Oh cool, thanks for that.
Readit NewsI agree that most types come with a natural variable name.
However, in many cases a more descriptive name is way appropriate. On top of my mind:
- Multiple variables of the same type. How are you supposed to distinguish between req and req2? Compare it to something like "apiReq" and "cdnReq"
- Primitive types, that does not inherently carry a domain value. An integer called "seconds" or "max_offset" has a lot more meaning that one named "num"
Forcing such a notation into the language would make impossibile to represent all these cases
You’re right. Going back to my physics example, all the variables in a physics problem are actually of the same type, float. So you’d need more specific types, but that would be infeasible-the whole point of types in a general purpose language is that they’re general enough for any use case.
If you were just coding physics problems you could have types restricted to the physics domain, that is, physical units. Which it looks like MATLAB does now support: https://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/units-of-measurement...
The constancy in Go makes this better. I have come to expect `r` to be an io.Reader or http.Request depending on context.
There are a few interfaces in Go that are used heavily and I don't mind that people often use a single character for them.
It's the same thing as everyone using `i` for iterators.
This makes me wonder: what if there was a language where variable names are determined according to the type, with the option of overriding with a custom name. So a variable of type http.Request would automatically be named “req”, the next one in scope would be “req2”, etc.
If you think about it, when you solve a physics problem, for instance, you call every mass “m1”, “m2”, etc. Maybe this would be another step in Go’s direction of conforming style to make code more standard and readable.
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Learn EEGLAB in Matlab, using existing online EEG datasets. Don’t collect your own, not worth it. Join the EEGLAB list. Figure out how to use some machine learning classification algorithms on the datasets. (There are walk through). Do something cool and share. Then use their devices.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you so much for the advice.
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From the information that they've published (paywalled article excluded of course) it does not seem like they're going for anything necessarily novel or niche-filling, more just making another option. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as (coming from someone who works in BCI) more tech is always welcome, even if it's in what I and most other people I talk to consider a dead-end technology (EEG).
Also funny you bring up the Muse, as I actually worked there a few years back. The Muse 2 is a reasonable increase in signal fidelity though with a tradeoff in that it has more issues in adverse environmental conditions (sweat etc). The main difference between the generations is in usability on the consumer end, which is the target market for the device. It was never intended to be a research tool, and it excludes many of the important electrode locations for research. For that reason, calling it a toy is roughly accurate in my opinion.
As a graduating senior in CS who is super interested in working in BCI, may I ask how you got into the field? I would love to work somewhere like Neuralink but it seems that most of these companies are not hiring new grads (understandably, perhaps). I might just get this or openbci and do a project on my own, to start.
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Considering that the status quo is currently that literally asking the individual and querying the source of truth to confirm the history of an individual directly for the purpose of discrimination are ubiquitous practices... yes, I think such laws would be very effective in reducing discrimination on the basis of criminal and judicial history.
If we have not even said that it is wrong, then it's going to happen. Saying that it is wrong and should stop happening is the first incremental step in reducing its rate of occurrence.
These laws exist. You’re not allowed to discriminate based on criminal or arrest record unless it’s relevant to the job (e.g. someone applying to be a delivery driver with 3 DUIs).
The problem is that between two equally qualified candidates, if one has a record and the other is clean, it can be pretty easy to justify just throwing the first one out. And pretty hard to prove that that’s why you were rejected.
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>The US is a great place to live and work with tremendous upward mobility
Always confused by this notion. People act as if the US is the only place this is possible but not only is it possible in most of the western world, there is in fact BETTER mobility in the much of the western world relative to the US. The US isn't even in the Top 10!
https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat...
You’re blatantly misquoting the person you’re replying to.
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Uber India isn’t like Uber New York but it’s a million times more reliable and predictable than almost any other commercial service you can get in India.
Really? Seems like it’d be more reliable and a lot faster to just hop in one of the hundred rickshaws on every street. Besides the fact that they’ll overcharge you if you’re a tourist.
I would add "inspired" to your list … I frequently visit digital art sites well known for the excellence of the work of their many artists, and scroll through the "showcase" areas especially, seeking out that specific thing. That which impresses me also often inspires me. Helps get the "creative juices" flowing before working with any of my favorite art creation tools (Blender 3D, Inkscape, Krita, Godot game engine, etc…).