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by jll29 2y ago
I don't buy the argument - when I pick the wrong "Wilson" in "Wilson (2002)" then by the time I read the bibliography, I can see that I make a mistake. Has that ever happened? Not that I know, but I saw something el
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by jll29 2y ago
I hope nobody got hurt (assume so, you may have told you otherwise). Is this something pilots get trained for how to cope with this type of incident? What happened to passengers (are they usually injured from things falling/flying arou
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by jll29 2y ago
Very clear write-up. You have a talent, please keep doing this and who knows maybe one day you will write a fantastic text book. I thought "as nice as this is already, what's missing from perfect" and here's what I can s
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by jll29 2y ago
That's true, and it justifies why some things are still better done in a university environment (or as part of an academic collaboration) - it's not possible for everything to carve out something useful in the middle. Executive pa
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. What surprised me was that there was one group that tried to pull of parallel LISP on Z80s whereas the rest seem to be keen to use existing technology (no own operating system, no own microprocessor chip designs attempte
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by jll29 2y ago
It's a lovely idea of you writing to your son, and I thought about doing the same a while ago. Meanwhile, I've sent him real postcards from business trips. I think there is nothing wrong with creating an e-mail inbox for a kid, bu
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by jll29 2y ago
Microsoft Interne Explorer (no, I'm not using it personally) had a file format called *.mht that could save a HTML page together with all the files referenced from it like inline images. I believe you could not store more than one page
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by jll29 2y ago
In 2005, I needed to hire a Haskell dev with deep NLP expertise to replace a member of my startup team. After a posting on the Haskell mailing list, zero responses came back. We realized the world had about 3 people that matched all the req
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by jll29 2y ago
The article seems to imply we are sure this was all by mistake. I don't share this view. If the deceased created an account for Murray (ex-girlfriend), and later removed Murray as the second beneficiary from another asset (but kept oth
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by jll29 2y ago
Andreas is a fantastic coder and also a great shepherd of geeks (community builder). The split makes sense for practical reasons - I also sense he is personally perhaps more passionate about browser hacking than OS hacking (his own contribu
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by jll29 2y ago
(and there is another point that belongs to this conversation, even if not addressed in the OP.) 3. Sustainability: Everything will have to be replaced eventually , even repairable sofas. It is important when constructing a piece of furnit
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by jll29 2y ago
Of course from a venture capitalist's perspective, running a lifestyle business is the ultimate failure: not only don't they get their investment back with a nice 40x return, but also they cannot write off the investment as a loss
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by jll29 2y ago
This is only phase one; the citizens of Europe must now petition their own countries to implement great "Right to Repair" laws. Important economic fact: If only one single European country (with sufficient population) implements a
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by jll29 2y ago
Dang is a fantastic moderator (thanks for your services, @dang!), and yet I also agree with the parent poster that this thread has been special. [No good rule without worthy exceptions ;-).]
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by jll29 2y ago
That's because true love is unselfish . The idea of a couple that belongs together beyond death might sound romantic but is ultimately too tough on the one left behind, especially if the loving couple are separated with the "left
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by jll29 2y ago
I think most technology companies should have that, and I've been promoting that workplaces. The trick to make it sustainable is to make at 3-month calendar of covered papers from multiple sub-areas (e.g. data management to machine lea
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by jll29 2y ago
Typo: guest of Person => Karl Pearson
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by jll29 2y ago
Propbabilities, combinatorics, logics and sets are the most valuable things from high school maths that benefitted me all the way through from teenager to professor. Calculus is intellectually stimulating, but for my line of work (dealing w
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by jll29 2y ago
Many international conferences are regularly held in Dublin, and attendees often visit the Guinness brewery as part of conferences' social events, where a memorial plaque reminds them of Gosset and his important contributions to statis
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by jll29 2y ago
I cannot comment on this for "it = Rete", but virtual machine-like models for matching are not that un-common, from PROLOG (WAM = Warren Abstract Machine) to regular expressions. Stretching things slightly, SQLite's SQL engin
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by jll29 2y ago
I agree, refresh rate is an issue that is more important than energy usage, colors or life time (apparently e-ink dies quicker when viewing videos). I'm just experimenting with a USB-based external e-ink display to see if it is capable
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by jll29 2y ago
One wonders why email isn't kept in a well-thought out directory structure since the beginnings of UNIX, given that almost anything is a file in UNIX, and especially given the power of UNIX text processing tools.
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by jll29 2y ago
I suppose you mean the year 1984. Because in the novel "1984", the slogan "Big Brother is watching you." literally contradicts that statement of yours. Wikipedia writes: > The ubiquitous slogan "Big Brother i
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by jll29 2y ago
You have that right if you are a EU citizen - under GDPR you can serve a subject data request (to first learn what they have on you) and then a deletion request ("right to be forgotten").
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by jll29 2y ago
The interesting observation here is that deviating from the standard PR playbook, nobody from News Corp is quoted.
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by jll29 2y ago
I had a generalization of this idea once: not only giving freelancers equity, but giving EVERYONE equity who contributed to the success of the company. For a while, during my 2nd startup attempt, I carried a little paper notebook and docume
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by jll29 2y ago
Modula-2: The Book https://www.modula2.org/downloads/wirth-modula2/Wirth_Modula... Mostly Unknown: There was Actually a Turbo Modula-2 (by Martin Odersky for Bordland) https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs&#
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by jll29 2y ago
Nice, alas not a live feed.
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by jll29 2y ago
There is room for more than one use case and large language model type. I predict there will be a zoo (more precisely tree, as in "family tree") of models and derived models for particular application purposes, and there will be c
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by jll29 2y ago
HAL has to sound exactly how Kubrick made it sound for the movie to work the way it should. There wasn't any incentive to make it sound artificially emotional or emphatic beyond a "Sorry, Dave".

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