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Introducing FSharpx(bugsquash.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I've often been stumped why the notion of "strong AI" cannot be successfully refuted. On the one hand any analog system can be modeled to arbitrary precision by a digital one; and on the other hand it is also a fallacy to mistake a model fo
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
> When was the last time you heard of a hot startup using .NET? Does Stack Exchange qualify?
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I don't want to publish it, only because I like it so much for its simplicity, yet efficacy in weeding out candidates. I don't want it to become too popular. I will say it has to do with processing a single array in a way that could come up
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I run a .NET shop where we do pretty interesting stuff, and it is sooo hard to recruit decent .NET developers. The first step of my recruiting process is a simple, but moderately challenging algorithm in C# to complete at the candidate's le
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Yup, worked on this very data problem (bad data sources, especially gov) for a long time, but gave up as I didn't see it as the road to riches. At the end I hit upon an AI solution I'm sure will work, but I never finished it, still on the
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
San Francisco VP Engineering Mad River Entertainment has an alpha site and a couple of rounds of focus groups behind it, soon to be in beta. You will take over the team of 2 LAMP techies and build it out. Looking for that rare combination o
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Nir Shaviv: I don't believe neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light(motls.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I think it makes sense if you change not created to not created by government or reserve bank fiat .
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I remembered another book from my survey of western civ: Tuchman A Distant Mirror
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I should have called it literature archaeology .
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I hope this will be a model for all archaeological literature. It’s a real shame how controlling scholars sit on caches of the world’s cultural heritage not for years, not for decades, but for generations (in the case of the Oxyrhynchus pap
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Don't confuse knowledge with understanding. Almost all good things exhibit diminishing returns. One lesson of history is to gain deeper understanding of human nature. That is a big key to understanding politics in any age. Plenty of people
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
At the time I found it somewhat interesting, but it's one of the books that really didn't stick with me. as I progressed reading through the centuries it was more interesting within the developments of its time and immediately succeeding er
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Misspelled. Caught me.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I was contacted by St.John's as a high school senior, and thought their program looked really interesting, but my folks couldn't afford a private college for me. In those days a California resident could go to U.C. and it just cost living e
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I've meant to compile this list, so you just inspired me. I wish the Durants had had the stamina for one more volume. I don't know much about the European revolutions of 1848 and would have like to read about that time from them. I already
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Zed, You are one of the interesting people I would like to meet someday. I will eventually get in touch. My job (among other distractons) is sapping me right now, but I hope to get back to real life by mid-November. Likewise I can be reache
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
What should I read to learn more about history? I used to consider my knowledge of history better than at least 95% of the population, but while reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I realized how sketchy my view of history
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Nobel prize winner Ivar Giaever resigns from APS(motls.blogspot.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
OK, since we're using profanity, here are my thoughts: How the fuck did this POS get upvoted? I wasted 2 minutes (including the inserted advertisement) watching this video and the guy hadn't said anything. That was way too long for me to wa
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
How about L1 cache (or even just L3 cache) measured in gigabytes? That won't increase the execution speed of individual instructions, but your effective processing power would increase dramatically.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Real title "6 Things the Film Industry Doesn't Want You to Know About". IMO there are few legit reasons for changing an article name for a HN posting. This lowers the quality of HN.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
That's OK. The point I wanted to make is this article is about what people in this job are like and what may be surprising to people who don't know much about it. I think anecdotal information becomes interesting in this case when it illust
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Alex3917, You are arguing some very abstract terms (albeit, citing statistics along the way). As someone else who has known well many professional military persons in my life (although I never served), I can also attest the blurb in the Atl
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I went to a meet-up hosted at Dogpatch labs once. Great venue. Pier 38 is not quite in the Dogpatch neighborhood. I grew up in the Bay Area, but never heard of a Dogpatch neighborhood in S.F. until after the internet came along. The wikip
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Dang, Peteris! You and James just keep cranking it out. Looking forward to Testling.
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Programming Isn't Fun Any More(neophilic.com)
20 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|15 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Concord, CA. www.agentachieve.com .NET, C#, SQL Server, javascript, jquery Big app (it does a lot). You must do server side, client side, and SQL. Web forms, but we only use the parts of web forms that work. You do the rest of client side s
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Investment requirement for each project is huge. Check. ROI is 10 years out. Check. When (if?) ROI comes in it is huge. Check. Hmm...sounds a lot like the oil business.

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