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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.
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!)
Here's his take on the most recent update:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/12/bloomberg-big-c...
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.
Although the readings & assignments are available on class website: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html
You might be interested in the new class: 6.812 Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning.
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!
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'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.
"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.
I couldn't find it, but here is the same professor, Regina Barzilay, on the same topic (but a different talk).
Add a description to a photo, search for that description in Photos for iOS, and there will be no results.
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?
But for many people it doesn't, and this is for them.