milo
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milo
@i2talics
26, bi, fimware dev 🦀 + type systems and tetris hyperfixator. i go by 'tali' on some parts of the internet https://t.co/xIURbaVkdj
@fchollet ie in classic Monty, my initial door stays at 1/3 , because I always knew Monty would pick a goat door, so him eliminating one of the remaining doors is not evidence to update my door. So the last remaining door has all the remaining 2/3rds probability
@lemire I wonder if programming should be taught more like an instrument where you have a private hour long lesson with the teacher and then go away for the week and work on what you learned by yourself
stop trying to "understand monads". download haskell, and just start writing code in it. copy paste from a tutorial. modify it. see what happens. read the docs. read someone elses code. stop listening to people explain them in the abstract
The problem with Exercism (and other educational materials, e.g., Ziglings) is that the ratio of reading to coding is the inverse of what it should be when you're trying to learn something by doing. In other words, not enough doing
Ignoring any argument about paying for someone's labour and expertise, and encouraging quality products with a profit motive (compared to a lot of not so great free software, be they from a good place in someone's heart), it can be simply an argument about your own investment...