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Lol you are totally right! ;-) I am normally a casual guy but for a giant being a bit more formal (pun intended) seems appropriate. Or maybe I am a nerd through and through :-)

Random anecdote and Mr. Hoare (yep not a Dr.) has always been one of my computing heroes. Mr. Hoare did a talk back during my undergrad and for some reason despite totally checked …

I was mindlessly playing Clapping Music on my Amazon package when I suddenly thought "Hey! Let's combine this with the 3n+1 conjecture!". Above is the result, enjoy :-)

“We are ugly but we have the music.” One of the first things I did in New York was to visit the Chelsea Hotel. All the stories. I’ve always been borderline obsessed with hey that’s…

lol thanks! Read probably 80% of the article and missed this: "Almost before knowing it, she had decided. Lynn copied the most important papers. After carefully eradicating her old…

Wow, 4 citations. I feel happy for Lynn that she ended up doing a lot more impressive work, but definitely this should be restored to its proper place in the history of computing. …

It's kind of funny to see Linus browbeaten other people into submission regardless of him being right or not, while claiming "I am always right". A few counter points: - `hg` has `…

Good point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_postulate is actually for any n > 3 there is always a prime between n and 2n - 2, or like you said for n > 1, between n and …

Possession is one of the best novels I have read - a book about writers and books, the intertwined story lines are in some sense a bit recursive, a mystery and a romance at the sam…

Seeing the outpouring from the OpenAI team makes me think there might be a real schism there - it’s a bit troubling to see, id software became less special after Romero left and ei…

pg is a world class lisp hacker, no idea about sama though. Respecting and admiring someone for their achievements is one thing but blindly following successful people sounds like …

I know the HN crows idolizes people like pg and sama, but so many people appear to not even know who Ilya Sutskever is makes me think somehow this isn't "hacker" news anymore. Obvi…

190 citations sounds impressive but considering they mostly come from possibly the two fields that gathers citations the quickest - biomedical sciences and artificial intelligence …

Basically Shane Legg (who is probably not the Google AI chief), chief AGI scientist at DeepMind, who said in 2011/2012 ( https://www.vetta.org/2011/12/goodbye-2011-hello-2012/ ) th…