smiljo

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by smiljo 2y ago
I'll just chime in with congrats on the new book. I was a huge fan of the Network Programming book that I first read in 2013, and which I still consider as having the best balance of approachability and rigor. Looking forward to checki
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Van Rossum, Gosling, Goldberg, Hejlsberg panel and live discussion at PyData '23(pydata.org)
51 points by smiljo 3y ago|8 comments
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Raised $450k for my startup, here are the lessons I’ve learned along the way(omnisearch.ai)
5 points by smiljo 5y ago|0 comments
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by smiljo 5y ago
Easy one for me: Stephen A. Cook. Proved that SAT was NP-complete and formulated the P vs. NP problem. IMO, even among Turing Award winners there are tiers, and he's in the top one in my book.
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The Worst CPUs Ever Made(extremetech.com)
1 points by smiljo 6y ago|0 comments
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China Tech City(abacusnews.com)
2 points by smiljo 6y ago|0 comments
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by smiljo 6y ago
Author here, thanks for the thoughtful reply! > Perhaps Google is doing a decent job eliminating crap from their search results (debatable), but that’s not an outcome of a naive application of PageRank. Is this actually the case? We don&
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by smiljo 6y ago
Great subject, great panelists, thanks!
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Slaying Fake News(medium.com)
16 points by smiljo 6y ago|5 comments
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I Ran for Governor Against Tiger King's Joe Exotic(reason.com)
1 points by smiljo 6y ago|0 comments
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by smiljo 6y ago
Did we break their site? :( Edit: seems to be back up with everything in order.
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Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories(lareviewofbooks.org)
162 points by smiljo 6y ago|101 comments
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by smiljo 7y ago
I like the inspection feature! The natural question is: could this also support editing, rather than just inspecting? I guess reconciling that with regular in-file edits might be a problem?
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by smiljo 7y ago
As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards. Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like a no-brainer.
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by smiljo 7y ago
I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :) Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.
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Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award(medium.com)
16 points by smiljo 7y ago|4 comments
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QuickNews Odyssey: Lessons from Building a Startup(medium.com)
8 points by smiljo 7y ago|1 comments
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Facet: FIFO(tbray.org)
2 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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The Empire Reboots (2014)(vanityfair.com)
1 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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Six Favorite Business Books (tech edition)(medium.com)
2 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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Amazon EBS addresses the challenge of the CAP Theorem at scale(amazon.science)
3 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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by smiljo 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the threshold is too sensitive, but we didn't catch it when testing on my device. My colleague is fixing it and we'll have another version out very soon.
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Show HN: QuickNews, a News Aggregator Based on Doc2Vec
6 points by smiljo 7y ago|2 comments
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by smiljo 7y ago
Saw only recently that Judea Pearl was a guest on Sam Harris' podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/ . The preamble is depressing, since the episode aired right after a mass shooting, but Pe
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Incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Maps could do(fastcompany.com)
4 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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Flying cars are a cool solution to a tiny problem(reuters.com)
2 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)(somethingsimilar.com)
3 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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Incentive Pay Considered Harmful (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
5 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments
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by smiljo 7y ago
Yup, it appears he was quite passionate about politics, which formed the crux of most of his conversations apart from music. On a musical note (heh), it's also interesting to learn that he was one of the first people to play and compos
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by smiljo 7y ago
And then a different take: https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2020/01/20/su...

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