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I really like your analogy but I am concerned that analogies take you only so far. Human presence in digital world is simply unprecedented and deploying existing ideas without adap…

From TFA: "...neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence..." Have computer scientists switched to marketing or am I missing something?

Isn't it possible that by the time LIDAR is technically and economically ready for general deployment current Tesla models will have enough mileage and Tesla avoids retrofitting co…

Isn't that something we should expect as a result of using statistical methods (ML or otherwise) and focusing on masses?

I am quite used to C++ exceptions and strongly favor them against error codes mainly because of error handling decoupling and the fact that exception (unlike return code) cannot be…

All things accounted I still find HN the best discussion venue. I force myself to avoid reading discussions I suspect might not be interesting and apart from well known controversi…

Ada caught my attention recently. I am just curious - how is Ada job market? Any jobs other than military projects?

Please make your lectures public.

"After careful review of your background, we have elected to pursue other more properly ignored candidates. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!"

I agree that YMMV. Although sometimes "I do not tend to make many of the mistakes that would be caught by the C++ type system" might be related to "how to use C++ type system so it…

There are hints that even less than 8 bits per weight might be usable (for certain cases and on custom hw). Not sure if it's practical but it is definitely interesting. https://arx…

Totally agree. It's the same for any other mental load that could be offloaded to machine. Coding style? Don't demand people sticking to rules - use some formatter/prettyfier/linte…

Quite recently I happily used libcurl for C++ project rather than any of those C++ wrappers found at github. Granted there is some non-elegance when you adapt C-style error codes t…

I think it is pretty basic but with nice explanations, examples, it's pretty complete and it is free so you can basically hand it to someone willing to learn these things. Some rec…

For C++ I find both Google Test and Boost Unit Test Framework pretty usable. They both have some quirks but IMHO no show-stoppers. I prefer these to custom solutions because don't …

The best reasonably priced keyboard I have found. Decided to give it a try 5 year ago when dealing with sport-induced shoulder issue and never looked back. I was briefly thinking a…

OMG it's happening! I was always puzzled by how unrelated metric used for hiring is to actual work at many companies. I don't mind algorithmic brainteasers - on the contrary I woul…

* grep, sort, uniq ... * Microsoft Natural Keyboard

Might as well traffic signs were intentionally chosen as something human are good in classification of without any regard to machine learning algorithms (nonexistent at that time).…

While hearing about COBOL in banks quite often all my friends actually working there say Java and Oracle and all related job adverts I have seen so far were Java or C++. Could some…

Sad I know. Selling advertisement (tied to a "free" service) is mass market. My guess is power users are a) harder to capitalize on b) more demanding. There's plenty of low hanging…

Thank you in both cases sir/madam/whatever :-)

In case you missed that there's a big disillusioned C++ crowd out there. Just hear the pain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276351 And some of them are watching you with gr…

You are comparing apples to oranges here. I also agree that type system in C++ is not perfect and is rarely used in a sensible manner. Yet I would rather look for inspiration in fu…

Why so? Genuinely curious.