@jjmerelo For a long time, I've also been wanting to write a noir detective story with Socratic dialogues explaining macro hygiene. Guess now that I've revealed those plans, I have to do it. 🤭
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Carl Mäsak
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Carl Mäsak
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Oversimplifying things for complex reasons. My hobbies include (but are not limited to) breathing, cooking, and trying to grok the Yoneda Lemma. I'm a teapot.
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@stopachka Wow, another one joins the small club of Bel implementations. Welcome!
We should compare notes. github.com/masak/bel - I started this implementation back in November 2019; fairly feature-complete, not yet bootstrapping, plans for a compiler.
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@RasmusKallqvist @tastapod @mfeathers Obviously. But even that statement means very different things in a dynamic vs a static language.
I'm looking at clojure/spec now as an interesting "missing link" between types and tests. There's a whole undiscovered country there.
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@tastapod @mfeathers I like type systems a lot, but I still wouldn't trade away my test suite for any of them. :-)
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genie: i will grant you three wishes
aladdin: ok
genie: but before each wish you must watch an ad
aladdin: what
genie: to skip the ads you can get Genie Prime
aladdin:
genie: also i watch you while you sleep
aladdin:
genie: and tell the other genies your preferences, habits etc
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Idea: like Edvard Munch's "The Scream", with the expressionist strokes and colors, and with the sunset and the couple in the background, but instead of shrieking with existential anguish the person in the foreground is just looking mildly bemused
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At best, social networks are terrible at spreading accurate information; at worst, they're vulnerable to malicious attacks intended to manipulate our perceptions of reality. We need to really think hard about how to fix information spreading.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Also, with semis, you should use Prettier and a linter. 😉
Axel Rauschmayer (also on 🦣)@rauschma
Semicolons are being discussed again: – Semi or not is much a matter of taste and thus difficult to discuss. – Do whatever the code base does. – Without semis, you should use Prettier or a linter.
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TWITTER RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM: would you like to see some porn your friends like
FACEBOOK RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM: this terrible thing happened a year ago
AMAZON RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM: buy five more TVs
YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM: would you like to become a nazi
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@colomon I'm definitely not saying those feelings aren't valid. For all I know, that course was the worst.
I come at it via a different path. Via FP and Category Theory, I realized I want to beef up my understanding of algebraic topology. So far, that's been rewarding/fascinating.
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@carlmasak The nightmare of my grad level algebraic topology course was a significant factor in my deciding to go into software rather than math.
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This doesn't necessarily contradict that observation, but I find the Hatcher book to be a beacon of clarity and pedagogy.
Still struggling with homology, though. 😂
sigfig@sigfig
most aspects of algebraic geometry and algebraic topology seem to be firmly within the realm of things people have absolutely no idea how to explain to anyone who doesn't already understand it
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And here's the best one... compiled into a javascript client here: js.irata.online - yes, you can be on PLATON in seconds.
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Let's talk about PLATO, the incredibly well done networked environment that thrived in the 1960s and 1970s and beyond. It was awesome, flexible, used primarily in educational systems, and was years ahead of it's time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(co…
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Please appreciate and better reward extraordinary teachers twitter.com/ZonePhysics/st…
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Em-dashes are the most beautiful punctuation in existence, and should be used whenever one wishes to yoke two thoughts together, delay a conclusion, double down on an example, or encourage the reader to look longingly out their window at the landscape beyond
nat towsen@NatTowsen
Quick punctuation lesson: Hyphen (-): connects two words En-dash (–): indicates a range, e.g. 2–8 Em-dash (—): Ahhh, you seek to understand its ways, weary traveler. Nay, behold! This dash provides to you whichever function you most require. You need only listen as it whispers…
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Say what you will about John Wick...
...but he's a total Mary Sue, right? Like, textbook. The whole series seems predicated on it.
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