: "The person who at the time cou
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by myg204 11y ago
yes, yes, reasonably close.
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by myg204 11y ago
The good think of portable ANSI C, compile anywhere there is a C compiler. Very nice.
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by myg204 11y ago
Waiting for this Kernighan piece: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Pr...
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by myg204 11y ago
What a good expression. Did the author originate it?
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by myg204 11y ago
It may have more GC issues, or maybe it probably has more GC issues.
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by myg204 11y ago
Certainly it will be considered if your project has certain kinds of requirements other languages fails to cover (no vm, highest performance, no gc, ...). Those are very relevant to a lot of projects. C++ is not a legacy language, it's
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by myg204 11y ago
Interesting. Why don't you use an include file directive there? enum_example_t { #include "example_values.txt" EXAMPLE_Max, } where example_values would have the strings 'EXAMPLE_foo,&#x
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by myg204 11y ago
As per wikipedia: "An intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. " I fail to see how IQ is "defined to follow a bell curve" as you wrot
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by myg204 11y ago
Email a professor at a nearby university talking up some interest in his field and pitch him/her your interest in gaining experience building software, he/she may have something in store if you're willing to do it for free? H
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by myg204 11y ago
Right. Also, in theory, intelligence (or height) can be infinite it if is said it follows a bell curve, but that's sort of impossible too.
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by myg204 11y ago
If one considers intelligence (or other features) as the sum of many random sources, then it makes sense again to invoke the CLT. Maybe that's what the article implied. [edit: see other replies saying the same thing below]
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by myg204 12y ago
Maurice Audin was a young Mathematician who died in 1957 in Algiers under torture by the French Military because he supported the Algerian independence cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Audin

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