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schtog | 17 years ago | on: What would you rather be doing?

"Having free time was great, but in my contract was specified that everything I worked on in my free time belonged to the company."

Wow that is sick.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Unsolved problems in physics

Fair enough, I stand corrected, I commented as I did because I interpreted it as a typical "science can't explain everything therefore it is useless" or "your theory isn't perfect therefore my theory must be correct" rant.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Unsolved problems in physics

I think we should close all hospitals. Those stupid doctors can't cure all diseases therefore medicine is complete useless.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss

Just because you don't need to write your own sorting algorithms don't mean you don't have to know how to write one. First of all it is a good introduction to algorithms, analysis and construction and you still have to know the complexity of each to choose the correct one in some cases.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

? chater 5 to 7 seem to cover that pretty well.

Part V Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning 13 Uncertainty 14 Probabilistic Reasoning 15 Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time 16 Making Simple Decisions 17 Making Complex Decisions Part VI Learning 18 Learning from Observations 19 Knowledge in Learning 20 Statistical Learning Methods (pdf) 21 Reinforcement Learning Part VII Communicating, Perceiving, and Acting 22 Communication 23 Probabilistic Language Processing 24 Perception 25 Robotics Part VIII Conclusions 26 Philosophical Foundations 27 AI: Present and Future Bibliography (pdf and counts) Index (html or pdf)

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Why functional programming doesn't catch on

To find replacers you mean?

I certainly don't think the code itself is harder to maintain or change, quite the contrary, good functional code is more modular than object-oriented.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Programming Sucks Or At Least, It Ought To

Such a bad article.

Some programming tasks are boring, yes(no shit...).

All? No. Programming can be very challenging, obviously it depends on the task.

If you want a challenge I suggest you pick up computer vision, still 20-30 years down the line a largely unsolved problem. Or create tools to make games programming more productive. Or...the list goes on.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Why OO Sucks

I always thought that OO encourages not rigorous abstract thinking but fuzzy everyday thinking with arbitrary definitions.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Why OO Sucks

how is Lisp/Scheme weakly typed? It is dynamically typed and strongly too(even though the strong/weak typing definition isn't exactly clear).

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Haskell vs Java job applicants

In Sweden I know Chalmers teaches funcional programming as an obligatory first year course and functional programming is traditionally strong there. In Lund it is taught as an advanced course and not obligatory.

Java seems to be the default language.

schtog | 17 years ago | on: Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The World

Monte Carlo methods is a family of algorithms no?

I still haven't groked exactly what is so special about them. Incredibly useful, sure, but aren't they just simulations? Ie, isn't it something anyone would have come up with(sorry if I'm just ignorant here)?

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