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Interesting! I have the opposite experience. I've gone on a bunch of very low-carb diets, maybe ten at this point (not sure if they were exactly ketogenic or not), and I've enjoyed…

It's analogous to the real and imaginary parts of a complex number. Does it makes sense to add a real number and a purely imaginary number? Aren't they different kinds of things? Y…

I personally don't find the "bits"y explanation of entropy/cross-entropy/KL etc. to be all that intuitive; as fundamental as it may be, I don't think about compression/encodings al…

Hard to say if it's worth the effort, but I've taught myself enough French to read classics (e.g. Hugo, Déscartes, Tocqueville), and it really is an immense pleasure. I imagine I'l…

I've been teaching myself French (from scratch) for the past two years. I read nearly as well as I do in English, and I listen well (some slangy television dialogue is still a bit …

For another resource, Alan Macdonald has some nice videos that accompany his books, "Linear and Geometric Algebra" and "Vector and Geometric Calculus": https://www.youtube.com/chan…

My favorite Pynchon name is Carmine "Two-Ton" Torpidini, from Vineland.

I like to think of a functor/applicative/monad f a as being "more or less" an a. For example, take a list of Strings. It's "more or less" a single string, it just hasn't made up it…

Hakan Calhanoglu's absurd free-kick from near the half-field line has to rank up there with Roberto Carlos's: http://www.highlighthub.com/hakan-calhanoglu-scores-amazing-...

Neat, I was just wondering about this. I'm using the same idea with core.async channels in ClojureScript to parse the BitTorrent peer protocol[0], but I wasn't sure how to describe…

Here's what I want: "Study Grouper". Grouper but you go do something educational, e.g. a wine class, cooking class, dance class, amateur astronomy class, painting class...

If you'd like to read a deep investigation into writing styles, let me suggest Clear and Simple as the Truth[0]. Steven Pinker discusses the book in a fun talk on communicating sci…

Can you expand on the CanBuildFrom travesty? (It seems like you've got interesting things to say, but you're being a bit strident. It bums me out that Scala discussions on HN take …

Pinker references the book Clear and Simple as the Truth at the end of his talk. It's one of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-ebook/dp/B0...

I'm not remotely qualified to comment on the content, but I was very lucky to have Nima as a professor in college. He was an incredibly exciting lecturer--he practically glowed wit…

Yes! I was just telling my coworkers how these interviews sound like they're lifted straight from American Psycho.

I'd like to do more code review, both as the coder being reviewed and the reviewer looking at code, with the goal being to improve my programming. How do you get your code reviewed…

Be sure to check out Pierce's new book, Software Foundations[0], which is available for free online. Learning how to use Coq is quite an amazing experience. [0] http://www.seas.upe…

Haha, this is really fun :) I'm looking forward to exploring your blog.

We don't address this in the post, but adding :while conditions is quite a fun challenge. This is the best I could come up with (in Emacs Lisp): https://gist.github.com/4356261 . I…

Your guide was indeed very helpful when I was getting to know Emacs. Thanks!