kennethfriedman

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The full version is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY

I had the privilege of taking one of Strang's classes a few years back. He is still incredibly sharp, and has a great sense of wit.

During one lecture, he was half way through solving a problem on the board when he jumped straight to the final answer. He then turned to us, and with a deadpan delivery said:

"We haven’t proved it, but that’s okay, we only live so long."

And then he moved on to the next problem.

I've quoted that line a lot since then.

https://kennethfriedman.org

Handwritten HTML and CSS (no JS required). I've been working on my personal site in fits and starts since 2013, so it's by far the longest thing I've ever worked on.

I'm pretty happy with it (but would love feedback & suggestions!)

As the OP here, I could not agree more.

We should expect better, and you deserve better! Luckily, the issue has been fixed :)

Thanks for the heads up. I blame our site's Chief CSS Officer (me). It has been fixed!

John Gruber at Daring Fireball has covered the meta-story of the publication of these articles extensively.

Here's his take on the most recent update:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/12/bloomberg-big-c...

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Here's Sussman giving a talk a few years ago on the same topic of "flexibility": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblhgNUoX9M

For anyone looking to understand Roam, I would suggest searching "roam cult" or "#roamcult" on Twitter.

I'm not one of them — but there is a hardcode, devoted fan base that are convinced it's the best thing since sliced bread. Whenever that occurs, it's worth trying to understand why.

I think the bad homepage is (somewhat) intentional: they only want people who are willing to look past the home screen and actually give it a try... and (I believe) they want to avoid the audience who is trying it just because of a flashy landing page.

Unfortunately the grad class he taught was not recorded, because it was a seminar.

Although the readings & assignments are available on class website: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html

You can see the impact that PHW had on his students and colleagues at his memorial website: http://memoriesofpatrickwinston.com/

This is an undergrad course, "200 level" in the standard course numbering (which MIT does not follow). It's for people who know how to program, but relatively new to the field. It's mostly going to be getting people used to assembly and basic computational building blocks.

You might be interested in the new class: 6.812 Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning.

OP here.

This IDE started as a final project in Gerry Sussman's LISP class at MIT.

When programming and debugging, you often want to know what your code is going to do without the possibility of unintended side effects (state change) by actually running the code.

Towards this goal, we added a concept we call "preview execution." That is: you can preview the output of code in our IDE simply by highlighting a section of code. The IDE will show the output of the highlighted section, but when you de-select the section, there are no side effects: no state is changed in the Scheme instance.

It's downloadable as a Mac app, but also open source. Would love to hear people's thoughts on it!

Patrick Henry Winston cared so much about students.

He wouldn't just spend time crafting lectures (which you can see on OCW), but even spent time re-designing the course to try to improve learning and remove focus on the grades[0].

When students needed help, he was always by their side. When the Star Simpson events were taking place, PHW helped institute policies to better support students[1].

He was a true character. I pieced together a Twitter thread to try to show a glimpse of his personality[2]. MIT will not be the same without him.

(Disclaimer: PHW was my academic advisor for 5 years)

[0] http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/204/winston.html [1]: http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/star.html [2]: https://twitter.com/futurekennysf/status/1152262290642788362

It was!

It's in the final stages of publication — I've seen an editor's print in its final form — although I'm not sure what will happen to it now. I would guess it will still be published.

that was fast!

It is the newer version, there definitely appear to be some nice new features[0] and a UI re-fresh (although as a Soulver 2 user, I think I'm pretty happy as is)

[0] https://documentation.soulver.app/whats-new

And another FYI: Soulver 2 is still available on the Mac App Store for $9. Whereas Soulver 3 is on their website for $30.

I've been a multi-year Pinboard user, and — since day 1 — have wondered why there more other services more like Pinboard.

Great points here. We definitely don't have the language to discuss these problems currently. "ambient privacy" is a good start.

"I’ve lost something by the fact of being monitored." is very true, but deniers will say: "what's the something?" and we just don't have the language to explain it yet.

This looks very interesting, I wonder if anyone has a link to the video version of these talk slides.

I couldn't find it, but here is the same professor, Regina Barzilay, on the same topic (but a different talk).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424zoKmpZvg

Here is a youtube version: https://youtu.be/dTPI6wh-Lr0

A combination of Pinboard (for links / images with URLS) and Notion (for personal notes, thoughts, and lists) works well for me!

It's also absolute madness that the native Photos app on iOS will not search the meta-data of the photos, only of the apple-restricted "scene recognition" objects, and dates.

Add a description to a photo, search for that description in Photos for iOS, and there will be no results.

In the past, it was against App Store Guidelines to have interpreters in an app. Is that no longer the case?

Could there be an app that has a Python interpreter built into it, so that the logic of the app used Python, with just a Swift/ObjC UI on top of it?

Glad that systems works for you!

But for many people it doesn't, and this is for them.

This looks awesome

Been waiting for this for years. It's so great.