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By what measure are US universities evaluated to be “best” at research? It’s a bold claim to make.

Well said.

Oh please. Just admire something for what it is.

It’s a fascinating article and a beautiful piece of art.

Agree with the state of UX and UI’s these days. Younger developers are missing out on the UI design standards which worked very well and were introduced back in the late 90’s with Win95 as well as Windows Forms (in Visual Studio). There used to be a Microsoft UI best-practices/standards document which most developers actually followed, resulting in predictable interfaces which did not force users to have to guess their way around (to be fair Apple did a better job maintaining their UI standards I think).

No matter the framework flavor of the day, web technologies make for sub-standard user interfaces.

Win95 was a big step from Windows 3.1x. Being a Microsoft Windows support tech at the time, supporting both the older Windows 3.1x and new Windows 95, it made for many lengthy support calls. It definitely took a while for the new look & feel to catch on.

I don’t think there is such a thing as an ‘Arabian’ coin. Arabic script was widespread over a vast geographical expanse. ‘Islamic’ coin might have been a better term.

I’m thinking some modern-day collector is having a blast seeding some fields with cheap coins bought off eBay.

I very much doubt the pay scale is based on risk. Something not quite right about this... something in the water maybe.

Wow - this is a blast back to the early 1990’s, with a bit more computing power though. Nice.

Exactly. Users have unfortunately learned to fear the worst. And judging by many reactions here, presumable some from developers, a good number of developers don’t understand their users expectations of privacy and transparency.

This is great. Does it rely on web sockets?

Very true. The earliest hedge funds did not rely on option pricing, or options for that matter.

That very first sentence is very misleading. Malthus was not wrong - he was right given the set of assumptions made at the time. There is a difference.

Wish I had met Hinton while at U. Of Toronto. I was slated to do a PhD with a guy from the Medical and Zoology schools studying human vision and who was applying NN’s with Hinton’s help. Early ‘90’s when ‘soft computing’ was all the rage.

Phycological? Not sure what you mean - I don’t think you mean Fungi do you ;-)

The whole industry is overhyped. But until investors keep throwing money at it, it will continue. Until it investors turn-off the tap.

The ZX81 was an amazing machine. Long live the ZX81.

Why was my comment voted down? Are the admins of this site so sensitive? Did I hurt anyone‘s feelings or use foul language?

Rakes are so much more efficient, I find. And an opportunity to just chill. I don’t understand the leaf-blowers. In the US, I’ve seen so many so many lawn service guys just blowing leaves around in the wind - just because they’re paid to do it once a week. Nuts.

Great move. The mostly North American leaf-blower addiction is so annoying. A good old rake will do the trick. Never understood the need to blow leaves around in a windstorm, as I’ve seen it practiced in the northeastern US.

Totally bogus nonsense

That last one is when reality hits :-)

Loved my BBC Micro model B. 32Kb RAM was a luxury back then. It was attached to a huge black and white 1970’s TV as real computer monitors were very expensive back then.

Planetoid was my go-to game. Got me into BASIC programming and 6502 assembly.

It’s a lot of fun to play with and test your intuition

I like it. Simple and effective.

I second that. While it has plenty of flaws and is getting very dated, Excel has been a phenomenal tool in the land of the analysts and others who actually need to get work done and move on.

It’s all relative though. Back in the early/mid ‘80s, the ability to produce a single computer-generated chart out of a table of numbers was mind-blowing! Being able to print it on your new sleek dot-matrix printer was the icing on the cake! I.e. expectations were very different back in the land of the 286.

Quattro really was a great spreadsheet product at the time. As a student, it was the only affordable one as far as I can remember. On the PC, this was still a time (mid ‘80s) when most folks were using DOS and Windows 3.x wasn’t yet a common environment.

Best post I’ve read today and nice to see so many positive comments here.

Nothing like building something useful to learn a new tool or technology.

I would not have included Jupyter Notebooks in this list. However, I would not hesitate to include the Pandas library in such a list as it has propelled the democratization of data analysis forward a great deal. I recall the days of having to either cobble together my own data analysis algorithms or having to depend on multiple libraires to get basic things done. Pandas, however, wouldn’t be Pandas without Numpy and ultimately the C/Fortran libraries it was built on.

This laundry list of features still does not tell me why I should be using clojure over any other language.