I'm a psychologist whose research is close to this area. (Maybe in this area?) The Quora post is kind of a trifecta of topics that tend to elicit very internet-y types of controversies for lack of a better way of…
Ruby did/does have a nice OOP approach. I remember when Python and Ruby were first kind of being touted as alternatives to Perl, and Ruby always seemed more well-thought out to me--the Python 2-3 split was something I…
Not trying to be a troll, but... I was on the Julia train full-force until I started using it more heavily. My sense is that the benchmarks are a little misleading. These benchmarks give a little flavor of what I'm…
This whole thing strikes me as sad. The argument could have gone an entirely different way. Taleb blasts the nature and tone of the argument, concluding "scholarship is dead in the…
I don't think anyone would disagree with what you just said, but given the way prosecutors deal with "intent" sometimes, I think it would be easy for them to cross a line. If you haven't already, listen to this podcast…
I'm a psychologist whose research is close to this area. (Maybe in this area?) The Quora post is kind of a trifecta of topics that tend to elicit very internet-y types of controversies for lack of a better way of…
Ruby did/does have a nice OOP approach. I remember when Python and Ruby were first kind of being touted as alternatives to Perl, and Ruby always seemed more well-thought out to me--the Python 2-3 split was something I…
Not trying to be a troll, but... I was on the Julia train full-force until I started using it more heavily. My sense is that the benchmarks are a little misleading. These benchmarks give a little flavor of what I'm…
This whole thing strikes me as sad. The argument could have gone an entirely different way. Taleb blasts the nature and tone of the argument, concluding "scholarship is dead in the…
I don't think anyone would disagree with what you just said, but given the way prosecutors deal with "intent" sometimes, I think it would be easy for them to cross a line. If you haven't already, listen to this podcast…