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by j-pb 4y ago
A public web of trust network based on asymetric crypto with weighted reputation scores between scientific entities, is an entirely different thing than trending on twitter. Besides, the "paper" you cite is not a paper at all, yet
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by j-pb 4y ago
I'd argue that such a system would be much better at avoiding the current political swamp, if the reputation/trust was relative to your personal trust into certain individuals and research directions. E.g. we might view different
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by j-pb 4y ago
Your argument doesn't hold economically nor based on the state of the status quo. Economically it is infeasible to politically play, social engineer, or bribe thousands of reviewers in a publicly inspectable web of trust. It's eas
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by j-pb 4y ago
What you mean is the unique name assumption, which is distinct from the OWA, and may be viewed orthogonally and applied or not applied in different RDF contexts. The problem with blank nodes is that they circumvent the UNA in every scenario
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by j-pb 4y ago
Blank nodes are one of the contested flame warzones of RDF. The fact that they don't have a reified instance means that they are open to collapse with other blank nodes in certain inference scenarios and makes a lot of problems as hard
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by j-pb 4y ago
JonesFORTH Although one might argue it to be a case of really elegant documentation and literate programming.
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by j-pb 5y ago
Digital computer cannot handle true real numbers. Analog computers MIGHT. It really depends on how quantized our universe is. If you have papers that show full quantization including tunneling probabilities e.t.c please share them! The phys
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by j-pb 5y ago
That doesn't make a lot of sense given the novel hardware that runs in a lot of chips these days. TPUs, neural accellerators, perceptron branch prediction, flash based neural networks. Thise are not abstractions over existing posix AP
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by j-pb 5y ago
AMR Ryzen uses perceptrons in it's branch predictor, I'd say that's pretty foundational.
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by j-pb 5y ago
We are in the age of machine learning, whenever you search for something online, take a photo with your phone, drive in your (diver assisted) car, filter out spam, get a product or video recommendation, you are using a system that is founde
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by j-pb 5y ago
The most important thing that datomic and friends brought, is usability and pragmatism. While RDF has an elegant core, it is bogged down by the complixity of the web and ancillary technologies. XML Types, cURIes, OWL, the different encoding
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by j-pb 5y ago
> In Datalog databases, there are no tables. Or really everything is just stored in one table, the triple table The author conflates Datomic family databases which use triples as their data model and datalog as their query engine, with d
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by j-pb 5y ago
> and to make DB indices happy. You can do both, use a low precision timestamp with overflows in the ID to keep the index happy, and add a proper timestamp field for analytics. The 32 + 96 split is what postgres uses for example. I'
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by j-pb 5y ago
I don't get these "usable for 500 years" approaches. If you have an overflow condition you want to encounter (i.e. test) it often. 32bit miliseconds + 96 bit of real entropy is brute force resistant, and has a ~50 day overflo
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by j-pb 5y ago
We optimise for the convenience of potential hires, not the convenience of obvious rejects.
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by j-pb 5y ago
The is a response to both comments above: The meritocracy argument is usually brought up by people that are shitty colleagues. Personality is more important than being "good at your job", the latter improves with time and mentorin
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by j-pb 5y ago
All those lists of skills and experiences are easily embellished. Lists of dozens of programming languages, work experiences, and qualifications are a lot of noise that even the worst candidates can just add without any meaningful experienc
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by j-pb 5y ago
No promotions, we all get paid the same. Everybody is doing their best, and it's a small company, hierarchies and different salaries add unnecessary overhead and friction.
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by j-pb 5y ago
I think you misunderstand what I mean by style. It can also be plaintext if the candidate feels like is the best approach to solve the problem. But there needs to be a sense of personality behind it. Some reflection on their personal approa
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by j-pb 5y ago
> (to people and systems) Any company that does automatic resume analysis is already lost in terms of engineering quality.
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by j-pb 5y ago
If you do backend and don't have any personal opinions about tooling, be it troff, man, pandoc, markdown, plaintext, or whatever, then there's plenty of enterprise opportunity for you, but I personally don't want to work with
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by j-pb 5y ago
I want to work with people that are interesting. It's not the apperance per se but the "spirit". A very functional minimalistic resume is as good as a fancy design, what matter is that there is a underlying method/idea
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by j-pb 5y ago
Getting a themed resume will also stand out as "plain". The candidates that are interesting to me have diverse and interesting lives, their resumes should reflect that.
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by j-pb 5y ago
This looks like a solution in search of a problem. A boring looking resume thats like all the others might be good enough for SAP but would get filtered out my me immediately. Coding is a creative process which requires a certain sense of c
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by j-pb 5y ago
I found that a fast immutable in memory database like Datascript solves both problems quite nicely.
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by j-pb 5y ago
I'm not talking about scanned data. I'm talking about digitally born PDF, which have to be OCRed nevertheless because their text layer is unusable. LaTex is one of the worst offenders when it comes to producing mangled text layers
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by j-pb 5y ago
None of those virtues hold in practice. I've worked both at public library digitization efforts and machine learning companies that did document ingestion and analytics. You always OCR the PDF visuals to get the text, because that&#x27
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by j-pb 5y ago
Between 6 months and 3 years of jail. A fine. And being banned from holding an official position.
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by j-pb 5y ago
Or on batteries, or on liquid salt thermal storage upgrades for old fossil plants, or on hydro storage, or on salt cavern pneumatic pressure, or on hydrogen, or on regenerative iron dust cycles, or... The idea that it's nuclear or foss

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