vchak1

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by vchak1 7y ago
Thats an interesting thought. I wonder if we could do visual representations similar to "skin color + thumbs up" == colored emoji to essentially convert operator + verb combos into ligature type single characters. Would help with
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by vchak1 7y ago
Depending on the stack, you can use some open source libraries. Datascript is quite robust, and useable from javascript/clojurescript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
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by vchak1 7y ago
John Earnest also details how trees are handled in K (an array based language invented by Arthur Whitney). https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Trees.m...
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by vchak1 7y ago
I guess Waymo will take it over in that case.
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by vchak1 7y ago
Allowing eggplants and peaches to find each other easily was why thefacebook spread around college campuses.
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by vchak1 7y ago
We want our employees to live first, work second. So we have set it up so people can work from anywhere, and they do. A lot of employees go and work from interesting travel places for a few weeks or months.
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by vchak1 7y ago
I also think it would be valuable to autoconvert long lines (rows or columns) of similar formulas into a mapping on an array. That would require some level of shape analysis on the excel file.
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by vchak1 7y ago
I'd recommend against falling into some mode of cargo cult thinking on this one. A key part of whether self serve is going to work is to look at how fragmented the requirements and use cases are across different customers. In many case
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by vchak1 7y ago
For a moment, I read that as controlling minds with the computer, and thought: Wait, Facebook does that already!
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by vchak1 7y ago
Check out Shadertoy. By the same person (Inigo).
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by vchak1 7y ago
Maybe start with transforming the "present" of marketing, and avoid hyperbole?
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by vchak1 7y ago
Popcount is also very valuable in search (bitmap) indexes, for example roaring bitmap by Lemire uses it quite a bit.
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by vchak1 7y ago
"To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion", said Benoit B. Mandelbrot. When asked about his middle initial he said: it stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot".
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by vchak1 7y ago
I dont agree. Its actually the exact same thing. Before AWS you did not time share servers. Servers would be idle for long amounts of time if the capacity requirements were spiky. You have the same situation here, but for work areas/me
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by vchak1 7y ago
Neither, IMHO. The thing doing the simulation need not exist inside the simulation, or have any physical resemblance to any concept inside the simulation.
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by vchak1 7y ago
Clock speed, essentially?
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by vchak1 7y ago
No idea is good enough when you start off with it. Suspend disbelief, iterate on the idea. Do this with 20 different ideas, and you will narrow down on a few that are very viable. Also build up skill sets outside of engineering so your comm
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by vchak1 7y ago
The analogy I give is this - when you fly SF to NY, the pilot does not have exactly the correct amount of fuel to make the trip. That would be foolish. You'd want to have some reserve (say another hour or two of fuel) as insurance. Sur
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by vchak1 7y ago
I have a very different reason. In most large companies, you pay some sort of productivity overhead - for X units of work, you have to pay say 30%X for internal marketing, coordination(meetings) and other random activities. When that ratio
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by vchak1 7y ago
From a user experience perspective, it seems strange to me that one would only consider the driver experience and not include the passenger. I 100% agree with you about the need for tactile non distracting controls for the driver. At the sa
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by vchak1 7y ago
Clearly a Theranos pivot.
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by vchak1 7y ago
If the iPhone did not have Netflix and Google Maps then less people would buy iPhones -- so its not really that straightforward. While the argument works for small businesses, larger businesses might be in fact bringing hardware revenue to
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by vchak1 7y ago
It may well be that we are subject to evolution, but the being is not -- in which case the situation would be really interesting.
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by vchak1 7y ago
If you take a look at things like converting beziers into sub-beziers of specific flatness, you could express it pretty easily as a // convergence as in k, or a power operator in apl, but it would be really nice to have the notion
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by vchak1 7y ago
The Nile compilers directory has a bunch of stuff in JavaScript, Smalltalk as well as in Maru (which is in itself pretty interesting, and is a self hosted lisp)
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by vchak1 7y ago
No I ran it mainly from from Bret Victors viz directory. Did not run Frank. Would be interesting to build a Nile runtime in go or elixir (maps well to [processes), with a simple compiler in Ocaml.
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by vchak1 7y ago
I have played with both Nile and APL now for a bit, and I have been thinking about how to combine them. I believe if we took Nile's operator overloading, tick syntax (s' is the previous value of s), and recursion being expressed v