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Ask HN: Why are some innovations from previous AI cycles forgotten about?

Take for example Expert Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system) which are AI systems designed to make logical inferences. They had systems that could do accurate logical inferences in the 1970s, and even designed a VAX chip (SID) and made medical diagnosises (MYCIN) [apparently] to a level at or above many physicians.Why are innovations like these (another example being genetic...

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Re:Open Source Is Geopolitical Now on Monday April 07, 2025 @04:09PM (#43615422)
Uh well what about when they ban all Linux builds containing commits from Chinese contributers?
NixOS is very cool that's for sure, I plan on returning to it once I feel prepared to deal with coding all the configs in.
Re:Show HN: Super Simple CRC32 Implementation on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:51PM (#41988053)
I replaced that code with

  // loop until an EOF is read
  while ((ch = getchar()), ch != EOF) {
Would this be better?
Re:Show HN: Super Simple CRC32 Implementation on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @01:48PM (#41987374)
How would you suggest I replace that? I am a C novice but I have heard of the buffer overflows caused by scanf.
Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked on Sunday February 18, 2024 @09:46AM (#39419466)
Personal experience from browsing n = n + 1 apple support threads: Just message support. It’s much faster and has a higher chance of producing a result.
Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked on Sunday February 18, 2024 @09:44AM (#39419452)
Maybe to make this scenario seem plausible?

> From: definitelyNotAppleScam.com

> Subject: Your Apple Watch is hacked

> Hello [insert name here],

> We have found that your Apple Watch Series x has been compromised by hackers.

> Please click on the link below to reset your password

> [Link that asks for previous password and something idk]

Re:Managing Dotfiles on macOS with Nix on Sunday February 18, 2024 @09:35AM (#39419388)
Nix is probably the best IT DevOps tool right now.

It’s cool for personal devices until you realise you’d rather be productive rather than hop into a terminal and text editor to edit a Nix file just to install an app.

Simple explaination of Monads

Monads are just things that let you apply a value to something that cannot be defined with just regular values, e.g. metres applied to 300 for 300 metres, or dollars applied to 20 for 20 dollars.

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Re:Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:47AM (#39417061)
> I'm not sure what the motive would be, though.

To make Apple Watch antivirus scams?

Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:14AM (#39333373)
Google Bard -> Google Gemini -> Google Assistant?

I’m sure Gemini replaces Assistant and we have two Assistant apps in Play Store Google Pay style.