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by max_ 5y ago
Yes. I think programming work in the next decade will be done by logicians using something like TLA+[0] to simply describe specifications. And something like GitHub co-pilot to translate those specifications to working code. [0]: https:&#x
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by max_ 5y ago
Web3 is dead on arrival. As it does not solve any of the problems Web 2.0 has (corporate/government censorship, abuse of user data, geolocking etc) The what would hold some value would be a combination of self sovereign financial servi
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by max_ 5y ago
> Today, cancer is curable, unless it is too late before it is spotted. How valid is this? And what exactly is "spotting it early"? Stage one?
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by max_ 5y ago
It used to be edm, then trap music. But now I exclusively listen to Amapiano if I am coding (mostly TxC djs)
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by max_ 5y ago
To cut carbon emissions significantly, we need to move away from fossil fuels. Anything else (other sources of emission) is simply a distraction from this simple & obvious solution.
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by max_ 5y ago
Not an expert on networking infrastructure. But I believe this is due to scalability bottlenecks, like Bandwidth. P2P infrastructure is usually run on hardware designed for personal use. I think to see real adoption of P2P technology, one h
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by max_ 5y ago
1. Math for the layman. Ken Iverson (kills two bird's with one stone, CS & Math) This my sound arrogant but I believe Iverson's work is the pinnacle organized thinking (the bridges the gap between programming and maths elegant
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by max_ 5y ago
> Feynman Lectures on Physics I havy skimmed through the volumes of Feynman lectures, and can confirm this. Especially things concerning computational complexity.
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by max_ 5y ago
Here is the archived version https://archive.is/p54lm
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by max_ 5y ago
>It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, at the end, the decision is made as to which idea was t
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by max_ 5y ago
I read a monthly report[0]. [0]: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mtec/chair...
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Ask HN: How are you preparing for the incoming recession?
64 points by max_ 5y ago|54 comments
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by max_ 5y ago
>Having found the work, most other things beside the work fall by the way side. And whatever your current financial situation I hope the same becomes true for you. The economic reality that came to me in my mid 20's was that you hav
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There Are Lies, Damn Lies, and Unit Tests(medium.com)
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by max_ 5y ago
The project is open source, so this can easily be ported to any site[0]. [0]: https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv
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by max_ 5y ago
The entire project is open source[0]. [0]: https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv
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by max_ 5y ago
The thing makes the "Ising" model do what it can do i.e describing 'complexity' of what's called the renormalisation group[0]. So any model that uses some kind of renormalisation will be able to accurately describe
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by max_ 5y ago
Silicon Valley power bearers neither care about privacy nor democracy, as well illustrated to their actions, as opposed to their lies (like Apple's Privacy scam or cooperation with authoritarian regimes). We should seriously start look
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by max_ 5y ago
On a long enough time horizon, everyone's survival rate goes to zero. [0]: [Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnWowd-7HQ
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by max_ 5y ago
> I am torn between gross incompetence (always a good first guess when CA government is involved) and actual collusion with the criminals. Believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and everything that you see.
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by max_ 5y ago
I call this "the structure of impunity". The rich simply cannot accept to get poorer.
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by max_ 5y ago
Yes. Features, not bugs.
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by max_ 5y ago
I understand, people gain intuition through different things.
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by max_ 5y ago
This is what you should show students before sitting them through a 1 hour class lecture.
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by max_ 5y ago
A monthly report I read[0] predicts a crash this year. [0]: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mtec/chair... [1]: https://er.ethz.ch/financial-crisis-observatory.html
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by max_ 5y ago
Why isn't there an ergonomic & secure communications app?
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by max_ 5y ago
1950's America had online shopping.[0]. This may be the closest thing to today's websites. [0] https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/14/online-shopping-in...
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JPEG: Image Compression Algorithm (2017)(pi.math.cornell.edu)
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by max_ 5y ago
The original implementation[0] has a comprehensive description in the README file. [0] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
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by max_ 5y ago
Big American corporations have often made their money through subsidies. Enforcing everyone to take the jabs increases those subsidies (this enforcement is persistent in all countries submissive to USA). That's what makes sense. Howev

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