DougMerritt

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by DougMerritt 13y ago
Fair enough, although even that terse lecture hand-waved (by leaving it to a reference) about ergodic systems. I think the deeper point is along the lines of Wigner's classic "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the N
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
> What’s remarkable about this result is that it does not depend on the precise distribution of the requests, the order in which requests are processed or any other variable that might have conceivably affected the result. It says that (
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
> Also it won't take "years" to get a working prototype. You can get something working in less than a month. It all depends on the language. Tiny domain specific languages might only take hours , under the right circumsta
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
Ah, of course, I should have remembered that. I don't quite see the connection, though -- unless there was a backdoor and the crackers got that backdoor password, or some such.
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
Which breach is that?
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
I totally agree, it's sad when interesting links die, and it's sad when a search term is extremely generic. Here's what I've got, pasted out of my notes: House has been successfully implemented in Haskell, I'd assum
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
That's fine -- but please add an "About" link that says what "urbit" is. That lack of explanation, that expectation of speaking to insiders, is unfortunately very common on web sites, not just yours. Please add th
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
There appears to be no "About" on that site. Who knows what on earth it is? On the left sidebar, the "documentation" link is to a video. No thanks, I'm look for a sentence of text. The next link down is a 404 error.
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by DougMerritt 13y ago
I disagree, I think he made excellent points, and I fail to see why you think there is a problem with his comments.
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The movie Wreck It Ralph rather centrally featured the fictional game Candy Rush -- prior to the release of Candy Crush. Might even be where King got the idea for the name of their game.
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Not even a little bit close -- nor can you pick up what his vision has been from that video.
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Ted Nelson did change the world, actually, but by his evangelism, not by implementing. There's a reason that he is famous, and it's not because his Xanadu project failed in many senses.
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> We hijacked for ourselves a venture-backed company and are experimenting with a symbiotic relationship where both the project and the business win without corrupting each other. That seems very optimistic (excuse my cynicism).
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I wouldn't say too early. There were a fair number of temporarily successful co-processors in that general era of many different sorts; aside from float (and smaller markets for FFT chips and boards and some efforts at vector co-proces
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I presume your post attracted little attention because people either didn't know what it was from the title, or for those who did, it's perhaps too familiar. So a small explanation: in the functional community it's a famous c