I think Scheme works well for the kind of conceptual overview the course is trying to provide. I think there is something to the argument that Scheme syntax is not ideal for readability of larger programs, but I would wager that the bigger reason some students find SICP confusing is the same reason it blows others’ minds - the whole approach is at a higher level of abstraction than most “intro to programming” classes.
because of his sort of ascetic impulses in other domains one doesn’t imagine him as particularly hard-living, but this 2002 ilxor thread (bumped for his death) suggests that he had his first heart attack way back: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?bo...
edit: viral pericarditis, actually, before it was a hot topic
It’s not a particularly fair accounting of the framing of the article, which also profiles people who are working precisely on making the technology more practical and portable and ends on a hopeful note. For the time being it’s a high maintenance way to keep people alive, though, so the ethical dilemmas of resource allocation are real.
But as you've implicitly noted, you cannot see something without looking. That would be physically impossible.
You can also use "look" to emphasize that focus does not exist; one of the sentences I've collected for interesting use is "He stared at the page, not seeing it."
In that case, there is no possibility of a page being overlooked or otherwise missed. What the sentence is telling us is that although "he" is directing his eyes at the page, his mind is on something else, so "seeing" never occurs.
The difference between "see" and "look" has nothing to do with focus. It is what I noted in the discussion of Mandarin - success. Seeing is the goal of looking.
Note that this phenomenon where native speakers have no trouble obeying a distinction that their language requires, but come out with total nonsense when asked why they choose one form or another, is completely characteristic of grammatical rules, and not characteristic of vocabulary selection.
> any chemical with at least a perfluorinated methyl group (–CF3) or a perfluorinated methylene group (–CF2–) is a PFAS
I don’t think that includes any of those, and Xanax is not fluorinated at all. You might have been thinking of Prozac, which I believe does meet those criteria.
It is a broad category with competing definitions, some of which are even broader, though, yes.
apple is weird, because on one hand they maintain vestiges in macos from back in the 80s and 90s when it comes to weird ux and file/window management things even though they are severely dated by todays standards. this is possibly suggesting that they don't want to rug pull people who have have grown accustomed to a certain workflow, but then at the same time they will make drastic changes like completely abandoning x11, for all intents and purposes opengl, completely change cpu architectures multiple times and remove hardware peripheral ports that people depend on without batting an eye.
Also sometimes they do make really painful and arbitrary UI/UX changes - don’t get me started on the iOS podcast app. Personally I’m all for preserving keyboard shortcuts because that’s something I really internalize but it would be hard to argue that they are consistent taking any kind of broader view.
> This is despite the arrival of a boom in funding due to the generative model bubble.
Does the boom in funding for AI companies make up for the overall drop in funding from late 10s-early 20s heights? That would not be my guess offhand, which makes playing up the contrast between “plenty of funding” (for one specific thing) and “job cuts” feel a little overstated.
I’m wary of inviting the too-easy “it’s just like how it works for people!” comparison, but the implied context and history of a game state seems to be important in processing it.
Is it context and history or just that real game positions have much lower entropy? Most people can easily remember a sentence after a quick look, a similar-length string of random characters a lot less so.
I think this is correct. I play Go at a strong amateur level, and on the 19x19 board, I can often fully recall 200+ move games against "normal" opponents, because the moves tell a story that makes sense. But if I play someone much weaker or much stronger who makes a lot of unexpected moves, I'll have trouble remembering those moments.
The appeal of prompting a whole song into existence kind of baffles me for the same reasons you are suggesting but there’s room for fun and creativity in working with samples and given the substantial cottage industry that royalty-free samples already are this was pretty much the first application I was expecting to see in the audio GenAI realm.
