d-crane

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by d-crane 9y ago
The Ritman library is absolutely wonderful, and open to the public without appointment; if you find yourself in Amsterdam, it's absolutely worth it to go ring their doorbell and look around. It was the highlight of my post-high-school
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by d-crane 9y ago
Thank you for the historical info, and the video; as a big computing history buff, I really appreciate both the first-hand account and the media of the time!
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by d-crane 9y ago
As an undergraduate senior in the CS program at the University of Washington, I can definitely attest to memory management giving the majority of people a really hard time in our required C course. I've only talked to one other person
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by d-crane 9y ago
Greg Egan's Diaspora starts with the details of what it's like for a new AI to be brought into existence in a society of advanced AIs, and jumps off from there. Definitely one of the more original hard sci-fi novels I've read
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by d-crane 9y ago
That's interesting! As a former occult-type guy this was news to me. I can definitely see AC ribbing Waite over this endlessly.
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by d-crane 9y ago
I heard about SDF through telehack, and very much appreciate the similar vibe, to say nothing of the historical provenance of SDF!
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by d-crane 9y ago
My favorite telnet destination, and one of the few net destinations I still visit ~5 years later, is telehack. telnet telehack.com I've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, but only intermittently. I know they've recently added a
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by d-crane 10y ago
Well, our text for the course was Levitin's Design and Analysis of Algorithms, but I really can't speak to its quality at all - we just used the professor's own prepared information pretty much exclusively. From my brief look
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by d-crane 10y ago
I just finished my undergrad CS algorithms course, and my professor mentioned this book, but we didn't use it. He essentially said that it contains so much material that it's rather all-encompassing as a reference book, but he def
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by d-crane 10y ago
Alien: Isolation (for which I believe a short, non-publicly-available VR was made) would be an amazing and colossally scary VR experience. The immersion is already incredible just playing on the TV; I can't imagine the tension of tryin
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by d-crane 10y ago
Thank you, that seems like great advice. A few of his better known papers are definitely over my head currently, although I'm familiar with the basic concepts at least; but luckily he has some other work that is at least somewhat acces
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by d-crane 10y ago
Thanks! I'm definitely guilty of falling into that trap so far. I haven't wanted to show up and feel like I don't have anything interesting to say or like I can't make any kind of good impression, but your advice to just
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by d-crane 10y ago
Thanks for the reassurance that side projects and being the top of the class aren't particularly important. I definitely get a little worried when there I've got the 20-year-old classmates that have spent the last six months build
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by d-crane 10y ago
Thanks, this is definitely helpful. I've got three or so weeks left in the quarter, so I can certainly go by during office hours between now and then. Very much appreciated.
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Ask HN: How do I pursue an academic relationship with a professor?
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by d-crane 10y ago
I just fell into a serious rabbit hole watching every video I could find on this. The speed and accuracy of these things is wild, thanks for sharing it.
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by d-crane 10y ago
Huge telehack fan here, glad to see it get mentioned -- this immediately reminded me of TH.
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by d-crane 11y ago
I'd be game for pretty much anything, honestly. Mobile or desktop, whatever. As a relative beginner, it's kind of daunting to approach a non-toy programming application, so I just find myself doing classical crypto applications (f
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by d-crane 11y ago
I think that'd be pretty cool, as a fairly new programmer!
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by d-crane 11y ago
Personally, I think this really cool and hope it sticks around for awhile. If I saw meshtag graffiti, I would absolutely scan it, and that's the kind of use that's exciting to me. Awesome stuff!
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by d-crane 11y ago
I was JUST telling my wife about Chex Quest! It was really way more fun than it had any right to be.