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My name is Eliezer Yudkowsky, and I think this book is awesome.
I kinda feel that way too. From reading all the advice, I figure I'd have to have a wholly different personality when around girls and do all this work being this fake cocky jerk.
I love this book as well, and I make sure to read it over regularly to spark different ideas - but it's expensive. Buying it was a bitterweet experience, to say the least.

Owell, it's at least the best you're likely to find.
Agreed, although the code examples in python ( http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/ ) and lisp ( http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/lisp/doc/overview.html ) are worth pointing out.
I rarely use str() and int() unless I'm doing conversion of user input (e.g. web apps). You'd have to be more specific about your usage.

For instance, string formatting doesn't require casts -- just pretend everything's a string:

>>> print "%s %s %s = %s" % (4, '-', 1, 3)
4 - 1 = 3
You don't have to wonder, the paper (http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf) tells you. It will drop throughput a little bit, but much less than you'd maybe think given that you're gaining more predictable pauses that you'll actually be able to configure yourself.

Also, be more skeptical of what stcredzero is saying. He's dismissing this out of hand, but its pretty clear he doesn't really know what he's talking about. This actually is a cool new technology. Java has had what he's complaining about for years, the vast majority of its existence, in fact.
WTF are you talking about? Smalltalk is regularly and routinely brought up as a major influence on Java, and a ton of the Java papers directly cite Smalltalk research. Are you serious?
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Whatever dude, you're not being fair. Particularly with claims like:

"If the community is indeed walking away from monkeypatching.... that doesn't prove I'm wrong, it proves I am and was right about the dangers involved. I don't feel inclined to give the community much credit for coming around to the realization that unfettered monkeypatching is a bad idea two years later than I did."

So "the community" (whoever they are) doesn't move as fast as you do. What have you done to change it? There are people who are out there trying to make things better. Not simply painting everyone with the same brush and then writing them off.

Fine, you've got a problem with the way people use Monkey patching. You should convince people of the dangers of using it. You're not succeeding.

Monkey patching itself isn't the problem. The problem is not writing portable code.

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Incidentally i find it extraordinarily frustrating that there are clearly a lot of people who down mod anyone who says anything positive about Ruby (since i can watch my points increase shortly after posting them, only to fall back to basically 1 or zero as time progresses, regardless of the content of my posts).
That is just an advertisement of very well positioned niche book - no one thinks he or she is dumb.

Here's the thing: your romantic success has nothing to do with your mental jewelry and everything to do with how you make the other person feel. - this thing was painted on every wall from the beginning of the time.

The problem is much more difficult and this approach is suitable perhaps only for the Cosmopolitan magazine. The Freud's lectures of psyhoanalysis can be useful as an bird-eye overview of the problem.

The main idea is about altering a personal history to get rid of a fixations, regressions, and other things which were accumulated from the past and especially childhood, developing new habits, changing yourself.

And there is a top-secret-great-magic-word: practice.

If one in in his/her thirties and still looking at this kind of books or texts that simply indicates the very serious problem which requires an intensive therapy. Time waits for no one
Normally I'd see somebody coming out and saying 'this is a replacement for X' to be both desperate and a little misguided; desperate because they're putting their (more successful) competitor's name right there in the title, and misguided because by setting yourself up as a X Replacement you quite often both establish yourself in the audience's mind in the exact same space and context as the established service, and also basically communicate: 'You already use X. But you shouldn't. You should stop right now.' Rather than say, 'Look at how cool Y is! You are probably so interested you're going to sign up right now and if you like it, maybe you'll forget about lame old X!'

In Posterous's case, though, they just keep churning out such powerful functionality that the reader ends up agreeing, 'Well hell, why _don't_ I use this?' A look at the official blog just shows you major, polished, easy-to-use feature after MPEtUF.

