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by sriku 8y ago
On another note - these kinds of "let's go back and check what we can do with a single node today" approaches are valuable to recalibrate our thinking once in a while. I didn't interpret this post as a case against distr
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by sriku 8y ago
With most advanced interfaces or tech, people adapt their interactions to the tool as well. If the tool is capable of evolution, then there is perhaps an equilibrium point where people can be productive with the tool in an idiosyncratic way
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by sriku 8y ago
Sometimes, I get the feeling that we're all in the story of the "blind ones and the matter of the elephant". Design UI first? Design data model first? Design code first? Write documentation first? Write tests first? How many
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by sriku 8y ago
More reason to be glued to phones instead of actually talking to neighbours?
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by sriku 8y ago
Goodhart's law will eventually come around.
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by sriku 8y ago
A favour work by Rodney Brooks - "elephants don't play chess" https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf
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by sriku 8y ago
.. and they're afraid, very afraid that if you give them that kind of power, they will make the creators roles irrelevant. By echoing this in the echo chamber, we've perhaps deprived ourselves of getting enough collective experien
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by sriku 8y ago
What I would really like is for JS to have a good macro system so I don't have to subscribe to the two caste hierarchy of language creator and language user. Sweet.js [1] did it for me initially as cspjs[2] had async, await and more ye
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by sriku 8y ago
Encouraging this attitude is childish. GDPR (which has been around for 2 years now) is a way for people to say "ok now grow up guys, we know you like to tinker, but we're getting screwed in ways we don't like and we've g
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by sriku 8y ago
> ...the Gaia satellite – which precisely measured the positions, motions, colors, and luminosities of over a billion Milky Way stars ... Can any physicists here explain how the coordinate system is constructed here?
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by sriku 8y ago
Just to add another data point, I didn't find it so. I can code up applescript if I want to completely relying on dynamic documentation. In fact, what surprised me was the ease with which I could pick it up after nearly a decade of tou
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by sriku 8y ago
The FPGAs are programmable using OpenCL. That counts? https://www.altera.com/products/design-software/embedded-sof...
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Rowhammer: reading nearby memory using DRAM charge leaks(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sriku 9y ago
I couldn't read the article, but based on the comments, would it change the way we use C whether we declared it a "low level language" or not?
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by sriku 9y ago
I don't have gripes with this marketing approach and I read it more as "expect to be surprised by what is possible" rather than harp on what isn't .. at least not yet. For a comparison, it is like apple branding their di
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by sriku 9y ago
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm... Not saying anything else so I don't spoil it.
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by sriku 9y ago
Wouldn't it be better for most small businesses if EU required a kind of "GDPR certification" that comes with its own audits? That might contain potential predatory law suits? On the practical front,how would a product like g
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by sriku 9y ago
Btw Peter Nair's "programming as theory building" is the best description of this approach I know of.
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by sriku 9y ago
On the practical front, this approach is tenable when programming for yourself or by yourself. How do you articulate this if you are consulting, your client isn't tuned to this thinking and want you to describe architectures and timeli
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by sriku 9y ago
Concur. Same experience. And I did the same mistakes when I was one of them junior devs too :)
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Transfer your font style with GANs(bair.berkeley.edu)
2 points by sriku 9y ago|1 comments
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by sriku 9y ago
The end to end application building aspect of python is not yet there with swift (swift for servers?). Also if folks keep sticking to tools well tuned for their jobs, maybe something like graalvm may provide enough interoperability and perf
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by sriku 9y ago
"Scala has pioneered the fusion of object-oriented and functional programming in a typed setting." What about Ocaml (1996, well before scala) and F# (2005, not too long after scala)?
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by sriku 9y ago
A "default" user of fossil here - meaning all my personal projects are done with fossil .. only. I use git professionally (of course), but while I've used rebase to fit into workflows with github though I dislike the history
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OpenMined – building safe AI(openmined.org)
2 points by sriku 9y ago|0 comments
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by sriku 9y ago
edit: I meant "decentralized network" and not "decent sized network" .. as auto-correct decided.
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by sriku 9y ago
That's the right word. (General note) Federated is a bit different from decentralised. For example, email is federated, but not decentralised. In a federated network, if "your service providing server" is down (like gmail.com
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by sriku 9y ago
One sentence summary of the skill and attitude needed for this - "take a sad song, and make it better" .
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by sriku 9y ago
Secure Scuttlebutt (Patchwork application), I think, has its heart in the right place. http://scuttlebot.io/
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by sriku 9y ago
Secure scuttlebutt (SSB) anyone? The core of all of these recommendations is that you need an identity online. It almost seems like if you solve the identity problem (like how various blockchains deal with it with addresses and wallets) y

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