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by sriku 8y ago
I'm surprised at the negativity on this on a startup accelerator's site where "a small chance of success" - Gimli style - means game on. At my org, we've had one of these round 3 candidates give a talk about it and
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Staging a Kandinsky Dream (1982)(nytimes.com)
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In some ways at least, you can look at data science / ML work as an extreme form of TDD and closer to it in spirit than most proselytizing I've come across. In another great example, Peter Norvig does way more TDD for his Sudoku
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by sriku 8y ago
I cannot proceed to reading the article because I refuse to accept fb's cookie policy that doesn't seem to give a way to read the content without accepting a cookie from them.
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by sriku 8y ago
(shameless plug) The state machine approach is one I used in an old sweetjs library called cspjs[1] which implemented async tasks into JavaScript well before async/await. I still think there are some good ideas left there - especially
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by sriku 8y ago
Sounds interesting. Btw SAOL (structured audio orchestration language) was proposed as part of the mpeg7 initiative, which is itself quite long dead. SAOL was based on csound concepts. Back then, we had "csound cards" that ran cso
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by sriku 8y ago
Is SOUL intentionally made to sound like SAOL? I haven't watched the video and will do. But the dominant problem with audio programming languages has been expressivity. Things like code up single sample feedback loops (they normally ar
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by sriku 8y ago
We must be living inside a black hole.
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Ball lightning? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
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by sriku 8y ago
Been exploring this idea in the app development context for a while now. I wished PNaCl had filled this role, but now think WebAssembly may take up this space instead as it has similar performance characteristics. The attraction of both the
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by sriku 8y ago
Not the same topic, but we recently faced malware that got distributed via Hadoop yarn - where what looked like crypto mining code would kick in and hog cpu once the scale of spark compute hit some point. It would kick in randomly and it in
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by sriku 8y ago
Always replace "intuitive" with "familiar" and you get an insight into what the person is talking about. So the task is to explain Euler's equation in terms of what you're already familiar with. Hmmm. [1] Theor
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by sriku 8y ago
Quite a few old thinkers have thought up models for that kind of prediction we do. Ex: Piaget. Gary Drescher's book "made up minds" presents his PhD work building a simulated environment and a robot in it that builds concepts
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Same .. but Keybase has replaced Dropbox for me for these purposes. The encrypted git repositories are awesome!
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However I'm disappointed that their response is essentially lip service to the highlighted problem. If I read the article correctly, the auto-signin will continue to be the default and you'll get an option to turn it off. This doe
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Web Audio API is now a W3C candidate recommendation(w3.org)
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Why are Haskell type classes identified as non compositional in this post when interfaces are talked about as necessary for compositionality?
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The use case seems to overlap with noms dB - https://github.com/attic-labs/noms Noms doesn't have the appeal of SQL, but it is versioned and forkable and strongly typed data.
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One way to deal with it is to understand why the mess in the first place. You may find reasons to forgive the mess. If you're looking at a startup that had to try a lot of things perhaps (and when the team was junior) hitting on the wo
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by sriku 8y ago
Why would a dual "non commercial" and "commercial" license not solve the problem this is claiming to address. Many OSS projects do this now. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be compensated for one's work, but
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In India, not only are ground floors often numbered 0, subterranean ones are in many places numbered -1, -2.
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One way to think about interface power is in terms of thresholds and ceilings. CLIs are powerful with a somewhat high threshold and high ceiling. In the attempt to lower the threshold, most UIs and OSes significantly lower the ceiling too.
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I've found Mark Rosenfelder's books "the language construction kit" and "the advanced LCK" fascinating to see how much thought needs to go into a language. I felt I learnt more about existing languages from tho
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This parallels its influence on me as well. In particular FCaCA has been a good source to learn how to narrow down problems so they can be tackled without diluting the original essence of the problem. Masterful treatment in my opinion. I st
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This article [2015] is of relevance in this context. It refers to the work of Richard Dawid who's apparently laying out an expanded view of science beyond the commonly accepted Popperian perspective centered on falsifiability. In his 2
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by sriku 8y ago
On a side note - I'm unable to square this fear of watchers with parents happily singing to their kids - "he knows when you've been sleeping .. he knows when you're awake .. he knows when you've been bad or good, so
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by sriku 8y ago
This. Problem finding is a harder problem than problem solving .. heh. That said, whether or not others believe it to be important is only a matter of whether the problem is important for your career. Problem finding requires the backing of
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by sriku 8y ago
> All of biochemistry is best described by quantum mechanics. .. much the same as all of what the FPGA does is captured by electromagnetism + material physics. Nevertheless, the encoding of the FPGA circuit, while it describes a digital
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by sriku 8y ago
There has been what I think is direct evidence of the possibility of this in the digital world. Adrian Thompson's work[1] in evolving an FPGA circuit to tell the difference between the spoken words "stop" and "go" (
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Hot on the heels of FCC repealing net neutrality?

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