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by jll29 2y ago
If it impresses you enough, your brain will remember it. Especially for the overall "take home"-message, I'd trust the brain to remember it. While there is a soft limit, you can add indefinitely at the risk of forgetting some
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by jll29 2y ago
52! is not small. Yet factorials grow slowly compared to the Ackerman function or "busy beavers": https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fastest-growing-mathematic...
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by jll29 2y ago
Got a good laugh out of this post, thanks.
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by jll29 2y ago
> Yes, but the ideas behind COBOL were older still. Flowmatic, COBOL’s predecessor, dates back to 1955, so it really just depends how you count. Yes. but the ideas behind LISP were older still: Church's typed lambda calulus was conc
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by jll29 2y ago
The best book on selling complex items like software that I have ever known, I got from the best salesperson I ever met: the book is Neil Rackham: Spin Selling
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by jll29 2y ago
I like reading (esp. Observer and Economist) and writing obituaries. When I was working for Reuters, I saw how they have draft obituaries ready for all living celebrities, which have to be constantly updated -- until folks actually pass awa
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by jll29 2y ago
When you work for money, you'd rather do something else, and you aspire to save up enough so that you can stop and do something else. When you love your work, it doesn't feel like work, and you don't want to stop. (having sai
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by jll29 2y ago
for academic use: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/888850 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1159890.806466
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by jll29 2y ago
Apart from Donald Knuth, you are the first person that I heard from who used literate programming professionally. Would be great to learn more from your experiences, good and bad, if you every fancy writing about it.
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by jll29 2y ago
I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural language processing". Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3
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by jll29 2y ago
from a someone'S slide from the 1970s: "Knowledge of origin creates trust. Knowledge of capabilities creates trust." I'd add "a mental model of someone's motives creates trust".
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by jll29 2y ago
This study [Mangen, Walgermo and Brønnick (2012)] should be replicated with adult subjects and N=500 instead of just N=72 kids from a single class. In Sweden, based on similar results sub-notebooks and tables that were only recently introdu
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by jll29 2y ago
I would say 1984 is rather more subtle than portrayed here. For instance, the masses are kept at bay by scaring them with perpetual wars on the one hand and by keeping them distracted with machine-generation filthy "literature" (w
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by jll29 2y ago
If you, like me, would have had to watch people play Candy Crush on the Tube [= the London subway] on the way to work every morning for seven years, you would not ask. I felt terribly sorry for that loss of GDP and decline in mean global IQ
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by jll29 2y ago
I come to HM for technology matters, but I am genuinely interested to see that the many geeks here from hardware nerd over full-stack developer to investor or founder are all also human beings that have ordinary lives and ordinary problems.
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by jll29 2y ago
> but it would be impractical to make it book-sized Not really: History: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11279 (75 pp.) Survey: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828 (88 pp.) Conveniently skim-read over t
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by jll29 2y ago
This appears to be more prone to abuse than Wikipedia, perhaps because the encyclopedia topic attracts the "right" kind of nerds. I've been thinking on an off how to identify and label sub-areas of cities automatically in mea
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by jll29 2y ago
If you think about it, "booting" is an anachronism anyhow. Your washing machine doesn't boot. Your radio or TV doesn't boot (ironically, more modern smart TVs might). Your car doesn't boot. When are we finally desig
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by jll29 2y ago
For 5 1/4" disks, you could double capacity by using a punch to cut a whole into one border and then use the back side - et viola, from 140 kB to 2x 140 kB. But you had better not punch into the actual magnetic floppy disk inside
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by jll29 2y ago
I fully second that, this is a must-see for any geek, much more so than e.g. War Games. "Halt and Catch Fire" (HCF) often is jargon that refers to documented or undocumented opcodes or code sequences that leads the CPU to crash:
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for covering that story - I lived at Clapham Common for seven happy years. So much history: there is also a little church on the Common, whose past members played a role in the abolishion of slavery: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jll29 2y ago
First Madoff, now Tupperware parties - pyramid schemes are having a hard time ;-). I wonder if the decline of Tupperware's plastic container use has to do with the fact that people either cook afresh, for 1-2 meals max, use microwaves
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by jll29 2y ago
It funny that make evokes such fierce arguments, almost like the semi-religious vi-vs-emacs wars of old. I agree fully with the OP, in particular I find it smart that he wraps anything in a top-level makefile, even if other, more sophistica
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by jll29 2y ago
> Rust's main problem is that libc is effectively the system API on POSIX. True, that is what makes things harder for Rust in practice. But interestingly, theoretically speaking it's more C's problem rather than Rust'
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by jll29 2y ago
Another PG classic masterpiece - thanks for re-posting, I agree with all eight points, and this should be mandatory reading for people that manage developers particularly if the new manager does not herself/himself have a development b
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by jll29 2y ago
The UNIX way would be to break things down into actual programs, where each one would be doing one thing well - and in such a way that they'd be useful as building blocks for solving other problems also.
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by jll29 2y ago
Very annoying that the paper on ArXiv does not include any author names. It would bother me as an author not to be given recognition and it bothers me as a reader that I cannot check if I know any of them or recognize their name from other
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by jll29 2y ago
On "retooling SAP": SAP deliver their systems with all source code and dev platform included, and that may help convince some customers to go for SAP. However, those that embark on deviating from the well-trodden path are going to
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by jll29 2y ago
"Brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." -- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture A Ph.D. filters out people who do not want to be a scientist enough whilst training the doctoral candi
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by jll29 2y ago
Cool - if this was an unplanned "accident" then I want to see how your planned projects look like.

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