Me in the late 90s: CSS is not a language!
Today: Holy crap, it’s now Turing-complete.
Me in the late 90s: CSS is not a language!
Today: Holy crap, it’s now Turing-complete.
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“It’s a deck of playing cards. How much more fun can it be, compared to the 50+ other solitaire games? And why would I want to play poker by myself?”
So I got a bit of money leftover after bills, and decided to get it anyway cause I haven’t played anything fun this year. Went in blind without reading or watching any reviews.
Turns out it’s NOT just your standard deck of playing cards. You can do all sorts of crazy things to your deck. Like playing illegal hands such as five-of-a-kind, or a flush house. It’s a lot of fun.
Obligatory link to the Rustonomicon.
Should you wish a long and happy career of writing Rust programs, you should turn back now and forget you ever saw this book.
To be fair, I’m all for whatever medium would allow science communication be more effective. And for certain demographics, videos are the only thing they could digest, even for things that don’t need visuals. It is what it is, and I’m not in a position to judge.
But yeah, for people like us with one foot on the grave, every minute counts. And nothing beats the efficiency of skim-reading through text.
For the older people like myself that don’t understand why everything needs to be a 5-minute video, here’s a 15-second read:
Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian conditioning) is a type of learning that happens subconsciously.
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) was the first to show the way in which it works. He did this in an experiment using dogs. Pavlov noticed that the dogs naturally salivated when they saw food. He paired this unconditioned stimulus (showing food to the dogs) with another, neutral stimulus: the ringing of a bell. Pavlov discovered that, if the two stimuli are presented together again and again, the organism learns that they belong together.
all work in floats
We even have float16 / float8
now for low-accuracy hi-throughput work.
Oh that’s not uncommon in the industry. Especially when dealing with legacy code.
Personal best was 40k lines in a file called misc.c
containing all the global functions that don’t fit anywhere else.
Runner up was the one where each developer dumped their miscellaneous functions in their own files, so they don’t have to deal with merge conflicts. Which means we had x1.c, x2.c, x3.c … etc.
Look up “Stanford marshmallow experiment”.