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Simhash and solving the hamming distance problem: explained(ben-whitmore.com)
1 points by atomicnature 11mo ago|0 comments
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19: Richard Hipp, SQLite [video](youtube.com)
2 points by atomicnature 11mo ago|1 comments
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The Key to Everything – Freeman Dyson(nybooks.com)
2 points by atomicnature 1y ago|0 comments
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Tusko's Last Trip(theguardian.com)
1 points by atomicnature 1y ago|0 comments
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ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs(github.com)
114 points by atomicnature 1y ago|18 comments
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by atomicnature 1y ago
You seem challenged with having a basic discussion without resorting to baseless personal attacks. HN discussions have nosedived in quality over the time. Feel like I'm on reddit. On the topic - here were my original points (with some
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by atomicnature 1y ago
I've seen this already - but Lisp seems a bit limiting. I'd have loved to use Py/Go or JS in the least - something more upto date.
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by atomicnature 1y ago
Smalltalk is too old. I'd rather program in Python/Golang - or worst case JS these days.
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by atomicnature 1y ago
Interesting stuff - none of these seem to have that Smalltalk-like visual IDE bolted right into them. Given how big and important a platform the modern web is - I really am starting to think - something like this should exist - where I have
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Ask HN: Any real "programmable web browser"?
6 points by atomicnature 1y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: How do you track what's backed up?
2 points by atomicnature 1y ago|3 comments
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by atomicnature 1y ago
Amazon still has huge R&D spends, always had. Bezos had a dictum around having a high experimentation (and failure) rate as a matter of principle. They may not be making news-making moves, but I'm sure they'll develop the musc
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Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)(sheafification.com)
96 points by atomicnature 1y ago|50 comments
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From Logic to Linear Algebra: How AI Is Rewiring the Computer(journal.hexmos.com)
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The Management Myth(theatlantic.com)
3 points by atomicnature 1y ago|0 comments
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by atomicnature 1y ago
Proof != evidence. In evidence, we corroborate, collate, add more sources, weigh evidence, judge. Proof is a totally different process. Only in the mathematical do one prove something, everywhere else we build up evidence, corroborate, etc
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Sony History(sony.com)
2 points by atomicnature 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you deal with data backups in servers?
4 points by atomicnature 1y ago|4 comments
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by atomicnature 1y ago
The leading indicator of future market impact is programming and software engineering productivity increasing by 10x on the producer side. The effects of these productivity gains will take time to materialize on the consumer side.
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by atomicnature 1y ago
Try finding PhD Students and see if you can help with their programming or experiments. You'll learn more about how to do research from a PhD student in months, rather than struggling on your own. Once you have the "learning to le
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by atomicnature 1y ago
It's amazing. I've wanted a small prompt-manager chrome extension for a while. Was procrastinating. Was able to build one for myself with Firebase studio in 30 mins. Here's my PromptPal - built in just 30m (disable ad-blocker
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Go's CSP model works well, if you first take the time to study it up a bit. The only drawback with the docs is they don't focus on correctness and potential concurrency bugs sufficiently. In the very least the stdlib could mark wh
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by atomicnature 2y ago
LLMs are usually used to describe goals or to provide feedback (correction or encouragement) towards its implementation. Programming is about iteratively expressing a path towards satisfying said goals. What LLMs are doing now is conver
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by atomicnature 2y ago
If I may ask - how are humans in general different? Very few of us invent new ideas of significance - correct?
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Structure and Meaning(shrsv.github.io)
1 points by atomicnature 2y ago|0 comments
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Body Is Mostly Just a Big Battery(shrsv.github.io)
2 points by atomicnature 2y ago|0 comments
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Design must flow from customer demand/desires. And 90% of design is just "correctly assigning priority" to elements and actions. If you know what is important (and what is less important) you use... - white space (more whites
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Practical Focus: Saying "Not Now" Instead of "No"(shrsv.github.io)
1 points by atomicnature 2y ago|0 comments
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by atomicnature 2y ago
In software - rarely do you know beforehand that you're building a chair. Even when you're building in an existing category of products (say, databases), there are still lots of variations and trial and error needed to get "w
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Super-Convenient Software, or the End of Workflows as We Know Them(journal.hexmos.com)
2 points by atomicnature 2y ago|0 comments

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