Koshkin

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by Koshkin 3y ago
> societal words Indeed, all words are "societal." The meaning(s) of a word is/are always a matter of convention (or tradition).
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by Koshkin 3y ago
That's reductionist. (Also, can't A.I. be "organic," say, like the OLED? :)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
True. There’s another aspect to this, though: for example, quantum theory lies at the foundation of everything that we can experience, so, in principle, as far as we humans are concerned, and beyond, it should, in theory, be able to explain
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by Koshkin 3y ago
My first PC had 8MB of RAM, and it was a real screamer! (I hadn’t tried running emacs on it, though.)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
I remember Mathematica was included with the distribution of the OS for Raspberry Pi. I also remember it being so slow as to being unusable. I guess, you get what you pay for…
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by Koshkin 3y ago
> You don't get a standard set of useful data structures (e.g. associative map, k-D tree) Well, C does not have those, either... (I would not call using C "pretty awful experience" though.)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
In all seriousness, some of those could be actual translations from Fortran!
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Also TCL.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
It is believed that Prolog is "a better version of SQL."
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Undead, then? :)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
IMHO Fortran 66 was the best Fortran ever. Simple, efficient, true to its nature. Fortunately, some of the modern compilers (like e.g. Intel's) still support it.
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Nine documents every developer should read(infoworld.com)
4 points by Koshkin 3y ago|0 comments
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Windows Update Message Interrupts Live TV Broadcast (2016)(engadget.com)
2 points by Koshkin 3y ago|0 comments
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Depends. There's a pretty good theory on building compilers, for instance. One interesting observation made in the post, on the other hand, is that the source code of a program does not necessary contain the idea(s) behind the program
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by Koshkin 3y ago
This has reminded me of Grothendieck's idea of two styles in mathematics: https://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf
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What Is TensorFlow?(infoworld.com)
1 points by Koshkin 3y ago|0 comments
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by Koshkin 3y ago
> give me a fucking break No we won't :) https://pypi.org/project/pyodbc/
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by Koshkin 3y ago
... or Tetris
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Teotihuacán is the site of the pyramids, which is 25 miles away from CDMX
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by Koshkin 3y ago
My impression has always been that it is mathematical notation that is indeed high-yield and low-effort. That’s why Fortran was/is successful.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
I, on the other hand, am dreaming of being able to use mathematical notation in my code. Sort of like what Fortran has helped with, only on a much larger scale.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
I find that programming languages is a compromise between the need to communicate between a human and the (dumb) machine on the one hand, and the need to make this communication more or less readable by humans. Mathematical notation was inv
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Sure, but the whole point is to avoid the need to do that! Manipulating symbols is the way to automate reasoning, i.e. to get to a result while completely ignoring said "facts." Using the symbols to merely "state the facts&qu
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by Koshkin 3y ago
> Mathematical notation is for stating mathematical facts or propositions. And as such it is way too often abused. Because the (original, and the most useful) purpose of mathematical notation is to enable calculation , i.e., in a gene
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by Koshkin 3y ago
As have EVs and AI…
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by Koshkin 3y ago
In the evolutionary sense, the intelligence emerged as, and has always been used as a weapon. Not sure what this can say about its “safety.”
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Might as well be
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Fluidic Currents [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Koshkin 3y ago|0 comments
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by Koshkin 3y ago
To be clear, Russian alphabet does not have a 'Z'. But I think I know what you mean.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Now vim, too, can use the whole of eight megabytes and be constantly swapping!

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