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A Man Who Named AI: John McCarthy and the End of the Code–Data Divide(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
4 points by nutwani91 1mo ago|1 comments
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by nutwani91 1mo ago
Week 06 of the Turing Award Series: how one person got machines to generate new facts instead of just calculating. Tracing some history of artificial intelligence, I was looking forward to this chapter. John McCarthy coined the term artific
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The Math Under Every AI Model: James Wilkinson and Backward Error(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
1 points by nutwani91 1mo ago|1 comments
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by nutwani91 1mo ago
Week 05 of the Turing Award Series - how to tell if a bad answer is the algorithm's fault or the input problem's? Forward errors are hard to compute in general because you need the right answer and then do the subtraction, but bac
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Marvin Minsky: a proof that led to the first AI winter(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
4 points by nutwani91 3mo ago|2 comments
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by nutwani91 3mo ago
Week 04 of the Turing Award Series: how proving what single-layer networks can't do led to everything they can
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Richard Hamming: how one frustrated mathematician made data repair itself(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
2 points by nutwani91 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nutwani91 3mo ago
When Bits Flip and Everything Breaks: Richard Hamming's Self-Correcting Code
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Maurice Wilkes: changing hardware problems into software problems(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
2 points by nutwani91 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nutwani91 3mo ago
Maurice Wilkes won the Turing Award in 1967. The citation focused on EDSAC, the first stored-program computer he built in 1949. And he invented Microprogamming, that changed hardware problems into software problems
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The First Compiler: How Alan Jay Perlis Made Programming Human(nirmalutwani.substack.com)
2 points by nutwani91 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nutwani91 3mo ago
Starting a series on Turing Award winners and other CS papers I find interesting. Week 01 is Alan Jay Perlis.
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Code Reviews Need to Evolve(latent.space)
6 points by nutwani91 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Killer SF DA(davidsacks.medium.com)
41 points by nutwani91 6y ago|21 comments
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Re-architecting our storage layer to get 3x improvement in query performance(amplitude.com)
2 points by nutwani91 7y ago|0 comments
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Marketing is dead; long live Product(medium.com)
1 points by nutwani91 8y ago|0 comments
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Java G1 garbage collection(product.hubspot.com)
3 points by nutwani91 8y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Bezos fireside chat(youtube.com)
1 points by nutwani91 9y ago|0 comments
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Kronos: Using S3 partial reads to reduce costs by 10x(amplitude.engineering)
1 points by nutwani91 10y ago|0 comments
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by nutwani91 10y ago
But at the same time, wouldn't issues on Friday evenings have least impact on customers? Thinking around B2B enterprise companies.