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by eliben 6y ago
Nostalgia is important. But I wouldn't agree with a statement that things are worse today than they used to be. JS with something like codepen.io is an excellent zero-install, write-whatever environment kids and adults can both enjoy.
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by eliben 6y ago
Ah, PAIP... it's such a wonderful book! I highly recommend aspiring programmers to read it even if they don't care about Lisp or AI; the sheer amount of common programming wisdom in this book is priceless.
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by eliben 6y ago
Certainly well-deserved; CRISPR is a transformational invention.
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by eliben 6y ago
Recursive descent is what I use today. En-vogue or not, it's the most robust, flexible and - most importantly - maintainable approach in the long term.
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by eliben 6y ago
My blog is decently high-traffic and has been static/Pelican for several years. After using Disqus for a while I decided to drop comments entirely because they're more trouble than they're worth. A quick write up about it --
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by eliben 7y ago
Funny coincidence - I'm just rereading this book now, and I think I like it more than the first time (~11 years ago). Getting older makes me appreciate Steinbeck even more. But I'm not entirely sure about his discussion of the wor
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by eliben 7y ago
What caught my eye is that in Hubei province, which we all imagine as a zombie apocalypse now, only ~110 out of every 100,000 got infected, and at this point the new infection rate is going down. Which is quite amazing, given that the virus
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by eliben 7y ago
I'm curious - what you feel is specifically the barrier? Which parts of your Node project you want to port to Go and don't because you don't know where to put them?
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by eliben 7y ago
pycparser is actually from ~2008 :-) [ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/11/15/pycparser-v10-is-out ], but it was probably less easily discoverable in those days - it was initially in SVN and the first release
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by eliben 7y ago
You're linking to a question about a different service (App Engine) from 3 years ago
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by eliben 7y ago
Check out part 2 ( http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-addi... ) which talks about the compiler backend - there are many optimizations done on SSA
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by eliben 7y ago
Thanks for posting this :) Part 2 is http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-addi...
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by eliben 7y ago
I wonder why they can't just close off the outer walls with rubber same as in regular tires.
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by eliben 7y ago
Redwood National Park is amazing - one of the best parks IMHO. Walking along these trees is a humbling experience. Jedediah Smith area is highly recommended
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by eliben 7y ago
Nice article, but unfortunate hyperbole: climbs one of the potential candidates for the world's tallest tree At 330 feet it's hardly a match for the world's tallest trees. California redwoods routinely clock 370 feet a
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by eliben 8y ago
Reading good history books really helps. It's amazing how hard and terrible life was for 95% of the world's population just 150 years ago.
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by eliben 8y ago
On the same topic, from 2009: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-a...
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by eliben 8y ago
In what way does the post remind you of that scene?
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by eliben 8y ago
Nope, in Colorado there's a Pueblo building from the 12th century. It's there in the article
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by eliben 8y ago
It's really strange that price went up so much. I bought the hardcover new from Amazon for $60 in 2013.
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by eliben 8y ago
Thanks for the kind feedback, very happy I could help :)
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by eliben 8y ago
It's an excellent book, highly recommended. Copy pasting a review I wrote a few years ago [ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/12/29/summary-of-reading-... ]: [...] many books have tried to be the successo
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by eliben 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, it's indeed one of the interesting subtleties of futex(). In my defense, I explicitly say in the post that it's not a replacement for the man page and suggest the readers at least go through the descrip
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by eliben 8y ago
This is a good opportunity to clarify HN's policy w.r.t. paywall articles; are they allowed? encouraged? discouraged? Only for "reached your limit" paywalls in case some readers didn't reach said limit?
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by eliben 8y ago
seq_length in this line: https://github.com/eliben/deep-learning-samples/blob/master/... Is a variable that controls how much unrolling is done during training.
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by eliben 8y ago
That's not a particularly high salary for a senior SW engineer in Israel (where the cost of living is lower than in Japan)
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by eliben 9y ago
For some reason you seem to be terribly angry, though I assure you I didn't mean to impose anything here, just curious about the reasons. There's quite a bit of snark to cut through in your reply and the only substantial sentence
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by eliben 9y ago
The issue with this is the late sunrise in the winter. In mid-Jan in LA the sun rises at ~7AM. It would rise at 8AM with daylight savings in winter. This sucks terribly since it moves your whole commute into dark; kids walk to school in the
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by eliben 9y ago
These keep coming out, but I guess I just don't get it. Say, looking at it from the POV of parents with daycare/school-aged kids. Let's say that school always starts at 8, and kids wake up at 7. Full-day school/aftercare
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by eliben 9y ago
Backpropagation was first applied to Neural Networks over 30 years ago [Rumelhart, David E.; Hinton, Geoffrey E.; Williams, Ronald J. (8 October 1986). "Learning representations by back-propagating errors". Nature]

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