egl2021

The rules for what homeowners are allowed to do vary by jurisdiction, but the underlying principle is that if you are living in the home, you have an incentive not to mess up.

George Dyson has good evidence that von Neumann and the IAS team studied Turing's paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. You can find video of Dyson talking about this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FibuHyIHnU&t=1131s>

Thank you, Andrej. You're a pedagogical gem!

"I don't know" is exactly what I want my docs to say when they don't know.

Philip Morrison praised GR in his Scientific American column. That was good enough for me: I read GR and eventually all of Pynchon's other novels. V is one of the books I fall back on when I need something for a trip with lots of expected airport layovers.

I apparently wasn't paying attention: can you elaborate on what it is that "everyone" knows?

In the long run, this could be a boon for social media companies: they now have a requirement to ask you to identify yourself and provide clear proof of your location. This will drive away some users, but the remaining users will be great for targeting ads.

Rich Socher had this to say about the transition to neural networks: "Chris Manning also, to his credit – when I came to him and I had all these ideas from the computer vision world and neural networks, I still remember that meeting – he said, "Look, I don't know anything about neural networks right now either, but I'm willing to learn, and we'll get through it together." And obviously he knew everything there is about NLP in general." Adapt or die.

The VCs don't "owe" money to the startups: they "buy" equity with their money. The VCs aren't "out" the money deposited by the startup at SVB; that money was already exchanged for equity in the startup.

The VCs aren't happy because they and the startup both expected that the money-equity exchange meant that the startup would have working capital, so potentially the value of the equity that they got has fallen. This is a problem for both parties.

In my experience with small SV companies over the last several decades, this would be exceptional. Typically you get money from investors at negotiated, spaced points in time. In between your CFO manages the cash on hand to cover everything: payroll, taxes, and any other accounts payable.

Your corporate secret can be hallucinated by ChatGPT. How would you tell the difference?

Tim Roughgarden, Algorithmic game theory. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RJBqmxvZ0_i...

The lectures are a perfect complement to his book "Twenty lectures on algorithmic game theory".

Or you get more rigorous about what is being accomplished and realize that you don't really need as many people. Or you decide that a remote worker can be anywhere, so why not use the global talent pool? These are the dark sides of WFH for employees.

Likely the prosecution's case is strong, e.g. there is a hard-to-disguise paper trail that clearly implicates these first cooperators.

"...you can write imperative programs...". It's worse than that: you have to look carefully at the order of the alternatives to understand the computation. I re-read Clocksin and Mellish during a recent programming language binge and realized that an imperative core lurks under the logical veneer.

It can get worse than a bad satisfaction score. Look up "Saint Francis Health System shooting".

Two reasons in the wild:

1. You might not know a priori that the lexical analysis can be done without any knowledge of the surrounding grammatical context.

2. You may be able to give more informative error messages if you know the grammatical context.

TECO (Tape Editor/COrrector): enter your name as a command. what does it do?

Same for me. Back in the day I learned C++ by reading each item in Effective C++ and studying Ellis and Stroustrup until I (almost) understood everything that Meyers mentioned in the item. It was slow going...

OpenCV uses BGR.

If companies can figure out how to use a mostly remote workforce effectively, they can hire anywhere in the world with good Internet. They would no longer need to put an office where there are plenty of qualified workers; they could hire one-at-a-time without regard to geography. And if time zones are a problem, hire north-south rather than east-west. Rio de Janeiro, for example, is only one hour later than New York City.

Over the short term there are arbitrage opportunities for tech workers moving out of high-cost and high-pay regions, but the equilibrium could be quite different.

For me, the big feature in editors is mouseless editing. With emacs my fingers never have to leave the keyboard. When I started out in the Dark Ages, vi offered the same benefit, but multiple buffers were easier in emacs, so I ended up with emacs. I use some emacs extensions (e.g. ctags recently), but that's a secondary benefit.

So from my perspective, you've already gotten most of the benefit just with vi. YMMV. If emacs were to disappear today, I'd probably switch to vi and be perfectly happy.

I've read most of it. It's excellent. You have to pay a lot of attention to get anything out of it, much more than is required for SICP, PAIP, or The Little Schemer. You will spend enough time at it that the monetary outlay will be insignificant...

Mentioning Eckert and Mauchly requires also mentioning Atanasoff, with whom they lost a priority dispute.

And in extreme conditions, many of us use something known as "clothing".