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by mhewett 12y ago
Historical correction: The article mentions "AI Winter" as occurring in the 1970s. AI Winter actually refers to the period from about 1990-1997 when the Expert Systems approach was deemed to be a failure, funding for AI dropped c
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by mhewett 12y ago
Self-deception has been going on for a long time. See the Wikipedia entry on N-rays: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray
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by mhewett 12y ago
>> ...use linear search if your array is below around 64 elements in size, binary search if it’s above. Back around 1980 when I first looked into this the generally accepted cutoff was 25 rather than 64. I don't think people we
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by mhewett 12y ago
This is irrelevant. To be transmitted via an airborne vector does not require Ebola to mutate into a flying virus.
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by mhewett 12y ago
You need to look at The Architecture of Symbolic Machines by Peter Kogge. It contains a machine you can implement. I have implemented it in the Jatha LISP interpreter ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatha/ ).
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by mhewett 12y ago
Only exceptionally stupid thieves would use the actual serial number from the bike.
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by mhewett 12y ago
This is not intended to diminish the perfectly valid stories in her blog, but about 30 years ago I went to a Silicon Valley talk where Heidi Roizen was the featured speaker. Minutes before the talk started she swept into the room surround
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by mhewett 13y ago
This happens almost 100% of the time with product updates. You are taken to a page that says "We have released version 3.1.5 of Gizmo. Download it here." with not even a hint of what Gizmo is.
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by mhewett 13y ago
Having been a "young developer" and now an "old developer" (mid-50s) here is how I see the pros and cons of older developers: Pros of being older: 1. Wisdom from having written a million lines of code and having run into
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by mhewett 13y ago
That was a lot of fun. It would be nice to have a small explanation of the particle equations on the page for the non-physicists in the audience.
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by mhewett 13y ago
A study showed that 90% of professors rate themselves as good or excellent at teaching. My experience from 18 years in college is that about 2% are excellent and about 20% are good. This is now my second favorite self-rating statistic, aft
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by mhewett 13y ago
I'm old enough to remember and as far as I can recall it was never considered "crappy" or "uninteresting". The command-line interface was considered a bit dangerous (rm /<return> OOPS!) A lot of people w
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by mhewett 13y ago
These are called rewrite rules and you can find a lot of previous work on this to reference and build on.
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by mhewett 13y ago
(Don't know why I can't reply to the leaf nodes in the conversation...) >What was taking its place at that time? Pascal was fairly heavily used, but was dying out. LISP was hot because it was the middle of the Great AI Boom, M
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by mhewett 13y ago
This is correct. C was dying off in the mid-1980s until UNIX-based workstations were invented, causing a resurgence in C's popularity.
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by mhewett 13y ago
I purchased the Lightphoria 10,000 Lux light and used it last winter for the first time (I'm in my 50s). It had a slight, but noticeable effect on my mood. I pointed it at the ceiling for 30 minutes while I got dressed in the morning
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by mhewett 13y ago
This is really amazing. It's faster than a Mac Plus! But my brain is missing the scratching noise the floppy disk used to make as a program loaded.
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by mhewett 13y ago
They don't sell the 757 any more?
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by mhewett 13y ago
You don't seem to be gaining much from this, at least in JavaScript. The Jatha small LISP library that hasn't been updated since 2007 returns factorial(32768) in 5 seconds on a middling machine. (Disclosure: I'm the author
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by mhewett 13y ago
I had an interview like this at Willow Garage about 5 years ago. The interviewer said he would call at 8:30am. He called at 8:54 and sounded like he'd had about 2 hours of sleep. Then he said he had a 9:00 meeting and would call me
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by mhewett 14y ago
And: when I walk down the aisle and hear browsers clicking as I approach, I DO know you were on Facebook.
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by mhewett 14y ago
As a 55 year old I would say that this is exactly right, especially the part about keeping yourself healthy, both physically and mentally. I have, and it has paid off. I would add one item to the list: Set a 5-year goal and update it every
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by mhewett 14y ago
My god, a college that has a larger Math department than a CS department! What a wonderful place that must be.
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by mhewett 14y ago
I've had two very frustrating reviews. On one paper, the first reviewer said it had too much theory and the second reviewer said it had too little theory. Both rejected it. On another grant proposal, a reviewer said in paragraph one, "T
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by mhewett 14y ago
I have two. One I wear as a wristwatch and use as a backup music player if my iPhone is running low on batteries. The other I use at the gym because it has FM radio and the gym supplies the TV audio only on FM.
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by mhewett 14y ago
Since Subversion 1.7 (2nd half of 2011) it keeps only one .svn folder in the root folder.
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by mhewett 14y ago
Have a couple of kids and you can learn to solve 150 problems in 50 days.
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by mhewett 14y ago
Regarding the mental qualities of travelers, I once witnessed this: announcement: This is NOT a boarding announcement, please remain seated. people: 80% of the people in the gate area stood up. announcement: This is NOT a boarding announce
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by mhewett 14y ago
The Bozon is difficult to find because political parties are hoarding them.
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by mhewett 15y ago
Most of my Baby Boom-era friends are on Facebook. Some of them are on it a LOT.

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