tammet

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by tammet 6y ago
The whole field has been dominated by research, i.e. the wish to make simple things complicated (in order to publish papers) as opposed to engineering, i.e. making complicated things simple (in order to produce usable software efficiently).
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Show HN: Symbolic AI: automated reasoning in a browser(logictools.org)
2 points by tammet 6y ago|0 comments
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by tammet 7y ago
A simple demo of the algorithm described in the article: http://dijkstra.cs.ttu.ee/~tammet/oligarch.html
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by tammet 8y ago
Similar to https://guardtime.com/technology
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Estonia revokes certificates for 760.000 id cards
10 points by tammet 9y ago|1 comments
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by tammet 9y ago
A similar Scheme-to-C project I wrote last century for the SCM scheme, should be still usable: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/hobbit.pdf One goal of the project was to produce human-readable C.
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by tammet 12y ago
Fixed it: a classic js error of writing != instead of !== . Thx for noticing! Shift-reload to empty cache of the old js file :)
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by tammet 12y ago
Yep, a bug has creeped into a preprocessor. Debugging right now :) thx!
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by tammet 13y ago
Eiffel tower photo locations are spread over a fairly wide area, while Moulin Rouge photos are taken in a relatively small spot, hence more intense.
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by tammet 13y ago
The marked locations in high-res areas like cities are based on both most popular wikipedia articles and most popular foursquare locations in the intense area. Quite likely Alex's place is one of these highly popular foursquare locatio
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by tammet 13y ago
The "all sizes" selection has a similar effect: take "small", "tiny" or "remote" to put markers on sparsely populated locations only.
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by tammet 13y ago
Conditional compilation can be quite certainly used. The best way to find out the space requirements is to try out some of the examples provided. I cannot give the overhead exactly, but it can be read from the source with not too much effor
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by tammet 13y ago
I'd just make a remark that even in the GPL world everything is not as simple as it looks. There are GPL versions with _exceptions_ endorsed by RMS, for example. A long time ago I used to work on a Hobbit scheme compiler for the scm in
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by tammet 13y ago
The default GPL is free-as-in-speech. You do not have to email for GPL. You have to email for free-as-in-beer. I assume that in case free-as-in-speech is not OK, it is also not a major hurdle to email for the free-as-in-beer version. In cas
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by tammet 13y ago
Making a clean cut between free-as-in-speech on one hand and free-as-in-beer on the other.
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by tammet 13y ago
One of the authors here. A few answers quickly. It does write to disk: you can either dump memory or write all changes to log (turn it on/off yourself). Sure it has a global read/write lock, with several locking strategies to sele
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by tammet 13y ago
check http://www.sightsmap.com : this shows the wikipedia locations and more, geared to finding places of interest
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Sights of the world: wikipedia, panoramio and foursquare merged on Google maps (sightsmap.com)
1 points by tammet 15y ago|0 comments
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A heat map of the world's most photographed places: zoom in for highres details.(sightsmap.com)
2 points by tammet 15y ago|1 comments