breck

44 ms·

661.
by breck 2y ago
It's an interesting paper, but a big flaw is that this: > Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have? ...is not actually a simple task. This can be quantified. "1 + 1" is a
662.
What are your favorite "science" jokes?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
663.
by breck 2y ago
MathWorld on Riemann: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannZetaFunction.html
664.
by breck 2y ago
> In April 2023, Altman suggested to board members that Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of the question-and-answer site Quora, step down from the board after Quora began developing its own generative AI chatbot called Poe, which is also an OpenAI
665.
Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically (2022)(sillycross.github.io)
1 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
666.
by breck 2y ago
> Can you make the rest of the web like this? Why not build the next thing. Who will still use The Web when The Scroll comes out (very soon ;) ? https://scroll.pub/
667.
by breck 2y ago
Good question. I should make a ranked list. In regards to programming, my top 30 would include: ScrollSets: https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html RegEx. The dataflow paradigm as popularized by dplyr would be on there. HIT
668.
by breck 2y ago
Agreed. Pushing through until you can think in array languages is well worth it! In my experience one of the top 30 highest ROI mental circuits you can develop. That being said, I'm not convinced that the extremely minimal syntax is es
669.
by breck 2y ago
"But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs" - Francis Darwin
670.
A self-published book broke 'all the rules' and became a bestseller(boston.com)
2 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
671.
by breck 2y ago
I had not heard the term "blogmarks" before, but looks interesting, what you are doing there. Have you written anything about that yet?
672.
PCRI(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
673.
Is "Information" Eternally Conserved?(johnhorgan.org)
2 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
674.
by breck 2y ago
> The immense bias, bull, made up junk, and outright maliciousness in some of these replies is beyond disgusting. Imagine if you were in a classroom and some new students entered the room and all sat together in a group and were wearing
675.
by breck 2y ago
> but if sama is really a master manipulator like some people are saying I like what you did here. You steelmanned their argument. That being said, I think in that case, if it is something you believe so fervently in that you are willing
676.
by breck 2y ago
Along similar lines, Louis CK said he does not write down his material (or at least, did not until recently). He explained that _knowing_ rather than _memorizing_ makes it come out more natural.
677.
by breck 2y ago
On https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscifistories/ There are three categories, based on word length: nano (1..50 words), micro (51..500) and mini (501..1000).
678.
Every top 10 programming language has a single creator(pldb.io)
8 points by breck 2y ago|4 comments
679.
ScrollSet Examples(sets.scroll.pub)
1 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
680.
by breck 2y ago
> As beginner in web development I'm jealous of the simplicity of web development described at the beginning of the post. I've been blogging for 17 years, and gone through a number of iterations (started with Wordpress, then my
681.
by breck 2y ago
Edit: This post needs a (2017) in the title :) Interesting! I worked on something similar a few years ago. I think I had some good concepts from a long term usability approach, but your engine looks far better. Demo: https://simo
682.
by breck 2y ago
> then when do you take action (if ever)? I think you _never_ take secretive action. You don't go behind someone's back. They should have said, "Sam, we think you are wrong, we think we are right, and we think you are not
683.
by breck 2y ago
> "telling us they had no belief that he could or would change, no point in giving him feedback" This is awful behavior. Never ever stop talking. Never ever stop giving feedback. When someone says something along the lines of &
684.
by breck 2y ago
> https://dbdb.io/stats This is great! Added it to the todo list to integrate this data. Thank you!
685.
by breck 2y ago
Thank you! I appreciate the kind feedback. On Reddit the average comment is so thoughtless. It does seem like people are missing that the title of the chart is "What languages do the people who build languages use?" and explicitly
686.
by breck 2y ago
I love when a website uses the word "credibility", and half the website is filled with flashing ads and it has too many trackers and ad scripts to count.
687.
by breck 2y ago
I suggest thinking about this chart more. You might find there are _far_ more interesting insights to be mined. For example, here are 2 very interesting stories: - Look at Lisp! Invented so long ago and used by so many language makers. That
688.
What languages do people who make languages use?(pldb.io)
2 points by breck 2y ago|6 comments
689.
Unseen details of human brain structure revealed(nih.gov)
2 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
690.
by breck 2y ago
Very cool. Hope to check it out someday. The original Egyptian Museum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum ) is my favorite of all time. They have so many artifacts that some items, thousands of years old, tha

More ›