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   IBM to open San Francisco office dedicated to Watson supercomputing – Fortune(fortune.com)

   4 points by bitdiddle 11y ago|0 comments
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   IBM appoints leader for its Internet of things practice – Fortune(fortune.com)

   1 points by bitdiddle 11y ago|0 comments
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   by bitdiddle 11y ago

   Noah Warren - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/248624
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   Rgrinberg/opium(github.com)

   2 points by bitdiddle 12y ago|0 comments
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   by bitdiddle 12y ago

   hmm, it seems to me that the author confuses NP-hard and NP-complete in a couple of places. Typos perhaps, or just poorly written.
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   by bitdiddle 12y ago

   Brian Eno makes a good argument[1] that it's already here. [1] http://edge.org/responses/q2015
7. 37.▲
   by bitdiddle 12y ago

   +1
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   by bitdiddle 12y ago

   There's some interesting theoretical work that was done by Srinivas in the 90s[1], that takes a geometric view of pattern matching, based on sheaves, and uses it to derive a generalized version of KMP that can be applied in other domai
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   by bitdiddle 12y ago

   +1
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Your comments in this thread have really piqued my interest enough to read some of this HoTT. I'd heard of this a couple of years back and didn't have the energy for it at the time. Some years ago I spent a serious amount of time
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    really? Could you cite an instance of this, where IBM sued a company over software patents right before an IPO.
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Eben Moglen's arguments are quite convincing. His talk titled "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"[1] really strengthened my convictions in favor of free software. [1] http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berl
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Thanks for the clarification, my interest was academic and piqued by the use of hierarchical structures. Best of luck with it!
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    agreed! I just downloaded and installed and can't for the life of me find the source code. perhaps by open source they mean the collection of clients on Github
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    agree, it's kind of like MS Access was, right? Dirt simple to use, lots of neat add on tools over the years, and great for rapid prototyping, but not really a database.
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    I totally agree, I've used CouchDB a lot myself and a "mental note to self" or other best practice can suffice, especially if programmers leave or otherwise document those notes for their successors :) CouchDB views are reall
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Yes, this is often overlooked, and one of the main downsides to NoSQL databases. Schemas don't really go away they just get pushed into the application layer. When multiple apps use the same database, schema maintenance and evolution b
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Interesting that Emmy Noether was Ashkenazi, I knew of Einstein and Bernstein. This theory has been around for a while, not sure what to make of it given what we know now about IQ.
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Cute name. I wonder to what extent the language has anything to do with Frege's work in logic. I mean Haskell's last name was Curry, and currying is a big deal in FP. Thankfully that wasn't named after Moses Schoenfinkel.
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    Smarter Than You Think(nytimes.com)

    1 points by bitdiddle 13y ago|0 comments
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Yes, there's a lot of subtlety to licensing. Personally I think it should be taught in computer science schools. Open source software has really changed the dynamics of corporations. Of course we wouldn't have the open source move
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    I don't quite follow, in that all dual-licensed business models seem to be based on this exploitation? What's different about AGPL?
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    I agree, though it's notable that open source is quite distinct from free software. I recall the beginning of the open source movement well. I would argue that the GPL is Stallman's greatest contribution to programming.
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    emacs
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    What I find interesting are the claims Penrose[1] and others make about human versus machine intelligence based on Godel's results. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_artificial_intel...
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    Emacs, imho, will get a whole lot better when it runs on Guile[1]. This was a great presentation. I've been using emacs since the mid-eighties, it's so easily programmable that hackers are always hacking new things for it, so it k
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    you're not missing something, I believe the comment just got it flipped, and was referring[1] to problems relating to covariance and contravariance, when one tries to view OOP in terms of type theory. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covar
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    I'm not sure if his email address is current, but I emailed Frank Oles about this. He and I used to collaborate a bit and he was a student of Reynolds. He might know. The math genealogy project also lists it as unknown. Some things Google d
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    perhaps, I think it's some what of a myth that one can't make money from free software. Sure one can't erect flimsy toll booths and extract rents but as I look around I see lots of companies, .eg. IBM profiting quite nicely from free softwa
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    by bitdiddle 13y ago

    yes I was being very sarcastic