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by 2sk21 4y ago
I used Unix for the first time in September 1984 on a Sun 120 workstation. It had a huge monochrome monitor and an optical mouse. I was so entranced by this amazing machine that I spent nights and weekends learning C and trying to program i
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I agree. This article reminds me of the vacuous advice given to new investors: "buy low and sell high" :-)
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by 2sk21 4y ago
In New Jersey and Massachusetts at least, there is absolutely no move to water down the math curriculum in any way. On the contrary, the schools here compete on how many AP courses are offered.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I mostly worked in IBM research but once spent a few months on assignment in a product developed group in the mid 1990s. At the weekly group meeting, each developer would mention throw many lines of code had been reused. Turned out that the
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This is great and is remarkably similar to a project that I have been working on :-) Instead of using a bookmarklet, I am extracting URLs from the Reading List feature of Safari. I realized hat I had collected over a thousand links in my re
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I have been reading Termination shock by Neal Stephenson and this eruption reminded me of the main plot in tat book - injecting sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to reduce heating. It will be interesting to track the effect of this
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This is exactly what I have been doing after I retired early. I spend a a lot of time studying math and physics and working on hobbies. There is simply so much to explore - I _never_ feel bored.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I had a similar attitude when I was younger - I thought I would work for ever since I enjoyed programming so much. I had a fairly successful career both financially and in terms of technical achievements but by the time I reached my mid 50s
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I retired at the end of 2020. I had a good long run in the tech industry and was really feeling a bit burnt out.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I was one of the original developers on this project! It was called the Watson Assistant and was a completely different code base from the original Jeopardy code base. The dialog tree was actually fairly sophisticated in allowing for a lot
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Loved it! I've been chuckling for a few minutes
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by 2sk21 5y ago
When I was in grad school for CS, I recall talking to the dean of the department who said that his preferred approach for recruiting CS students would be to have them write a five page essay on any topic of their choice. Anyone who could wr
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I listened to the whole album by Pietro Pietri which included this poem - loved it!
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This app scratches my own personal itch. I don't expect to make any money from this but if it comes in useful for anyone else, nice :-)
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by 2sk21 5y ago
2021 was my first full year of retirement and I really enjoyed it (I retired at the end of 2020 after working thirty years in software research). In 2021, I plan to work on my model train layout, some robotics projects and continue learning
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I am really glad to hear this. As it happens, my main post-retirement has been to learn Swift to try out CoreML. I'm really enjoying learning this so far.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
What a great project Idea! I have often looked at the internal schematic of the 555 and wondered if it could be made with discrete components - now I know that it is possible :-)
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Reminds me of old Bobby Tables :-) https://xkcd.com/327/
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I loved these puzzles. I was reminded of the famous book by Tony Hoare "Communicating Sequential Processes". In that book, he describes the trace of a parallel program as all possible interleaving of the traces of the individual p
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I feel you. When I was working in IBM research, I developed a web-based tool eerily close to Jupyter in 2007 but was simply unable to get traction within the company and abandoned the work by the end of the year. I still regret not pushing
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I was thinking about this in the context of large transformer based language models like GPT-3. Based on my years of experience in the field, I keep thinking that this is a dead-end on the path to full AI but I have to force myself to keep
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I am in my 50s and retired last year. I am really enjoying my retirement as I am getting a chance to read a lot of stuff that I never had time for when I was working in math and philosophy. I spent most of my career working on server side s
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Indeed! I wonder why more people don't see the equivalence between L. Bob Rife and Zuckerberg.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I agree. Metaverse of 2021 reminds me so much of the "information superhighway" of the 1990s.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This is a wonderful resource, thanks for posting.
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Interestingly when I was working on my dissertation on neural networks back in 1990, we had a connection machine CM2 in my university and I implemented the backpropagation algorithm in C* (the variant of C that ran on the Connection Machine
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I had no idea that Honda had first used the name Pilot for an ATV!
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by 2sk21 5y ago
It appears that I must be in the minority but I really like going for grocery shopping. I keep discovering new products and often get inspiration for dishes when I am walking through a supermarket.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
One more thought that comes to mind is that the new logos implicitly uses English terminology. I wonder if terms like "gbps" will be understandable in all cultures around the world.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I quit last year because I was financially independent (actually way past the point of financial independence). There was no financial motive to keep working and the work itself felt like drudgery, no matter how much I was paid. I'll b

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