garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's a reasonable microkernel-based OS for desktop usage?
L4 might be an option.
http://l4hq.org/projects/os/
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garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Why Amazon’s Growth Ambitions Don’t Fit in Seattle
original with no pay wall: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/09/why-amazons-g...
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Silicon Valley is erasing individuality
It's actually described by We.
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”
By context you mean a timeline of events while speech recognition is actually dependent on that timeline.
Same applies to situational state recognition in driving. E.g., to derive speed, acceleration and direction of objects.
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
My shepherd is by no means special yet he asks 'Why?'.
He plans, hopes, and most definitely has and could express wishes. And while his intelligence is limited and very material in a pragmatic way he does possess a language (that I'm still learning) and he could reason.
He is not into abstractions, but, perhaps, could master one or two with a sufficiently tasty motivation. But he understands generalisations, conditionals and iterations.
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Companies play around with their origin stories
And me, please!
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing
Mandelstam was writing in the XXth century.
Who could be other contenders?
Solzh? Iskander? Rasputin? Nabokov?
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge? Life and Fate? Moscow - Petushki?
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Life
Pierre Menard could have made a movie.
But even leaving that aside, and assuming for a moment that replays are indistinguishable (and one can enter the same river), would you accept that a movie is reducible to a photographic film chemistry?
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Life
So Yojimbo and Wild strawberries are simple data sets.
Where does inspiration come into play?
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Life
Let's talk about something simpler first - about movies.
We know enough about chemistry of photographic film
to conclude that movies are simply fantastically complex clockwork automatons, correct?
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: I'm not a Woman in Tech
What you can't say
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
... with its scope extended to any imaginable opinion without exception.
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love
It's a nice example of looking for the keys under the light aka if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
A bit more interesting analogy would be the Big Data craze. We do them because we can. Are the results produced by Big Data as relevant as the dating automation? Do we understand and handle them as effectively as 150 dates with zero involvement? And what do we miss instead? Whose time and place is taken by getting lost in superficial data oceans?
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Russia threatens to block Telegram
The perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg Metro were using Telegram.
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Mathematical Chronology
That mathematician is Fomenko. An entertaining read though history and linguistics experts just laugh at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
garrybelka | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?
1.
2. There were too many fully incompatible dialects of Prolog. I recall Lisp-like Micro-Prolog. Turbo
garrybelka | 9 years ago | on: Acing the technical interview
This is a difference between San Francisco startups and Silicon Valley companies.
garrybelka | 9 years ago | on: Do we really need swap on modern systems?
The real issue is not an amount of swap but thrashing.
E.g., several large processes sleeping in memory on desktop would be fine if only one or two used at the same time. OTOH, clustered nodes well tuned for a single task may not need a swap.
In any case, it is a metric for thrashing that should be used to initiate culling.
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