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Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:39PM (#41074195)

One key difference between giving humans more time and giving computer programs more time is that historically we have had more success making the latter run faster than the former.

The fall of Eric Lander and the end of science’s ‘big ego’ era

Posted by tardygrade on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:39AM
from the statnews.com dept.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/09/the-fall-of-eric-lander-and-the-end-of-sciences-big-ego-era/

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Social Science Prediction Platform

Posted by tardygrade on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:56PM
from the socialscienceprediction.org dept.

https://socialscienceprediction.org/purpose/?

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Ask HN: Fun Language for Small Webserver?

Posted by tardygrade on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm thinking of starting a small web-based project. What are fun languages to do it in? I'm looking for something instructive, but preferably with sufficient library support so that I don't have to write networking libraries or database clients from scratch.

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Banach Tarski Paradox from Free Groups (2014)

Posted by tardygrade on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:50AM
from the austinrochford.com dept.

https://austinrochford.com/posts/2014-05-14-banach-tarski-paradox.html

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Cache Oblivious Algorithms

Posted by tardygrade on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:31AM
from the jiahai-feng.github.io dept.

https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/

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Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961) [pdf]

Posted by tardygrade on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:39AM
from the pitt.edu dept.

https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lectures/Rotman_Summer_School_2013/thermo_computing_docs/Landauer_1961.pdf

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Cache Oblivious Algorithms

Posted by tardygrade on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:44PM
from the jiahai-feng.github.io dept.

https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/

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Stein's Example

Posted by tardygrade on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:53AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example

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Cache Oblivious Algorithms

Posted by tardygrade on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:41PM
from the jiahai-feng.github.io dept.

https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:36PM (#23169393)

The responses I see to lisp seem to vary on a huge range from idolatry to dismissiveness. It's interesting that Gerald Sussman's own point of view on lisp seems to be very much more moderate - that different programming styles and philosophies suit different domains, and ultimately, you should choose the right tool for the right job. Lisp is flexible in that it does not bind you to any philosophy, and is good as a general tool insofar there isn't a specialized tool that would fit the problem better.