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Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem on Friday April 29, 2011 @05:30PM (#2499067)
Im getting a 404, is this the same? (Amazon service disruption "explained" by an employee)

http://lgv.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonFail_explainedByEmployee.j...

Re:TheDeadline - Your Intelligent Personal Assistant on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @08:38AM (#1231603)
Im testing, and Im really liking. It is easy, and fun to do things.. sure it has some things to improve, but as a first public version, it simply rocks!

GB (AI), cognitive models papers and Lisp code on the way

Hey guys (enthusiast AI guys, and Lispers too), I would like to share my professor Guilherme Bittencourt AI publications (and later his code), it goes specifically on cognitive models (well known, but not a popular and easy field). Unfortunately, he passed away last year (cancer), and most of his work is stagnated (since the disease, 2008). I have most of his cognitive model coded in Common...

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Re:ICFP 2009 Presentation Videos on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @06:08PM (#840221)
Actually, the album is this (by the same user): http://www.vimeo.com/album/126865
the video is now online: http://www.vimeo.com/6624203
Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? on Friday December 19, 2008 @12:40PM (#403568)
Conciousness is somewhat a prevalence over instincts, you got "magically" a way to "choose". You really should read S. Freud, and M. Minsky if you want to know more about.
at least give us the formula for it.
Re:A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish on Thursday October 30, 2008 @01:16PM (#348868)
A good read about why they kill each other: Konrad Lorenz, On Agression.
Re:Bill Gates' mysterious new company on Thursday October 23, 2008 @12:47AM (#340924)
Gates will try to apply his new start-up on the next YC event... Well, I can say it won't be easy!
Re:Guide to Network Programming on Monday October 20, 2008 @11:54AM (#337967)
Also, also recommended (Richard Steven's code from his book on network programming): http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv12e/unpv12e.tar.gz
Re:Ask YC: Tests that Approximate a Developer's Skill Level? on Thursday October 02, 2008 @01:54PM (#321958)
"There is nothing that beats seeing someone's actual code", completely agreed. A good way to see this is to let some problems to be solved and sent with the curriculum, like those acm-icpc problems.