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bosquefrioon I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription

If Maciej is burnt out then I wonder why he hasn't hired someone to do support for him?

bosquefrioon Ask HN: What programming language should I learn?

If you liked Clojure then you might want to try ClojureScript.

Haskell is interesting. For example, you can implement a poor man's Prolog in a Haskell list comprehension.

APL looks interesting and very alien to me. I assume that since it is array or matrix based that it is similar in some ways to Matlab, et cetera but the way people talk about it kind of makes you want to dive into its culture and at least read the original paper on it.

Maybe you should take your turn at inventing your own language?

bosquefrioon Galois Theory

I have fond memories of reading this book in college. I enjoyed it immensely.

I also remember reading the section at the back of the book about Galois. There was also an entertaining section about the history of solving the roots of polynomial equations and in particular solving equations of arbitrary order.

bosquefrioon A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers

This is obviously cosmic graffiti. Damn kids.

bosquefrioon Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?

There is an ExploreGPTs feature that OpenAI provides. Has anyone experimented with trying to make one of these that successfully does what you want (e.g. more concise, better code examples, whatever)?

bosquefrioon Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist

See: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay2631

bosquefrioon EURISKO Lives

There are some interesting files in Doug's archive: https://www.saildart.org/[*,DBL]/

This is amusing: https://www.saildart.org/D.SAI[1,DBL]

And it looks like he wrote a story called "Lethe" as a grad student: https://www.saildart.org/LETHE.DOC[1,DBL]

bosquefrioon Vernor Vinge has died

I believe they were friends. Brin mentioned that he hung out with Vinge a few weeks ago.

bosquefrioon Vernor Vinge has died

Vinge is certainly one of the greats but so is David Brin. I would not consider him under the radar though. Some of his best are Earth, The Heart of The Comet, Glory Season.

bosquefrioon Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report

How did you find out about Cursor?

bosquefrioon Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending

Interesting hypothesis. Do you have an essay where these ideas are fully fleshed out?

bosquefrioon Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders

The first time I ran into one of these cute little jumping spiders was in a backyard while I was reading a book. I felt something on my chair and moved and I saw something jump across to the small table next to me. I noticed that it was a spider. I didn't know spiders could jump like that. I was very surprised when it turned around and looked at me. Scrutinizing me. It literally was moving its head looking at me trying to figure out what had disturbed it. After that my girlfriend at the time joked that he was my little friend.

bosquefrioon Modeless Vim

vscodevim is a vim plugin for VSCode.

bosquefrioon Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

It looks super cool! Too bad there isn't an English language version.

bosquefrioon British Columbia declares a state of emergency amid devastating wildfires

Native Portlander here. It was sometime in the mid 2010s that we started to have the orange haze from forest fires here. However that week in the summer of 2020 was definitely the worst I have ever seen it here. There is a building about fifty feet away from mine and I could not see it because the smoke was that thick.

bosquefrioon BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent

https://github.com/SJ001/AI-Feynman

bosquefrioon The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)

@convolvatron Why do you say that implementing CM-LISP would be a really cool project?

bosquefrioon Try APL

@Syzgies When did you stop using APL as your black magic? Or when did it lose its lustre?

bosquefrioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Xerox - Web Developer (FTE onsite) - Wilsonville (near Portland), OR and Rochester, New York

We have an open web developer position in the Global Digital Marketing group’s agile software development team.

The Global Digital Marketing group manages Xerox’s digital communication through the xerox.com and other websites and various social media networks.

Join us if you want to work with smart people who are pushing the technical envelope on how marketing can be done on the web.

Responsibilities:

Write frontend and backend software for the xerox.com customer facing marketing websites. Develop technical recommendations. Create and update unit or integration tests. Document software features.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

Ability to communicate ideas effectively with technical and non-technical staff. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Perl, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS. Knowledge of version control software (e.g. git or subversion). Comfortable with UNIX.

Desired Skills:

Adobe SiteCatalyst or Google analytics SQL and NoSQL databases

Apply at https://searchjobs.external.xerox.com/careersection/xerox_ex...