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by brchr 6mo ago
“I never had a doctorate, so I had to make do with Quicksort.” —Sir Tony Hoare (unpublished interview for Algorithms to Live By)
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by brchr 6mo ago
FYI, There is absolutely an Internet Hall of Fame and anyone would be welcome to nominate Jay! https://www.internethalloffame.org
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by brchr 1y ago
This is only half correct. It is true that some/many Rolex AD’s will allocate the most desirable watches to customers with an existing purchase history, and that some customers therefore buy less desirable models in order to earn goodw
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by brchr 2y ago
It is possible to reproduce one of the key claims in this post -- the "Russian tail" in the early voting tallies -- straight from the raw data hosted on the Clark County, NV website. This code can be run in a Colab notebook: #
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by brchr 2y ago
Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn (TCP/IP), Paul Baran (packet switching), Tim Berners-Lee (WWW), Marc Andreesen (Netscape), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Douglas Engelbart (hypertext), Aaron Swartz (RSS, Creative Commons), Richard Stallma
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by brchr 2y ago
Peter Eckersley (1978-2022) was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for his founding work on Let’s Encrypt. The Internet is a better place because of Peter (and his many collaborators and colleagues).
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by brchr 2y ago
My understanding of the evidence is that it suggests the mechanism was made in Rhodes.
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by brchr 3y ago
Leslie Lamport gives a short oral history of the Bakery Algorithm in Episode 3 of "Algorithms at Work": https://www.audible.com/pd/Episode-3-Concurrency-How-to-Coor...
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by brchr 3y ago
Author of "The Alignment Problem" here, to say: Of course this question depends on your semantics of "harm," "AI," and "alignment," but by most definitions (and certainly by mine) the answer is overwh
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by brchr 4y ago
Watch movements are generally sensitive to magnetic fields, and can become magnetized and lose accuracy. Some watch models explicitly advertise their level of resistance to magnetism, for instance the Rolex Milgauss, which is designed to wi
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by brchr 5y ago
For the donation of a single dollar, you are given access to all of his videos. I would not describe that as "exclusive," although I understand what you are saying.
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by brchr 5y ago
I can see why you might think that on a first impression, but I genuinely think you’d be surprised! (Book has been discussed on HN quite a few times, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717949 .)
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by brchr 5y ago
Current title ("Peter Norvig Leaves Google to Join Stanford HAI") seems to overstate slightly. According to Peter: "I still have my affiliation with Google, but will spend most of my time at Stanford."
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by brchr 5y ago
Oh no, are you getting hit with an adwall? I’m able to open the following links in incognito windows with no trouble: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas... ? https://w
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by brchr 5y ago
Brian Christian here. Honored to be the guest on the Ezra Klein show this week and by Ezra’s kind words: "Brian Christian’s recent book The Alignment Problem is the best book on the key technical and moral questions of A.I. that I’ve r
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If 'All Models Are Wrong,' Why Do We Give Them So Much Power?(nytimes.com)
9 points by brchr 5y ago|5 comments
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by brchr 6y ago
There are some semantic issues, e.g., the distinction between "mandatory" and "discretionary" expenditures, but the data is pretty easy to explore. Essentially you are "both right". > 50% of total spending i
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by brchr 6y ago
Five days ago, the National Association of Black Journalists revised their style guide: 'For the last year, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has been integrating the capitalization of the word "Black" into
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by brchr 8y ago
This comment is both unhelpful (dismisses the original claim using zero evidence) and completely incorrect. Please look at the trendlines for "heroin deaths" and "synthetic opiod deaths" in the following graph of US CDC
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by brchr 8y ago
I have always found selfish routing to have interesting implications for a world in which traffic is more coordinated and centrally managed -- be it through present-day apps like Google Maps and Waze, or some near-future technology with aut
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by brchr 8y ago
One of the most crucial parts of my reading workflow is opening things in new tabs. (It allows one to explore a topic by BFS rather than DFS.) Asking me "Don't you want to use our app?" is like asking, "Don't you wa
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by brchr 8y ago
It’s exactly the cutoff at zero that puts the "kink" into the function which makes ReLU nonlinear. :)
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by brchr 8y ago
WWDC 2009: 13" MacBook Pro and iPhone 3GS announced WWDC 2010: iPhone 4 announced WWDC 2012: Retina MacBook Pro announced WWDC 2013: new Mac Pro, Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and MacBook Air announced WWDC 2017: iMac, MacBook and Mac
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Apple Releases MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update with Spectre Fix(support.apple.com)
4 points by brchr 9y ago|0 comments
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by brchr 9y ago
This sentence looks fine to me vis-a-vis subject-verb agreement: "[personnel + produce + precision] go." How do you think it ought to read instead?
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by brchr 9y ago
According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? I
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by brchr 9y ago
One of the key results on the role of randomness in polynomial identity testing is what's called the Schwartz–Zippel lemma.[1] As the wiki article states, "Currently, there is no known sub-exponential time algorithm that can solve
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by brchr 9y ago
In the 1960s, the biostatistician Marvin Zelen proposed using something very much like the Pólya urn for clinical trials, calling it the "play the winner" rule [1]. This has had a major effect in causing a rethinking of the tradit
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by brchr 10y ago
Looks like this is a 2005 study from William Jones, et al. If folks are interested in this line of research, Jones has a 2007 book called Keeping Found Things Found that takes a more comprehensive look at personal information management.
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by brchr 10y ago
Absolutely.

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