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9/11's Impacts on Critical Infrastructure(chrisgillett.org)
2 points by iafisher 1y ago|1 comments
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What the hell is REST, Anyway? (2019)(programmingisterrible.com)
2 points by iafisher 2y ago|0 comments
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by iafisher 2y ago
On-wiki discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#T...
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Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic(loeber.substack.com)
5 points by iafisher 2y ago|0 comments
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The Strangeness of Grief (2019)(newyorker.com)
93 points by iafisher 2y ago|49 comments
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Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project(outsiderart.substack.com)
287 points by iafisher 2y ago|141 comments
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by iafisher 2y ago
Reminds me of Google flipping Nest devices from a Linux-based OS to Fuchsia: https://9to5google.com/2021/08/17/google-fuchsia-update-roll... A lot fewer devices than Apple, but with changing a device's e
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Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (2015)(nullprogram.com)
6 points by iafisher 2y ago|0 comments
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Ancient Computers in Use Today (2012)(pcworld.com)
13 points by iafisher 2y ago|2 comments
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Statistical Shortcomings in Standard Math Libraries (2014)(evanmiller.org)
2 points by iafisher 3y ago|1 comments
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Would Rust secure cURL? (2021)(blog.timhutt.co.uk)
16 points by iafisher 3y ago|2 comments
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totally_safe_transmute, Line-by-Line (2021)(blog.yossarian.net)
80 points by iafisher 3y ago|40 comments
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Why apps fail in some African countries(uxdesign.cc)
2 points by iafisher 3y ago|0 comments
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by iafisher 5y ago
Wikipedia offers a similar service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
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by iafisher 5y ago
> I appreciate your story, but this comment bothered me, because it's something people repeat a lot and it's actually not true. There's no good evidence that adults have more difficulty acquiring language than children. Th
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by iafisher 5y ago
In your hypothetical 100% of completions are copied verbatim from existing code. But if GitHub is to believed, only 0.1% are.
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by iafisher 5y ago
Author here. I wish I had made it clearer that the intent of the post was "this is an interesting and surprising thing you can achieve in C" and not "this is a good idea for a real software project" or "this is a re
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Show HN: How many U.S. cities can you name?(iafisher.com)
5 points by iafisher 6y ago|1 comments
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by iafisher 8y ago
Build Your Own Lisp ( http://buildyourownlisp.com/ ) is as good a starting point as any. You learn to implement a high-level dynamic programming language in C, which is a common choice of implementation language for interpret
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by iafisher 8y ago
The problem with making spelling more phonetic is that not everyone pronounces English the same. Even a single country like the United States or the United Kingdom counts a range of accents and dialects. A phonetic spelling is always going
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by iafisher 8y ago
I read this book about a year ago and later wrote another Lisp [1] from scratch but based on the design in the book. It's still one of my favorite computer science books. He covers quite a range of topics (C programming, traditional Li
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by iafisher 8y ago
> Skip the Socratic dialogs basically. I agree, except make sure not to skip the SHRDLU [1] one, which isn't actually Hofstadter's writing at all, but a demo of the SHRDLU system which is fascinating and should not be missed. [
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by iafisher 8y ago
> For instance I'd PERSONALLY consider Portuguese to be OBJECTIVELY harder than Spanish. Emphasis mine. I don't mean to say that some languages aren't more difficult for speakers of a particular language to learn--no doubt
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by iafisher 8y ago
Claims about the relative simplicity or complexity of different languages are rarely grounded in actual linguistic evidence. Languages comprise so many parts that it's not even clear what the basis of comparison could be: is English, a
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by iafisher 8y ago
One thing that Lego does very well despite (or perhaps because of) being a closed system is ensuring the consistent quality of all its bricks. In the years I played with Legos as a child I never encountered two bricks that didn't fit t
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by iafisher 8y ago
This story reminds me of Abul-Abbas [1], an elephant given to Charlemagne by the caliph of the Abbasids. Frederick II wasn't the first Holy Roman Emperor to collect exotic animals, it seems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F