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https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way
thoughts on algorithmic discovery
Seen on LinkedIn:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566532
engineering leadership thoughts
A question, from a << friend of the blog :
First-generation languages (1GL) are the rawest form of programming: binary instructions directly executed by a processor. These are sequences of bits that tell the machine exactly what to do, down to the level of moving data between memory and registers, performing arithmetic, or jumping to…
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/waymo-driverless-cars-austin-slammed-complaints
It would be too much to say that << how core Git developers use Git is the correct way. But it is far safer to say that it is the orthodox way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137085 additional comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109669
The Harvard Sentences https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/harvard.html contains about 1880 distinct words, across the 720 sentences. My script split the word "don't" into << don and << t .
The question: in Python 3.9, how does one set up inheritance of dataclasses, when the base class contains fields with a default value?
I find myself dreaming about "replace Wikipedia" again.
I try to run something in Python on my macbook.
https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649858
dateline: 21 NOV 2023. At OpenAI, an opaque decision by a rump board-of-directors to fire the CEO has led to chaos within the company flooding the news cycle. In this type of situation, it is advised to wait at least six weeks before commenting as an outsider on the specifics of the situation.
The latest gimmick in the news is "rain panels". The raindrops that fall on your house have energy; why aren't you harvesting it?
suppose we want to communicate message A if event E happens, and message B if event E does not happen.