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linked, and summarized over multiple iterations to generate the final product. Take thexkcd webcomicfeatured at the top of this post. The citation within the webcomic itself reads “based on map data from US Drought Monitor/NOAA/Richard Tinker”. Digging a bit deeper, I found my way to...
Many of you remember, I’m sure, a cartoon on the most-excellent XKCD website entitledPayloads. This cartoon compared and contrasted, in increments of “horses” (which I calculate to represent 1,200 pound increments), the differences in Launch Vehicle Capacity and Spacecraft mass of various ...
Today I’d probably try to approach this with less hubris, and try to start from smaller pieces, so that I’d have a fast iteration turn-out. And also, I’d just … drop all the manual NLP and throw a Transformer at the problem. But oh well, you live and learn. I was working ...
“well, one day this thing might exist,” which is where it falls apart. I think there’s an xkcd comic that makes fun of it by imagining a different possible AI that tortures anyone who heard about Roko’s basilisk and didn’t make fun of it. Really though, you can imagine anything...
xkcd.com Lisp/Scheme/EmacsYahoo! pipe from Bill Clementson Quantitative Trading The Register Unofficial Paul Graham Eric Lippert's blog 2007-11-29 : Common Lisp Tutorial Peter Siebelrecommendspeople link to thisCommon Lisp tutorialbecause there isn't anything better! Seems like the least we can ...
xkcd.com Lisp/Scheme/EmacsYahoo! pipe from Bill Clementson Quantitative Trading The Register Unofficial Paul Graham Eric Lippert's blog 2007-11-29 : Common Lisp Tutorial Peter Siebelrecommendspeople link to thisCommon Lisp tutorialbecause there isn't anything better! Seems like the least we can ...
“break” as well as beginning a year-long sabbatical, and I find that my reaction to that has been to throw myself into research in an almost frenzied way, working essentially non-stop, seven days a week, and being utterly happy with that change of pace. Many of these efforts will ...
===>>>This reminds me of Alex Stamos writing a cynicalarticleabout Microsofts Midnight Blizzard incident. in which he blames Microsoft for recommending potential victims of attack on their own cloud-hosted infrastructure to buy additional premium services. “They need to throw away this poisonous...
XKCD Matt Yglesias Byron York Carl Zimmer It Is Accomplished As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had on the then-strange question of civil marriage for gay couples. It...