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your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
I've honestly never found a good reason to use brew instead of macports, aside from an annoying hipsterism. Welcome to try to convince me otherwise.
your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
There are so many gaps in our knowledge, it's ridiculous. Go look for papers studying how to kill the eggs of canine roundworms (e.g. in veterinary settings) or whether surgery is an effective treatment for exotropia. The literature is SPARSE.
your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
possibly Sutton and Barto's work on reinforcement learning throughout the 80s.
your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
influence is not the same thing as credibility.
your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
People who are working out their ideas far outside the mainstream have no one to cite but them selves. Some are quacks, to be sure, but sometimes a field is just not ready for their work because the utility of the idea is not easily apparent, or because it's perceived to be too risky. A field needs a healthy mix of the the curmudgeonly stubborn thinkers going their way no matter the cost, and those making steady progress on solvable problems.
your-nanny
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
If the baker were only baking a cake then it would be. But these were artistic cakes with a great deal of self expression, so issues of compelled speech are forefront.

Also, I wonder if, as software devs, we'd feel comfortable being compelled to take on contracts we might object to on moral grounds, e.g. I refuse to engage in projects building weapons and surveillance systems. I'd be quite upset if I were to be taken to court for refusing the contract on those grounds.
your-nanny
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
How well do these handle mathjax and the like?
your-nanny
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
I wonder how much I'd pay for a full content rss feed from a good blog... Maybe 20cents/mo.? I know, cheap, but there is lots of content...
your-nanny
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
One stable genius died yesterday, RIP. The other can fall into a black hole.