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How we created Chess Game Review: What's a key moment?(blog.duolingo.com)
2 points by ziyao_w 22d ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 23d ago
Beautiful article. Reading this after having mixed feeling and honestly a bit depressed about the Navier-Stokes situation feels almost like therapy, and I had to try really hard to hold back tears. The Riverside Park has always been beautif
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by ziyao_w 7mo ago
Lol you are totally right! ;-) I am normally a casual guy but for a giant being a bit more formal (pun intended) seems appropriate. Or maybe I am a nerd through and through :-)
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by ziyao_w 7mo ago
Random anecdote and Mr. Hoare (yep not a Dr.) has always been one of my computing heroes. Mr. Hoare did a talk back during my undergrad and for some reason despite totally checked out of school I attended, and it is one of my formative expe
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The 100x Research Institution(freesystems.substack.com)
1 points by ziyao_w 8mo ago|1 comments
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Everybody Is a CEO Now (and What Am I Doing Here?)(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
5 points by ziyao_w 8mo ago|1 comments
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Magnetic Resonator Piano(instrumentslab.org)
3 points by ziyao_w 11mo ago|0 comments
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AI-Assisted Software Development: Trends and Lessons by Don Syme [pdf](github.com)
2 points by ziyao_w 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Collatz^Reich – when the 3n+1 conjecture meets Clapping Music(ziyaowei.github.io)
2 points by ziyao_w 2y ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 2y ago
“We are ugly but we have the music.” One of the first things I did in New York was to visit the Chelsea Hotel. All the stories. I’ve always been borderline obsessed with hey that’s no way to say goodbye, so long, Marianne, and later on if i
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Is It Live or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould (2007)(nytimes.com)
1 points by ziyao_w 2y ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 2y ago
lol thanks! Read probably 80% of the article and missed this: "Almost before knowing it, she had decided. Lynn copied the most important papers. After carefully eradicating her old name and inserting the new on every title page[...]&qu
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by ziyao_w 2y ago
Wow, 4 citations. I feel happy for Lynn that she ended up doing a lot more impressive work, but definitely this should be restored to its proper place in the history of computing. Something doesn't quite compute here though - according
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Kent Beck: Business(tidyfirst.substack.com)
2 points by ziyao_w 3y ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
It's kind of funny to see Linus browbeaten other people into submission regardless of him being right or not, while claiming "I am always right". A few counter points: - `hg` has `cp`, and I believe both Meta and Google'
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
Good point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_postulate is actually for any n > 3 there is always a prime between n and 2n - 2, or like you said for n > 1, between n and 2n.
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
Possession is one of the best novels I have read - a book about writers and books, the intertwined story lines are in some sense a bit recursive, a mystery and a romance at the same time. It's one of those books that I had to struggle
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
Seeing the outpouring from the OpenAI team makes me think there might be a real schism there - it’s a bit troubling to see, id software became less special after Romero left and either way for OpenAI it seems they would lose some remarkable
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
pg is a world class lisp hacker, no idea about sama though. Respecting and admiring someone for their achievements is one thing but blindly following successful people sounds like the antithesis of what a "hacker" is.
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
I know the HN crows idolizes people like pg and sama, but so many people appear to not even know who Ilya Sutskever is makes me think somehow this isn't "hacker" news anymore. Obviously sama is a very productive individual, b
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
190 citations sounds impressive but considering they mostly come from possibly the two fields that gathers citations the quickest - biomedical sciences and artificial intelligence - this shouldn't be too surprising? Shalosh B. Ekhad, O
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
Basically Shane Legg (who is probably not the Google AI chief), chief AGI scientist at DeepMind, who said in 2011/2012 ( https://www.vetta.org/2011/12/goodbye-2011-hello-2012/ ) that > I give it a log-n
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The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (2019)(espn.in)
1 points by ziyao_w 3y ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
I think the parent was trying to imply that Ken Thompson had no experience in designing a programming language :-) Seriously though, "having experience" and "getting things right" are two different things, although Golan
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
Thibault (the creator of lichess) is a really impressive human being. I don’t idolize people but he is quite inspiring. There’s an old perpetual chess podcast episode where he said he has never seen a single ad that was useful :-) Which is
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by ziyao_w 3y ago
This article does not seem to mention this but Bobby Fischer lived in Japan and his wife is a WIM - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyoko_Watai . He certainly had his insanities but some accounts say he was quite sane
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“What Next?” - Graydon Hoare (2017)(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by ziyao_w 6y ago|0 comments
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by ziyao_w 6y ago
Finally picked up Strunk and White after years of procrastination and so far it has been a tour-de-force consolidating/spelling out the knowledge I picked up along the way (ESL). I found mentally swapping out words about writing for wo
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by ziyao_w 6y ago
Yeah, moments after replying I realized there is a more charitable read :-) Of course, with this read comes the age old question of "I can build Google/FB with 20 good men, what are they doing?"
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by ziyao_w 6y ago
You do realize development include software engineering, right? 700 people doing programming isn't even remotely surprising. Not to defend them against the recent security fiasco, but innuendos such as this that links "employees w

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