(But if they don't add Markdown support soon I'm gonna cry.)
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It bored me to tears. The "agent" orientation of the book does not address my needs for AI: data mining and inference. Norvig's companion Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence was a bliss however :-)
If memory serves, Tom Hanks did that. He married when he was relatively unknown, and his marriage has lasted much longer than most Hollywood marriages.
It should be interesting to analyze how his own resistance influences him and his ideas.
Give me a link to your code repo and then we talk.
I've found that three factors are sufficient (in no particular order).

(1) Be interesting. (2) Be interested. (3) Be clean.

They don't guarantee success with every woman in every situation, but if she's available, they give you a decent shot, and not just at getting laid.

Yes, some other things work in some situations.
Stupid idea. Computers are already hard enough to deal with without introducing bugs on purpose.
Does AI + Python have any practical use in production?

Most of the algorithms I've tested seem pretty slow. Although the linked examples are for learning.

From my research AI seems to be primarily LISP in academia and C in production.
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Did you try searching for "Melbourne to Sydney on Qantas"? It works... http://adioso.com/search/melbourne-to-sydney-qantas.html

We'd like to have all the airlines like Emirates, and we will once we're better resourced and properly launched.

As for WebJet, we're really trying to do something very different to them, so if they do all you need right now, you're best to stick with them. Our angle is the casual/flexible market, travelers who are price sensitive but date/destination flexible. Kinda the opposite of business travelers.

Many thanks for the comments though :)
A start-up isn't somebody making money on the Internet, or somebody using e-commerce. It is a technology company founded by a small group of people that, were its technological product prove popular, presents an opportunity for spectacular growth.

It is the potential huge return that makes start-ups of interests to VCs (and if you believe PG's thesis, of potential large economic impact). If I had an Internet business idea that would make me $250,000 for life guaranteed but fixed, that's a great business idea for me - but not for an investor.
Computers are probably mostly to blame for perfectionism.

Maybe we could find ways to use computers to cure it (e.g., using tools to introduce bugs automatically).
I second this.. I've found that just being overwhelmingly interesting is like candy to the right girls, and independent of whether its just friends or more, those gals are a pleasure to be around.
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Oh? And why doesn't the same conditioning work on men when it's tried on men?
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I recommend you have a look at Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind. While I agree with what you said, I think you got the evolution part a bit wrong.Meaning that women are indeed programmed to like the smart guy. The problem is, they want both, smart and strong; and who can blame them :)
This is also a blind spot. If you obsess over finding someone who likes you for your personality, you should take the time to consider, "Am I really the great, nice, etc. person that I think I am?"
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What a load of patronising, stereotyping... argh, I won't say it here. For starters, I see no evidence that this is a problem (anecdotes, anecdotes).

Anybody can get laid. Finding someone who wants to put up with you the rest of the time is the true accomplishment.
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I completely agree with the bit about losing your QWERTY skills. I wasn't expecting it at all when I switched and was pretty shocked when I discovered I had to hunt and peck on most other peoples machines.

That being said the opposite is also true. I worked for quite a few years in a team environment where other people hopping over your shoulder to "just do something quick" was quite common (and quite annoying). Switching to DVORAK nipped that nonsense in the bud very well.
Y Combinator is inexpensive compared to the value it provides. Also, are the substitutes (reading about stuff, etc.) worth a fraction of the summer experience? Note that I know nothing of YC other than what I've read!
"recently began offering graduate courses in education administration, another traditional cash cow, through a for-profit online provider"

Yeah...it's a cash cow because one has to have a license (and therefore a degree) to be a school administrator in the US.
Were they debatable 4 years ago, when this was written?
If the imperfection of your code paralyzes you, then you have problems that are unrelated to programming, and introducing artificial bugs won't help.
There's more to "user experience" than display.
It's not likely that a MIT CS graduate will be incompetent, but the probability of ineptitude increases quickly as one goes beyond the internationally known, top-tier schools.

