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ssn | 2 years ago | on: How to Read a Paper [pdf]

"The first version of this document was drafted by my students: …"

So why aren't they listed as co-authors? :-)

ssn | 2 years ago | on: AI Canon

Hope this is an "in progress" article.

Not a single resource or pointer mentioning "ethics"?

ssn | 3 years ago | on: Djot, a light markup syntax from John MacFarlane

"Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark's syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently."

ssn | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

Three reference textbooks are available openly:

* Introduction to Information Retrieval, http://informationretrieval.org/

* Information Retrieval in Practice, http://www.search-engines-book.com/

* Entity-Oriented Search, https://eos-book.org/

Modern Information Retrieval is also a classic reference. Not openly available but some contents are (were?) available online. Their site seems to be down but the Internet Archive has a copy.

Additional resources here:

* https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval.html http://web.archive.org/web/20220708135205/http://grupoweb.up...

ssn | 4 years ago | on: How We Built r/Place (2017)

Very interesting post.

Where can we find posts like these — e.g. architectural and technological analysis and decisions in real word contexts?

ssn | 5 years ago | on: Gmail having issues

Still having error trying to fetch email from one Gmail account to another via POP3. Seem different from the error described in the post link.

ssn | 5 years ago | on: Apple is building a Google search alternative for iPhones

"When iPhone users with iOS 14, the latest iPhone software, type a query into the search window, Apple now shows its own search results instead of Google’s. It also displays auto-complete style suggestions, highlighting how it is learning from users most common search queries. However, few are likely to have noticed the change."

ssn | 5 years ago | on: Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

I don't understand Hacker News. Tim Bray's post on Break Up Google was buried and not visible on HN's front page. The next day this on Visa-MasterCard post shows up on the top with a "forget Google" comment. Why?

Is this a result from the community or the algorithm?

HN seems to have changed a lot in the last few years.

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