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the 10x engineer concept is really dehumanizing

Frankly I think you could call a mathematician a fictionalist or meta-fictionalist since a proof can be construed as a narrative in the ZFC canon. I'd be willing to call a mathemat…

I said just use amdefine. I didn't say "just use amdefine" because I want you to agree with me. I don't care if you agree with me. I said it because it appears to solve the same pr…

just use amdefine edit: not sure why people don't like amdefine Paul Graham is wrong. Downvote discussion helps. Asking for feedback is something we want to encourage.

This is a distraction. User tokenadult, I'm asking you to explain why you think this is appropriate content for the hacker news community. Try submitting this to Reddit under /r/ec…

What you actually want in this context is some code that generates random deviates of probability distributions chosen randomly and a "guesser agent" that tries to guess which dist…

A FB presidency? Americans will go wild. They'll be all > sign me up, put the chains on and lock me in

Out of curiosity, do you believe mockery is a form of hatred?

How do people feel about a Zuckerberg presidency? As president, is Zuckerberg going to "fight the hate" in America? Is Bloomberg asking Zuckerberg to outline such an agenda? > Duri…

> dark voodoo If I have a function f and an element of the domain x, then the value y = f(x) does not change. This is not dark voodoo.

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> reproducibility is difficult in science generally but can be insanely difficult for machine learning it is a computer algorithm, so by definition it is trivial to reproduce resul…

I updated the video feed and added a synthesizer anythingbot.org/video anythingbot.org/nonlanguage

This actually isn't true; you can invent organizations of the imagination and mirror those. This "imagination driven programming" is actually quite dangerous and tends to devolve i…

You have to say which set of programs you will run, and then you have to pick how you will describe a set of programs (since the name of a set of programs is just data). Wikipedia …

And the activity looks very similar to a neuron firing! This is, in a sense, THE BASIC LEARNING UNIT a.k.a. neuron. If you think about the way water flows through a river (the wate…

identity-fixing monotone (in the prefix relation, a partial preorder) maps of cancellative monoids. It is possible to use them as a model of abstract sequential computation, so the…

I would like to propose wikipedia edit history and comment deletion milestones for the hn comment system, and in addition, a comment redaction facility that works like redaction of…