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by egl2021 3y ago
The rules for what homeowners are allowed to do vary by jurisdiction, but the underlying principle is that if you are living in the home, you have an incentive not to mess up.
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by egl2021 3y ago
George Dyson has good evidence that von Neumann and the IAS team studied Turing's paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. You can find video of Dyson talking about this: < https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by egl2021 4y ago
Thank you, Andrej. You're a pedagogical gem!
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by egl2021 4y ago
"I don't know" is exactly what I want my docs to say when they don't know.
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by egl2021 4y ago
Philip Morrison praised GR in his Scientific American column. That was good enough for me: I read GR and eventually all of Pynchon's other novels. V is one of the books I fall back on when I need something for a trip with lots of exp
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by egl2021 4y ago
I apparently wasn't paying attention: can you elaborate on what it is that "everyone" knows?
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by egl2021 4y ago
In the long run, this could be a boon for social media companies: they now have a requirement to ask you to identify yourself and provide clear proof of your location. This will drive away some users, but the remaining users will be great
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by egl2021 4y ago
Rich Socher had this to say about the transition to neural networks: "Chris Manning also, to his credit – when I came to him and I had all these ideas from the computer vision world and neural networks, I still remember that meeting –
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by egl2021 4y ago
The VCs don't "owe" money to the startups: they "buy" equity with their money. The VCs aren't "out" the money deposited by the startup at SVB; that money was already exchanged for equity in the start
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by egl2021 4y ago
In my experience with small SV companies over the last several decades, this would be exceptional. Typically you get money from investors at negotiated, spaced points in time. In between your CFO manages the cash on hand to cover everythi
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by egl2021 4y ago
Your corporate secret can be hallucinated by ChatGPT. How would you tell the difference?
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by egl2021 4y ago
Tim Roughgarden, Algorithmic game theory. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RJBqmxvZ0_i... The lectures are a perfect complement to his book "Twenty lectures on algorithmic game theory".
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by egl2021 4y ago
Or you get more rigorous about what is being accomplished and realize that you don't really need as many people. Or you decide that a remote worker can be anywhere, so why not use the global talent pool? These are the dark sides of W
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by egl2021 4y ago
Likely the prosecution's case is strong, e.g. there is a hard-to-disguise paper trail that clearly implicates these first cooperators.
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by egl2021 4y ago
"...you can write imperative programs...". It's worse than that: you have to look carefully at the order of the alternatives to understand the computation. I re-read Clocksin and Mellish during a recent programming language
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by egl2021 4y ago
It can get worse than a bad satisfaction score. Look up "Saint Francis Health System shooting".
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by egl2021 4y ago
Two reasons in the wild: 1. You might not know a priori that the lexical analysis can be done without any knowledge of the surrounding grammatical context. 2. You may be able to give more informative error messages if you know the grammatic
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by egl2021 4y ago
TECO (Tape Editor/COrrector): enter your name as a command. what does it do?
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by egl2021 4y ago
Same for me. Back in the day I learned C++ by reading each item in Effective C++ and studying Ellis and Stroustrup until I (almost) understood everything that Meyers mentioned in the item. It was slow going...
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by egl2021 4y ago
OpenCV uses BGR.
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by egl2021 4y ago
If companies can figure out how to use a mostly remote workforce effectively, they can hire anywhere in the world with good Internet. They would no longer need to put an office where there are plenty of qualified workers; they could hire o
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by egl2021 5y ago
For me, the big feature in editors is mouseless editing. With emacs my fingers never have to leave the keyboard. When I started out in the Dark Ages, vi offered the same benefit, but multiple buffers were easier in emacs, so I ended up wi
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by egl2021 5y ago
I've read most of it. It's excellent. You have to pay a lot of attention to get anything out of it, much more than is required for SICP, PAIP, or The Little Schemer. You will spend enough time at it that the monetary outlay wil
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by egl2021 5y ago
Mentioning Eckert and Mauchly requires also mentioning Atanasoff, with whom they lost a priority dispute.
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by egl2021 5y ago
And in extreme conditions, many of us use something known as "clothing".