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by bvan 3y ago
Insurance works on the basis of (a) quantifying risk and (b) charging fairly for the protection. In the long-term, getting better at (a) and consequently, (b), is in everybody’s interest. For far too long, certain risk covers have been unde
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by bvan 3y ago
Whatever happened to the Jtagulator? It no longer seems to be available.
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by bvan 3y ago
Thanks for that reference. Very useful.
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by bvan 3y ago
Such a neat story.
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by bvan 3y ago
BASIC opened the door to computing for a great many people. It usually gets bashed by (a) academics or (b) CS students who have not yet had any productive, real-world, development experience. I know many folks who started with BASIC and wen
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by bvan 3y ago
Should have used ChatGPT to generate this. A bit of a word salad.
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by bvan 3y ago
While very impressive, the latest AI craze is a huge distraction. In fields where original research and discovery is key, AI will for the foreseeable future have little marginal impact. My 2 cents. Canadian.
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by bvan 3y ago
This is a fantastic resource, actually.
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by bvan 3y ago
These animations are just phenomenal - best I’ve seen by far.
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by bvan 3y ago
Hey look, proper documentation! Even has clear IP classification in front and revision history! How standards have fallen…
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by bvan 3y ago
A catastrophe is not synonymous with a black swan event. Your friendly insurance company estimates the probability of catastrophic losses on a regular basis.
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by bvan 3y ago
Very impressive. Great job.
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by bvan 3y ago
I would look at Financial institutions’ IT groups. Lots of mediocre SQL query tinkering out there and having an experienced SQL person around can be gold. Think banks, pension funds, insurance companies, not fintech/insurtech. In Chica
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by bvan 3y ago
All involved have clearly demonstrated the lack of credibility in self-governance or the ability to make big-boy decisions. All reassurances from now on will sound hollow.
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by bvan 3y ago
Watch mechanics are fascinating. If only software was developed with such care and accuracy..
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by bvan 3y ago
Yes, please.
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by bvan 3y ago
What happened to jtagulator? I would have thought this would have been included as a go-to JTAG tool.
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by bvan 3y ago
Very good essay. The new cathedrals are being build on very loose foundations these days.
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by bvan 3y ago
If you’re going to take in your hand luggage, be discreet about it and don’t brag. In most people’s hands it’s a totally harmless device anyway. Most owners don’t have the patience or skills to learn how to use it effectively.
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by bvan 3y ago
Great article. Much of these things were still very relevant in the 80’s and early 90’s.
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by bvan 3y ago
Today, I had to create a couple of handwritten reference index cards. Went to the trouble of finding a ruler (remember those things?) to cleanly underline my headings. It was a wonderful feeling.
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by bvan 3y ago
No sympathy for textbook publishers at all.
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by bvan 3y ago
Those were great books. Also, the regular column on math/physics in the Game Developer magazine - forget the name of the author.
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by bvan 3y ago
The level of CO2 rises dramatically when cooking using a gas stove in our house, by at least 1,000 ppm to around 1,500-1,900 ppm in the upstairs of a two-story house (kitchen on ground floor). And this is with a properly working hood above
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by bvan 3y ago
Thank you.
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by bvan 3y ago
I’ve sent my comments to the author by Fax.
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by bvan 3y ago
Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for the other day. Was listening to a Steve Wozniak interview and his early tinkering with pong and the like.
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by bvan 3y ago
Sometimes, this is all you need. I like it.
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by bvan 3y ago
Yikes, I’m old. There was a lot of NN work and a lot of books available on NN’s back in the mid and late 90’s. ‘Soft computing’ was the all-encompassing term for NN, genetic algorithms, AI, expert systems, fuzzy logic, ALife and all sorts o
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by bvan 3y ago
HTML everywhere killed professional-looking GUI’s. Web devs generally are clueless about application GUI design and usability. It’s sad.

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