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by 2sk21 5y ago
Here is a good starting point: https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~pascal.michel/ I read about busy beavers a while ago but have only started digging into the subject. Its really fascinating!
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by 2sk21 5y ago
They don't use chlorine?
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Perhaps but I did find Six Thinking hats useful when I was working. The main advantage was to nip prospective "devils advocates" too early in the process.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I should mention that I started regular automated index fund investing in the mid 1990s. I have been through two _big_ market corrections: 2001 and 2008-9. Despite being nervous, I never once stopped my automatic investments.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I retired early recently - I am in my mid 50s. It's not anywhere as hard as people seem to think. With a disciplined approach to investing, I think that it's very much possible to reach financial independence with a typical tech s
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This is not a problem any more - with the ACA, you can get excellent health insurance plans nowadays.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
This is a good point. However in practice we wind up with a number of gatekeepers between the developer and the actual users. These gatekeepers are both on the customer side and the developer side. For example on the developer side, sales p
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by 2sk21 5y ago
“We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants." I can't even count the number of lab-stage announcements that I have seen in HN. This will be of interest only when
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I worked in the Watson group during the time you mention - the problem that they made was to attempt to productize the original Jeopardy system. The Jeopardy system was built with the single-minded goal of winning jeopardy. It was much too
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Exactly! Palmisano was squeezing every last cent and starving the company of resources for developing the future. Even by 2008, it was clear hat cloud computing was the next big wave and yet IBM built out its own half-baked internal cloud o
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by 2sk21 5y ago
You are absolutely correct. In fact, most NLP software ignores the formatting of documents which conveys a lot of information as well. For example, section headings must be treated differently from the text that makes up the body of a secti
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Thank goodness I am retired and don't have to publish stuff in the current environment. Thirty years ago when machine learning was a sleepy backwater, life was a lot easier for us.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Yes PVM would have been great had it been available but as I recall, it came out later, in the mid 90s.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Main problem was that it was hard to get time on our CM2 to run jobs. You had to sign up in advance and it was a nuisance. Also debugging the parallel version of C for the CM2, called C* was pretty hard to debug as well.
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by 2sk21 5y ago
I have a similar story but I was not quite so clever. Back in 1990 and 1991, I used a cluster of IBM RS6000 workstations in my university to train neural networks. I had previously tried to get backpropagation to work on a Connection Machin
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by 2sk21 5y ago
Exactly - the enormous population of India means that there are definitely going to be huge numbers of younger people who scum to the disease. Straightforward arithmetic.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I just loved Anathem, Reamde and Fall.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I was working towards my PhD in machine learning with neural networks in 1990 and I tried to implement backpropagation in Occam in 1989. But gave up and tried using C* on a Connection machine instead. That did not work out well either so I
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I wrote a lot of code on a Meiko computing surface in Occam in the late 1980s! Was very hard to get even simple algorithms to run.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Agree - almost every week, new exploits were being discovered, even back in the 1990s!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Very good write-up. It seems too soon to think of genuine commercialization at this time.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
It's interesting you mentioned Anathem. I have often fantasized about living in a Math and working on theorics myself :-) I retired early from software development last year to spend more time studying math and cognitive science.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, start by thoroughly understanding and tracking your expenditure patterns including healthcare. Then add some additional buffer for known expenses (kids education, long term care, big ticket maintenance
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by 2sk21 6y ago
But there is an objective way to know when you've reached your number using the concept of "Safe Withdrawal Rate". If your savings (typically in the form of a diversified portfolio) is at about 25 times your typical annual ex
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Thank you - despite the challenges of 2020, I was so happy to be retired. My hobbies mostly involve indoor hobbies so I was not too badly affected.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
There is also the issue of pay and a sense of having enough. Many tech workers are very highly paid. At some point, you have enough money so you don't really have to work. I myself reached "my number" last year and retired. M
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I encountered the wierd token ring connector for the first time when I joined IBM in the early 1990s. But the proprietary connector got replaced with a standard RJ45 jack later on. But by that time, it was clear that Ethernet had won.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
The very term "HA" still gives me nightmares. It can be very hard to get HA to work correctly. Many years ago, I worked in a startup and one of our main offerings was an HA network device. It was unbelievably finicky to get it to
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This is absolute correct. Many state universities added campuses very actively back in the 1950s and 60s to accommodate the boomers who all wanted college degrees.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Not quite, the sky crane method was also used for Curiosity rover back in 2012

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