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An honest accounting of this history has to call out Sinofsky's role, and it's not pretty. He nearly killed the company in pursuit of power, insisting that everything be brought un…

It's the new .NET in that it been so overused as to become almost meaningless.

Not trying to "Schmidhuber" this or anything, but I think my 1999 NIPS paper gives a cleaner derivation and explanation for working on the Jacobian. In it, I derive a Jacobian oper…

This is so nice to randomly come across. Let know if there's something that I can do to help (I am the author of CBofN). You can reach me at @ .org.

Really nice job and thanks for the shout out to my book.

Well said. (cough, cough, Schmidhuber, cough.)

I don't think this comparison is fair to LeCun. He has literally been at the forefront of ML for over 40 years, starting with his PhD thesis and continuing to the present, and his …

I recently learned that someone is seeking to impersonate me on IG. They've created a new IG profile w/ my name, photo, etc., and now have more followers and friends than I do. The…

Your second group represents the core "inner loop" of about a thousand revolutionary applications. Take the basic capability of translating image->text->speech (and the reverse), i…

> PS: If you have italian ancestors and are interested in getting your citizenship let me know, I'm writing a blog post with my experience so far :) I am very interested in the cit…

I was also one of Cynthia's Ph.D. advisors when she was a graduate student at Princeton, some twenty years ago. It was obvious to me then that she would go on to do great things, s…

As a 14 year old in 1981, I bought a Timex Sinclair from Sears with money that I had been saving up for a over a year. Best. Purchase. Ever. What I learned on that $99 machine woul…

for a in range(1, Infinity): for b in range(a): print(a-b, "/" , b+1) Will print out: 1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 3/1, 2/2, 1/3, 4/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4, ... Hence, we've just mapped all rationals (…

1996, Jose Cibelli implanted his own DNA into a cow egg, then let it divide into 32 chimeric stem cells before destroying it. I heard about the news in 1998 and was blown away by h…

Yep, which is exactly what I did here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82751815.pdf

None. The point of the paper was the proof technique, which was later extended to include a large family of constrained motion planning problems (i.e., problems that previously wer…

Agreed, not with this particular design. However, you can absolutely do this just ternary numbers. You loose the ability to encode 3^n states (and are stuck w/ just 2^n), but the m…

Looking at the documentation, it reads as if the architecture has a proper clock that synchronizes all computation. Furthermore, an emulator would naturally have a global notion of…

I don't think that you'd ever want to literally have sliding mechanics. However, the dual rail logic used is a type of reversible computation. Thus, thermodynamically it is theoret…

Not-so-humble-brag: I am the first author in the first paper referenced in the linked PDF. I came up with the original PSPACE-completeness proof as well as the model of computation…

More seriously, this is cute and it brings back fond memories of L-systems.

I could have sworn that Logo was a tiny subset of Logo. Live and learn.

Yikes! I guess I better finish it now. Although, you should prepare to be bitterly disappointed because the next book will have something to piss off almost everyone (not by design…

Thanks ... I really appreciate the kind words. MIT Press has repeatedly tried to get me to do a 2nd edition and while it was tempting, I always ultimately decided that it was bette…

No worries my dude. I am really happy to read that my book had such a big impact on you (as well as humbled by your praise). It's the little interactions like this that are the tru…