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by rbc 3y ago
I have the AI3 book. It’s a little further down the road for me.
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Ask HN: Touring Symbolic AI
1 points by rbc 3y ago|2 comments
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Touring “Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence”
1 points by rbc 3y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 3y ago
I won't up vote the article, but I do think that software to some degree is tied to growth companies, and by proxy to the cost of capital. When borrowing money gets expensive, growth slows down, shifting the balance of coding over to m
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by rbc 3y ago
> The real question is: what do they get out of offering a hobbyist license? I think part of it is hoping to encourage open-source software ports over to OpenVMS.
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Western Electric confirms plans to tackle the tube crisis with its Georgia(guitar.com)
2 points by rbc 4y ago|0 comments
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One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube(wired.com)
184 points by rbc 4y ago|166 comments
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by rbc 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the necessity of mastering Emacs, or specifying a time frame for getting it done as the title of the article implies. I've used Emacs alongside of vi for editing since the 1990s. I'm no expert at usi
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by rbc 4y ago
I think this might be one of my favorite quotes from the article: "I’m using Linux. A library that Emacs uses to communicate with Intel hardware. — Erwin, #emacs, Freenode"
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by rbc 4y ago
It's small time, but I've switched to OpenBSD for all my personal/friends/family web sites, hosting email, and virtualization. The laundry list of used services include nsd, unbound, httpd, relayd, smtpd, and spamd. The
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by rbc 4y ago
In the environments that I worked in (2007-2015) staging was more of an environment for security and performance testing. My past QA environments were enough like production to make functionality testing there practical. The only other envi
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The U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?(npr.org)
9 points by rbc 4y ago|9 comments
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Is This the ‘Kitty Hawk Moment’ for Fusion Energy?(theatlantic.com)
5 points by rbc 4y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 4y ago
I'm still operating a personal email service. It's become more challenging, using TLS, DKIM, SPF, and anti-spam technologies, but I think it is still worth it to keep some measure of control. It makes troubleshooting easier when y
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by rbc 4y ago
I was on deployment in the Navy when I read "The Cuckoo's Egg". It was simply fascinating to read, and changed the course of my career.
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by rbc 4y ago
I used Apple Mail for years, followed by Thunderbird, Claws Mail, and Outlook on Windows. The switch to Windows was precipitated by the use of some banking apps that only work on Windows. After about 20 years, I've switched back to usi
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by rbc 4y ago
Norvig commented on this: http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html The last section, "What did PAIP Accomplish?" summarizes his view on PAIPs legacy.
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by rbc 4y ago
I would say Emacs with SBCL is a good start. I haven't started PAIP yet, I'm working through the Touretzky Lisp book, "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" as a warmup before starting PAIP. I'
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Arecibo Observatory – drone and ground view during the collapse(youtube.com)
2 points by rbc 6y ago|0 comments
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Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning(phys.org)
2 points by rbc 6y ago|0 comments
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I’m Leaving the West Coast(theatlantic.com)
12 points by rbc 6y ago|13 comments
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by rbc 6y ago
I'm posting this on the occasion of my return to LISP for some personal programming projects. I've owned a Corman Common Lisp license in the past. It's good to see it released as open source, and that maintenance has been pic
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Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release (2018)(chaoticlab.io)
2 points by rbc 6y ago|1 comments
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Altair 8800 Clone(altairclone.com)
28 points by rbc 6y ago|28 comments
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The GitHub code vault – humanity's safeguard against devastation(rnz.co.nz)
2 points by rbc 6y ago|0 comments
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The future of work looks like staying out of the office(arstechnica.com)
25 points by rbc 7y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 7y ago
The only part of this article that I really disagree with is the title. The main issue here is release engineering, or rather, the lack of it. Software development and system administration have well developed traditions, but release engine
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by rbc 7y ago
First American Financial Corporation is another company that appears to have been extremely naive about securing non-public personal information and didn't act until their customers went public. That wasn't even a platform securit
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by rbc 7y ago
I think this crowd has likely heard of it.
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Computer changed the world–and you’ve never heard about it(fastcompany.com)
4 points by rbc 7y ago|1 comments

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