nmrm

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by nmrm 12y ago
Right, okay, so lisp is primarily a programming language for practical software development. That's really my whole point. I'd argue that there are lots of other settings with ideas a powerful or more powerful than whatever it is
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by nmrm 12y ago
I mean, a really solid understanding of substitution is probably one of the major contributions of lambda calculus. For what's effectively an implementation to get that wrong is pretty pathological. And also, there's no reason t
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by nmrm 12y ago
Research is significantly different from private, for-profit business. And those studies are always IRB-approved. The IRB takes into account the conflict of interest, and will sometimes protest if you don't pay the student subjects (
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by nmrm 12y ago
Lisp's macros don't even get variable binding right. Treatment of bound variables was one of the explicit purposes for the development of lambda calculus in the first place. Imho if you get something as fundamental as this wrong,
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by nmrm 12y ago
lol @ random downvotes for criticizing lisp. Set and match.
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by nmrm 12y ago
I worked through SICP years ago and used scheme as my primary language for a couple of years. I write in an ML dialect at my day job. 1. lisp got a lot of stuff wrong; there's really no reason not to use scheme. 2. lisp syntax is more
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by nmrm 12y ago
I think the whole enlightenment thing w.r.t. lisp is overblown.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Wow. Most trade jobs require at least a high school diploma; many require some additional training (not necessarily an associates degree, but often a certificate of some sort, and enrollment in those courses requires a diploma).
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by nmrm 12y ago
Wow! I had exactly the opposite experience. Although by high school was very working class and my college very white.
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by nmrm 12y ago
It doesn't sound like you were actually arrested...
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by nmrm 12y ago
I think they were born in the 80's. Which means they were kids in the 90's and early 2000's, at the very peak of the US prison population boom. I could be wrong.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Oh man, thank you for asking this question. If so, it's a pretty intelligent way to test chat bots, assuming you interpret karma as "votes" the the bot is human.
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by nmrm 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/1138/
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by nmrm 12y ago
I think the standard view is that this is exploitative, and I doubt you would find many students opting in. The closest analogous scenario: there are pretty strict ethical rules against e.g. professors offering extra help to students in e
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by nmrm 12y ago
It's worth noting that at most colleges, the pay is quite low and most of the tutors are older students. Also, it's less "I'm motivated to learn something on my own and quite intelligent, but don't know how to code&
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by nmrm 12y ago
Oh wow, after the first few screens you get an "if I repeat it enough maybe it will be true?!" feeling :-( Also, this: On July 22, we'll announce our earnings results for the past quarter and I'll say more then on what w
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by nmrm 12y ago
> Parents are happy, society is happy. Except the kid, who will now have to live with legally sanctioned sexual assault.
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by nmrm 12y ago
that 1/2 of recipients.... decided it was in their best interest to return to university. This is consistent with the author's statement that "half of them admitting they plan to go back at a later date". Just because
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by nmrm 12y ago
Thanks for clarifying. If 1/2 are planning to go back at a later date, that means they've decided attending college is in their best interest. Which was my claim; I didn't say they are currently attending. I guess it ultimate
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by nmrm 12y ago
Sure, there are problems with higher ed. Esp w.r.t. cost. Popularizing a myth that skipping out on college is a rational self-interested choice for most actors is ethically dubious, especially when the people you're convincing are kids
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by nmrm 12y ago
I don't understand. What's wrong with my original sentence? About 1/2 are returning to college: ( However, the fact that 1/2 of recipients of a very prestigious award (and the associated money/opportunity) ). No one
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by nmrm 12y ago
> How do you know how you "learn best" as a 16-19 year old who has never even been to college? I think I understood how I learn best by the time I was in middle school or so. Hasn't changed much since then.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Since all my other comments are quite negative, I'll take a moment to defend the OP here. Notice their justification begins with "I find I learn best...". Sounds like perhaps the best way to justify a decision about one'
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by nmrm 12y ago
I didn't have to.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> seems to me you misunderstand Thiel's thesis Frankly, I don't give a damn. What matters to me is that kids make decisions about their lives for the right reasons and with all the available information. And I like to think tha
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by nmrm 12y ago
Your original claim was sloppy and wrong. The article to you link to is much more clear headed about the role of the model. It's a useful tool, not a glass ball. There's a hell of a huge difference between a model predicting som
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by nmrm 12y ago
> I don't consider the CTO a scum for making a ridiculous offer It's the pressure that bothered me. The offer is also kind-of scummy even without pressure, though. High school kids are still kids, even the really smart ones.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Maybe I should have been more specific. Major and content agnostic standardized tests are useless at the college level. This should be fairly obvious; I think you have to do some work to believe it's possible that it isn't true.
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by nmrm 12y ago
This matters because the Thiel Fellowship program has a political backdrop, and is motivated by/supports the "you don't need college" message. That message, should an average American (not a Thiel fellow) take it to hea
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by nmrm 12y ago
> There's an economic theory that predicted the crisis, and explains it. I.e. ABCT No. People who like the theory saw real world events that kind of sort of looks like ABCT could explain them, and then made a post facto observation.

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