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Re:Mastering Time-to-Market with Haskell on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:03PM (#13015471)
There's a reason Real World Ocaml has a section dedicated to the run-time system and no book on Haskell will ever go near it.
could you tell me more about using a boat for seaweed farming?
Re:Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work? on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:33PM (#12946095)
Ubik as sad or hopeless?

Nah man, the end of ubik was just him leveling up.

Re:Go See Ghostbusters Because It Matters on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:47PM (#12841241)
How do you know it's crap without seeing it?
There is a cure for the mouse model of Alzheimers: http://www.fusfoundation.org/news/1535-new-pre-clinical-rese...
Re:Millions of Men Are Missing from the Job Market on Monday October 17, 2016 @08:49AM (#12724532)
Funny, I just stumbled upon this yesterday:

Special Relativity Theory and Cellular Automata: Light as a Cellular Automata Process http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9902034

Also Edward Fredkin is a big believer in cellular automata being the foundation of reality: https://arxiv.org/find/nlin/1/au:+Fredkin_E/0/1/0/all/0/1 And a great book with him in it: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Scientists-Their-Gods-Informati...