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by 2sk21 6y ago
Indeed, it was the same in the Watson group where I worked about 6 years ago. It was pure cargo cult activity that ultimately resulted in much lower productivity.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Yes, this is a very sad story and here is a passage from Siddhartha Mukherjee's wonderful book "The Gene" ...Avery was still denied the Nobel Prize because Einar Hammarsten, the influential Swedish chemist, refused to believe
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This sketch comes to mind: https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I also thought of Player Piano when I saw this
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Thats a very useful tool!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Strangely enough, HN was a lot more attractive before I retired :-)
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Motivated by reading an article about high tide flooding in Miami Beach, I recently spent some time looking at the coastline of Florida on Google Earth. It appears that there is an enormous amount of property right at sea level on both coas
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Right, why not just conduct auctions?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
IBM was _the_ prototypical vertically oriented company back in the late 70s before the PC - manufacture chips, build boards, build computers ranging from desktop to mainframes, develop the OS, provide finance for customers, offer integratio
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by 2sk21 6y ago
You're correct - at one point in the late 70s or even the early 80s, IBM was the biggest chip manufacturer in the world but all of the produced chips were used in their own products.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Looking at the TPU architecture was fascinating for an old-timer like me. I looked into implementing backpropagation on a Connection Machine CM2 back in the late 1980s. I got to the point of implementing the training algorithm in C* (an SIM
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by 2sk21 6y ago
When I was a CS PhD student, I spent the summer of 1988 writing assembly code on a parallel machine (Encore Multimax) that was running a variant of Unix. I wrote the runtime system (a virtual machine actually) for a parallel programming lan
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by 2sk21 6y ago
We are actually in agreement! I probably did not express myself properly - I don't want current events to be covered by Wikipedia. A delay is preferable.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Truly we need a low-pass filter to handle current events.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This sounds right. WhatsApp and Facebook both have access to contacts so information flows between them through this channel
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Even more than Prolog, I am really excited by the possibilities of Answer Set Programming as exemplified by Clingo (See https://potassco.org ) The main feature of ASP that I like is the ability to handle Now, ASP is not a full-fl
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I am pretty sure that I already read about a version of this in a science fiction story written by Charles Sheffield in the 1990s!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
However I have not logged into FB in six months because the actual content in my newsfeed is so toxic. I wonder if this will cause things to change, although it seems unlikely.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This has been my favorite watch face for a while now. Some of the things I have learned over the past year: - solar noon wanders around a fair bit around the clock noon - the length of daylight varies quite asymmetrically between the summer
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Really! Why even bother with predictions, except to reveal your biases? Related, some enjoyable wisdom from Morgan Housel (one of my favorite personal finance writers): https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/sure/
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Graphics cards presumably need an external power supply?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Looks like fun but perhaps more for the adults than the kids :-)
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Is it really that easy to install spyware on Android phones as the article seems to suggest?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
The Apple Watch has been a really amazing gadget and is well worth the expense. I would add the ease of using Apple Pay from the Watch as a very useful feature to your list.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Its available with YouTube premium. Complete ad removal and the ability to download videos is well worth the cost.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
That was a quote from Knuth not me :-)
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Thats exactly what I meant! I am in my 50s and I just retired after nearly 30 years in software development, much of it in cutting edge AI. As you say, after a while, you've seen everything and its not quite as interesting the second t
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Everyone working in the software industry needs to understand the basic principles of financial independence. At some point, you will either burn out or will get pushed out. This is a high-reward high-cost (in terms of mental strain) line o
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I need a PC at some time and was thinking of waiting until the new year to get it but it looks like it might actually be a very long wait even in 2021
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by 2sk21 6y ago
What a great experience you had!

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