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by daly 10y ago
I have tried many times to get in touch with this effort without success. How can I help? There is an interesting movie called "Threads", a BBC drama by Barry Hines. Be sure to watch it.
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by daly 10y ago
http://axiom-developer.org Axiom was originally developed at IBM Research, was a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple, has been open source since 2001.
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by daly 10y ago
TL;DR Bring back Corporate Research divisions tax free and everybody wins. I've been a "research rat" all my life. I did research at Unimation, the first robot company. I worked at IBM Research. I've worked at Universiti
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by daly 10y ago
Maybe you don't need four layers of intellectual conversation :-)
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by daly 10y ago
Mahan ("The Influence of Sea Power upon History") argues that a nation that depends on ocean-based commerce requires control of the seas. The long term view requires China to exert such control. Apparently someone in China studies
906.
by daly 10y ago
It is true that my lisp 1.5, maclisp, lisp360, VMLisp, Interlisp, and Symbolics code need rewrites to run but that code predates the Common Lisp standard. There are things I'd like to see in Common Lisp but not enough to require a new
907.
by daly 10y ago
Back in the 70s IBM used a language called PL/I (aka "Pig Language for Idiots). It had EVERYTHING. Every idea from every language showed up in PL/I. Compiling on a 6Mhz IBM mainframe took a LONG time. The language was, for it
908.
by daly 10y ago
Clausowitz deals with land warfare. A better reference is Hughes "Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat" which deals with Naval warfare. In space you have an "attrition environment" so the proper policy is to apply "effe
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by daly 10y ago
AI was huge in the 1980s. Expert systems (rule-based progamming), Logic programming (Prolog), and Case-based reasoning were spawning startups at a furious pace. There were great breakthru systems such as Emycin. Large companies were develop
910.
by daly 10y ago
Reaction mass. Find a way to aim it and fire it (use a spring or other non-explosive, human driven way to accumulate energy) in a particular direction. You could use it to move an astronaut around in space.
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by daly 10y ago
It is winter. Snow is coming. Calvin is my inspiration for snowmen. Watterson is genius. I fully support his decision to leave when the time was right and to let his art speak for itself. Build a snowman and chill out.
912.
by daly 10y ago
We both knew the task, having designed it before we started. It involved networking so there were standards we had to follow. He wasn't 'waiting', just writing code. However, writing code takes up a lot of head-space. My port
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by daly 10y ago
Projects die when the original authors stop working on them. github/sourceforge/savannah are littered with dead projects. What causes this? I would argue that it is the development style and focus. We still code the way we did whe
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by daly 10y ago
If by 'mature' you mean 'gray'... unemployed.
915.
by daly 10y ago
I've done pair programming. With the right partner it is productive and produces better code. The person at the keyboard is at a disadvantage because the partner has more "think time". Anyway, I found it pleasant. The KEY pro
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by daly 10y ago
There are several methods. The method most used is called "rule-based programming". Look for OPS5 by Charles Forgy.
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by daly 10y ago
They persevere, they don't "succeed". I know. I've been leading an open source project since 2001. The REAL question is how to make the software LIVE beyond the involvement of the authors. See: http://wste
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by daly 10y ago
My office had a glass door. I used it as a whiteboard extension all the time. For those who don't know what a 'door' is, it is a thing to improve productivity. Think of it as an effective noise-cancelling device.
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by daly 10y ago
The book "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr and Humphrey is a literate program (the book contains the actual source code which is extracted at build time). The book won an Academy Award.
920.
by daly 10y ago
http://butterflyhaptics.com/maglev-haptics/
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by daly 10y ago
One reason is the installed base. I worked as systems programmer on mainframes for years. There are still a lot of them out there running legacy applications.
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by daly 10y ago
Measure your reading rate in pages/hour over a year. I average 33 pages per hour. My wife reads faster than I do, although the only measure is that she completes the same books faster (she has never tried measuring). As for understandi
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by daly 10y ago
Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow ISBN 0-691-00412-9
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by daly 10y ago
Fundamental mode
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by daly 10y ago
Emacs. Edit your tex file, start a shell buffer, and start your dvi browser. Now edit the tex, run latex in the shell, and you get to see the dvi output. Repeat until done.
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by daly 10y ago
Nonsense. Documents need to "survive". Web pages end up getting trashed every time someone updates a "standard". PDFs can be read years later.
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by daly 10y ago
Physically Based Rendering by Pharr and Humphrey (literate program, won an Academy Award)
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by daly 10y ago
There seems to be a subtle misunderstanding. A focus on the mathematics, such as verification or high-dimensional convex studies, will show that there is some basis for WHY DNNs work. This would be equivalent to showing WHY Fourier Transfor
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by daly 10y ago
Yeah I used to code like that a lot. The next step was to work out the "core layout" for the "overlay loader". There wasn't enough memory to keep the whole program resident at once so you had to invoke the loader to
930.
by daly 10y ago
" In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings, popes and the wealthy have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors." (Wikipedia) I spent a lot of years around musicians. It is painf

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