David @davidcschmitt.com · 14/10/2026Want to find gems in your own closet? Create moodboards and collections and get recommendations on your own style, not someone else's? Try my new app at lint.fit #developers #fashion 000
David @davidcschmitt.com · 11/03/2026He immediately gives her an out after this. The point is to not limply retread the same ground but actually press the subject. 180
David @davidcschmitt.com · 04/03/2026Even worse is when the source is published but absurd. This is from the criticsm section of Syntactic Structures: critic calls out Chomsky for failing to provide a proof, but the proof is so simple most undergrads would encounter it. Super infuriating! 120
David @davidcschmitt.com · 19/05/2025I'd disagree, but many people talk about Newtownian mechanics vs relativity vs QM this way. (all are correct for some given discipline). Any philosophers of science and physics with a good critique of this? #philsci 140
David @davidcschmitt.com · 24/12/2024I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 - Better late than never! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 030
David @davidcschmitt.com · 04/12/2024But remember, you don't even need to index everything in your relay. 100
David @davidcschmitt.com · 27/08/2024At least you learned what CPI was at some point. Growth, I guess. 020
![Screenshot of the day 2.2 solution in Clojure. What follows is the solution program (reindeer.clj):
(ns reindeer)
(require '[clojure.string :as str])
(defn gradual? [report]
(every?
(comp
(partial >= 3)
(partial abs)
(partial apply -))
(partition 2 1 report)))
;; tests for STRICT monotonicity
(defn monotonic? [report]
(or
(apply > report)
(apply < report)))
(defn revise [report i]
(concat
(take i report)
(drop (inc i) report)))
(defn safe? [dampened-report]
(and
(monotonic? dampened-report)
(gradual? dampened-report)))
(defn dampened-safe? [report]
(loop [i -1] ; initial revision should provide the entire list
(cond
(>= i (count report)) false
(safe? (revise report i)) true
:else (recur (inc i)))))
(as-> (doall (line-seq (java.io.BufferedReader. *in*))) x
(map #(str/split % #" ") x)
(map (partial map #(Integer/parseInt %)) x)
(map dampened-safe? x)
(filter identity x)
(count x)
(println x))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxahhobun4abkcpgd2muvsk4/bafkreidnmzly7yaf2uv6muuxnlshsw63curxdag47vis3iwkt65dwkrb5q)
