gfredtech | 7 years ago | on: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
Imagine being a female on the exec board of a California company and knowing the reason why you're there.
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gfredtech | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
You'd have to pay for them, episodes 2-52
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which search engine do you use, and why?
Duckduckgo, because I don't memorize rarely used git commands/language and/or library features, and so when I search for how to do something, it gives me the answer instantaneously without having to wade through stackOverflow pages. I use Google rarely for very specific things(like to check the date a TV show's latest episode is going to air)
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award
I'm currently using it for my Computer Architecture class(MIPS edition). It's rather unfortunate that I'm just grokking the book for the grades, it's a very good book and explains a lot of concepts quite well. I may not grasp it the first time I read a section, but after going over it, I almost always understand.
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete
well, since the halting problem is undecidable, then no.
One thing I still do not understand is how languages like Coq and Idris can almost always ensure that programs written in them terminate.
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier
Getting 552: connection timed out here
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Richard Stallman's lifestyle
I read this article[1] a while ago and it seems he has a lot of time on his hands. It's very hard to come across a piece of tech that isn't proprietary, yet Stallman has a workaround in such cases(like how he accesses web pages from his machine). Is there anyone else who uses methods similar to those mentioned in the article?
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Is Your English Accent British or American?
Let's just say that I'm used to pronouncing words the American way
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Is Your English Accent British or American?
Even though I grew up in a Commonwealth country, it says I've got 85% British accent which is totally not correct
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
I rarely download torrents, however it shows just a list of a bunch of movies I haven't even heard of before
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich
Meyer is the creator of the Eiffel programming language. Most of Eiffel's OOP features were borrowed by other successful OO languages, but I still don't understand why Eiffel never took off.
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
Writing an Interpreter in Go is a very elegant book for learning how to write an interpreter from scratch using Go. Worth every cent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/300055808X
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Writing fast and safe native Node.js modules with Rust
DF01D7
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Stanford Compilers Course
Sadly, no
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Stanford Compilers Course
A few days ago I had to download this course (along with Stanford's course on Automata theory) from a torrent tracker because it was no longer available on Coursera...
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: What Would Happen If There Were No Number 6?
Someone told me that once; perhaps the reason we naturally count in base 10 is because we have 10 fingers. If there was no six, I also think that we'd be counting in base 5
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]
An aside: How do you read research papers and how long does it take you to read one paper? Are you able to recall a large portion of the paper's content?
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: AlgoWiki: Repository of resources on different topics of computer science
there are a couple of pull requests waiting to be merged though :)
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
Tensorflow was the default Keras backend on AWS, but it got replaced by MxNet
gfredtech | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Who's Mentoring?
Apparently, it was inspired by this HN post which was flagged by mods for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148619
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