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Larry Wall is Brat.

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I had "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" as a child. I don't think it had a direct influence on my career in AI, but when I had a college job as a computer help desk consultant,…

"Joins Stanford HAI" is correct; "Leaves Google" is not right–I'm keeping my Google badge, but will spend most of my time at Stanford.

I ran Search for 5 years or so; then ran all of Research for the next 5; then had an increasing smaller portion of a huge growing Research initiative. This past year I enjoyed ment…

I use "Ali" and "Bo", because they are (a) gender-neutral, (b) less Western, and (c) prefixes of "Alice" and "Bob".

I agree, tuvistavie! But my default machine has 3.7 installed, and I didn't want to get too far ahead of readers. Sometime next year I'll go to 3.8, and look forward to using ":="

madhadron, I'm a Common Lisper, so I'm good with `first` and `rest`.

Good point, dmurray. It was a subtle point here, and probably I should have commented on it.

I regret causing confusion here. It turns out that this correlation was true on the initial small data set, but after gathering more data, the correlation went away. So the real le…

Very nice, David and William. I was also able to get to about a 2 second solution, but I didn't have to do bit operations: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/norvig/pytudes/blob/m…

I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

I admire Oren, and AI2, and the other institutes mentioned in the Director's Statement. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The diversity numbers are accurate. The numbers are for employees; some of the images depict non-employee visitors, some of whom are people of non-yellow color.

Some points: - Yes, the original publication year was 2000. I've added that to the file. - @HelloNurse: You've got the key point. I provided Lisp code to teach AI; but my goal was …

Here's a good summary bu Yonatan Zunger: https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...

Good summary. If I were in charge, I wouldn't even have a notion of unconditional probability -- everything is conditional on something.

You're right! 2.4 was out when I wrote that, so I could/should have used dequeue. But I wanted to use things that I thought readers would be familiar with, and timing wasn't a big …

When you say "1) Potential Outcome 1: Both are boys 2) Potential Outcome 2: One boy and one girl 3) Potential outcome 3: Both are girls" you are right that those are three potentia…

Very nice write-up on SET, Henrik. I hadn'e seen it before, and wasn't aware of your interesting results.

Good point, tunesmith, I should define a version of `util` that lets you start at your current personal bankroll, rather than at 0, and show how the amount you are willing to pay t…

Very nice find on the patent, emhart. Thanks! It looks like the patent is the same as my `greedy_lock`, except that at each tumbler "the entire word list is scanned"; this is worse…

I worked with Margaret and Saydeen at Higher Order Software for my first job out of college, but I didn't get to work on anything as glamorous as Apollo. We did mostly government c…

Congratulations, PG!

When I was in grad school a friend in another department said "You guys in CS have much nicer printers; can I mail you my thesis and have you print it out? And how would I mail it?…