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> 229A is close to worthless > This course included gems such as "if you don't know what a derivative is, that is fine". It also included other gems like debugging models with lear…

You should put an end to this mode of trying to figure out some kind of globally optimum sequence of learning. There is none. If somebody tells you otherwise, they are either lying…

> I think for myself Then you should think that there may be others who aren't really that concerned about being their own boss and financial freedom(strange as it might sound); ot…

> I just think this point tends to be overlooked when talking about "social" websites, almost like it was not polite to point out where these businesses make their money. I am not …

Don't pride yourself too much on being "honest". It is far easier to go around always telling the truth than to apply discretion.

Egan looks interesting. Which is a good book to start reading Egan?

I was a little disappointed by the abstract nature of some of the later chapters. I bought the book the same week that I stumbled on his blog, but after having read the book, I had…

> 2. ubiquitous laziness can lead to some really subtle bugs After the recent compiler change to prevent accidental head retention of lazy sequences, I don't remember having faced …

> So it reduces to, "For any given language some things are simple and others complex. For other languages what is simple and complex differ". Though that might be the case, what d…

Clojure was the first lisp that I could seriously get into. I have a java background and the familiarity of JVM was partly helpful when I was learning it. I guess for people who ar…

The fact that we could get design so wrong if we just rely on intuition surprises me everytime I re-learn it. The discussion on the cultural challenges and the things can go wrong …

"Its kind of like about time". That is the point. This is just concurrency control, and looking at as time is just a different perspective. (Actually, it is more than concurrency c…

An introduction to probability - Vol I (William Feller) Introduction to dynamic systems - David Luenberger

I didn't know about the stale attribute for couchdb(mentioned in a comment in the article). I can see places where it will speed up things in our set up. Also, Mongo DB is interest…