TedHerman

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by TedHerman 4mo ago
PG celebrates Boom's pivot to power generator supply.
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by TedHerman 6mo ago
For comparison: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/medievalmedicalrecipe...
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by TedHerman 6mo ago
This looks like a hack. Yes, being able to interpret webassembly is a general oracle. Still falls short of solving the real problem directly.
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by TedHerman 7mo ago
I foresee someone at Apple saying, someday, "Houston we have a problem".
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by TedHerman 7mo ago
Originally published in If magazine in September 1954: in this satirical tale (author is Robert Schekley), advanced robot soldiers fight a war against "Satan's forces," and after their victory, they are raptured upward to a m
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by TedHerman 7mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/7mlk4e/writing_vs_...
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by TedHerman 9mo ago
Drill baby drill.
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by TedHerman 9mo ago
Looking at yet another new sans typeface reminds me of looking through all the shades of white at a paint store. After a while, I just can't tell the differences or why they matter. Other people seem to have a talent for paint colors.
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by TedHerman 9mo ago
bad vibes
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by TedHerman 10mo ago
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudal...
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by TedHerman 10mo ago
only in the limit as N -> infinity
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by TedHerman 11mo ago
What if there could be a way to eliminate all of {frustration,boredom,joy} from programming?
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by TedHerman 11mo ago
Shout out to those hardcores using De Bruijn notation. And bonus points if you're using just S, K, and I. Points off if you're using Y or some other fancy combinators.
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by TedHerman 1y ago
Medical practitioners are tied into their own EHR systems. The fundamental problem with maintaining your own patient vault is friction. I doubt my caregivers would have the time to learn/use an app to look through my vault, let alone c
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by TedHerman 1y ago
Two background resources useful to know: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation and Christensen's "Jobs to be Done" theory. 2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/s
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by TedHerman 1y ago
Inattention is abundant.
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by TedHerman 1y ago
I lost interest in codex after reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/ because it was just too Straussian for me to follow. But he is a prodigious writer and I admire the energy
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by TedHerman 1y ago
"all publicity is good publicity" Apparently false (from WH perspective).
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by TedHerman 1y ago
The one science not rejected by the current US administration is Ballistics. The problem is that China can probably do it better than America. (I do realize that Nature does not have a specialty topic journal on ballistics and weapons.)
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by TedHerman 1y ago
You might enjoy the book "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (interview: In Conversation With Yanis Varoufakis - on YouTube).
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by TedHerman 1y ago
The first computer I experienced was the Programma 101. Later, learned FORTRAN using punched cards to program, and then paper tape (still remember painful finger cuts). You kids and your fancy LLM-enriched toolset have it so easy. With resp
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by TedHerman 1y ago
I thought this was a role that ACM Queue was supposed to serve. I guess I missed the distinction between Software Engineering and Practice.
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by TedHerman 1y ago
This reminds me of an essay I read many years ago, something about the lost art of back-of-the-envelope estimation. Going from slide rules to calculators and then more powerful tools, some mental skills were lost. Maybe one can make similar
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by TedHerman 2y ago
This is a response to search query of a related topic (I know it doesn't directly address the topic of the posting). Cisco has a reputation for sometimes "killing" companies it acquires by discontinuing successful products fr
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by TedHerman 2y ago
R2D2's language is real.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
If so, will AI be WFH or have to be in office and attend meetings?
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Indirect costs, or F&A, bundles infrastructure, compliance costs, payroll systems, and so on. In effect, the federal government subsidizes research universities. If the limit for indirect costs is limited to 15% or less, these universit
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by TedHerman 2y ago
When I read this, I am reminded of the novel The Sea-Wolf by Jack London. Implicitly, the ubermensch is an important theme in the book. For those of you who have also read this novel, what do you think, does it relate to the current generat
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Could be a step toward formalizing stack ranked citizenship.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
I recently bought a used bike for an abnormally low price. Why? Because the previous owner did not understand that one of the pedals unscrews in the opposite direction to the other (look it up). The previous owner was, however, strong enoug

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