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Ten years ago (exactly, remarkably) Notch wrote about his father on his old blog. I think it's a beautiful, sad, human piece of writing. It's hard to find online, now that his blog…

Here is the video, fwiw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw

That's a thought-provoking perspective. It made me wonder whether BW has more to say, and what his plans are for how to say it. A charitable hypothesis is that he thought that his …

Facebook has thousands of pictures of our faces under a variety of lighting conditions. It would be exciting (or scary, depending on your point of view) to see that data, combined …

Pushing pixels to a high resolution display, under tight latency constraints, is going to stress even today's high-end systems. If they succeed at appealing to the mass market, I b…

The grammatical class of prepositions changes considerably more slowly than other classes. We need new nouns and new verbs all the time, because what occupies and what occurs in ou…

Sounds like having both is a good hedge against failures with either one.

This product (might someday) solve a real problem I have: one significant impediment to picking up a new web app is the need to learn yet another way of interfacing with the conten…

News like this worries me because I've always imagined the world's improvements in mass market technology being driven by competition between major players like Intel and AMD. In o…

I agree that Java can be awkward if you're trying to write using functional idioms. Still, in case you were interested, I commented on your gist with a potential solution.

Your webpage is nice. Thank you for sharing!

Your response is really exciting! I'm grateful--it's pointing at exactly what I was hoping to find. Deutsch seems to be talking about how to evaluate challenging arguments that com…

I think it's more unfortunate than irrational. I'd like to think I'm open to changing them--my priors started out (a couple of decades ago) pretty terrible. The process of how to d…

This kind of science has always been hard for me to integrate. Thinking as a Bayesian, these arguments seem to be meant to influence my "prior" over possible initial states or natu…

Any chance you'd be willing to share that 36 point review email? That sounds fascinating.

John Koza is a name worth googling if you're interested in learning more about Genetic Programming.

The many trading companies in Chicago also offer software developers interesting problems to solve and attractive compensation. There's certainly a lot of web work being done in Ch…

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