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COPYRIGHT 1975 BY BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN
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ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM
FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975
BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF.
PAUL ALLEN WROTE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND FAST CODE.Unless you set them correctly to actual CPU frequencies, in which case they correlated perfectly.
What I find very interesting here is the QuickJS engine used in this. Developed by none other than Fabrice Bellard!
It is mathematically the most "economical" integer base in terms of space, when considering complexity of digit representation along with word length [1].
[1] Hayes, B. (2001). Third base. American Scientist 89: 490-494 (http://lrss.fri.uni-lj.si/sl/teaching/ont/lectures/third_bas...)
A team I was a part of at the uni made a fuzzy logic-based robot for a soft computing course, almost 20 years ago it seems. I rember that we were able to accomplish seemingly complex behavior (light tracking with obstacle avoidance) with only a few very simple fuzzy logic rules. Seems the project page is still up, along with the source code, schematics and documentation (in Croatian): http://www.zemris.fer.hr/predmeti/nenr/
Or the girl killed by her “mother” this week [1].
Humans mostly follow their instinct, and it is absurd/dangerous not to zoomorphise their behavior.
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-accused-killing-14-year-dau...
They went for a short visit to Room 101, Ministry of love
I’m just reading it now and I must say it’s a rarely honest book and has actionable models and tactics for the sales non-“naturals”. It has opened my eyes.
How is this practice of inflating prices while exploiting urgency and lack of choice not clearly fradulent and illegal?
I was there just 5 days ago on an aircraft tour which flew directly above the fissures. We landed in Kona normally. The lava fountains are awe-inspiring. Here's what I was able to record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn1MiYB5KQ
Seconded. I used it for Java/web development for a year after switching from Linux and was delighted with the ergonomics of use. The multi-desktop swiping easily compensates for multiple monitors. The light weight and huge battery life let me work anywhere, from cafes to park benches to various spots around the office, for an entire workday. The performance was more than enough for 99% of the time. I valued the comfort od use much more than that remaining 1%.
I only switched to a new MBP when 8GB RAM became too tight for my work.
It's a figure of speech meant to convey irony.
I think a great example of this is the Photomath app (photomath.net). These guys are really a mobile vision/OCR API startup and they released Photomath as a free showcase app, which went on to achieve global media coverage and topped the iOS app store for a while.
Great stuff!
One minor suggestion, completely beside the point so please forgive me: a safer and perhaps more idiomatic way to implement the multiply_safe function would be with a functional-style one-liner:
fn multiply_safe(a : Vec<f64>, b : Vec<f64>) -> Vec<f64> {
if a.len() != b.len() {
panic!("The two vectors differ in length!");
}
return a.iter().zip(b.iter()).map(|(x, y)| x * y).collect()
}
This was thoroughly entertaining, recognizing each word's meaning is like solving a small puzzle. Like recognizing English words written in katakana. Some words were taken directly from German, like waterstuff (== Wasserstoff), sourstuff (== Sauerstoff). Bernstone for amber/ēlektron is my favorite.
This happened to me during my commute. I was visualizing stacks of cars smashing together and disappearing in front of me. Very unsettling.
I highly recommend Dragon's Egg, a hard sci fi novel by Robert L. Forward, as well as its sequel, Starquake, for anyone wanting to expand their mind with a fascinating portrayal of neutron star physics, dealing with the hypothetical possibility of life on their surfaces. The relative physical scales of time, space, velocities and forces are mind-boggling compared to our normal intuition.