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by nicklaf 8y ago
But it suffers more than most when the performance is just mediocre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiTX_jfUI5Y
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Check out picolisp. It has a built-in database and can call existing C libraries and Java (using reflection) without any fuss. Though apparently, it doesn't have lexical closures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I can't find it, but I remember seeing a linked list library for C, which supported a functional style like Lisp. I don't know how closely it was related to S-expressions, but I'd be interested if somebody could help me remem
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by nicklaf 8y ago
DDG is more convenient for getting to something you already know exists: either use a bang to get there directly, or make your query specific enough that it comes up in the search result page. On the other hand, when I expect my search engi
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by nicklaf 8y ago
What was known as "applied math" through the 20th century was actually just one application of math: calculus / differential equations and linear algebra applied to physics (in turn applied to engineering, mechanical or elect
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by nicklaf 8y ago
If I understand exmadscientist correctly, this sounds a lot like Floyd's invariant principle, in which the argument is understood as mathematical induction, where the induction is on (property-preserving) transitions of the state machi
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I highly recommend reading Edward Frenkel's memoir, Love and Math , which is more or less an up close and personal popular account of the author's involvement with the Langlands Program: Perhaps the most remarkable part of the b
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by nicklaf 8y ago
"Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." -Melvin Kranzberg What is bad are the neutral to bad actors who propagate technology, without planning or caring for its unintended consequences. Technology is an amplifie
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Donald Glover says he writes in the morning because it is "closer to dreaming" This is really the crux of it, in my experience. The first things I write down in the morning are usually continuations of subconscious creativity th
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Another interesting book, so thanks, but perhaps less likely even, since I recall it had some material on things having to do with hash-based file systems (I recall seeing material on Merkle trees).
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Very interesting. I can't actually decide if this was what I had in mind, but it actually looks better. Thanks!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I actually have a similar question to yours--I lost track of a set of notes that was linked to in a HN comment, and would like to find them again! The notes were a (draft?) PDF for a textbook on algorithms--much like Mathematics for Comput
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Users all separately picking endings to their shows, so that they never venture beyond what they want to see? Sounds a bit like a Black Mirror episode.
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by nicklaf 8y ago
We don't know who first said, "We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t a fish", but we're pretty sure it wasn't David Foster Wallace. [1] [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F
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by nicklaf 8y ago
And then there's this: http://www.exitmundi.nl/ ;-)
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I am very glad I asked. Thank you, Don!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
May I ask if there are experimental systems today that take inspiration from NeWS? You've blogged about OpenLaszlo, but this too is now quite old (and dead).
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I'm just happy that the news media didn't succeed in changing the term "trolling" to mean "cyberbullying" a few years ago. Edit: spelling
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by nicklaf 8y ago
The concept of a "meme" itself (genetic material in media) is at best an analogy to begin with, and from what I've read, fails to take into account the existing literature on semiotics [1]: Another criticism comes from semio
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Djvu certainly may fall out of use some day, but I think you are greatly underestimating how popular the format is if you really think think there won't be programs around to read it. It's not an obscure format, and there are wide
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by nicklaf 8y ago
OK, now I'm out of excuses for having not read Quantum Computing since Democritus ;-) (and The Theoretical Minimum as well, why not both?). Thanks for the enlightening response!
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Hi Scott, If quantum computing ever becomes commonplace, and quantum computer programs widely written and understood, do you envision that the teaching of quantum mechanics itself will be significantly impacted? Or instead will we simply se
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by nicklaf 8y ago
He was a user, though! And presumably became a dealer as a result (although this is not clear): Mr. Timbs’s habit started with an opioid addiction and progressed to heroin. He used his Land Rover to get drugs and, on at least two occasio
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by nicklaf 8y ago
I am appalled at the opinion of Judge Barnes: “I am keenly aware of the overreach some law enforcement agencies have exercised in some of these cases,” Judge Barnes wrote. “Entire family farms are sometimes forfeited based on one family me
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by nicklaf 8y ago
> This reminds me of a book that came out in 1996 called Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll. In it, he predicted, the internet will all turn into crap. At the time it was the most contrarian v
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by nicklaf 8y ago
It invites or raises the question rather than begs it, but your point is understood. Hmm. I admit it's tenuously implied, but my thinking was that it does beg the question! Because what we're talking about is the ostensible re
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by nicklaf 8y ago
It would be interesting to ask whether or not Ted Nelson's vision for personal computing has been achieved. In the podcast, personal computing was to be the means of liberation from a centralized priesthood on the one hand, and from ig
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by nicklaf 8y ago
Though I cannot speak from experience, I recall reading similar reflections by G.C. Rota in his marvelous Indiscrete Thoughts (p. 203): My late friend Stan Ulam used to remark that his life was sharply divided into two halves. In the first
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Love all those books. Hadn't heard of the last one though. Looks like it's available online [1]. And actually, it has a few cool links on its homepage to similar books. In particular, there is a link to this gem [2], which, for ex
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by nicklaf 9y ago
It looks like you've already figured out some things like sound, wifi, and xbps, but: I found the following guide helpful in complementing the man pages: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm

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