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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke(raymyers.org)
3 points by plinkplonk 2mo ago|1 comments
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What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
4 points by plinkplonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by plinkplonk 2y ago
This might be a dumb question, for which apologies in advance, but isn't 200 million a little low for a company with $ 50 million revenue? But maybe not, -- the profit is say $20 million and the acquirers are paying 10 X annual profi
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White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now(wdtn.com)
61 points by plinkplonk 2y ago|56 comments
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Fast Crimes at Lambda School(sandofsky.com)
610 points by plinkplonk 2y ago|332 comments
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Hey, let's fire all the devs and replace them with AI(mdwdotla.medium.com)
1 points by plinkplonk 3y ago|2 comments
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by plinkplonk 3y ago
"Kingdoms of Faith" by Brian Catlos is an excellent book about Al Andalus, from the Arab invasion to the fall of Granada (the aftermath is not covered extensively).
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Tyre-makers under pressure as too much rubber hits the road(reuters.com)
2 points by plinkplonk 3y ago|0 comments
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by plinkplonk 3y ago
wow! the YC application has changed quite a bit since the early days. Employment history and "Should you be selected for interview, we may ask for references"!
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by plinkplonk 4y ago
Tamil Brahmins usually use the father's first name as the last name for the child. so wheras in the North, you'd have Narayan Sharma's son being named Vishal Sharma, in Tamil Nadu Sriram Narayan's son would be Vishal Sri
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by plinkplonk 4y ago
What helped me get a grip on learning mathematics was learning to prove theorems. Working through Daniel Velleman's book "How to Prove It" (the only pre requisite is that you can understand boolean logic, which programmers ha
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by plinkplonk 4y ago
Zerodha built a market leading company with conservative tech choices, about 30 devs, and no VC funding. Conservatively estimated to be worth about $2 billion, last I checked. Very hard to pull this off, especially in a market like India, w
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Thanks for this. "Proof idea" is a phrase that concretizes a vague intuition I had about something that exists between a theorem and it's proof
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Replied!
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
I have a few questions but you don't have your email in your hn and profile. :-)
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Which system of Chi Kung(if you don't mind) ?
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
that makes sense. Trump and Modi have much in common.
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Imagine if Joe Biden's photo was on every vaccine card issued in the USA!
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Congratulations Spenser! From the YC article "But, in fact, they rather quickly settled on a different problem space that they understood deeply and which immediately resonated with their batchmates. It was also a problem for which the
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
Down, Bangalore, India
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Growing open source from Torch to PyTorch(soumith.ch)
78 points by plinkplonk 5y ago|23 comments
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
then he probably shouldn't be managing people who do (programming)
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
The book skips major components of a lisp implementation - garbage collection, macros - as "bonus projects" to be implemented by nhe reader.
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
India also demands government Id for covid vaccination. No Id, no vaccine. ( These days there is a desperate shortage of vaccines for everyone, which is another story for another time)
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by plinkplonk 5y ago
>I don’t understand what Modi is doing. I assure you, neither does he. Not a particularly intellectual or introspective man. He is a living example of the Peter Principle. Too bad a billion people have to suffer for his incompetence.
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
"I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend." Especially when said "doing" is done by other people (engineers, testers,SR
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
(fwiw) you could have left the question out and your second sentence would have conveyed your intent perfectly.
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
> It was one of the two most challenging, rewarding courses in my undergrad degree. which was the other?
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
Wow Thank You! I've been looking for the Pascal compiler book for a long time!
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The Forever Project(heredragonsabound.blogspot.com)
2 points by plinkplonk 6y ago|0 comments

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