Everything that can be learned can be studied through some mix of these techniques: 1. Rote learning/memorization. Copying, tracing, flash cards and so forth. This is how you learned to read and write, and while in school math it tends … Read more
Diaspora · Greg Egan1 Chapter 1:2 Konishi polis, Earth23 389 025 000 000 CST15 May 2975, 11:03:17.154 UTC 4 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz The conceptory was non-sentient software, as ancient as Konishi polis itself.5 Its main purpose was to enable the citizens of the … Read more
By Matthew Warren After finding out details about a stranger, we mistakenly think that they also know about us. As a result, we act more honestly around them, according to a recent study in Nature. And this can have a real-world … Read more
Materials and methods Subjects We tested 48 cats (28 males and 19 females). Twenty-nine (17 males and 12 females, mean age 3.59 years, SD 2.71 years) lived in five “cat cafés” (mean number living together: 14.2, SD 10.01), where visitors can freely … Read more
This post explains how to implement heap allocators from scratch. It presents and discusses different allocator designs, including bump allocation, linked list allocation, and fixed-size block allocation. For each of the three designs, we will create a basic implementation that … Read more
I just read a few chapters in the “The AWK programming language” book and found AWK to be awesome and I want to learn more of the language. I begin to think about my approach for learning AWK. My goal … Read more
Got any issues or want to check out all the final code at once? Everything’s on Github! NOTE: The current edition of this book is written against Rust 2018, which was first released with rustc 1.31 (Dec 8, 2018). If … Read more
GitHub – hypernumbers/learn_elisp_the_hard_way: A book about learning eLisp for customising Emacs the hard way – see the Gist https://gist.github.com/754568 {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to … Read more
January 30, 2022 TLDR: I enjoy writing wrappers because they eliminate one of the major challenges I face when learning a new technology: figuring out something useful to build. Learning a new library, tool, or technology has always been a … Read more
Use your student loans to buy a fixer-upper! Buy a stock on Robinhood and simply sell it when it’s worth more!! Don’t max out your 401(k) under any circumstances!!! This is a smattering of the financial advice available to Generation … Read more