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Nice! Would be better if one could,
a) scroll to increase canvas-space and
b) zoom out to step back a bit and take a look at the whole drawing.
It doesn't seem to mention the works of the Indian mathematicians from Kerala, India on calculus. I think their work predated that of Newton and Leibniz.
I agree! Our (subconscious?) arrogance of our intellect always biases the way we look at our ancestors. If we could just be more humble, we would probably be seeing more of what's there.
Thank you for the wisdom. :)
Posted by
journeeman on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:15AM
from the unifyingtheories.org dept.
Posted by
journeeman on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:47AM
from the ramachandrang.com dept.
Did this affect Google's Project Loon in any way?
I know it's too early but, I'm already kinda getting used to this.
Cool. Another example could be of IPC in distributed operating systems borrowing from message-passing in CSP or the Actor model although, it could be also be the other way around?
Posted by
journeeman on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.
The canonical example is that of MapReduce/Hadoop which borrows from Functional Programming and LISP. Are there any others?
I agree. I used to make the same mistake. Until I realised that it is best to go back to how people slept before electric light was invented; i.e. it is best to align your sleep cycle with the Sun's movement.
Of course, maybe it's harder to do this nearer the poles but, in the tropics we get near equal hours of day and night.
I have found sleeping early and staying away from modern tech 30-45 mins. before sleep to be _immensely_ beneficial.
Could you please post the URL?
1) Will enterprises eventually shift to a DCOS?
2) Is it even worth it or necessary as afaik, even the biggest of enterprises' infrastructure needs are considerably less than those of internet companies?
Posted by
journeeman on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:02AM
from the dangermouse.net dept.
Software-defined magnetism?
I wonder if there is some Sussman's Propagator model like biochemical process going on underneath, resulting in the collective memory.
This just brought back so many memories! Thank you! :-)
This is great! Is there a similar app for sculpting in VR out there?
HackerRank can be a very good way to screen developers before interviews. The author and most people in the comments nearly say, "Algorithms are useless. Writing efficient algorithms?! Who needs that?" :O
Some of the complaints are that HackerRank doesn't test things like team work. Of course, it doesn't! It's a good tool to screen developers. Things like team work, creativity and domain knowledge can only be tested in interviews.
I am not saying HackerRank has no issues but, discounting the importance of algorithmic problem-solving is very unwise, imo.
I doubt pride is a strong enough force for anyone to undergo such intense suffering as this.
I agree, ;-) but honestly, that title didn't prepare me for the content.
Posted by
journeeman on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:00AM
from the damninteresting.com dept.
'Compiler Construction' by Niklaus Wirth[1] is a pretty good book too. It's got the hands-on feel of Crenshaw's book with a quick but, not too superficial, introduction to theory. The book is little more than 100 pages long.
The compiler is written in Oberon however, which is also the source language (actually the source language is Oberon-0, a subset) but, Oberon is super simple and can be learned on the go.
[1] https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/...
Why are photons required to "act as the messengers of an electron's spin"? Entanglement works without any communication between the entangled particles, right?