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by bidirectional 6y ago
I disagree that this proves the Turing completeness of CSS. Part of the definition of Turing machines is access to unbounded memory. In Python, for example, we meet this requirement by saying that any underlying request to new memory will s
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by bidirectional 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, ML is driving a pretty sizeable amount of new functionality at the big tech companies. How do you think Google does search and translate, Netflix recommends films, Tesla drives your car, Siri recognises your voice,
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by bidirectional 6y ago
Won't they be much fewer in number, though?
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by bidirectional 6y ago
> So... Type signature `Int -> Int -> Bool` can be used for a function that does any of the following things: manipulates strings, decodes JSON, or queries a database? How does that make it easier to deduce what a function does by
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by bidirectional 6y ago
You spent a year working on a 'project' to invest your entire inheritance in a single stock, while refusing to monitor the market itself? Your brother sounds like he wasn't really on board with the plan, which is the pruden
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by bidirectional 6y ago
I personally don't get the Putin thing, at all (nor does it seem to be well sourced). Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, so of course the royal family can effectively use the nation's money as their bank account. But why and ho
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by bidirectional 6y ago
It's not lazy, it's highly interesting and people obviously love hearing about it, given how popular these stories are. Why care about liquidity? All of these hundred-billionaires can buy whatever they want anyway.
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by bidirectional 6y ago
> Most people on Hacker News are entrepreneurs that run their own private businesses. Has there been a survey done on this? Because that's not the impression I have at all. Entrepeneurs are obviously over-represented in contrast to
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by bidirectional 6y ago
I had a similar idea upon seeing the power of incredibly terse languages like k and q (both still used in a lot of investment banks). The core language would be boring and imperative, for plumbing, but you'd also be able to write and e
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It's Easy As 1,2,3 [pdf](cs.nott.ac.uk)
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