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by theoh 9y ago
That new CoRev paper is interesting. I haven't had time to read it in detail but it sounds like an intriguing case for compiler/linker buffs. Slightly OT, there was a very fun ActionScript exploit published by Mark Dowd of IBM in
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by theoh 9y ago
There's a paper out there with the title "Cognition is not computation; evolution is not optimization". I haven't read it! I'm not sure you are accepting the basic principle, which is that evolution is not in any wa
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by theoh 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219409
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by theoh 9y ago
But why would you pay if there's no "hostage"?
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by theoh 9y ago
Or it can leave you without the experience or skills to cope when something unexpected does need to be dealt with personally. (Don't judge this article from the URL, it's moderate and well-informed): https://www.theguar
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by theoh 9y ago
Before becoming a fan of Steidl, watch the documentary "How to Make a Book with Steidl" As the New Yorker piece says: "Steidl is aggressively modest, insisting that as a printer he is a technician, not an artist." He&#x2
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by theoh 9y ago
Those two operations are called "meet" and "join", and in principle they work with any linear subspaces (point, line, plane, etc.) So the meet of a line and a plane in 3D is a point, the join of a point and a line in 3D
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by theoh 9y ago
Must be this publisher, Learning Express: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/24061.LearningExpress
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by theoh 9y ago
If you can line up some 80 or 90 year olds to back up this opinion, it might be more interesting. As it stands it seems like ahistorical speculation. I guess maybe Ulrich Beck's work on risk is relevant?
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by theoh 9y ago
Looking at wikipedia's info on a certain kisrhombille tiling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-6_kisrhombille I think this is relevant https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-w
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by theoh 9y ago
Is it not, in fact, intrinsically 2-dimensional? The enclosing contour that defines the prominence is a 2d entity. I don't know anything about persistent homology. Maybe by 0-dimensional you mean that the nodes of the "contour tre
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by theoh 9y ago
But VeriSign is not an ISP -- they were the ones running the authoritative root name servers and doing this to literally everyone.
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by theoh 9y ago
Remember that time when VeriSign did this (wildcarding) on a global basis for .com and .net in 2003, briefly causing outrage? "As of a little while ago (it is around 7:45 PM US Eastern on Mon 15 Sep 2003 as I write this), VeriSign adde
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by theoh 9y ago
Not really to do with partial evaluation or the unrelated idea of a partial function. A key motivating (non-Haskell) example behind continuations is the idea of replacing "return" with a function call. This is continuation passing
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but I remember getting an impression of a very principled approach to biometrics from John Daugman. This article is about iris recognition and I'm pretty sure it is worth posting in this context: https:/&#
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by theoh 9y ago
In many ways this "theory"/theme corresponds to the behaviour observed in clinical narcissism. It's generally not healthy, though, IMO, to think with the vampire metaphor.
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by theoh 9y ago
Though of course this is the method that led to the discovery of Neptune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune
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by theoh 9y ago
Alvy Ray Smith may have the canonical paper on this, from 1995: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/4_comp.pdf
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by theoh 9y ago
Maybe nanny is a bad example. I'd pay good money to get impartial therapy from an AI (guaranteed non-abusive) and then when it comes to solving the problems of humanity in general, a sufficiently smart AI seems like our best bet, on th
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by theoh 9y ago
... there's something particularly evocative about this image taken during early lifting body research: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/...
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by theoh 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppletViewer "The applet viewer operates on HTML documents, but all it looks for is embedded applet tags; any other HTML code in the document is ignored. Each time the applet viewer e
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by theoh 9y ago
See also Newsqueak (also Rob Pike) and the Squeak implementation of smalltalk. Would suggest "There is already a software project called Limbo, although it's in a quite different domain." In fact there is already also this:
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by theoh 9y ago
Yes, I guess you can, alternatively, still download a JRE with an "appletviewer" app.
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by theoh 9y ago
Simó work was presented beautifully here, in Java: http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-orbits1
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm not sure "resmelting" is even a thing. I am sure that the GP is joking.
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by theoh 9y ago
The Wikipedia page for de Bruijn sequences is pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence My personal interest is in generalized LFSRs, which can be used to generate de Bruijn sequences. From the wiki
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by theoh 10y ago
This sounds a bit FUD-ish. Programming in any language involves understanding the evaluation strategy. You seem to be advocating languages that can be used with a level of ignorance or innocence which in practice just isn't possible.
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by theoh 10y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizard_Mission
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by theoh 10y ago
Better to eat how your great grandparents would have eaten if they lived somewhere notorious for long, healthy lives. There's such a gap between Soylent and something like Wendell Berry's ideas: https://www.ecoliteracy.
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by theoh 10y ago
To craftsmanship, yes. To goods made by that craftsperson? Aren't they only ever a proxy for human skill and achievement? (beyond some basic level of usefulness) A skilled stonemason these days might find him or herself doing quite a l

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