jlhamilton

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• Solving Tic Tac Toe with Alloy

  by jlhamilton on 11/13/2018, 12:21 AM with 0 comments

• Go 1.6 is released

  by jlhamilton on 2/17/2016, 10:26 PM with comments

• Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?

  by jlhamilton on 6/25/2015, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• Multitask Masters

  by jlhamilton on 5/9/2014, 4:11 PM with 0 comments

• Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor

  by jlhamilton on 5/2/2014, 3:08 PM with 89 comments

• The Myth of Massed Practice

  by jlhamilton on 4/20/2014, 11:19 PM with 12 comments

• One Man's Quest to Make Business Travel a Lot Less Awful

  by jlhamilton on 4/20/2014, 11:10 PM with 46 comments

• Is this life real or a simulation?

  by jlhamilton on 1/21/2014, 6:49 PM with 1 comments

• by jlhamilton on 10/2/2013, 4:46 PM with comments

• Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine

  by jlhamilton on 5/2/2013, 1:23 AM with -1 comments

• Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush

  by jlhamilton on 3/26/2013, 7:55 PM with 1 comments

• Valve lays off several employees in hardware, mobile teams

  by jlhamilton on 2/13/2013, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• Why I’ve also joined the good guys

  by jlhamilton on 1/17/2013, 8:29 AM with 0 comments

• Dronenet: The next big thing

  by jlhamilton on 1/2/2013, 8:19 PM with 2 comments

• Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theory of Mind

  by jlhamilton on 11/16/2012, 12:01 AM with 74 comments

• Mathematics meets real life

  by jlhamilton on 11/5/2012, 6:27 PM with 24 comments

• Our industry is young again, and it’s all about UI

  by jlhamilton on 11/4/2012, 12:01 AM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 5/21/2012, 12:40 AM with comments

• Steve Huffman has something to teach you

  by jlhamilton on 5/18/2012, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• “Mobile” vs. “PC”?

  by jlhamilton on 4/25/2012, 1:23 AM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 2/18/2012, 12:17 AM with comments

• Physibles: new category at The Pirate Bay

  by jlhamilton on 1/23/2012, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• Who Saved Silicon Valley? Angels, Of Course

  by jlhamilton on 8/24/2011, 5:17 AM with 1 comments

• After Horror Stories, Airbnb Unveils New Policies

  by jlhamilton on 8/1/2011, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Don’t Look For Me On Facebook, I’ve Moved To Google+

  by jlhamilton on 7/26/2011, 5:54 PM with 4 comments

• 'Harry Potter' and the Key to Immortality

  by jlhamilton on 7/18/2011, 10:40 PM with 0 comments

• Is Software Improving Exponentially?

  by jlhamilton on 6/18/2011, 2:09 AM with 0 comments

• NATO and Pelosi Apparently Unaware That .ly Is Owned by Qaddafi

  by jlhamilton on 4/8/2011, 4:20 PM with 1 comments

• When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Convenience

  by jlhamilton on 4/6/2011, 3:55 AM with 0 comments

• Microsoft's Odd Couple

  by jlhamilton on 4/2/2011, 4:03 AM with 0 comments

• Measurements That Mislead

  by jlhamilton on 4/1/2011, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• Yuri Milner Uses Anybot to Announce Funding for Every Y Combinator Startup

  by jlhamilton on 1/29/2011, 9:07 AM with 5 comments

• Interview with Ian Collins of BankSimple

  by jlhamilton on 1/26/2011, 8:15 AM with 0 comments

• Algorithm of Love

  by jlhamilton on 1/10/2011, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To)

  by jlhamilton on 12/31/2010, 1:07 AM with 0 comments

• Two Wharton Pals Take Same Road To Riches

  by jlhamilton on 12/9/2010, 11:20 PM with 0 comments

• How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years

  by jlhamilton on 12/8/2010, 2:19 AM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy

  by jlhamilton on 12/7/2010, 6:44 AM with 1 comments

• Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million

  by jlhamilton on 12/2/2010, 6:34 PM with 17 comments

• Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction

  by jlhamilton on 9/15/2010, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• BioCurious: A Hackerspace for Biotech

  by jlhamilton on 6/27/2010, 5:53 AM with 1 comments

• Mr Segway's difficult path

  by jlhamilton on 6/12/2010, 6:45 AM with 19 comments

• 3-D Without the Glasses

  by jlhamilton on 6/12/2010, 12:07 AM with 0 comments

• Taking On the Gulf Oil Spill With Kites and Cameras

  by jlhamilton on 6/10/2010, 1:20 AM with 0 comments

• Prevent Your Yahoo Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network

  by jlhamilton on 6/5/2010, 3:57 AM with 0 comments

• Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope

  by jlhamilton on 5/31/2010, 1:45 AM with 65 comments

• House Backs Tax Increase for Venture Capital

  by jlhamilton on 5/28/2010, 9:55 PM with 13 comments

• The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future?