In some ways, the value of a formal education has been diminished. Thankfully, I have never been forced to exclude candidates based on academic pedigree. And, I test _everyone_ in interviews to see if they're clueful. So, if I'm already willing to accept candidates without regard to pedigree and I have to act as the gatekeeper myself, there's little disadvantage for an education seeker (I had to choose words carefully here) to "take" OpenCourseware classes, perhaps with a group. Furthermore, I'd respect such initiative much more than someone who attended a mid-tier CS program (like I did).
I'd imagine there's probably a completely different set of rules for homosexual attraction though.
I doubt that the skills necessary to make stuff happen in tech land lend themselves well to being a bureaucrat. If anything, they are likely a hindrance.
> But I'm building tarsnap first and foremost to be the backup service I would want to use -- and who wants to pay more than necessary? I certainly wouldn't.

Always good to see someone scratch thier own itch then sell the solution as they would want it.
What do you mean? One could restrict the intentional bugs to various types that are known to be minor.
Say, something as basic as passing around user data. Bork that and the user is paralyzed.

Software systems are already complex and difficult to reason about. Intentionally making them more complex with no appreciable gain and more difficult to reason about for a problem a tiny fraction of the population has seems like a Bad Idea.
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Introduced bugs would be guaranteed to be minor by restricting them to types where you can ensure that this is the case.

There is no need to do any of this if none of your developers suffer from this problem.

But I suspect that many developers will get this problem as a result of their profession.
Why is it illegal. Do the 'terms & conditions' forbid you from using a proxy installed in US?
The generally chaste girls are the same way, they still go for the strong guy over the "nice" guy. Girls that have been taught all their life to go for the nice guy, still find themselves attracted to the bad boy. The evolutionary/genetic explanation seems to fit my observations the best.

I actually think men get some blame for the "girls falling for aholes" problem. I think too many quality men listened to their mothers and school teachers, who said the key is to be a nice guy. The assholes never listened, and learned on the street to win girls via strength. Thus only the assholes act strong and get the girl, while the nerds lose out. The solution is that the good men need to grow a backbone. Then women will be able to find men who they are both attracted to and are good partners.
"A classic but I'm not quite sure why it was posted?"

and why is it getting so many upvotes? Extending this approach, if anyone is looking for free karma, just post separate links to all the classic CS books, without any comments or added explanation (3 separate submissions for the TAOCP Knuth books ;-)). Lots of karma for the taking ;-)

now that this is on the front page, here is something interesting. There's a 1000 $ prize for designing a cover for the third edition (see top right hand corner of teh page). The cover of the first two editions are very dense with references to AI history. If I could draw worth a damn I would have taken a shot at it.
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Thanks! To be honest, getting rich has never been on my list of reasons for building tarsnap -- I really just wanted good backups. But my idea of good backups is a backup service, and in order for a backup service to be sustainable it needs to make money, and in any case I couldn't afford to spend two years writing code for tarsnap without a good chance of earning some money from it later...
How do you deal with the time it takes to parse a large Javascript file? Past 500KB or so it can take several seconds.
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For writing, Word happen to control those minors errors. It's good. But Word is an application, it works with an exact algorithm, so sometimes it doesn't give you the best results.So here's how I do.

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Enable all the features again, it'll highlight errors, then I correct the ones that are really errors.

Finally, everyone should have techniques to avoid those minors errors, whether you are developing or writing.
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The idea is to force people to confront flaws at a minor level in the hope that they would stop worrying so much about flaws of all sorts -- minor or major.
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A reliable revenue model only increases confidence in a service such as backups. It is always good to know your backups won't disappear because the service has gone bust.
The guy has a number of things backward or set in stone.

First off you can have your cake and eat it. You don't actually need to cease being anything to get laid you just have to look harder. Honesetly, it is just that easy, somewhere out there is a woman/man/transgender looking for someone just like you. Hell, there are probably 10 people like that in every country.

Second, the author takes a very macho outlook on dating. You don't have to do that. People are quite varied. Some like X, some prefer Y and some really love Q. His entire 'be the (wo)man' bit just smacks of heterocentricism and ignorance. Some people like the same. If that is you I encourage you to pursue that because you will be far, far happier than if you repress who you really are.

