The results must be replicable too. If I can't get from the published data to the published results no matter how much general knowledge I have of data processing and statistics then it's not replicable. If that still counts as science then it is lesser science.
How much influence do you want the market that funds you to have on you and your product? How much of what matters are you willing to trade for food, shelter and self esteem? Oh, you already have all the food and shelter you need?
What you want is called a Mentat. It understands people very well and relates to them as people relate to each other. It understands nuance, motion, word, and intonation, and the interface is immediately accessible to anyone. The pinnacle of computing without "computers".
I don't think the parent was suggesting that the syntax preferences should be attached to the code: they are attached to the user. Then all code looks like your code to you since it all looks like python (or perl, or c, or scheme, or prolog, or whatever you like) and it also all looks the same to the compiler/interpreter/vm/whatever.
You can develop concentration and focus with meditation, or with anything else that requires them. If you're not concentrating on what you're doing, make it more difficult: if you can play a piece on the piano without hitting any wrong notes, try playing it with perfect posture and rhythm; if you're fluent with a programming language, write your next source file with cat; if visualization-meditation on a labyrinth is getting easy, imagine moving through the same labyrinth with walls made of boulders, a blue sky overhead, and shrubs at your feet. The better your concentration and focus, the better your performance in anything you do.
Meditation is also great for building elaborate mnemonic structures. Is your visualization of yearly or the daily cycles out of proportion? Do you find the breadth of material covered in a book or course a bit much to handle at once? Find a picture (with motion and sound, if possible) that corresponds better than whatever you've got, then just sit there and imagine the thing, explore it, interact with it. Art is another way to focus on the same thing: project conceptual structures into 2 or 3 dimensional space and build them there.
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The results must be replicable too. If I can't get from the published data to the published results no matter how much general knowledge I have of data processing and statistics then it's not replicable. If that still counts as science then it is lesser science.
How much influence do you want the market that funds you to have on you and your product? How much of what matters are you willing to trade for food, shelter and self esteem? Oh, you already have all the food and shelter you need?
What you want is called a Mentat. It understands people very well and relates to them as people relate to each other. It understands nuance, motion, word, and intonation, and the interface is immediately accessible to anyone. The pinnacle of computing without "computers".
I don't think the parent was suggesting that the syntax preferences should be attached to the code: they are attached to the user. Then all code looks like your code to you since it all looks like python (or perl, or c, or scheme, or prolog, or whatever you like) and it also all looks the same to the compiler/interpreter/vm/whatever.
Well, no, that disproves his point. He said he'd prefer less bugs but, obviously, he preferred rapid development instead.
You can develop concentration and focus with meditation, or with anything else that requires them. If you're not concentrating on what you're doing, make it more difficult: if you can play a piece on the piano without hitting any wrong notes, try playing it with perfect posture and rhythm; if you're fluent with a programming language, write your next source file with cat; if visualization-meditation on a labyrinth is getting easy, imagine moving through the same labyrinth with walls made of boulders, a blue sky overhead, and shrubs at your feet. The better your concentration and focus, the better your performance in anything you do.
Meditation is also great for building elaborate mnemonic structures. Is your visualization of yearly or the daily cycles out of proportion? Do you find the breadth of material covered in a book or course a bit much to handle at once? Find a picture (with motion and sound, if possible) that corresponds better than whatever you've got, then just sit there and imagine the thing, explore it, interact with it. Art is another way to focus on the same thing: project conceptual structures into 2 or 3 dimensional space and build them there.