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Centaurs and AI(squirrelsquadron.substack.com)
1 points by squirrel 3y ago|0 comments
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Grow Your Own Recruiter(squirrelsquadron.substack.com)
1 points by squirrel 3y ago|0 comments
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by squirrel 3y ago
Isn't Sussman's idea similar to the tuple spaces of languages like Linda? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
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by squirrel 3y ago
GM Daniel King explains games in an accessible and very insightful way on the PowerPlay Chess youtube channel.
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by squirrel 4y ago
Read books on schizophrenia by Dr Xavier Amador for an interesting perspective on gaining compliance without necessarily agreeing on what the problem is. Excellent videos on YouTube also.
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by squirrel 4y ago
See normal accidents by Perrow, and meltdown by Clearfield, for much more on the anatomy of accidents of all kinds.
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by squirrel 4y ago
If I recall correctly, in his paper on whether machines could think, Turing gives an imaginary dialogue with a computer trying to pass as a human (what we later came to call the Turing test) where the judge poses an arithmetic problem, and
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by squirrel 4y ago
A debugging tour de force all the way down the stack, from Unix command to reinstall to truss and dtrace to C code to assembly to analysing data structures! Leaky abstractions indeed.
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by squirrel 4y ago
Sounds similar to tuple space models like Linda (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space ) and the blackboard model in AI (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system ).
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Interpol seeks arrest of Terra cryptocurrency boss Do Kwon(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by squirrel 4y ago|0 comments
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by squirrel 4y ago
From 2005 (see bottom of http://unixwiz.net/techtips/ ) Also, Alan Weiss and Jonathan Stark cover similar material in more depth, for those interested.
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Hope in the Dark Heart of Evil Is Not a Plan(critical-hits.com)
1 points by squirrel 4y ago|0 comments
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by squirrel 5y ago
1st guy is Dashrath Manjhi.
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by squirrel 5y ago
Interesting to see Steve Blank of Lean Startup and Four Steps to the Epiphany described (before any of that work) as "a fast-talking showman fond of broad comparisons".
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by squirrel 5y ago
Stories are pretty good! First try, where first sentence is prompt: Once upon a time, there was a tiny dragon, only one inch tall. The dragon lived in a large mansion with his three sisters. He was very good at flying. He loved to fly aroun
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Stone Soup Onboarding(conversationaltransformation.com)
1 points by squirrel 5y ago|0 comments
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The Worst That Can Happen Is Learning(conversationaltransformation.com)
3 points by squirrel 6y ago|0 comments
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by squirrel 6y ago
Lollipop | Full Stack Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | Mix of Onsite & Remote post Covid | www.lollipopai.com We're going to fix grocery ordering with a helpful automated assistant so it's no longer a painful chore. Our fou
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Donald Trump Twitter Account Permanently Suspended(twitter.com)
15 points by squirrel 6y ago|0 comments
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by squirrel 6y ago
These folks are working on something like that: https://www.altitudeangel.com/
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by squirrel 6y ago
Early employee at a UK startup that started in 2001. In 2007, exercised options for a cost in low five figures. Company loaned me the money to exercise and I continued to work there. When I left in 2012, I paid off the loan with cash. Compa
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by squirrel 6y ago
The units here are poorly designed - for example, I'd expect the LocationProvider to be responsible for choosing how to get the location, not the caller - and this makes them hard to test. The solution is fixing the design, not throwin
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by squirrel 6y ago
The standard book on avoiding the test anti-patterns described here is http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/ .
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by squirrel 7y ago
Still my favourite source on unit testing and mocking: http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
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by squirrel 7y ago
I managed to confuse it though. I think the meter's thrown off kilter too by this one. Topic: Defenestration Genre: Pop Lyric Mood: Happy Verse 1 Lock him up or defenestration the key away Those shackles are holding me Defenestration a
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by squirrel 7y ago
[2016]. Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13639549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13044685 Very good article, so good that my coauthor and I used the metaphor in our boo
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by squirrel 7y ago
A relevant, classic bystander-effect experiment (Darley and Latane 1968) put several participants, all subjects of the experiment, in a waiting room. Smoke began to come into the room through a vent. In most groups, no one acted for a very
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by squirrel 7y ago
In the UK at least, lending on accounts receivable is one way businesses, especially those with large, slow-paying clients, can obtain financing. This can be called “factoring” or “invoice discounting” - there are technical distinctions bet
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by squirrel 7y ago
I find Xavier Amador very engaging and convincing on how to actually help schizophrenic people who say "I'm not sick, I don't need medicine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lstn6WNnCRc
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by squirrel 8y ago
In the UK the total number of shares, and maybe the cap table (I don’t remember) is available from Companies House for a nominal fee, as part of the company’s annual accounts. No idea what the situation is elsewhere, sorry.

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