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> or the mediocre advice of an overbearing parent For what it's worth, I teach my students not to listen to their parents, because while most parents want the best for their children, without doubt, their assumptions are typically o
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This is a valid point. Are there still regularly ground-breaking innovations (which ones e.g. in the last decade) coming out of the same lab today, whatever its owner or name?
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In NSA parlance, a "selector" primarily is a string that semi-uniquely identifies and addresses a persons intercepted data, such as - an IP address, - an email address, - a phone number, - a SIM card's MSIN - a person's
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Thanks for the pointer, I just saw the 2nd edition of Discrete and Computational Geometry will be coming out in July: https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Discrete-Computational-Geometry-... (I preordered a copy)
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It's a great idea to collect open problems, to give them a name and unique number, to collect status updates, and to provide related literature references. It would be good to keep this open for submitting new problems also, and I&#x27
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Thanks for sharing. Yes, compare that to the smallest possible, ISO-compliant burst laughing C++ compiler implementation in any language... Complicated means "likely full of errors that are hard to identify"...
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Oberon-2 -> C compiler ====================== (release 0.17.2) 220 LEX source files (scanner for lexical analysis) src/*.l 4,192 YACC source files (parser for syntactic and semantic analysis and part of code
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> But I often wish more people could just go to conferences to discuss their work rather than "giving a talk" on it. Very true point. I've been wondering why academics "suffer" so much from a system that they the
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(I thought it would be funny - in a self-referential way - to use our especially fine-tuned LLM to analyze bias in the OP in order to prove that LLMs can be useful by showing how they may be usefully applied to the OP itself.)
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Goldberg (1984) Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractiveProg... Goldberg & Robson (1983) Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementataion htt
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Laura Martin (1986) "Eskimo Words for Snow": A Case Study in the Genesis and Decay of an Anthropological Example" American Anthropologist, New Series 88(2): 418-423, https://www.jstor.org/stable/677570?ca
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Virality can be the key to growth, and it can be engineered. I almost didn't buy the great book The One Billion Dollar App because of hits clickbait title, but it actually well-elaborates the mechanics (and the mathematics) of viral sp
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A5 uses pentagons, Uber's H3 uses hexagons: H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/h3/
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At least part of the collection, preferedly a rotating part, should be a public exhibit. They can charge an entrance fee, and they will get way more support if there is public awareness compared to a 100% closed shop.
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This is a fresh idea, I'd suggest you reformat as Web RFC. The one part where I felt something felt not ideal was the optional fields of the public personal profile reveal and awful lot of information no sane human should share to all
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> So, in some sense the author here is doing the same kind of over-generalization that many of the books do. I read most of the main books in the "ideation/innovation/startup/scale-up/ entrepreneurship/busin
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> I can't imagine it's any different in [R]ust land Taste is important; programmers with good architectural taste tend to use languages that support them in their endeavour (like Rust or Zig) or at least get out of the way (C).
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What I can say is that police must not ignore a crime they learn about (in most countries). The same may not hold for ordinary citizens.
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It seems there is not a single attested case where this was violated in human history, which - if true - is most remarkable.
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Great idea - they already know Canon Law anyhow.
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Reminds me of that public speaker announcement asking (in American English) a Mr. Peter File to please report to the service desk. (Not from "Brazil" the film, but Monty Python-originating regardless.)
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It is an interesting game-theoretic question how to spend money x (say, hundreds of billions) to maximize good. - Should you first educate anyone who cannot read or write? - Should you first feed anyone hungry/thirsty? - Should you fir
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Imagine every kid had had a maths professor that demonstrated live research in the classroom, like the Japanese teacher that June Huh benefitted from - who knows, the world may be full of similar talent, we will never know. We should rememb
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Quanta Magazine was already brilliant before, but this article has improved the way the cutting-edge work is presented acessibly to (relatifve) laypeople. So grateful to the late Jim Simons for funding basic research and its popularization
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Thanks. I wonder if this helpful service of integrating past comments on the same story ould be easily automated by looking for repeat URLs (and perhaps clustering old and new comments to integrate them so they can be presented as topical t
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> I think c++, the language, is ready for the modern world. However, c++, the community, seems to be struck at least 20 years in the past. Good point. A language that gets updated by adding a lot of features is DIVERGING from a community
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An apprentice, after five years of work, can be a master, just by practcising. That's why the universities of Oxford and Cambridge give Master's degree to everyone that gets a Bachelor's degree after five years, without furth
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You can't get a credit card because your name is too long? You can't pass immigrations because you don't have a last name? The future is not made for you, because progammers and designers didn't get requirements that mat
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250503183427/https://www.bloom...
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AKA information extraction (name of the field, as it's called as an academic sub-discipline): https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22i...

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