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New comment by bosquefrio in "I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription"

bosquefrio — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:00:46 +0000

If Maciej is burnt out then I wonder why he hasn't hired someone to do support for him?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Ask HN: What programming language should I learn?"

bosquefrio — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:38:46 +0000

If you liked Clojure then you might want to try ClojureScript.

Haskell is interesting. For example, you can implement a poor man's Prolog in a Haskell list comprehension.

APL looks interesting and very alien to me. I assume that since it is array or matrix based that it is similar in some ways to Matlab, et cetera but the way people talk about it kind of makes you want to dive into its culture and at least read the original paper on it.

Maybe you should take your turn at inventing your own language?

It's time for a self-reproducing machine by Carl Feynman

bosquefrio — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:11:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rQxrSRPJGmksGjK8z/it-s-time-for-a-self-reproducing-machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286614

Points: 2

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New comment by bosquefrio in "Galois Theory"

bosquefrio — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:16:01 +0000

I have fond memories of reading this book in college. I enjoyed it immensely.

I also remember reading the section at the back of the book about Galois. There was also an entertaining section about the history of solving the roots of polynomial equations and in particular solving equations of arbitrary order.

New comment by bosquefrio in "A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers"

bosquefrio — Tue, 28 May 2024 02:12:47 +0000

This is obviously cosmic graffiti. Damn kids.

New comment by bosquefrio in "Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?"

bosquefrio — Sun, 26 May 2024 01:17:50 +0000

There is an ExploreGPTs feature that OpenAI provides. Has anyone experimented with trying to make one of these that successfully does what you want (e.g. more concise, better code examples, whatever)?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist"

bosquefrio — Sun, 26 May 2024 01:03:48 +0000

See: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay2631

New comment by bosquefrio in "EURISKO Lives"

bosquefrio — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:22:04 +0000

There are some interesting files in Doug's archive: https://www.saildart.org/[*,DBL]/

This is amusing: https://www.saildart.org/D.SAI[1,DBL]

And it looks like he wrote a story called "Lethe" as a grad student: https://www.saildart.org/LETHE.DOC[1,DBL]

New comment by bosquefrio in "Vernor Vinge has died"

bosquefrio — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:36:13 +0000

I believe they were friends. Brin mentioned that he hung out with Vinge a few weeks ago.

New comment by bosquefrio in "Vernor Vinge has died"

bosquefrio — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:25:13 +0000

Vinge is certainly one of the greats but so is David Brin. I would not consider him under the radar though. Some of his best are Earth, The Heart of The Comet, Glory Season.

New comment by bosquefrio in "Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report"

bosquefrio — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:10:31 +0000

How did you find out about Cursor?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending"

bosquefrio — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:22:25 +0000

Interesting hypothesis. Do you have an essay where these ideas are fully fleshed out?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders"

bosquefrio — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:46:19 +0000

The first time I ran into one of these cute little jumping spiders was in a backyard while I was reading a book. I felt something on my chair and moved and I saw something jump across to the small table next to me. I noticed that it was a spider. I didn't know spiders could jump like that. I was very surprised when it turned around and looked at me. Scrutinizing me. It literally was moving its head looking at me trying to figure out what had disturbed it. After that my girlfriend at the time joked that he was my little friend.

New comment by bosquefrio in "Modeless Vim"

bosquefrio — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:08:12 +0000

vscodevim is a vim plugin for VSCode.

New comment by bosquefrio in "Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life"

bosquefrio — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:11:14 +0000

It looks super cool! Too bad there isn't an English language version.

New comment by bosquefrio in "British Columbia declares a state of emergency amid devastating wildfires"

bosquefrio — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:02:45 +0000

Native Portlander here. It was sometime in the mid 2010s that we started to have the orange haze from forest fires here. However that week in the summer of 2020 was definitely the worst I have ever seen it here. There is a building about fifty feet away from mine and I could not see it because the smoke was that thick.

New comment by bosquefrio in "BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent"

bosquefrio — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:13:58 +0000

https://github.com/SJ001/AI-Feynman

New comment by bosquefrio in "The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)"

bosquefrio — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:07:06 +0000

@convolvatron Why do you say that implementing CM-LISP would be a really cool project?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Try APL"

bosquefrio — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:56:47 +0000

@Syzgies When did you stop using APL as your black magic? Or when did it lose its lustre?

New comment by bosquefrio in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)"

bosquefrio — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:53:25 +0000

Xerox - Web Developer (FTE onsite) - Wilsonville (near Portland), OR and Rochester, New York

We have an open web developer position in the Global Digital Marketing group’s agile software development team.

The Global Digital Marketing group manages Xerox’s digital communication through the xerox.com and other websites and various social media networks.

Join us if you want to work with smart people who are pushing the technical envelope on how marketing can be done on the web.

Responsibilities:

Write frontend and backend software for the xerox.com customer facing marketing websites. Develop technical recommendations. Create and update unit or integration tests. Document software features.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

Ability to communicate ideas effectively with technical and non-technical staff. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Perl, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS. Knowledge of version control software (e.g. git or subversion). Comfortable with UNIX.

Desired Skills:

Adobe SiteCatalyst or Google analytics SQL and NoSQL databases

Apply at https://searchjobs.external.xerox.com/careersection/xerox_ex...