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by zellyn 9y ago
Every single hacker news discussion these days seems to have a complaint about reusing a name. Every name is taken. There is nothing to be done about it. It's okay. I mean, it's sad, and terrible, but it's also fine.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Oh, thanks. Perfect link. It makes sense that rewrites are smaller, but the reduction factor was still surprising.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Is this reduction in line count typical? I'm surprised. Or is this discounting parts of the code that have been moved out into separate crates?
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by zellyn 9y ago
Worth it just for the phrase, “Although I was trained as an opera singer before becoming a science journalist.”
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by zellyn 9y ago
This is lovely. Anyone know of a Hugo theme that implements it?
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by zellyn 9y ago
Well, the README directly mentions Twine, which is an interactive fiction authoring system. Although I believe it is further to the “branching story” end of the spectrum than things like Inform and TADS.
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by zellyn 9y ago
The Power of Two Random Choices: it's a surprisingly decent heuristic https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook2...
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by zellyn 9y ago
Thanks, Kenton!
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by zellyn 9y ago
Can anyone who knows these things comment on the essential differences between Qubes and Sandstorm? Thanks in advance…
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by zellyn 9y ago
Wow. Bret Victor's stuff is so incredibly human, and so incredibly useful. I want it!
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by zellyn 9y ago
You might like distill: https://distill.pub/about/
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by zellyn 9y ago
Do you have plans for multi-node persistence / geographic redundancy? We'd love something like this, but right now it would probably be easier to roll something custom on top of either Kafka or CockroachDB…
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by zellyn 9y ago
Well, they explained it a couple of paragraphs later. The previous record, a 45-bit quantum simulation, took 500 Terabytes of memory. I assume there's some sort of terrible exponential increase that would have made 49-bit simulations r
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by zellyn 9y ago
Lovely idea, and I can't wait until it gains super deep-learning smarts and gets everything perfect :-) For now, it's hard to read: https://docushow.com/viewdoc?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fp...
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by zellyn 9y ago
I think the big question here is our President's tweets…
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by zellyn 9y ago
Any time you suspend people, you need an escalation path, and you need real support people behind that. So you can't just turn on all the things until you staff up.
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by zellyn 9y ago
This seems at least lazy, and at worst click-mongering, in light of the recent article on Waymo's testing regime. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid... It has several discu
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by zellyn 9y ago
Makes sense. 1) Read "Beautiful Racket". 2) Implement it. :)
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by zellyn 9y ago
Steven Levy is one of the best writers when it comes to profiles and the gestalt of the tech scene. His stuff is consistently well done. I think you're looking for a different _type_ of writing, perhaps?
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by zellyn 9y ago
I have doodled away many hours on Net and Pearl :-)
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by zellyn 9y ago
The "they're really close to the blood vessels; you could easily miss them" answers don't make sense. Surely any time you do brain surgery in the area beside those blood vessels, you'd be studying the area minutely?
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by zellyn 9y ago
I keep thinking of this sketch every time I see this sentiment expressed recently.
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by zellyn 9y ago
I thought AlphaGo was still using Monte Carlo tree search, just with two neural networks: one to estimate the board values, and one to estimate likelihood of moves for sampling.
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by zellyn 9y ago
If by "grinding an axe" you mean "trying to ensure that humanity preserves some of its best weapons against disease instead of squandering them". Seems fine to be emphatic about that.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Hmmm. If you know Rust well already, sure. But both Go and Rust have a much better binary a distribution story than Python once you stray from the standard library...
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by zellyn 9y ago
Are think tanks legally required to be impartial? Are they generally expected to be impartial? I was under the impression that funding a "Think Tank" was a way to funnel money into research, paper-writing, policy promulgation, etc
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by zellyn 9y ago
I'd like to post a purely positive, encouraging comment here :-) Thanks for the article, and good job implementing an entire editor from scratch in C! That's impressive. Also, as a very accomplished programmer who happens not to h
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by zellyn 9y ago
If you like this, you might also like the excellent “Eaten by a Grue” podcast ( http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ ) where Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston are playing through and discussing all Infocom games. If you want t
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by zellyn 9y ago
Also the theme song for the excellent “Eaten by a Grue” podcast. http://monsterfeet.com/grue/
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by zellyn 9y ago
The nature of the challenges means you'll always know when you've solved them.

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