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Not just for psychological reasons! As a scientist, it's best practice to keep a daily notebook called a "lab diary" where you document your work, e.g. details of experiments conducted, day by day. It is sometimes important t
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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) is the leading authority of sciences for Roman Catholic Christians, not only do they accept big bang theory, they public scientific proceedings of astrophysics meetings: https://www.pas.va
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Merry Christmas, everyone! Spread the love, please - try to give everyone around you a metaphorical "▲" (upvote), in HN-speak, to make this world a better place. The Birth of Jesus [Luke 2] In those days Caesar Augustus iss
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You must confuse news.ycombinator.com (a U.S.-American site) with hn.se ?
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I prefer the first edition by Aho, Sethi and Ullman, which I own twice (single volume hardcover and two-volume softcover German translation). The "modernized" version leaves out some fundamental parsing material.
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After ACL, now ACM set its papers free; let'S hope IEEE will be next.
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What about nudity in art, medical photographs, forensic use or childhood photos of one's own children in the bathtub? (I guess soon hardware will be purchased elsewhere for these and other use cases.) It's pure hypocricy that the
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The course's title set great expectations. The actual course has a narrower scope, usually this is just called "Formal Language, Automata and Complexity" or "Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science". There are
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As a companion: Frank Liang's thesis on hyphenation (developed for/used by TeX), supervised by Donald E. Knuth: Liang, Franklin Mark (1983) WORD HY-PHEN-A-TION BY COM-PUT-ER, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University. https://w
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One can feel for the authors, it's such a struggle to write a textbook in a time when NeurIPS gets 20000 submissions and ACL has 6500 registered attendees (as of August '05), and every day, dozens of relevant ArXiv pre-prints appe
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Thanks for writing and sharing this beautifully written, tear-inducing account of a last good-bye. There's one element that is missing from the story, namely what the consequences of the mother's religious belief system means for
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Similar to a U.S. Grayhound service?
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It's not just oximeters. I once worked as a paramedic at the German-French border in the 1990s. Cross-border collaboration between us ("DRK RPF 2/83/1") and the French firefighters ("Samu-67") was cordial
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AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction,
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This thread is dripping from nostalgia, in a good way. I wonder how things are going to be in 25 or 50 years, what will today's kids look back with the same kind of devotion and nostalgia. A lot of things are intangible/immaterial
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mouse => mice corpus => corpora thesaurus => thesauri Emacs => Emacsen Unix => Unices
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Better email search/contact management?
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Agree 100%. Don't train a 100-billion parameter neural transformer if you can solve it with a bash one-liner. Use your human intelligence and save our planet!
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[Admittedly off-topic, but relevant to the readers of the post] Since this post is about financial investments, equity trading and M&A activities, I wonder is anyone shorting AI stocks to profit from the current bubble? I would be inter
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Kudos to all involved in freeing up Kindles around the world.
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I agree - Ada is very similar to Pascal, and much faster to pick up than, say, C++.
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The DOD could easily have organized Ada hackathons with a lot of prize money to "make Ada cool" if they had chosen to in order to get the language out of the limelight. They could also have funded developing a free, open source to
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A great reason to try and support small distros is that older computers can still be used as long as they work. There are also some charities that ship old PCs to Africa, install a small Linux distro on them, e.g.: https://www.co
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Neat. Perhaps it would be even nicer if the "advent" theme was more prominently present, e.g. using the Bible as the target data file to be used. Here's three examples tasks from me: (1) Write an sh script (using only POSIX s
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A language should not be complicated . (Wish Odersky, capable as he is, kept working on his much-verlooked TurboModula). Simple: - Scheme - C - Pascal - Go - Lua Complicated - PL/1 - C++ 2024 - Scala 3 Still borderline or beyond? - Ru
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The sabotage scenario is perhaps less likely than the alternative scenario of industrial and political espionage. There are also practical advantages: the ability to fix a bug in-house instead of waiting for a technology giant from anothe
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The original author of the post also - has designed the Mezzo programming language in his Ph.D. thesis and - has worked on generating user-friendly C automatically. Most tools that generate C output pretty unreadable/unmaintainable cod
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I met RMS at a lunch in his honor at an Edinburgh vegetarian restaurant with very high ranking scholars/academics present, after an invited talk of his. Everyone was talking, eating, drinking and having a good time, whereas he was sit
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The problem is that re-defining definitions brings in chaos and inconsitency in science and publications. Redefining what a "planet" (science) is or a "line" (mathematics) may be useful but after such a speech act create
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Write a short memo that saying you are very concerned, and describe a range of things that may happen (from "not much" over medium to maximum scare - lawsuits, brand/customer trust destroyed etc.). Email the memo to a decisio

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