Melville was a new discovery for me in the last couple years. 7 of his films are streaming on the Criterion Channel: https://films.criterionchannel.com/?director=melville-jean-p...
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Putin says:
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Then later:
A new opportunity to avoid military action has emerged in the past few days. The United States, Russia and all members of the international community must take advantage of the Syrian government’s willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction.
Anyway, there is a reprint available now for $25 http://www.amazon.com/The-Lambda-Calculus-Syntax-Semantics/d...
Could someone explain what he means? (Did Python not have a repl when he wrote that?)
Lexical analyzer
Parser
High-level translator
Normalizer & CPS converter
Low-level translator
Register allocator & Assembly code emitter
Undergraduates write to professors with singular first person pronouns because they are often requesting information, or this sort of thing... understandable then that there's less reason for I, me, and my in the professor's response (and easy to imagine similar situation in other relationships).
Still, a cool article. Interesting research.
I wish it was more common as part of these classes to actually talk about the great CS people.. who they are.. in our short history, because this is interesting stuff! Oh well.
I think from a user's perspective, e.g. someone wanting to design a DSL, it would be nice to be able to write down arbitrary CFGs and not necessarily have to know lots of technical parsing details ("what are all these shift-reduce conflicts!?"). Maybe PEGs aren't the best choice for this (no left recursion)-- MetaBorg's SGLR is probably state-of-the-art then like Zef said.
Though one of the nice things about PEGs is no ambiguity; MetaBorg will do type-based disambiguation but only after parsing finishes. I'm working on an undergraduate thesis on 'extensible syntax' right now, trying to jump off from some of their stuff (but using a variation on Earley parsing) in particular to see if we could use types to help disambiguate incrementally during parsing.
"I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things and states, down to the bottom of their sweetness and bitternesses...
Enduring habits I hate, and I feel as if a tyrant had come near me and as if the air I breathe had thickened when events take such a turn that it appears that they will inevitably give rise to enduring habits...
Most intolerable, to be sure, and the terrible par excellence would be for me a life entirely devoid of habits, a life that would demand perpetual improvisation. That would be my exile and my Siberia."
(http://clichereality.blogspot.com/2009/07/philosopher-as-tra...)
It's a 1000-page kind of experimental fiction about entertainment/addiction.
It took me a while to read, but is something I'd recommend, anyway.
I wonder if that maybe helps add to...like subconsciously, all the comments appear the same so you start feeling like HN is this big thing that 'knows everything' without realizing how many different people are contributing their knowledge of whatever area.
I agree these are good things, but shouldn't they be taught before college?