jll29

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   by jll29 3y ago

   I can assure you Google BERT isn't vaporware. It was probably a challenge to integrate it into search, but they did that. So your assertion has been refuted based on your use of "all", at the very least.
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   by jll29 3y ago

   Very valid point. I keep fond memories of Modula-2, which has DEFINITION modules and IMPLEMENTATION modules, such that you can compile the former and the latter seprately. In Modula-2, I can specify an API in its DEFINITION module, and afte
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   by jll29 3y ago

   > Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&amp
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   by jll29 3y ago

   This is a nice application of the idea that understanding and compression are equivalent, which is the inspiration behind the Hutter prize (500 K€ for whoever can compress Wikipedia best, see http://prize.hutter1.net/ - the
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   by jll29 3y ago

   I've seen a startup in the Netherlands that never made it beyond mega-client #1. They are still doing well, but basically they have become a service provider for what was their first bigger customer and, years later, is now their only
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   by jll29 3y ago

   I know a plan is good when my bottom-up estimates (padded with a buffer for unforeseen contingencies) align with my top-down gut instinct of how long a project of a certain complexity "should take". As an experienced professional,
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   by jll29 3y ago

   I thought ElementaryOS was dead due to infighting between the two cofounders, but it still seems to be going: https://elementary.io/ (I had installed it on one box a few years ago and liked it, but moved back to Ubuntu once
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   by jll29 3y ago

   This article has a point, warning of some dangers of taking risk capital, but it is too biased against it: better, more balanced advice would be to say: there are use cases for risk capital, but there are also many use cases where bootstrap
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   by jll29 3y ago

   I agree with this, and with Nassim Taleb's point. Having worked in the medical domain in the past, paramedics and medics that should know better were taking extremely high health-related risks (riding a motor bike => crashing and bu
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    by jll29 3y ago

    2022 A research charity called "OpenAI" accidentally breeds a language model in its lab (by feeding most of the Web into a neural network) that can generate code on request - and quickly morphs into a for-profit. Instantly, Google
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    by jll29 3y ago

    The art of computer programming is not Donald Knuth's only art to master... Actually vol. 4b of TAOCP has a (combinatorial) exercise about the possible configuration settings of DK's private organ; I think I saw it near page 300 o
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    by jll29 3y ago

    I found Tcl hard to write, read and debug. (But I'm quite impressed with some of Ousterhout's writing.) In contrast, Python is easy to read, write and debug. I quite like the small footprint of Lua as an embedded script language,
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Would you say profitability is an issue per se? It seems to me that users should _want_ their community platform to be profitable in order to sustain, but not "too profitable" (=greed) or the sense of community vanishes. If that i
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    by jll29 3y ago

    When compared to my 970 gram (<2 lbs) Think Pad X1 Nano Gen 2, I'll happily pass on the T4.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Berlusconi was said to have had ties to organized crime, going back to his time as a real estate lawyer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/04/silvio-berlusc...
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    by jll29 3y ago

    The purpose of giving a source is to permit the reader to track/vet/verify the same. ChatGPT does not preserve what it said, so there is no proof possible. Therefore, you might as well cite /dev/random.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Thanks for the very useful information. I agree with the sentiment already expressed that PDF format would be desirable (for me: to use the document in teaching entrepreneurship). In general, could I suggest working on a flow-chart that emb
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    by jll29 3y ago

    That's why I would not consider investing energy/money/time in developing an app/application/client of a proprietary third-party platform: they can lock you out any time, sunset the platform (seen with Google Search
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Thanks, seeing CDE and HP VUE evoke many fond memories again. And although I never used it, I have to say NextStep 1.0 aged rather well in comparison with many others GUIs in the list.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    If anyone says they know C++, ask them back which one they are referring to? GNU g++, MSVC C/C++? ISO C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, draft C++23? I like the OP's curve, but realistically, there needs to be a set of curv
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Robert C. Russell (and Margaret King Odell) invented SOUNDEX, which is described in US Patent 1,261,167 (1918) -see also Knuth (1973) TAOCP vol. 3. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/31/35/a1/f697a3a.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Is HN available (e.g. "comp.culture.hn") on USENET? It would be nice to have the Web forum be interoperable with a USENET group. The pull model (consume based on your topic/activity) of USENET newsgroups fits forum discussion
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Exactly. Just a few years ago people were panicky because earth cannot support the "billions and growing" human inhabitants. Don't forget every human conceived less on earth also means fewer cars, plane trips etc. We need to
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    by jll29 3y ago

    The book that had the Cain/Hendrix "Small C" compiler, runtime library, assembler and tools was a fantastic resource that taught me C and compiler construction at the same time. In general, reading (lots of) source code is a
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Based on these practices, I cannot support HP any more (I was a fan of HP's UNIX workstations). If you plan to buy a printer, consider purchasing a laser printer from Kyocera, Brother or Lexmark.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    I would say the fact that he had the drive to quickly learn Chinese and then went to China and actually gave a talk in Chinese suggests he has higher than average mental aptitude.
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    by jll29 3y ago

    This demo (similar to ExplainPaper and pdf.ai) seems to be offered by a one-person company in the South Western German city of Überlingen (near Freiburg).
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    by jll29 3y ago

    A more up-to-date version can be accessed here: https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ToolboxNew.html
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    by jll29 3y ago

    Hi Gabriel, would you be potentially available to write a technical blog post about how DDG plugins are federated for The Informer, the blog of the British Computing Society's Information Retrieval specialist group (BCS IRSG)? (Is Kamy
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    by jll29 3y ago

    More languages?