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by Rochus 1y ago
Indeed a great book; I even have a paper copy. The SSA book is also pretty good: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111210448/https://ssabook.g...
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by Rochus 1y ago
Thanks for the link. Looks like an interesting paper. Here is the original reference: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/197320.197331 . And here is a better readable postscript version: https://web.archive.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting work, thank you. May I ask what you are going to do with it? Do you want to emulate it on a PC, or redesign it to make a VST plugin?
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by Rochus 1y ago
(2024)
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by Rochus 1y ago
If ChatGPT generated the text, participants weren't encoding it into memory through the cognitive processes normally involved in writing; they were essentially passive recipients of AI output. Isn't it a trivial finding then, that
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by Rochus 1y ago
Where is the inflated music?
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by Rochus 1y ago
Unsubstantiated claims like "none of these defenses would hold" just spread FUD. I don't see a reason why anyone would discourage HN users from accessing QNX sources under QSS's free educational access. The 2007 press re
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by Rochus 1y ago
> In the US, the fact that a given copy is/was available at no-charge is not concomitant with the right to produce and distribute unlimited copies on one's own. Still not what I said. Let me be more precise. QSS management ha
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by Rochus 1y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593565
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by Rochus 1y ago
> I'm trying to understand what the outcomes are that the principles you describe are intended to lead to. The application of the principles of Human factors engineering to the design of systems reduces human errors, increases pro
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by Rochus 1y ago
The principle of causality actually prevents time from forming closed loops in which time would run in a circle.
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by Rochus 1y ago
The effort to implement varargs is indeed significant compared to other approaches. But I think there is even a simpler design than the one shown in the article. Why not just passing an array of void pointers and a count? Storing pointers t
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. > Niklaus Wirth uses “discriminated union” why Pascal doesn’t have sum types. In the referenced paper (Wirth, 1975, An assessment of the programming language PASCAL, ACM), Wirth refers to the &q
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by Rochus 1y ago
Ok, I see. Just downloaded the first hit from Google, which has 34 pages and is nicely printed: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf .
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by Rochus 1y ago
Isn't the "Free-Storage List" in section 4c, starting on page 26, a mark & sweep collector? They didn't use the term then, but I think it describes one. I'm not aware of any earlier publication.
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by Rochus 1y ago
> The question I have is why following established principles should matter Apparently I still don't understand your question, sorry. For what I understand, following established principles is part of the engineering profession; i
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by Rochus 1y ago
I think it's not more difficult than identifying representative user groups (at least five members per group) and defining typical tasks for a usability test, focussing on the specific features in question. It's just a lot of work
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by Rochus 1y ago
I think, the first mark‑and‑sweep collector was published in McCarthy's 1960 Communications of the ACM paper "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I". It's resonable to assum
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by Rochus 1y ago
I didn't claim that usability features were "important to the successes of languages designed like Ada". But Ada at least explicitly considered human factors in their design (even if mostly based on expert judgment and establ
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by Rochus 1y ago
Earlier than the sixties? All elements of OOP were known before 1967, but their combination, which we still use today under the title OOP, appeared in Simula 67 for the first time. I think the first appearance of a GC in literature was in 1
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by Rochus 1y ago
> most things boil down to ideas from the 70's Rather from the sixties. E.g. OOP including dynamic dispatch, late binding, GC etc. appeared 1967 with Simula.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Perl presents a fascinating counterexample: Larry Wall, trained as a linguist, explicitly cared about human factors, but his linguistic philosophy produced a language that empirical tests show performs poorly on readability and learnability
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by Rochus 1y ago
Niklaus Wirth designed Pascal (1970) with explicit pedagogical and human factors goals documented in his seminal paper "On the Design of Programming Languages". Wirth explicitly stated his belief that "insights gained from ed
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by Rochus 1y ago
Cyclone was indeed a very interesting language. It's always surprising what ultimately prevails.
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by Rochus 1y ago
> These are all legitimate engineering tradeoffs Agree, and we actually have both the standards and established methods to conduct representative tradeoff studies. But this knowledge is mostly ignored by CS and programming language des
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by Rochus 1y ago
> Usability is similarly ill-defined and hard to measure. Human factors are very well studied and standardized, and there is a well-established discipline called "Human Factors Engineering", which also provides established te
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by Rochus 1y ago
The syntax is pretty relevant for the kind/compexity of the aspired music. The music from the examples is quite simple compared to what Soerensen does with his Lisp-like syntax. Strudel seems to go more towards SuperCollider syntax, wh
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by Rochus 1y ago
Can it make music like e.g. Extempore (see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_eJ0XdLbWzzq_03wTIMV... )? All examples I've heard from Strudel so far are pretty boring (constant beat/chord machine music). Are t
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by Rochus 1y ago
The author's central claim is that AI is just an "averaging machine" that can only reproduce patterns. From that he seems to conclude that "AI will never create truly great music". As a musician myself, I don't
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by Rochus 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461480

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