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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Does it sound presumptuous if I say that hardly ever happens? And if it does, the compiler never fails to remind me. :-)
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
I suppose that these days I am one of the few professional programmers who has an active dislike of syntax highlighting. I find it immensely distracting. The only stuff I allow the highlighter to touch are my comments (I turn them bold) and
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Legacy reality. Good one.
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Wonder what Stepenson thinks of this. Note to self: if you ever write a scifi-novel, trademark the names of all flashy technologies imagined in it so that some Evil Corp does not claim them to brush up their coolness factor.
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
That hardly sounds like a recommendation.
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Fermi Problems as an Intellectual Pastime(nytimes.com)
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Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong(nytimes.com)
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
In a similar vein, I recently learned from Harold McGee's superb new book Nose Dive that modern flowers (the ones you are likely to buy from a flower shop) tend to smell less than their predecessors. This is because plants use the sam
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Good one. I will remember that next time it's Friday.
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
In the late '80s I started studying AI in college, fully expecting it to boom. That did not really happen, until it did. Unfortunately, most of what I learned about AI back then is pretty useless now. I started with symbolic AI: parser
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
I like the idea very much. First question that comes to mind though is: how gameable is this system?
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
By this standard I am a terribly unsophisticated reader. The majority of the books in my home I did not finish. I used to feel terribly guilty about it. Still do sometimes, but two things helped to ease my unease. Firstly, I started reading
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Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?(nytimes.com)
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Nice podcast. Definitely made me want to check out APL. Again. (Disclaimer: I go through this phase every couple of years.)
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Well, Obsidian already has a graph view. I don't know how it is implemented, but it seems clear to me that the underlying data can be used to build the (simpler) graph discussed here.
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Nice clean graph interface! Better for exploring than the usual force directed graphs that pop up everywhere. (Would love to have it in Obsidian.)
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
No need to make it an option for each text util. We use an O_DIRECT version of the (z)cat command as the start of pipelines with big files.
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Some of these best minds are probably reading this right now, and keeping awfully quiet. :-)
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An overview of how NLP evolved over the years(medium.com)
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Now this would be funny if it did not bring up painful memories. :-)
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Second that. My tip: Ratio by Michael Ruhlman. It will teach you the structure of common preparations, and free you from the shackles of recipes. Especially suited for nerds.
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
I believe you. But those I don't use. :-)
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Wow, I just learned from your casual remark that you can actually search in the xfce console. Awesome!
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
I like axioms that go a bit against the grain, so my favourite is number 3: "Duplication is less costly than premature abstraction".
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
It is not the responsibility of a compressor to manage (or even store) your data. So yes, you have to come up with some sort of scheme yourself. But the overhead of a version number or something is usually negligible compared to the gains.
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
The dictionary helps with the boilerplate stuff that is shared between records but not repeated inside them. So it works like a charm for relatively small fragments of structured data like e.g. HTML pages, XML-docs or SQL statements: lots o
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Zstandard is great indeed. Performance is excellent, but in my experience its killer feature is the user definable dictionary. My search engine software stores its documents in an archive to which I need random access. Lots of small documen
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
While toning down the sexuality, the Grimms actually dialed up the violence in later editions of their work. Why? Maybe because the later editions were directed at children and had to have a didactic purpose, showcasing the (harmful, often
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
Second that. What did you think of that book, btw? Not very impressed, personally. Lots of anecdata and pretty incredible claims.
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by kieckerjan 6y ago
I seem to remember that they even had an option to play back recordings of other users who hummed the same song you were humming. Of course it was a privacy minefield, so that feature was discontinued pretty quickly. But it was hilarious wh

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