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this is almost certainly a lie

Pi is computable. What is computable, can be represented in finite information (the algorithm used to compute the number). Almost all real numbers are not computable.

Now tie this with computability theory. Almost all real numbers are uncomputable. It's obvious that they don't "exist" in any sense if by "exist" we mean "computable". Now consider…

So Airbnb has tried to unsuccessfully pivot to a payments infra company for several years now. Notable acquisitions for this effort include acqui-hiring ChangeTip, a bitcoin microp…

Sure. But most senior devs are not Tim Patterson.

Explains why there's little outbreak in Africa.

Philosophy of Computation at Berkeley: http://po.cab

relevant: falsehoods programmers believe about time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

As a LGBTQ person this article is so creepy

Y'all are gonna call me a crackpot, but consider P, PSPACE and IP. PSPACE is (probably) much more powerful than P. Also PSPACE=IP (interactive proofs). Learn interactively. Treat y…

this is hilarious. sorry for laughing

gosh, this is unsettling. my brain is literally getting stuck on an infinite loop trying to read this and coherently put them together

No. peak market share of Windows XP was 80%. market share of chrome is hovering around 65%. search engine share of google is like 90%.

please stop spreading the myth that ChromeOS is somehow immune to malware. nothing stops a dev from uploading malware to the Chrome web store, and there are many such cases that ha…

the best way to ramp up on a codebase is to simply follow the critical path and draw an execution diagram of the entire critical path. tools like these are gimmicks.

ML is hierarchical. the upstream layers categorise more abstractly and downstream layers categorise more specifically.

this reeks of internal political problems. this isn't good for google nor for google's partners. the only reason they would autocannibalize is if there are too many engineers sitti…

the economy of literature, marc shell. it gives you a semiotics of money, a way of understanding money qualitatively. it has been 100x more valuable than any economics textbook.

Think about it. Soft AI that assists the driver (automatic turning, cruise control, automatic brakes) is now mainstream. Why is it that full self-driving cars are categorically dif…

it's entirely possible that the Berkeley CS professors, who are obviously geniuses but also kind of dolts, knew nothing about these bureaucratic intricacies and took the most obvio…

i was an undergraduate 8-hour TA at UC Berkeley for six semesters between 2015 and 2018. i was also part of the union. i'm surprised few of the comments are mentioning the main iss…

it makes me sad this sort of unnuanced, oh-so-rational take unengaged by any sort of philosophy is still getting upvotes in HN. posting here feels like a lost cause.