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New comment by reedwolf in "Learn C in Y Minutes"

reedwolf — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:04:16 +0000

My takeaway from this thread is that C programmers are completely insufferable.

A Gay Girl in Damascus

reedwolf — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gay_Girl_In_Damascus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588380

Points: 2

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Fidelity’s Best Investors Are Dead (2020)

reedwolf — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:36:16 +0000

Article URL: https://theconservativeincomeinvestor.com/fidelitys-best-investors-are-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935082

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by reedwolf in "Six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form"

reedwolf — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:32:29 +0000

I wish Musk/Bezos/Branson et al would spend their billions on colossal space telescopes rather than Mars vanity projects. Imagine being able to image the surface of an exoplanet...

New comment by reedwolf in "OO in Python is mostly pointless"

reedwolf — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:29:49 +0000

Thems fightin words.

New comment by reedwolf in "CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python"

reedwolf — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 04:28:38 +0000

There's MyHDL. Turns Python into a hardware description and verification language:

https://github.com/myhdl/myhdl

Text Compression as a Test for Artificial Intelligence (1999) [pdf]

reedwolf — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1999/AAAI99-177.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050974

Points: 1

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New comment by reedwolf in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

reedwolf — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:30:49 +0000

https://text.npr.org/932068951

New comment by reedwolf in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

reedwolf — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:58:36 +0000

That depends on the Georgia runoffs in January. If the Dems win those two seats, then along with Harris's tie breaking vote they would have a senate majority.

Measuring Universal Intelligence: Towards an Anytime Intelligence Test (2011)

reedwolf — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 13:35:54 +0000

Article URL: https://core.ac.uk/reader/82256690

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25014980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Kolmogorov's AI

reedwolf — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/fi/kolmogorov

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977812

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Mimicry Game: Towards Self-Recognition in Chatbots

reedwolf — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:05:00 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02334

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960340

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

GPT-3-Powered English to Bash Unix Command Line Translator

reedwolf — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:10:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/jl1aa6/the_nlc2cmd_challenge_site_has_a_gpt3powered/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24953172

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research

reedwolf — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15581

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24951633

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Solver Speedups (2015)

reedwolf — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:16:27 +0000

Article URL: http://bob4er.blogspot.com/2015/05/amazing-solver-speedups.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24938769

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by reedwolf in "The week old Hollywood finally died"

reedwolf — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:44:26 +0000

Unpaywalled: http://archive.vn/wcuxy

New comment by reedwolf in "Clear Channel’s billboards will start tracking consumers in Europe"

reedwolf — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:38:40 +0000

I remember something like this in the movie Minority Report (2002).

New comment by reedwolf in "To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012)"

reedwolf — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:40:56 +0000

Bottom line:

"With the new database-based science, there is often no moment when the complex becomes simple enough for us to understand it. The model does not reduce to an equation that lets us then throw away the model. You have to run the simulation to see what emerges. For example, a computer model of the movement of people within a confined space who are fleeing from a threat--they are in a panic--shows that putting a column about one meter in front of an exit door, slightly to either side, actually increases the flow of people out the door. Why? There may be a theory or it may simply be an emergent property. We can climb the ladder of complexity from party games to humans with the single intent of getting outside of a burning building, to phenomena with many more people with much more diverse and changing motivations, such as markets. We can model these and perhaps know how they work without understanding them. They are so complex that only our artificial brains can manage the amount of data and the number of interactions involved."

To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012)

reedwolf — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:53:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-on-science-and-big-data/250820/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176533

Points: 60

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Things I wish Pip learned from NPM (2014)

reedwolf — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 23:31:47 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@alonisser/things-i-wish-pip-learned-from-npm-f712fa26f5bc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173376

Points: 2

# Comments: 0