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by eismcc 4y ago
I do wonder if the words should be further away from each other phonetically though - start … unstart seem close enough to be confused if the radio is noisy
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by eismcc 4y ago
The semantics is start/unstart are definitely more interesting in this context and seem less dramatic in the context of wind tunnel tests
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by eismcc 4y ago
“unstart” - while a terrifying euphemism - is there is reason “stall”, or similar, is not used?
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by eismcc 4y ago
Cache hits aren’t cheating. He filled his cache with research and got lucky.
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by eismcc 4y ago
Broken Age
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by eismcc 4y ago
Reminds me of when cable tv became a thing and the “57 channels and nothing on” song https://youtu.be/YAlDbP4tdqc
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by eismcc 4y ago
While this is a deep topic regarding the philosophical break between the two paradigms and one which I spend a lot of time on, the ideal to me seems to be a system which has the immersive nature of a smalltalk-like environment while having
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by eismcc 4y ago
I’ve not used this but looks promising http://flatassembler.net/
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by eismcc 4y ago
There’s two things coming to mind: 1) Reminds me of that story about clay sculptures where they focused on quantity on one team and quality on the other. The quantity team produced better art. 2) this applies to startups or anything like t
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by eismcc 4y ago
Only you can stop narcissism.
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by eismcc 4y ago
I think it's more along the lines of playing against HAL9000. HAL politely beats you and asks you for another game.
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by eismcc 4y ago
After training AI Go engine for competitions and seeing an AI learn more in one weekend than I can in one lifetime, I feel it's hard to be motivated to learn this kind of thing. I feel like I'm training my bespoke artisanal neura
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by eismcc 4y ago
Yeah, same. I still have the scientific American mag issue that they talked about the CM-1 in
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by eismcc 4y ago
Having spoken to someone who was there (Steve Omohundro who wrote StarLisp), the lack of floating point and extreme parallelism were actually a pain because everything had to be written from scratch. Steve gave me an example that they wrot
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by eismcc 4y ago
Was gonna say the same plus kdb+ is a columnar store so you can get vectorizarion in your sql execution as well.
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by eismcc 4y ago
That’s because numpy is based on J which is based on APL
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by eismcc 4y ago
Great article. Even as an endurance athlete I struggle to lose weight w/o intermittent fasting and I can only do that in the off-season. Knowing your body comp also will help understand what’s going on - get a smart scale. One metric
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by eismcc 4y ago
Yes this was our strategy when I interviewed folks at Microsoft and some companies later. Key point being what happens when they hit the unknown.
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by eismcc 4y ago
you could go back to the original LISP https://github.com/briangu/OPS5/blob/master/demo/ops-demo-ma...
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by eismcc 4y ago
I had almost the exact same experience. Sitting in the chair prepped for a cleaning and the DH dives into this tale about “bad bacteria” and how if it gets into my stomach during the cleaning I could have all kinds of problems including hea
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Shakti record breaking benchmark results in the STAC real-world M-3 tests(prnewswire.com)
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by eismcc 5y ago
One in Berkeley https://www.emptygatezen.com/
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by eismcc 5y ago
I owned the Microsoft ASN1 library for a while around 2005. It was a maintenance nightmare and I spent a lot of time fixing static analysis derived issues. That said, I always found the standard quite interesting with different encodings b
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by eismcc 5y ago
I was involved in World Cup features and it definitely would spike around goals. Maybe 2-3x as I recall but it was always surprising to me how “low” the tweet volume was relative to the read volume.
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by eismcc 5y ago
I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently reading about kdb (and family) and I’d think a lot of the skills you need to use it are very applicable to other systems. You may even be further ahead of the game than you realize. The main gap I’
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by eismcc 5y ago
When I was at Twitter (6yrs ago now) they averaged around 5k tweets/s. There were MANY more notifications and other system type events.
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by eismcc 5y ago
Maybe like Ready Player One, people will use Meta if the outside / real word sucks enough. Here you can be anything you want to be…
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by eismcc 5y ago
Yes, that’s why it needed a rewrite. Particularly in terms of handling large files.
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by eismcc 5y ago
At point while on the Windows kernel team, I was working on a port of edit.exe but when I left the team, development stopped. I was initially going for a identical replacement with a replica menu system but behind able to handle large file
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by eismcc 5y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve looked for info about this before but didn’t find it.

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