Other examples of sociological storytelling y'all might recommend—other than Game of Thrones and The Wire—and not necessarily from TV but in any medium?
Xamuel, where did your old blog go? The one where you talked about Esperanto as a gateway language to get people over their fear of learning a new language? I try to cite it regularly but it’s offline and Wayback Machine is giving me lip. (Sorry to barge in on this thread, I hope it’s the most reliable way to get to you.)
Like all good philosophy, this idea has a long history. I encountered it in Taleb's Black Swan as Pyrrhonian skepticism, which flourished in Greece as the Aristotelian Academy. Very down to earth and actionable advice on living and doing. Many Pyrrhonians were doctors and that colored their philosophical views—at a time when philosophy was taken very seriously and meant more than it does today (see it as a precursor of today's science).
Just to make sure, is the demo supposed to forward me to https://postgres.demo.envelope.xyz/v1/app/all/index.html? I feel sheepish for asking for this but a TodoMVC would be really helpful, since I'm not sure what I'm seeing in this demo . The idea sounds very attractive though.
Professors teaching such courses at the graduate level primarily intend them to benefit students doing active research in the field. There's an extraordinary emphasis on mathematical derivations to show how one idea leads to another. This is intended to both (1) provide insight into why methods work—though less rigorous and more intuitive approaches frequently exist and are discovered by the less robotic students, and (2) give students practice in the mathematical gymnastics needed to publish in the field. The benefit to a practitioner, let alone an interested outsider, will likely be small.
An analogy might be to consider whether a course on type inference and Hindley-Milner offered by a computer science department would benefit someone interested in learning Haskell.
FYI: FFTS [1] in many (most?) cases outperforms FFTW, without runtime calibration. It gets there by using a smarter algorithm algorithm. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of more complete libraries—e.g., restricted to power-of-two transforms for now—but hopefully this will change.
In a Previous Age, there were “rumors that there would be interest in opening up the language if there would be enough community response around it”—wonder if they amounted to anything [1]. Interest in k is only growing it appears.
Your experience with Q is really a satisfying read! Should I abandon my tepid attempts to get into J and throw myself on Q, despite its hefty pricetag for 64-bit version? Would you be able to do as much with Kona instead of Q?
I too am amused by his opinion of JavaScript. A professor was moved enough to translate most of SICP to JavaScript and writes in its first chapter, "Above beyond these considerations, programming in JavaScript is great fun" [1]. I agree, and I'm enjoying going through this SICP/JS moreso than the original, as I can write solutions to the exercises in any old browser JavaScript console and paste them into a gist for safekeeping.
I'm working through the admittedly beautiful and very thorough documentation [1].
It's a very simple idea, really: you write your document and sprinkle racket s-expressions wherever you want. You can put your definitions at the top of your document, or in another file. You describe your templates in Racket also, because like Butterick says in his RacketCon video [2], "S-expressions and XML are the same thing". You can use tags that you haven't defined, they just get placed in the resulting HTML.
You still have to roll your own CSS and any JavaScript. As far as I can tell it doesn't help you out with things like keeping track of footnotes numbering or citations and such: you roll your own for things like this, Pollen is no LaTeX. This is partly why I say it's a really simple system. It makes a certain set of web authoring things simple, but it doesn't try to be a one-stop shop, which is excellent because this makes it a supremely flexible tool.
It also has some backend fancy sauce where you can save your file and refresh the page [3]. Also I admit I'm not really a big fan of DrRacket: I've just been using it for the tutorials because I have no idea what to expect from Racket, but I'm slowly moving to Emacs, and Racket seems to work fine there.
Definitely worth checking out Pollen if only to get a light introduction to the thoroughness of Racket documentation (they definitely do things differently in Racket-land!), but stay for the tools you need to roll your own ultimate static blog generator.
(Also, completely unrelated: cool video and cool title at another RacketCon 2013 talk: "Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!" [4].)
It's a matter of ongoing surprise to see many scientist-engineers in my niche, in the USAF-sphere, who are jumping from Matlab to Julia, leapfrogging Python. Kudos to them.
I like this a lot! If I allow myself explanation, I'd say your findings make a lot of sense, but I will instead heed the title of Duncan Watts' latest, "Everything is Obvious*: Until You Know the Answer" :)
I wonder how much engagement you'd get if you made a browser plugin or even an alternative website that showed users a random selection from the top three pages of reddit/HN, then intercepted and logged their upvotes, to get a direct measure of intrinsic quality, rather than estimating this statistically. I for one would use such an interface.
On a sidenote. Have you seen this work in predicting the growth of ongoing cascades from Facebook [1]? I'm fixing to see if their findings apply to the MusicLab data.