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Definitely not a one-off project. It's part of his "Kill Math" series that he started earlier this year. Check out the introduction: http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Bret Victor is one of the great people working in computing (not computer science) today. I expect something paradigm-shifting from him in the coming years.

This is amazing, and not only as a demo of the API. I was waiting for a uniform raw audio standard to be implemented by all browsers, but after this I'm motivated to start playing around now. There are so many interesting possibilities for musical improvisation interfaces.

Also known as analysis paralysis.

You really believe that a vote has any power?

HN is just a site. Get over it.

I cannot even begin to conceive the kind of confusion that has legitimized the "species over the individual" narrative. Just because something is natural doesn't mean that it's good. If you consider it "hopelessly egocentric" to think of death as a bad, bad thing since it's necessary for natural selection, do you also consider it ethically acceptable to kill an individual once he has stopped procreating, since he's no longer relevant to the evolutionary game?

TL;DR: Sean Parker brags a lot about Napster.

>We do not consider code elegance or code length for the score, but do provide employers with a time-lapse of your coding sessions.

So all coding necessarily must happen in an in-browser editor?

Not for everyone. I didn't get one.

Please don't spam my inbox Diaspora, especially since I still haven't gotten the invite I signed up for a year ago.

Excellent, thanks!

Is there an example of a storm cluster in Clojure somewhere? I could only find examples for Java, Python and Ruby on github.

Zach, what software did you use to make those slides? They are beautiful. Thanks.

Those conspiracy theories are actually hurting the credibility of the movement. Right now the protest simply does not have the critical mass to threaten anyone.

Yes, Google wants to make more money. No question about it. But why are you so eager to reject any other possible motivation just because profit-making is involved? There is satisfaction in making the world a better place; why wouldn't Sergey & Larry want to get that satisfaction?

This is wrong. Algorithmic trading can be fully automatic as well. It just doesn't need to operate on short time windows as HFT does.

First of all, fuzzy search is no biggie for Google. Google Search Instant works great, and I can't see any reason why the Instant technology wouldn't work just as well for Maps--which leads me to believe that they have a reason for not releasing a Maps Instant. Even if your fuzzy learning algorithm is superior to Google's, Google has way more data, and more data > better algorithm anytime.

Your backend technology may have promise, but you probably need to apply it on a more niche and less traversed market than location search, one that BigCos like Google wouldn't consider.

In any case, good luck!

Speaking of self-reflection: a quick look at your profile revealed that you're working at an e-commence company and previously worked at an advertising solutions company. Do you consider those things less superficial than video games? Honest question.

This is the best web UI I've seen in a long time, both in terms of functionality and beauty. Good luck.

College students signed up, found nothing of interest and didn't bother to visit again. I'm fairly certain that G+ has failed, but I can't say I didn't expect it: Circles, its main selling point, is a gimmick that no normal user would bother to use after day 1, the UI is rather unexciting, etc. As far as I'm concerned, there's really no incentive to switch from Facebook for most people.

There might actually be some educational value to this.

Oh come on. Media Center all over again. Nobody's going to use this on a desktop computer after the first boot-up.

I do like the tiling system implementation though.

Are there any similar videos? I could listen to PG coaching for hours.

So is there an initial fee apart from the $20/28 per month?

Hofstadter.

Why is this so inspiring? I'm not trying to put down his career, I just don't see why his selflessness is something to be admired. Is it because it's not something you would choose? Does that fact alone make that lifestyle profound?

>Then Newton assumed his second law and law of gravity, invented calculus, and used the three to derive the ellipses. That's why we think that Newton was one of the greatest of all scientists. The computer program is suggesting that it is hoping to automate such work; ROFL.

Exactly. Most of the solution is spoon-fed into the algorithm in the form of the fitness function and the terminals. The actual work done by the learning mechanism is trivial, non-generalizable and scales exponentially.

I don't even think that the researchers are overoptimistic in this case. They are simply being dishonest. The shortcomings of this line of research are obvious to anyone who's spent a few days with evolutionary computation.

> Why is your focus on giving up - mine is on not letting it matter.

That's some trivial reframing -- if you stopped eating food, it would start to matter.