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I saw this quote in the comments on an article about "AI" failing an IQ test:
Considering what actual stupidity has brought us to, I'm not at all cheered by the idea that now weβre going to add in artificial stupidity with a lot of money behind it.
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It's the time of the year when music stream send you your yearly summary.
My top 7 artists :
Pete Namlook
Marillion.
ABBA (because of the Mama Mia! soundtrack)
Atom(tm)
Heilung
Genesis
Moby
And a crap ton of other artists.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I thought you were going to tell us you mastered the guitar or something.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My report was:
The Warning
The Pretty Reckless
Wet Leg
Faun
Battlesnake
But this doesn't reflect what I listened to on YouTube and my ripped CDs which I listen to more often. It would be cool (Ok unpopular) if the stats could be compiled from all sources.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I've been in the top 0.5% listeners of Arch Enemy 
My top 5 artists were:
1) Arch Enemy
2) Epica
3) Gloryhammer
4) Amon Amarth
5) Children of Bodom
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If your goal is to get the following three concepts into the minds of a large group of people...
- Binary Arithmetic
- Boolean Algebra
- Hexadecimal Arithmetic
...In what order would you present the concepts ?
(That list is in alphabetical order to prevent any implied bias)
Why do you feel that your chosen sequence makes more sense than others ?
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Boolean algebra is probably the easiest for people to grasp, as you can use real world examples:
IF it_is_raining
WEAR waterproof
ELSE
WEAR t-shirt
ENDIF
Binary and HEX (or any other base) are especially challenging for people whose mathematical abilies may not be very high. I tried to explain both of those to someone once but they just could not get it.
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I hesitate to post a non-KSS counter-argument to your example.
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Read up on number theory
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why, I fully understand numbering systems and have done for almost 60 years.
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Base-12 -- with eggs. 12 eggs to a box, 12 boxes to a case...
Just don't grind them up.
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That's just gross.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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The order in which they came historically. That would be the preferred logical order, i believe. Will give an opportunity to provide a logical motivation to the next topic.
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Charles Petzold explains these in his fantastic book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computers[^] (now, 2nd updated edition)
Here's a helpful -- and free -- resource from the book --[^] really cool interactive code.
1. He explains Binary first using : 1 if by sea, 2 if by land.
(Yes, he explains that the absence of any lantern (off) would normally indicate a value but since no-light could happen in normal circumstances you have to use 2 lanterns).
He explains the entire on/off concept very clearly.
2. He then introduces George Bool and Boolean algebra
3. Then later he teaches Hex math.
I think his system of building on basics works very well.
if you haven't read his amazing book, I highly suggest it.
Great concepts explained simply.
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+5 for Petzold.
Great book. Also his Annotated Turing.
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Start with decimal notation using fully positional notation as opposed to something like Roman numerals which uses different symbols for powers of 10 but also has some positional rules. Give examples of arithmetic rules.
Then drop to octal, since it's easier to understand using less symbols - counting with just your fingers and not using the thumbs. More arithmetic examples.
Play around with a few other bases - duodecimal (base-12) or sexagesimal (base-60 - hours, minutes, seconds) - finally arriving at hexadecimal. More arithmetic...
Maybe show base-4 or move straight to binary. Show the same arithmetic rules apply even when there's only 2 symbols.
Show that any number in binary representation can be easily rewritten as hexadecimal or octal (and vice-versa) just by grouping/expanding the digits. Mention that, in computing, the term bit is a contraction of binary digit.
Introduce Boolean algebra as a separate topic using English-like examples for AND, OR and NOT.
Somewhere along the way, introduce De Morgan's Law - "NOT (A OR B)" gives the same results as "(NOT A) AND (NOT B)"
Finally, show that if TRUE is one and FALSE is zero, then AND is the same as multiplying in binary and only looking at the last digit and OR is addition.
You can then introduce logic gates and show how to build an adder circuit for 2 single bit numbers with a 2-bit output - least significant bit is OR, most significant/carry is AND but it can all be done with just AND/NOT or OR/NOT, so you only need one 2-input gate and an inverter (NOT).
Etc.
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