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Do "Runge Spikes" offer a better metaphor for hallucinations by LLMs?
discuss
a year ago
alan-crowe
8 points
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Ask HN: Why isn't JavaScript long-lasting?
6 comments
5 years ago
troubledandlost
4 points
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Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development
johndcook.com
276 comments
11 years ago
speg
742 points
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Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)
johndcook.com
228 comments
6 years ago
nilsandrey
667 points
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987654321 / 123456789
johndcook.com
107 comments
8 months ago
ColinWright
637 points
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Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet
johndcook.com
150 comments
8 years ago
devy
575 points
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Doing a database join with CSV files
johndcook.com
111 comments
6 years ago
chmaynard
357 points
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Four Hours of Concentration
johndcook.com
86 comments
13 years ago
wmat
334 points
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Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line
johndcook.com
134 comments
7 years ago
chmaynard
299 points
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Pretending OOP Never Happened
johndcook.com
339 comments
6 years ago
zdw
290 points
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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
johndcook.com
187 comments
15 years ago
shawndumas
285 points
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Golden powers are nearly integers
johndcook.com
36 comments
9 years ago
adamnemecek
277 points
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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2015)
johndcook.com
98 comments
8 years ago
walterbell
268 points
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Why does FM sound better than AM?
johndcook.com
267 comments
2 years ago
zdw
261 points
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Why isn't everything normally distributed?
johndcook.com
135 comments
9 years ago
tambourine_man
250 points
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Test for Divisibility by 13
johndcook.com
47 comments
6 years ago
pmontra
239 points
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Where has all the productivity gone?
johndcook.com
211 comments
5 years ago
wellpast
236 points
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The worst tool for the job
johndcook.com
191 comments
6 years ago
ColinWright
221 points
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Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)
johndcook.com
142 comments
3 years ago
vinnyglennon
221 points
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Kalman filters and functional programming
johndcook.com
34 comments
9 years ago
edwintorok
215 points
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How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)
johndcook.com
73 comments
6 months ago
tzury
209 points
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US Army applying new areas of math
johndcook.com
138 comments
7 years ago
tacon
206 points
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Planets evenly spaced on log scale
johndcook.com
66 comments
8 years ago
tacon
205 points
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Reminder of Complexity
johndcook.com
39 comments
6 years ago
azhenley
199 points
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Banned math book
johndcook.com
108 comments
6 years ago
ColinWright
197 points
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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)
johndcook.com
306 comments
4 years ago
LionTamer
191 points
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The hard part in becoming a command line wizard
johndcook.com
169 comments
7 years ago
ColinWright
187 points
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How is portable AM radio possible?
johndcook.com
129 comments
4 years ago
_Microft
182 points
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Text case changes the size of QR codes
johndcook.com
52 comments
8 months ago
ibobev
178 points
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No funding for uncomfortable results
johndcook.com
31 comments
8 years ago
fanf2
177 points
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