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by jll29 1mo ago
Well done. I agree with the credits to DJ Delorie (and to Stallman, for the original GCC!). The code of the O.P. is actually not so bad for a teenager; however, the variables in Spanish do not help: "[isq]" and "[der]" p
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by jll29 2mo ago
The two contributioms that come to mind are the Hutter cash prize for the best compressor of the English Wikipedia and the work on PPM compression-based text classification by the late Prof. Ian Witten's group at Waikato (NZ) [1,2]. Th
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by jll29 2mo ago
The Jolla 2 is said to be "sold out". Apparently, they produce the phones in batches, not sure when the next one is due?
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by jll29 2mo ago
I agree. Now you can do a lot better with a simple LLM+RAG setup. Knowledge Mgt. (which I also teach) is one of the most neglected areas, privately, professionally and in corporations. A lot of companies' intranet is utterly useless -
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by jll29 2mo ago
Let's make sure Ladybird will have good RSS and Atom feed support, then that'll settle things.
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by jll29 2mo ago
> "We Will Dance Again" I seriously hope that one day, whether during our lifetime or not, Israelis and Palestinians can dance with one another, without having fear.
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by jll29 2mo ago
I don't know who downvoted the parent or why, but it's a fair question IMHO. The answer is there can be dramatic difference running a benchmark one time, because LLMs are not deterministic. A proper methodology would ask each qu
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by jll29 2mo ago
I understand you. As an AI research (actually, despite formally called professor of AI, I have historically always called myself more specifically NLP/IR/ML researcher rather than "AI" researcher, to avoid historic bagga
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by jll29 2mo ago
> The parsley and condoms I don’t get Note that there is a certain level of arbitrariness involved in this association game. For instance, if a household regularly is in need of both parsley and also condoms, the fact that they are purch
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by jll29 2mo ago
Whoever likes this will likely also enjoy this clock announcing the time using literary quotes: https://www.amazon.com/Author-Clock-Literary-Quotes-Unique/d... (What I particularly enjoy is that one can contribute to t
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by jll29 2mo ago
There is a version of Chekhov's short stories available on Amazon [1] that is bi-lingual. Has anyone tried this? Are the translations good? Is the material sentence-aligned so that it is easy to switch between reading the original and
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by jll29 2mo ago
Always a good exercise to implement a text editor, every programmer should have tried it. And I always try using new ones, curious to find something exciting. Sorry, but it looks exactly like Zed. And I'm not going to try out Zed again
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by jll29 2mo ago
I recommend a BlackBerry (this problem was already perfectly solved in the past).
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by jll29 2mo ago
Thank you.
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by jll29 2mo ago
Is there a counter-part that focuses on implementations and practical exercises for hackers (in the MIT sense of the word)?
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by jll29 3mo ago
I'd like to see STRICT as the default. That's pretty much the only disagreement with the SQLite developer, who is an amazing guy that wrote an amazing tool!
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by jll29 3mo ago
The title of the HN post "History of T (paulgraham.com)" is isleading, as this article was not written by Paul Graham himself. "Olin Shivers: History of T (paulgraham.com)" would be clearer. Thanks for the personal take
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by jll29 3mo ago
Very cool. As a linguist (not a native English speaker, but highly trained), I love it a lot. Love the pressure due to the timer, and the best aid to help is say it aloud.
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by jll29 3mo ago
Slightly related: https://oeis.org
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by jll29 3mo ago
Receiving one of Don's cheques ("Bank of San Serif" ;-) a few months after pointing out an error has been many a computer scientist's career highlight!
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by jll29 3mo ago
I agree with that opinion. He started writing TAOCP in 1968, and could have switched to Pascal in 1972. Pascal is simple and clear, and can be translated easily to anything from LISP, Fortran, Python to C or C++ (in fact, subsets of Pascal
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by jll29 3mo ago
Not to forget he was asked specifically to write a book about compilers (= "Volume 7") by Addison Wesley in the 1960s. Now, half a century later, he is chickening out...
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by jll29 3mo ago
In short, it's the "mind's 'I'" - we think not as response to external stimuli (only) such as prompts, but we have an inner "I" that asks questions on its own initiative. There are people like Douglas
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by jll29 3mo ago
"France is a beautiful country" may also still continued by "...in the heart of Europe".
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by jll29 3mo ago
Agatha Christie was also a high-volume writer; apparently, this was due to unreasonably demands in her contracts with her publisher, and she hated to be thus pushed.
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by jll29 3mo ago
Stallman wanted to protect the right to fix bugs, he was not against paying for goods and services.
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by jll29 3mo ago
One point that was not addressed is the sorry feeling one gets when others are wrong and you are right, but for whatever reason you cannot convince them otherwise, and as a consequence they are going to go in a direction that they will seve
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by jll29 3mo ago
Wouldn't a virtual cloud server better (e.g. Hetzner) suited for this, at least at the beginning. (Once you know some visitor stats, you can right-size the box and move away from the cloud.)
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by jll29 3mo ago
Distraction-free times... https://img.kleinanzeigen.de/api/v1/prod-ads/images/ab/abf08...
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by jll29 3mo ago
...or are even in the hands of the same family?

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