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Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

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Jansen's linkage - Wikipedia

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Bits Programmer’s Pad

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Every now and then I hear some ridiculous things about the equals symbol. Some large subset of programmers—perhaps related to functional programmers, perhaps not—seem to think that = should only an…

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From now on, my tweets are ephemeral. Here’s why I’m deleting all my old tweets and the AWS Lambda function that does it for free. Click here to skip to the code part. Stuff and opinions I’ve only been a one-bag nomad for a little over a year and a half. Before that, I lived as most people do in an apartment or a house. I owned furniture, more clothing than I strictly needed, and enough “stuff” to fill at least a few moving boxes.

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The Machine Learning Reproducibility Crisis

Gosper Glider Gun I was recently chatting to a friend whose startup’s machine learning models were so disorganized it was causing serious problems as his team tried to build on each other&#82…

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Why you should use column-indentation to improve your code’s readability

I think that the most important aspect of programming is the readability of the source code that you write or maintain. This involves many…

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An efficient approach to continuous documentation

How to cultivate lasting shared knowledge without giving up all that free time you don't really have.

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SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community

Quirky knitters teamed up with a neural-network creator to generate new types of tentacled, cozy shapes.

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Annotated rhyming dictionary

Annotated rhyming dictionary

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Triple Check Knit

Today we’ll take a break from digital 3D design and do some good old-fashioned analog knitting. Here’s a pattern we’ve been working on recently. What is this crazy stitch, and whe…

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Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

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I remember learning my first programming language. As a part of the required informatics class in the second grade, we had to study some dialect of BASIC. Sl...

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Brian Marick on Twitter

“To beat a hobbyhorse, what practical FP needs is: patterns. OO state machine patterns were kind of a mess, but they presented prior art. /6”