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TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Also the name of one of the best sci fi novels ever written, which has references to the phenomenon

The Sign in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I wept.

Some of my iterations are delightfully recursive in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

My favorite feature is how currying is applied literally everywhere. You can take any function that accepts 2 args, pass in a single arg and return a new function that accepts one arg and produces the result. In Haskell, this is handled automatically. Once you wrap your head around using partially applied and fully saturated functions you can really start to see the power behind languages like Haskell

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [1991] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Growing up as a musician I was always trying to be the contrarian that hated Nirvana because they were so popular and their songs were so ‘simple’. I’ve since realized the error of my ways