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by norvig 2y ago
Larry Wall is Brat.
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by norvig 2y ago
Thank you for archiving!
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by norvig 4y ago
I had "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" as a child. I don't think it had a direct influence on my career in AI, but when I had a college job as a computer help desk consultant, I would keep it on my desk, and when a stude
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by norvig 5y ago
"Joins Stanford HAI" is correct; "Leaves Google" is not right–I'm keeping my Google badge, but will spend most of my time at Stanford.
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by norvig 5y ago
I ran Search for 5 years or so; then ran all of Research for the next 5; then had an increasing smaller portion of a huge growing Research initiative. This past year I enjoyed mentoring startups in ML through the Google for Startups program
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by norvig 5y ago
I use "Ali" and "Bo", because they are (a) gender-neutral, (b) less Western, and (c) prefixes of "Alice" and "Bob".
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by norvig 6y ago
I agree, tuvistavie! But my default machine has 3.7 installed, and I didn't want to get too far ahead of readers. Sometime next year I'll go to 3.8, and look forward to using ":="
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by norvig 6y ago
madhadron, I'm a Common Lisper, so I'm good with `first` and `rest`.
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by norvig 6y ago
Good point, dmurray. It was a subtle point here, and probably I should have commented on it.
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by norvig 6y ago
I regret causing confusion here. It turns out that this correlation was true on the initial small data set, but after gathering more data, the correlation went away. So the real lesson should be: "if you gather data on a lot of low-fre
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by norvig 7y ago
Very nice, David and William. I was also able to get to about a 2 second solution, but I didn't have to do bit operations: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/norvig/pytudes/blob/mast...
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by norvig 8y ago
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
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by norvig 8y ago
I admire Oren, and AI2, and the other institutes mentioned in the Director's Statement. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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by norvig 8y ago
The diversity numbers are accurate. The numbers are for employees; some of the images depict non-employee visitors, some of whom are people of non-yellow color.
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by norvig 8y ago
Some points: - Yes, the original publication year was 2000. I've added that to the file. - @HelloNurse: You've got the key point. I provided Lisp code to teach AI; but my goal was to teach AI, not Lisp. As more schools and student
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by norvig 10y ago
Here's a good summary bu Yonatan Zunger: https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...
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by norvig 11y ago
Good summary. If I were in charge, I wouldn't even have a notion of unconditional probability -- everything is conditional on something.
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by norvig 11y ago
You're right! 2.4 was out when I wrote that, so I could/should have used dequeue. But I wanted to use things that I thought readers would be familiar with, and timing wasn't a big issue.
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by norvig 11y ago
When you say "1) Potential Outcome 1: Both are boys 2) Potential Outcome 2: One boy and one girl 3) Potential outcome 3: Both are girls" you are right that those are three potential outcomes, but they are not equiprobable outcomes
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by norvig 11y ago
Very nice write-up on SET, Henrik. I hadn'e seen it before, and wasn't aware of your interesting results.
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by norvig 11y ago
Good point, tunesmith, I should define a version of `util` that lets you start at your current personal bankroll, rather than at 0, and show how the amount you are willing to pay to play depends on how much you already have.
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by norvig 11y ago
Very nice find on the patent, emhart. Thanks! It looks like the patent is the same as my `greedy_lock`, except that at each tumbler "the entire word list is scanned"; this is worse than scanning just the words that make it throu
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by norvig 12y ago
I worked with Margaret and Saydeen at Higher Order Software for my first job out of college, but I didn't get to work on anything as glamorous as Apollo. We did mostly government contracts; I was there for two years before I decided i
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by norvig 13y ago
Congratulations, PG!
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by norvig 13y ago
When I was in grad school a friend in another department said "You guys in CS have much nicer printers; can I mail you my thesis and have you print it out? And how would I mail it?" I said "Sure; Just do 'mail me@schoo
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by norvig 14y ago
Obligatory riddle: "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" A: "Banch-Tarski Banach-Tarski"
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by norvig 15y ago
It is great that Hacker News has caught up with this -- Philip has done a great job with the Python Tutor. Next step: user-definable layout for display of different data types.
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by norvig 15y ago
Let me say that in my opinion, Matt DeBoard has certainly earned the title of "programmer." Welcome to the club, Matt, and you have my appreciation for the hard work you put in. It sounds to me like you're going about it in the right way;
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by norvig 15y ago
Promise. Good question. I think the engineering discipline part is much harder. I'm not sure that is because the problems really are harder: messier, ill-defined, changing over time; or whether it is that the academic community has focus
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by norvig 15y ago
Aw shucks, guys ... you make me blush with your compliments. Tell you what, Ill make a deal: I'll keep writing if you keep reading. K?

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