Hacker News: erikj

Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 12A: Karatsuba Redux

erikj — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 23:46:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2753

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478026

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikj in "Some documents on AM and EURISKO"

erikj — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:03:26 +0000

There are more documents in this archive: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/lenat-leaks.tar.gz

Former Valve employee reveals horrors of games industry corporate culture

erikj — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:01:49 +0000

Article URL: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/valve/274982/former-valve-employee-reveals-horrors-of-games-industry-corporate-culture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570719

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The Google H1 Fritz Chip

erikj — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 20:18:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2433

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274771

Points: 62

# Comments: 36

New comment by erikj in "The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)"

erikj — Tue, 01 May 2018 12:48:28 +0000

Wasn't it how everything worked back in the early mainframes and timesharing days?

New comment by erikj in "Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users"

erikj — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:07:18 +0000

This is incorrect. The oligarchs took vk.com away from Pavel Durov (the founder of vk.com and later Telegram) by force with some help from FSB, then banished him from Russia. Both Pavel Durov and Telegram are now out of the reach of these oligarchs, and Durov has no desire to aid people who robbed and exiled him.

New comment by erikj in "MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant"

erikj — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:16:12 +0000

Fusion propulsion would be very beneficial to any space operations beyond the Earth's orbit. I think NASA have a project investigating this technology.

MIT AGI: Computational Universe (Stephen Wolfram)

erikj — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 23:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7kX7BuHSFI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16506797

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikj in "Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones"

erikj — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:35:05 +0000

Was it bad enough to abandon all investments made into its development and jump to the less successful competing platform instead of incrementally improving MeeGo/Maemo?

New comment by erikj in "Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple"

erikj — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:23:35 +0000

Nintendo and Sony are a tiny insignificant speck of the market compared to all the OpenGL ES compatible devices available. I guess every smartphone vendor not called Apple is ran by Khronos idealists. Besides, the latest Nintendo device officially supports Vulkan.

New comment by erikj in "China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power"

erikj — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:40:02 +0000

I think you're underestimating the strength of the US government. A lot of things happened since the 18th century.

New comment by erikj in "What are we going to do with quantum computers?"

erikj — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:19:47 +0000

I thought "serious" meant at least one million error-corrected qubits or so, and it seems to me that we're at least two decades away from this. The article is talking about the 50 qubits milestone without proper error correction.

New comment by erikj in "A Programmable Programming Language"

erikj — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:31:18 +0000

I presume you are talking about ScriptX created by an Apple spin-off Kaleida Labs? I'm reading about it right now, and I don't see any specific features useful for language-oriented programming, not even Lisp-like macros. From what I can see it doesn't seem to encourage this approach to software development at all, it looks like some kind of Smalltalk derivative with multiple inheritance bolted on.

New comment by erikj in "Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors"

erikj — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:26:32 +0000

"Discussions about race/gender" is also political discussion, it's very strange that the author doesn't understand this unless he has some implicit intentions here and separates these topics on purpose.

New comment by erikj in "IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t"

erikj — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:42:57 +0000

Is proof-of-stake actually deployed anywhere yet?

New comment by erikj in "Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]"

erikj — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:35:10 +0000

Their demands should be fulfilled by vocational schools, not universities.

New comment by erikj in "Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]"

erikj — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:10:39 +0000

This shift of focus from fundamental computer science to "real-world software development" training seems to be short-sighted and more appropriate for a vocational school or a coder bootcamp rather than a place like MIT.

New comment by erikj in "What Made Lisp Different (2002)"

erikj — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:22:31 +0000

Also, Apple's Interface Builder began its life as a Lisp program: http://vimeo.com/62618532

New comment by erikj in "What Made Lisp Different (2002)"

erikj — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:32:51 +0000

I'd rather use the whole thing rather than scattered bits here and there.

New comment by erikj in "What Made Lisp Different (2002)"

erikj — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:26:49 +0000

Yeah, Lisp actually used to benefit from network effects between the 60s and the 80s, before the AI winter struck and Lisp was sacrificed as a scapegoat by the industry (MCC and NASA JPL are probably the most well-publicized cases).