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For all the thought you've put into your comment you clearly have a lot of your ego -- probably too much -- invested in being the guy who's not afraid to publicly point out it migh…

The specific example of 'da Bears' was a weak attempt at humor. I can't easily clarify what I'm getting at and keep this short, and I've got limited time so I'll do the best I can.…

Say a proper Bayesian who's a fan of 'da Bears' just saw the bears lose again, badly. How is he supposed to update these two beliefs: - this season 'da Bears' will tear shit up eve…

Just something I had a hard time figuring out and seems poorly documented: --type-set=scala=.scala # works in .ackrc --type-set scala=.scala # doesn't work in .ackrc ...despite the…

I like the look of it. Am I correct that the order the statements are in translates into the order things are evaluated in when the code is called? If eg I edited it to be: do { l …

You'll be thrilled (lol) to know that the lambda-tuple syntax isn't in python 3 (!); it does make my examples more concise. The argument in favor of set-notation being higher level…

I'm partially defending list comprehensions here and partially challenging you to consider the possibility that there are higher levels of abstraction out there than those employed…

I have a longer comment here that argues the opposite: list-comprehensions are only a syntactic pun or two away from set-builder notation, which is a higher level-of-abstraction (i…

It depends slightly on how you came to functional programming. You can arguably trace Python's list comprehension syntax all the way back to setl, a "set-theoretic programming lang…

Yes, you did miscommunicate; even allowing for the miscommunication you're making an extremely poorly-considered analogy. The kind of peer review that matters for purposes of scien…

In what meaningful sense do Google or Amazon have peer-reviewed and transparent data sets? Please be specific.

The fit imho is that at least if you stick to numerics you'd have to try pretty hard not to be writing code in a way that could be easily translated into something that'd be runnab…

Yeah I've not studied that interpreter so if that's your specific interest no luck sadly; rank is an easy idea but wouldn't surprise me if there's some trick to it in an implementa…

Please take this not as an insult but as invitation to offer help. Rank shouldn't be something to get confused about; if it is you're probably overthinking it. What did you find co…

Another point of experience: out of the box it is pretty poor if you work on the macintosh; by default there's nothing mapped to "command" and there're not enough "keys" on it to r…

If the article's really about catastrophe theory I'd better-motivate the catastrophe reference; dropping it in at the last second is pretty much a wtf moment for a reader not forew…

I am agnostic on the platonic notion of patents but generally would agree that what we have now is sufficiently far from optimal that the status quo ought not be accorded much defe…

I'd say you're slightly misreading the point of the patent system; I'd argue the underlying "point" is what it says it is in the constitution -- to promote the progress of the usef…

Too vague to be helpful; only appeal is a seemingly-more-objective test for non-obviousness (nonobvious iff prerequisites developed AND not solved in previous 10 years), but vaguen…

In hindsight the present situation is pretty predictable: as the # of goods produced increases and the amount of specialization increases the value supplied by the intermediary net…

Generally overconfidence in our present abilities isn't conducive to stimulating new research. I mean: I give you as much workup on the brain of an unknown individual as you care t…

This is bazaar-style development in action: do a crap initial job and troll up helpful comments from people like you.

Thanks for the response, I do appreciate it. I wasn't aware of how active lojban still is (and it's much more accessible to to get information on thanks to the internet). I should …

If dolphins have that much personality there's not much guarantee any two dolphins would act the same way in the same scenario. Additionally, given that dolphins can apparently tea…

Thanks. I figured grammatical # as such would be discarded as unnecessary but the notion of plurality raises semantic issues that natural language sidesteps by ambiguity. Disclaime…