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by daly 8y ago
COBOL RIDES AGAIN: "Since programming languages are designed for humans, there is no reason they should not be easily readable, easily comprehended, and should be sufficient information for anyone who would like to know how a system wo
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by daly 8y ago
The tunnel boring machine will be quite useful for building bomb shelters... which will be obvious exactly 1 hour after it was needed.
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by daly 8y ago
The last Axiom update was just this week (March 21, 2019). In general, Axiom is updated about once a month. The current Axiom effort is directed toward proving the algorithms. The research combines computer algebra with proof theory. A surv
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by daly 8y ago
Yes. (Tim Daly, Axiom Lead Developer)
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Quantum ColorBloch
1 points by daly 8y ago|0 comments
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Book Review: Midnight in Chernobyl
2 points by daly 8y ago|1 comments
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Book review: This is your brain on music
1 points by daly 8y ago|0 comments
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by daly 8y ago
Are they unaware of the pending water shortage?
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by daly 8y ago
Oh, I would SO be ready to sign up as the comedian on THAT trip.
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by daly 8y ago
I posted a whitespace language a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14882214 The example code is at http://daly.axiom-developer.org/hello.w Note that there actually IS code on the page,
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by daly 8y ago
Write a simple chess program. The rules are easy but require some thought. Displaying a board is easy but requires some thought. Writing an alpha-beta search is easy but requires some thought. By the time you have a simple working chess pro
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by daly 8y ago
The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
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Book Review: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
1 points by daly 8y ago|0 comments
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by daly 8y ago
PlusAI ( https://plus.ai/en/ ) is way ahead of them.
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by daly 8y ago
I have 50 years of programming, co-authored 4 commercial languages, many technical papers, years of research, lead developer on open source, work on hardware (FPGAs), robotics, operating systems, and AI. When I get the results of my intervi
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Quantum-secure encryption using autoencoding?
3 points by daly 8y ago|0 comments
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by daly 8y ago
I interviewed with DWave as they were looking for someone with deep common lisp roots (aka me). Apparently I didn't make the cut. I am not a particle physics major (I'm math and cs) but I've been reading deeply on the subject
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Omphaloskepsis – The Startup Disease
5 points by daly 8y ago|1 comments
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by daly 8y ago
fanfold paper ... reseating boards in computer (the heat made them shrink/expand and they needed to be pushed in again) ... hex conversion by hand ... single-step button on console ... hand punching paper tape one hole at a time (not o
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by daly 8y ago
Umm, I usually give my flight attendants a $20 tip each. These people have been paying attention to my health, safety, and comfort needs for the last 6 hours. They are always pleasant and friendly. My tip will buy them dinner. I used bring
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by daly 8y ago
Bad at math? My college roommate went to the public school in my town. I went to the catholic school. He learned calc 1 and calc 2 before college. I had 2 weeks of trig. We were both math majors. He breezed through calc. I got a D in calc1,
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by daly 8y ago
Lisp failed? News to me. I use it every day.
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Why Can't Phone Be Used as a PC?
3 points by daly 8y ago|2 comments
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by daly 8y ago
The Ultra Secret by F.W. Winterbotham
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by daly 8y ago
It is difficult to get grants if you are not in a university. It turns out that a common theme is "fiduciary handling of funds". Grant money usually goes to the bursar who takes 50% or more as "overhead". But what they a
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by daly 8y ago
I am of two minds about this. On the one hand, I think lectures matter. Often I can't understand a paper until after I've heard a lecture on the subject. This is particularly true in logic as a lot of the papers are written in gre
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by daly 8y ago
Cobol? Wow. I taught a cobol course in graduate school in the 1970s. Who knew it would still be around.
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by daly 8y ago
I attended a conference in August 2018 that had IPv6 only access. I was unable to present links to websites during my talk as they were IPv4 only.
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by daly 8y ago
We had such a tech lead. He had never designed a system until this one. He used the very latest techniques and technologies. He estimated the contract and recommended a fixed cost 5 month contract with 5 people. The project was terminated a
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by daly 8y ago
You've already missed the point.

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