im learning clojure and building a web app. honestly this is by far the coolest language ive used and i love it. im having so much fun.
outside of that im trying to learn polish as well
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#522Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.
Logic programming is badly underapplied in general, I think. Most of the amazing work in this area never seems to have gotten far out of academia (if at all) -- Prolog being the almost singular exception. Would be awesome to see some motivating examples for this application. It sounds really cool!
Could you shed some more light on this amazing work you're talking about?
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#523I’m reading the Raft paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
Implementing it is the fun part! You might like going through the Raft lab in MIT's distributed systems course: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/labs/lab-raft.html + Jon Gjengset's writeup on some of the "gotcha"s: https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/students-guide-to-raft/
This is great, thank you!
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#524Systems Thinking, mainly through reading Russell Ackoff's books. The Art of Problem Solving is good, Turning Learning Right Side Up is eye-opening (and definitely one of my favorite books lately) and currently reading Redesigning Society. Highly recommended.
I'm reading this subject too. Thinking in Systems: A Primer is also a good book. Highly recommended.
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#525Elixir and Phoenix! It's been a long time coming, but finally doing it now. After coming to grips with functional programming concepts (introductory in Ruby, more advanced in JavaScript) I decided to explore Elixir and what I found really surprised me in the right way. So I've decided to dedicate myself to become very fluent in it.
Here's a great course from Udemy:
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix...
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#526I've been reading through Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers, and trying to do all the challenge questions. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
I’m working on this as well. I found a couple of people who posted their solutions online, but some of the questions are tricker than others. Wish there was an answer key!
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#527Two things: German and Differential Geometry. German is just because it's fun and it's my best second language by far, so I'd like to get fully fluent. Differential Geometry is a diversion from working through Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, et al. I found I needed more math. Now it has kind of become an end in itself, however. It's the hardest thing I've studied since college (which was a long time ago).
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#530I'm learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. I just picked back up writing my compiler to WASM for my toy programming language (think JS crossed with ML). Right now I'm getting a feel for writing stack based bytecode and implementing basic features like local variables and control flow. It's not much, but I just got factorial to compile in my language which felt totally awesome.
Nice! FWIW I've been solving some wasm challenges in infosec Capture The Flag events and it's a nice way to learn the bytecode.