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I'll just chime in with congrats on the new book. I was a huge fan of the Network Programming book that I first read in 2013, and which I still consider as having the best balance …

Easy one for me: Stephen A. Cook. Proved that SAT was NP-complete and formulated the P vs. NP problem. IMO, even among Turing Award winners there are tiers, and he's in the top one…

Author here, thanks for the thoughtful reply! > Perhaps Google is doing a decent job eliminating crap from their search results (debatable), but that’s not an outcome of a naive ap…

Great subject, great panelists, thanks!

Did we break their site? :( Edit: seems to be back up with everything in order.

I like the inspection feature! The natural question is: could this also support editing, rather than just inspecting? I guess reconciling that with regular in-file edits might be a…

As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards. Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like…

I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :) Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the threshold is too sensitive, but we didn't catch it when testing on my device. My colleague is fixing it and we'll have another version out very so…

Hi everyone, Not happy with the current news aggregators and thrilled about ML models for text processing, a colleague and I built an aggregator fully based on Doc2Vec: https://www…

Saw only recently that Judea Pearl was a guest on Sam Harris' podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/ . The preamble is depressing, since the episode aired right …