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xiaodaion TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

can't believe tivo is still around.

xiaodaion A faster way to calculate the day of the week

look up table?

xiaodaion How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

Not with AI that's for sure

xiaodaion 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

also earth quake in china.

xiaodaion Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

how can you compile it if javascript is a valid subset of typescript? confused.

xiaodaion “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

imagine if a company's MO is to PAY Claude to use their model and distill the results. That's fair use of their model!

xiaodaion Incremental – A library for incremental computations

pardon my ignorance but is Ocaml performant enough? Why isn't something like this coded in say, C++?

xiaodaion China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

Amen! Europe used to complain about the US stealing their intellectual property! The nuclear bomb would have been possible if not for Jewish scientists from Europe going to America! So until about 100 years ago, US was FAR behind Europe in technology and science.

xiaodaion China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

maybe cos llama was shite?

xiaodaion How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

Why? Zig is clearly not memory safe like Rust.

xiaodaion OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

He's Swedish. Wow

xiaodaion OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

they were such hot property in the past!

xiaodaion Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

how things have changed! the grand daddy is being acquired!

xiaodaion Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time

but does the model predict the right match up along way? if not it's just wrong wrong make a right

xiaodaion Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time

how statistic significant is it.

xiaodaion Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

I have always wanted to make this! Can it accept user-define algebra stuff? like group theory stuff so more rules can be implemented.

xiaodaion GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

i suspect the key word here is nearly.

xiaodaion Road to Elm 1.0

wait? elm is not dead?

xiaodaion Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter

it's been tried 10 million times. so yeah

xiaodaion It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

we gotta accept that "owning" a digital asset will be a thing of the past. ppl need to update their mental model and evolve.

xiaodaion Why jet engines aren't made in China

Assuming China has spent 50 years already on jet engines, yeah. All these article just write off China.

Rote learning, no democracy. Proper jet engines WILL come out of China soon. lol. Just watch this space.

xiaodaion macOS Container Machines

so basically dockers

xiaodaion How to convert between wealth and income tax

should this article be renamed "How to count your chickens before the eggs even hatch?"

xiaodaion A Theory of Deep Learning

What a beautifully written article. It's extremely that I favourite an article but this is one.

xiaodaion Learning Lean: Part 1

i am a mathematician wanna-be. I have an undergrad honours degree in maths. As a retirement or pre-retirement project, I want to learn LEAN and contribute to it either via development or via developing the Mathlib or both!

Pointers welcome. As long as they are not null. Btw, I am also interested in compilers.

xiaodaion Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

we have a tendency to look thousands of years in the past for wisdom. weird.

xiaodaion JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

Python's default is gallop sort however radixsort is much faster and performs in O(n).

xiaodaion Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

R has that too.

xiaodaion Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language

Totally RAD!

xiaodaion Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages

the julia solution was bad