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“I never had a doctorate, so I had to make do with Quicksort.” —Sir Tony Hoare (unpublished interview for Algorithms to Live By)

FYI, There is absolutely an Internet Hall of Fame and anyone would be welcome to nominate Jay! https://www.internethalloffame.org

This is only half correct. It is true that some/many Rolex AD’s will allocate the most desirable watches to customers with an existing purchase history, and that some customers the…

It is possible to reproduce one of the key claims in this post -- the "Russian tail" in the early voting tallies -- straight from the raw data hosted on the Clark County, NV websit…

Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn (TCP/IP), Paul Baran (packet switching), Tim Berners-Lee (WWW), Marc Andreesen (Netscape), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Douglas Engelbart (hypertext), Aa…

Peter Eckersley (1978-2022) was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for his founding work on Let’s Encrypt. The Internet is a better place because of Peter (and hi…

My understanding of the evidence is that it suggests the mechanism was made in Rhodes.

Leslie Lamport gives a short oral history of the Bakery Algorithm in Episode 3 of "Algorithms at Work": https://www.audible.com/pd/Episode-3-Concurrency-How-to-Coor...

Author of "The Alignment Problem" here, to say: Of course this question depends on your semantics of "harm," "AI," and "alignment," but by most definitions (and certainly by mine) …

Watch movements are generally sensitive to magnetic fields, and can become magnetized and lose accuracy. Some watch models explicitly advertise their level of resistance to magneti…

For the donation of a single dollar, you are given access to all of his videos. I would not describe that as "exclusive," although I understand what you are saying.

I can see why you might think that on a first impression, but I genuinely think you’d be surprised! (Book has been discussed on HN quite a few times, e.g., https://news.ycombinator…

Current title ("Peter Norvig Leaves Google to Join Stanford HAI") seems to overstate slightly. According to Peter: "I still have my affiliation with Google, but will spend most of …

Oh no, are you getting hit with an adwall? I’m able to open the following links in incognito windows with no trouble: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas..…

Brian Christian here. Honored to be the guest on the Ezra Klein show this week and by Ezra’s kind words: "Brian Christian’s recent book The Alignment Problem is the best book on th…

There are some semantic issues, e.g., the distinction between "mandatory" and "discretionary" expenditures, but the data is pretty easy to explore. Essentially you are "both right"…

Five days ago, the National Association of Black Journalists revised their style guide: 'For the last year, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has been integratin…

This comment is both unhelpful (dismisses the original claim using zero evidence) and completely incorrect. Please look at the trendlines for "heroin deaths" and "synthetic opiod d…

I have always found selfish routing to have interesting implications for a world in which traffic is more coordinated and centrally managed -- be it through present-day apps like G…

One of the most crucial parts of my reading workflow is opening things in new tabs. (It allows one to explore a topic by BFS rather than DFS.) Asking me "Don't you want to use our …

It’s exactly the cutoff at zero that puts the "kink" into the function which makes ReLU nonlinear. :)

WWDC 2009: 13" MacBook Pro and iPhone 3GS announced WWDC 2010: iPhone 4 announced WWDC 2012: Retina MacBook Pro announced WWDC 2013: new Mac Pro, Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and…

This sentence looks fine to me vis-a-vis subject-verb agreement: "[personnel + produce + precision] go." How do you think it ought to read instead?