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by nemoniac 6y ago
Perhaps you mean: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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by nemoniac 6y ago
I'd really like to read up on this. Do you have a source?
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Algorand Consensus Protocol(developer.algorand.org)
63 points by nemoniac 6y ago|18 comments
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Reading the motivation about the "high cost of adding a new feature" to a programming language puts me in mind of the first line of the Scheme language standard: "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature
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CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R(juliacomputing.com)
177 points by nemoniac 6y ago|229 comments
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Driving and walking but no cycling?
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by nemoniac 6y ago
This kind of code transformation would be an everyday task in a Lisp. Would it make sense to use a Lisp FFI to interface one of tensor libraries and write the transformations there?
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by nemoniac 6y ago
"The internet-linked sheath has no manual override"
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Some graduate math classes on the subject in college might make you familiar with the principles but you'd be better off doing some networking to become familiar with the principals.
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Wait, what?! This is a British newspaper. Haven't the Brits already quit Europe? Are they realy bothered about this? Is Facebook threatening to quit Britain too?
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Is it open source?
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by nemoniac 6y ago
With the Tour de France on at the moment, you have to wonder if live tracking and publishing cyclists physiological data could help with detection of doping, which has been endemic in the sport throughout the years.
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Could someone with experience of Threema comment on the quality of its voice and video calls, especially for group calls of up to a dozen or so participants?
434.
by nemoniac 6y ago
I'm aghast that Noam Chomsky is getting flagged on HN.
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Amazon's Halo: always-on microphones and undressed selfies(theguardian.com)
2 points by nemoniac 6y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 6y ago
This! And when are we going to get uMatrix back? The one must-have add-on.
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by nemoniac 6y ago
dub dub dub
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Reminds me of "E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...
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by nemoniac 6y ago
There's a quote attributed to Donald Knuth that goes "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." Now if you take the word "explain" broadly and maintain that w
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Speaking of unconscious bias, this quote from the original article made me raise my eyebrows: "We wanted to identify how good an average person on the internet is at detecting language model outputs, so we focused on participants drawn
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Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success(theguardian.com)
3 points by nemoniac 6y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 6y ago
I'd be very interested to read a similar analysis for Keybase core, the command line tools and what they're built on. I've been using Keybase for a few years but since the Zoom takeover, I'm in a wait-and-see holding pat
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by nemoniac 6y ago
On the contrary, Wikipedia is a wonderful multilingual resource. English is one of my mother tongues but I regularly read Wikipedia in half a dozen other languages to improve my knowledge of them. Being able to cross-reference what you&#x27
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Lisp machines were indeed a whole other level. Everything integrated with everything. We're getting closer though with emacs in stumpwm and eaf. There's plenty of room for scope in extending stumpwm.
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by nemoniac 6y ago
My money is on the "state-based actor" turning out to be a teenager in his bedroom.
446.
by nemoniac 6y ago
An article about homoiconicity without once mentioning either the word "transform(ation)" or "macro". I can't quite make my mind up whether this is a tour de force or if it misses the point entirely.
447.
by nemoniac 6y ago
https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/
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Keybase, Zoom and Messaging(write.privacytools.io)
2 points by nemoniac 6y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 6y ago
Lisp has several. Screamer comes to mind.
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by nemoniac 6y ago
1. Learn how to touch type so you never again look down. 2. Learn emacs. 3. Learn how to use emacs in a tight code and test loop. Now you are invincible.

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