SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Genetic programming is not an algorithm. It is a community of researchers interested in applying stochastic optimization / metaheuristics methods to discover and/or optimize computer programs and other computational devices. Thos
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
If they're going all the way out to 39 or 40 digits (and I understand they're normally not), they might as well stop at the Feynman Point.
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I've developed software since the early 1980s. I've used Emacs continuously since the late 1980s. Perhaps you should respond to the substance of a posting rather than complaining that a geezer used the term geezer to describe peo
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> It doesn't look like your an Emacs user. I have been an avid Emacs user since, I think, 1988. > A lot of the popular DOS applications Bzzt. 35 years ago the standard was Windows and MacOS. Soon thereafter NeXTSTEP and nearly a
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I am one of those geezers.
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Emacs is in that disastrous stage of a product's life where the geezers destroy their own community by refusing to adapt to new expected behavior, thus driving away the newbies. Eventually the product dwindles to just supporting the f
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It's a large portion of major donations. If Bob Johnson donates $20M to a hospital to create the Johnson Cancer Wing, he is in benefiting himself: he is buying his name on a building. If Bob donates $20M to a local symphony orchestra t
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Also stealing CP/M. Time whitewashes everything. Bill Gates has spent many years doing good work as a philanthropist. I'm not sure this undoes the fact that much of his gain was from blatant cloning, ruthless abuse of monopoly, a
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice / self-deprivation is what matters. I don't think it's what matters necessarily, but I do think that this is why he is receiving praise here and
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I asked for evidence. Rather than providing any you went on a diatribe about science. Until you can provide any reasonable evidence of your claim, you are nothing but a crank.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I vaguely recall that there are classic levels in Jewish philosophy regarding philanthropy, and among the highest is to give with no expectation of any return whatsoever: that means not only giving where it matters, but to do so anonymously
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So... you have nothing? That is what I figured.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please provide your extraordinary evidence. Ideally in the form of multiple strong, well-vetted and well respected studies in peer-reviewed journals. Otherwise I'll presume you&#x2
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> I think most of C++'s additions have avoided these problems in the way Java ran into. I strongly disagree. C++ is a giant, warty bag of cats with wires hanging out everywhere. It's so bad, and so arbitrary, that many instit
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Steely Dan is quite a lot more than just a rock band. It was more like a pop band with formidable song-writing. They're hard to place, that is certain. But you are completely right, their melodic and harmonic content (and famously
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Well, yes and no. Ultimately this was all caused by Napster, iTunes, Spotify, and the near-death experience they caused in the music industry. I think the labels were forced to change their business models because of them. Computers and
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> there's also a ton of absolute pap from that same decade While this is no doubt true, the rate has plummeted from (say) 15% greatness to 0% greatness among commercial music. The business model has changed, with 360 contracts and
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> now-somewhat-forgotten 70s band Steely Dan That's a little like saying "now-somewhat forgotten 60s band, The Rolling Stones". Steely Dan is one of the very most highly respected rock bands in history.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just propose Datalog?
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This has happened many times: British spelling or pronunciation deviates in modern times -- often due to classist tensions special to England -- but then ultimately the British incorrectly suppose the American way is the "ahistorical&q
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It would interest you to know that the emacs keybindings in MacOS came from NeXTSTEP. See Figure 4-9 on page 4-7 of http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/Software/OPENSTE...
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> GPT-3 is the first AI system that has obvious, immediate, transformative economic value. This statement is unbelievably ignorant of history. Just picking one random example out of a hat: planning and scheduling systems have had a prof
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Neither of these would be as disruptive as: 3. Student loans no longer survive bankruptcy.
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Way more so. The thing was made out of solid magnesium. The NeXT Cube had so many amazing features it hurts my head just to think back on it.
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Some notes, hope this is useful. - Why are helm and dexed called "sequencers"? They're synthesizers. You're missing a massive collection of open source synthesizers, effects units, and so on. Indeed you don't ev
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Side interest.
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Will look into it.
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> Stanford Audio Processing for Music Applications In no universe could my little offering compete with Julius Smith. He is the man.
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Among the very most famous Roman roads is the Via Aemilia (now Via Emilia), a straight-as-an-arrow road running diagonally along the edge of the mountains in Northern Italy, and connecting a string of now-famous towns: Rimini, Cesena, Forli
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I'm the author. In all my free books I have collected email addresses only for very rare events. How rare? In 15 years of publishing free books I've only used the books' email list once : I used a previous book's li

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