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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...…

Check out Racket's syntax-parse and the "Fortifying Macros" paper for macros with better error reporting: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html http://www.ccs.neu.edu/ra…

I wouldn't guess so, for example it's used in the CLRS textbook. What did you call it instead?

I think your thinking is right, machine learning is probably a good area as far as jobs go. Depending on your CS interests you'll find what areas of math they use most. AI / machin…

If there's "every reason to believe" it's the opposition forces and not the Syrian government in control of and using chemical weapons, what good does it do for the Syrian governme…

I guess it must be a joke, but that's a fun review. "I accidently bought this book thinking I was buying a traditional calculus book in order to prepare for a standardized test I h…

There are two universal properties in the sense that a universal property is either defined in terms of a "terminal morphism" or (dually) an "initial morphism" (see the Formal Defi…

You might like to check out this blog post by Cristina Videira Lopes (though it's not about Go in particular): http://tagide.com/blog/2012/03/research-in-programming-langu...

Many great films are made on a fraction of the budget required to produce something like Toy Story. And anyway I don't think it's hard to imagine Pixar artists saying they were mor…

I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundametally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. When you start Lisp, it does `read', `eval', and `…

See also: Taming Wildcards in Java's Type System http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~rtate/publications/tamewild/tamewild... (Section 3 Non-Termination in Subtyping)

Another one they linked to was Randy Pausch's last lecture.

FWIW, if you follow the link to his compilers class page, you can see that the projects do in fact deal with traditional topics: Lexical analyzer Parser High-level translator Norma…

Interesting, but I think there are some good comments (at the article) too -- pointing out that it also just seems to make sense -- like, Undergraduates write to professors with si…

The syllabus says "A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required." -- I imagine programming experience and knowledge of basic algorithms and data structu…

You are probably a very smart person, but your replies in this thread read like the epitome of academic pedantry, verbosity, pomposity, etc... the `my claim is (1) (2) and (3), my …