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It can be put simply like where the struggle for rich kids start; that is the zenith of success for poor kids.


I think it's a good summery. Just remember that, when interpolated more widely, it applies to everybody in all kind of settings. Getting into a position where they can worry about paying the rent in Bronx is the dream of many people who have much more serious things to worry. It doesn't even need to be about material things.


But you loose so much flexibility. When you start working on a problem, you want your language should give you as little headache as it can with minimum rules and constraints. Then on iteration you can improve like having type annotation, unit tests etc.

You can write perfectly fine production level code in Python. It like lego block. Start with simple and then add on.

Adding compile type checks comes with its own demerits. I guess here Swift is trying to offer more tool chain on compiler level for model building rather than just being type safe.


Swift large projects takes huge time to compile whether as interpreter wins here. Though there are model building layer on compiler level which Swift offers in Tensorflow which is unique but apart from that I don’t think it is going to hit nail on Python community.


Is the course content available online? Do you have any community around it?

The paper summarises well about current tech stack and bringing it to the University.


Yes, the content is on the course website: http://cs242.stanford.edu/f18/


I didn't find the exercises... are they also online somewhere? Anyway, thank you for that course and sharing it here.



I built a code generator package in Kotlin which generates codes for Kotlin, Swift, Web (JS), and React-Native (TypeScript). Basically, you provide your class definition in a DSL style (Similar to TOML) and it will generate the implementation and interfaces of the bridge for different technologies.


This is great! We're working on code generation from class definitions right now.

Any good resources worth looking at?


I started by checking how you can write HTML using Kotlin DSL. Here is the source code https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html

Now, I have to generate different languages once the DSL is finalized. To achieve this I use Flask framework architecture. There we have routes with HTML templates. Here each generator has its own templates.


Not familiar with GPs use case but TypeScript has a glorious compiler API that could handle the heavy lifting here.


Looks really cool extension. I would like to give it a try. I tried to click the Subscribe button but it is not working.


Damn that's annoying, my apologies. Will fix as soon as I can get to my laptop.


Seems to be working OK now.


Google is so engrossed in web life that you have to fight with each of the decision you are going to make online against it.


Technology startups aren't inherently good. People behind them that want to solve solutions are. Just like publishing papers experimenting (probably unethical) with p<0.05 won't make your life better. Scientist are the one that do.


I am just guessing here. I feel we will get more connected to biology in the future meaning communication with your cells and what your body is trying to tell you.


My guess. Quantum? Quantum technology leading to very high processing of data leading to studying human genes and dna and any model you throw at it.


But he gave a thought to leave chocolate and take Salad. How do you think this got triggered in his brain. Discipline comes after you have formed rules by seeing it's effect either by you or learning from others.

Second-order thinking is too abstract: some time thing which is obvious for you might not be for other e.g. binary search is not always a good option, it can be obvious to you (here you are an intelligent person with acquired knowledge) and for novice to this concept; their second order thinking would be to find out what Binary Search is and then why not it is always good to use it.

I think second order is trying to convey to look beyond what you have good in your first glimpse and try to connect dots. I haven't done much study on it but that what I get from it.


I agree with the previous poster that the example given is pretty bad, even if choosing a most trivial case was the goal.

Perhaps it is a good idea to associate health and intelligence, and to achieve that it would require higher order thinking. Still skeptical though. Intelligent people probably lead statistics in being healthy, but extrapolating a correlation would be primitive first order thinking, no?


I second it. I also switched from LastPass to Bitwarden. The main reason was now my data which are online is more valuable than it used to be a few years ago and I don't want to be the scapegoat of their failure in case if it happens.

Another reason, It has a polished app and works flawlessly on all the platforms and I can host it myself.


How did you perform the switch? I reviewed lastpass export function and it outputs an entirely non compliant csv file. It's probably impossible to parse...


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