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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books(theatlantic.com)
310 points by jsomers 9y ago|71 comments
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria(theatlantic.com)
4 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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Don't Use the Force, Luke–Use the Targeting Computer(theatlantic.com)
3 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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How the Like Button Ruined the Internet(theatlantic.com)
8 points by jsomers 10y ago|0 comments
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Some Computer Conversation Is Changing Human Contact (1990)(nytimes.com)
3 points by jsomers 10y ago|0 comments
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Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 11y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 11y ago
"Whoever wrote this needs somebody to take the fall. And that's Phreak, and that's Joey, and that's us." – Hackers (1995)
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Creating Trading Strategies from Sentiment(computationalimagination.com)
2 points by jsomers 11y ago|1 comments
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks(theatlantic.com)
102 points by jsomers 11y ago|21 comments
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jsomers 11y ago|0 comments
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Should Surgeons Keep Score?(medium.com)
6 points by jsomers 11y ago|1 comments
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Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet(jsomers.net)
3 points by jsomers 11y ago|0 comments
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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems(jsomers.net)
8 points by jsomers 11y ago|0 comments
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The understated importance of doing things quickly(jsomers.net)
4 points by jsomers 11y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 11y ago
The way I think about it is less as an encyclopedia of sequences per se than it is a kind of projection of mathematics onto sequence-space. The point being that an integer sequence, because it often has so many mathematical interpretations,
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by jsomers 12y ago
you're on your honor to actually guess :), i.e., to type enough of the name that there won't be a false positive
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The Git game: Guess who on your team wrote a commit based only on their message(github.com)
92 points by jsomers 12y ago|12 comments
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Show HN: A Git game where you guess who wrote the commit message(github.com)
2 points by jsomers 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: The Git committer guessing game(github.com)
3 points by jsomers 12y ago|0 comments
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The Speak, Memory Machine(medium.com)
7 points by jsomers 12y ago|1 comments
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Should Surgeons Keep Score?(medium.com)
191 points by jsomers 12y ago|86 comments
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes(features.jsomers.net)
501 points by jsomers 12y ago|115 comments
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The Speak, Memory Machine(medium.com)
5 points by jsomers 12y ago|0 comments
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think (2013)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jsomers 12y ago|0 comments
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What it used to be like to look things up(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 12y ago|0 comments
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Project Euler taken down by hackers(projecteuler.net)
2 points by jsomers 12y ago|1 comments
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Using the wrong dictionary(jsomers.net)
635 points by jsomers 12y ago|138 comments
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Jeopardy N-gram viewer lets you visualize trends across 30 years of clues(time.com)
28 points by jsomers 13y ago|4 comments
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The Snickers Trick(jsomers.net)
2 points by jsomers 13y ago|0 comments
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One Weird Trick for a 15,000x Improvement in PostgreSQL Performance(news.rapgenius.com)
6 points by jsomers 13y ago|1 comments

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