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Sinidir

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Sinidir··on Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
I absolutely love reading about Eve. Its like a cross between good scifi and reality tv :)
Sinidir··on The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
My uni lectures used to be in the same style as wiki articles. Professor reading from a extremely dense abstract script every lecture and not really explaining anything.

Bad times.

Sinidir··on The state of type hints in Python
> Arrays here don’t have the Numpy/Scipy weirdness of matrices vs. ndarrays

Oh my god. This has bit me in the ass every time i did something with matrices in python. It seems like such a weird split.

Sinidir··on Beautiful Racket
Exactly my thoughts the last time i looked at learning resources in respect to Racket.
Sinidir··on Into the Breach’s interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness
Stealth and Transporters. Made it kind of a boring game after figuring that this was the dominant combo to beat the boss.
Sinidir··on Understanding word vectors
Thank you very much. This might help with my Master Thesis :)
Sinidir··on Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
I had heard of the positive effects of tumeric/curcumin but this is just on another level.
Sinidir··on Ursula Le Guin has died
That book was awesome and mind expanding.
Sinidir··on Is abstraction overrated in programming? Chess, interviews and OOP
Yeah during reading this i was wondering how someone can miss the point to that kind of degree. The point was to test for an understanding of object-oriented design. Yet he talks about how awesomely space effiencient his implmementation is compared to using objects.

But the interviewers seemed to also miss the ball, making irrelevant and false objections.

Sinidir··on How I learned to program
God i absolutely hated this kind of "this should be obvious" statement made by professors in lectures.

It absolutely poisens the learning atmosphere. And after 20 minutes of lecturing on a difficult topic they ask if anyone has any questions and wonder why noone raises their hand or says anything.

Sinidir··on The Things We Carry
This is why i hate gift giving.
Sinidir··on Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure
>Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp (http://abcl.org/), which runs on the JVM.

First public release of ABCL seems to be after first release of clojure.

Sinidir··on Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]
You mean that they want to make some money?
Sinidir··on “Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
Which i neatly tagged away in my bookmarks feeling good about envisioning taking it some day in the future. :) :(
Sinidir··on What I believe II
No i didn't. But it doesn't even matter because your argument is invalid. Two articles/texts can be based in science and oppose each other. You know why? Because scientific literature can also disagree with each other.

But again your ideoligical lense doesn't allow you to even consider this possibility and instead automatically classifies anything that opposes your beliefs and what you have read as pseudo science.

Sinidir··on What I believe II
It was actual science if you bothered to read. But keep seeing the world through your heavily tinted ideological lense.
Sinidir··on Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture
Did you even watch the video? lol.
Sinidir··on Show HN: Your Own Task Queue for Python
Holy cow. Didnt know you could serialize functions. Nice. Also the name "dill" made me chuckle. When i understood it after a minute :)
Sinidir··on A surgeon is giving patients VR instead of sedatives
This is highly related to the Master Project we are doing at university right now. Trying to make games that have players using a relaxation technique in a playful way. Reading through the papers on the topic at the beginning of the project you could see that this stuff really works and works well. There are even attempts to treat mental problems like PTSD with VR. Exciting stuff.
Sinidir··on First China-U.K. Freight Train Departs as Xi Seeks to Lift Trade
So:

Produce more CO2

Increase Global Warming

Oceans rise

Everything is covered by water

Profit?

:)

Sinidir··on Immer: immutable and persistent data structures for C++
I only know these things from clojure on the jvm. How do you implement these without Garbage Collection, since freeing the wrong memory in one version could spell disaster for another version of the structure due to structural sharing.
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