Third. This point is just my advice. Don't deride people or look down on them. You will find love in peculiar places if only you look. So you're smart. Big deal. Don't dismiss that girl who left school before senior or the guy who never went to college. There are different forms of intelligence and you can find intelligent people who are not in the mold of the traditionally smart, educated and successful.

And lastly, get out of the house/town/country. You will never find anyone, not even for a date if you don't get away from your personal comfort zone. I'm not dismissing those who only want to meet people through friends only that you must be truly lucky to find love that way. It is always best to expand yourself and head to the horizon of the known.
never used RSS feeds for HN or any other site, I read only the emails delivered by FeedBurner, I think that's the only benefit from it...
From what I hear most viable start-ups (those with traction) are having an easy time finding VC. It's the 2nd and 3rd tier companies that can't find capital.
When reasoning about the system, one still has to reason about the introduced bugs, because it's always possible there's a bug in the introduction of bugs. In fact, given the difficulty of proving the correctness of non-trivial programs, I think it's likely the introduced bugs would bleed out into the rest of the system.

I sincerely doubt any developers would "get this problem." The behavior you're describing is severe OCD. You don't catch it like a cold. If one's OCD is that severe, it will probably manifest in many more areas of their lives than just programming.

There's also the fact that most developers work in teams, and the people who don't have this form of OCD would not tolerate having purposefully introduced bugs. I know I wouldn't.
There are actually no rules for homosexual or heterosexual attraction. People are far too complex for that sort of categorisation.
Absolutely -- and there have been more than enough examples of backup services going out of business lately to make people worry about this. This is the main reason I wrote my previous blog post: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-03-09-tarsnap-reaches-p...
I like the AI Game Programming Wisdom Series (http://www.aiwisdom.com/).

Or maybe if we are posting up classics we could mention The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky.
It appears a 3rd edition is on the way. I wonder what changes it will bring?

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Under what law? Generally I think it's legal to take a copy of a copyrighted work that you obtained legally and take it to another country, say, in your luggage. How is this any different?

Edit: Under the law that makes "import or export" a right exclusive to the copyright holder, apparently. Thanks for the correction!
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While the book is good, it lacks the statistical approach to AI and ML. Currently, most of the AI or ML is done in statistical fashion and I think this book does not do justice in introducing those topics well.
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Of all the people advocating Knuth, I wonder how many have actually read it- even just Volume I.
Hmm, isn't Ruby an unapproved language inside Google? (i.e. not one of C/C++, Python, Java or Javascript.)
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if i am not mistaken, you can get into similar trouble in javascript with object.prototype. it's interesting that you don't hear much about that, but maybe people just don't expect as much from it.
One thing that helped me a lot: investing some money in some salsa dancing lessons. First of all, I actually enjoy it, it's fun (if you don't like it you wont' get far). Second, it's sort of cool, compared to, say, talking about startups and computers with someone who is potentially not interested in either one. Also, it's something where practice does pay off, and where you can't fake it, so investing some time will get you results. It's a real dance, too, between a man and a woman (well, a couple in any case, but we'll leave out the PC stuff for the sake of convenience) where the man leads and the woman follows, and they hold on to one another, not one of those flaily club type dance things. You can learn a lot about someone in a 2 or 3 minute dance with them, actually, and if you go to the right sort of clubs, people often change partners, so you have the chance to dance with lots of different people (so it's sort of like speed dating, but not so silly) and see what works out. Most places I've ever been to, people are having fun and smile, which I find a lot more attractive than the pouty, I'm-too-cool look. Oh, and finally, women who know how to really dance salsa are hot. Moving and swaying like that really adds something! Getting up the confidence to ask people to dance is really good too. You'll get shot down lots too, but you learn to deal with that.
If these guys aren't making money, how do they support themselves?
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Yeah, if you use an unduly narrow definition of "start-up", you can get some small number in the few thousands. But if you use a more normal definition (like the one at the top of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company — “A startup company or start-up is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets,” or my usual rule of thumb, “A startup is a company that has not yet become profitable,”) you get a much larger number, perhaps in the millions.