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by jll29 6mo ago
I like all three constraints, but while I agree with tenet "1a: write something down" I wonder if "1b: in one document that is exactly one page long" should depend on the complexity of the project. For a small-to-medium
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by jll29 6mo ago
Advice: Regardless of whether you opt in or out, you should only permit anyone to record you if you get a copy of the recording for your own records.
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by jll29 6mo ago
> "Oh, well your file says alcoholism runs in your family." Medics often use private notes when handing over patients, where they share information that the patients themselves are not intended to see (and in many countries, no
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by jll29 6mo ago
> You don't know about Epic's, or GE's, or Philips' security either. The argument that a new vendor's security is probably not worse than others misses the point that by opting in, there is one more database&#x2F
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by jll29 6mo ago
When MYCIN was tested in the 1960s, it was found to be very effective to diagnose human blood diseases. Then it was decided that it would never be used in production. Why? People held that for ethical reasons , it was not proper for patien
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by jll29 6mo ago
You are kidding, right? It's good that my friends don't make a coffee date feel like a board meeting (with an agenda shared by post 14 working days ahead of the meeting, form for proxy voting attached).
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by jll29 6mo ago
What, a music band's poster, 'typeset' in Microsoft Word? I cannot imagine bothering to go to such a band's concert. <joke>What's your rock band called, "SEC Form 10-K"?</joke>
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by jll29 6mo ago
Just because some countries waste a lot at present time does not mean it's available as a resource indefinitely.
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by jll29 6mo ago
Yes, that is a major worry of mine, too. CCTV evidence is worth nil now (could be generated in whole or part), and even eye-witness testimony can be trusted (sure, a witness may think they saw the alleged perpetrator, but perhaps they ju
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by jll29 6mo ago
AI can also be used to fight propaganda, for instance BiasScanner makes you aware of potentially manipulative news: https://biasscanner.org . So that makes AI a "dual good", like a kitchen knife: you can cut your tom
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by jll29 6mo ago
The Transformer is the more powerful model than Markov chain, but on such a weak machine as the C64, a MC could output text faster - but it surely would sound "psychedelic", as the memory limits a MC to a first-order or second-ord
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by jll29 6mo ago
Jopsph Weizenbaum's ELIZA was rule-based and ran on even slower (1960s) hardware, but because it relied on simple pattern matching instead of neural nets, it would easily have been more responsive (the Emacs editor/operating syste
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by jll29 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing your background, looking forward to reading the story of your personal trajectory. In particular, I'm curious why you chose Belize, a place with a high rate of violent crime and a less-than-ideal medical system compa
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by jll29 6mo ago
Jobs can be credited more for bringing all these people - talented & tasteful as they were - together through his mix of passion, charisma and "reality distortion field", IMHO, than making all the tasteful decisions himself. H
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by jll29 6mo ago
Not really a consultancy story, as we were an aspiring start-up. We had created a homepage and a LinkedIn page for our company, we wrote a business plan and talked to VCs and business angels and other start-ups to learn and raise funds - co
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by jll29 6mo ago
Any good reads on Mesa for the interested?
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by jll29 6mo ago
I have not seen it, but there is something close to what you ask about: Turbo Modula-2 (an implementation of MODULA-2 written by Martin Odersky), as both MODULA-2 and PASCAL were Niklaus Wirth-invented languages that looks very similar to A
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by jll29 6mo ago
Personally, I would not trust anyone (e.g. ProtonMail) more than Google. If you have sensitive things in your emails, host your own mail, use GPG encryption or a one-time pad, or even avoid electronic networked machines altogether (dependin
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by jll29 6mo ago
Such a wise observation from a paper published in the now-defunct journal "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems" after being rejected for the SIGIR conference... ...then BackRub turned Gogool mis-spelled, and the rest is history.
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by jll29 6mo ago
That statement is true at face value. But if you look at how Eric Schmidt travels with government representatives, how rich and powerful BigTech is, and how much they individually and collectively spend on lobbying, then they could be a mas
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by jll29 6mo ago
*Donald Knute -> Donald Ervin Knuth is the author of the book "The Art of Computer Programming" (in progress for a couple of decades, currently volume 4c is being written). It is quite advanced, and it will likely not cover com
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by jll29 6mo ago
Careful: - "entropy" is information; "information", therefore, already is surprise; thus, it's dangerous to re-define "surprise" as -log P(x), which is already part of the definition of suprise, as that le
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by jll29 6mo ago
Linus Torvalds created Linux as a student in Helsinki, Finnland. He later took U.S. citizenship and lives in Portland, Oregon, TTBOMK. Now on some level, the question makes less sense, because Linux as we know it now is an international pro
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by jll29 6mo ago
• Ran my first Linux at home on a i486-DX2 (33 MHz, 4 MB RAM), which supported a decent X11/R6 performance in color in 1992, with a 14" CRT. • Ran my first real UNIX at home on a PA-RISC (HP 9000-715/75 with HP-UX 9.03 and 96
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by jll29 6mo ago
> It's not even clear if AI was used to find the bug: they mention modeling the software with an "ai native" language, whatever that means. Could the "AI native language" they used be Apache Drools? The "whe
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by jll29 6mo ago
I'm hoping the Ladybird project's new Web browser (alpha release expected in August) will solve some issues resulting from big tech controlling most browers.
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by jll29 7mo ago
And Paul Allen wrote a whole Altair emulator so that they could use an (academic) Harvard computer for their little (commercial) project and test/run Bill Gates' BASIC interpreter on it.
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by jll29 7mo ago
A certain amount of politics should/must be tolerated on HN, because you cannot compartmentalize technology, politics and morality. No-one, not even people who say they like technology but do not care about politics, should be able to
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by jll29 7mo ago
My favorite book about systems programming on UNIX systems is the book by the late Stevens, but this book more detailed, Linux-specific and if updated (after 16 years, in which Linux did not stand still), could steal the crown from Stevens.
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by jll29 7mo ago
There are many cases of harm caused by ML false positives. There are also some cases of law enforcement successes caused by ML true positives, e.g. a RAF (Red Army Faction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Factio

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