  by jlhamilton on 5/27/2010, 1:18 AM with 4 comments

• When It Comes to PR, Facebook Does Know What A Real ‘Friend’ Is

  by jlhamilton on 5/25/2010, 9:34 PM with 1 comments

• by jlhamilton on 5/25/2010, 8:09 PM with comments

• Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution

  by jlhamilton on 5/24/2010, 10:48 PM with 0 comments

• A few thoughts on SSL Search

  by jlhamilton on 5/24/2010, 12:50 AM with 1 comments

• Web 2.0 companies settling in San Francisco

  by jlhamilton on 5/23/2010, 10:11 PM with 2 comments

• How Facebook Is Redefining Privacy

  by jlhamilton on 5/20/2010, 10:28 PM with 0 comments

• Penn State’s Football Stadium: Now 50% Louder

  by jlhamilton on 5/19/2010, 10:06 PM with 0 comments

• Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake

  by jlhamilton on 5/15/2010, 6:33 AM with 2 comments

• by jlhamilton on 5/14/2010, 2:20 AM with comments

• Dictionary definition of 'siphon' has been wrong for nearly a century

  by jlhamilton on 5/13/2010, 4:48 PM with 1 comments

• Amazon Starts Sharing What You’ve Highlighted on Your Kindle

  by jlhamilton on 5/3/2010, 5:40 PM with 8 comments

• Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

  by jlhamilton on 4/21/2010, 6:18 AM with 34 comments

• Computer security: Loose clicks sink ships

  by jlhamilton on 4/12/2010, 8:50 PM with 1 comments

• After iPad, Rivals Offer Hybrid Variations

  by jlhamilton on 4/12/2010, 4:49 AM with 0 comments

• Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI

  by jlhamilton on 4/11/2010, 4:42 AM with 6 comments

• Peter Watts’s unwelcome encounter with US border guards

  by jlhamilton on 4/10/2010, 9:38 PM with 0 comments

• Hewlett Packard outlines computer memory of the future

  by jlhamilton on 4/9/2010, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• Google's url shortener at goo.gl can generate QR codes

  by jlhamilton on 4/7/2010, 9:45 PM with 19 comments

• AOL plans to sell or shut down Bebo

  by jlhamilton on 4/7/2010, 7:41 AM with 0 comments

• Scientists Discover Heavy New Element

  by jlhamilton on 4/6/2010, 8:39 PM with 2 comments

• A Complex Tic-Tac-Toe Puzzle Falls Thanks to Blog Comments

  by jlhamilton on 4/6/2010, 7:14 AM with 0 comments

• The Shirky Principle

  by jlhamilton on 4/3/2010, 8:12 PM with 36 comments

• New York to End Program to Give Cash to the Poor

  by jlhamilton on 4/2/2010, 11:30 PM with 2 comments

• Forking, The Future of Open Source, and Github

  by jlhamilton on 4/2/2010, 8:37 PM with 12 comments

• 3D without the glasses: introducing pCubee

  by jlhamilton on 3/31/2010, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• The case against the hockey stick

  by jlhamilton on 3/31/2010, 12:36 AM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 3/29/2010, 5:51 AM with comments

• Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists

  by jlhamilton on 3/26/2010, 10:43 PM with 0 comments

• Oscilloscope

  by jlhamilton on 3/22/2010, 8:31 AM with 30 comments

• Forget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart

  by jlhamilton on 3/22/2010, 7:28 AM with 1 comments

• A computational perspective on set theory

  by jlhamilton on 3/20/2010, 10:31 PM with 10 comments

• Haskell’s Big Three

  by jlhamilton on 3/19/2010, 6:56 AM with 0 comments

• Human arm transmits broadband

  by jlhamilton on 3/16/2010, 10:42 PM with 1 comments

• The Dropout Economy

  by jlhamilton on 3/15/2010, 8:01 PM with 70 comments

• Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

  by jlhamilton on 3/13/2010, 9:40 PM with 47 comments

• One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette

  by jlhamilton on 3/13/2010, 3:25 AM with 0 comments

• How Books Are Made

  by jlhamilton on 2/26/2010, 3:53 AM with 0 comments

• Why Can’t PCs Work More Like iPhones?

  by jlhamilton on 2/25/2010, 9:34 PM with 27 comments

• A message from Richard Dawkins about discussion forum updates

  by jlhamilton on 2/25/2010, 3:58 AM with 0 comments

• Fleeting Youth, Fading Creativity in Science

  by jlhamilton on 2/20/2010, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Theo Jansen Inspires YouTube Robot Creature Revolution

  by jlhamilton on 2/19/2010, 3:56 AM with 0 comments

• Looking for a Date? A Site Says Check the Data

  by jlhamilton on 2/13/2010, 6:17 AM with 1 comments

• Don't be evil until you own the internet

  by jlhamilton on 2/13/2010, 3:31 AM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on an Open Source Company

  by jlhamilton on 2/10/2010, 8:09 PM with 14 comments

• by jlhamilton on 2/8/2010, 7:41 PM with comments

• The world's most generic news report

  by jlhamilton on 2/2/2010, 11:14 PM with 0 comments

• How To Hack The Sky

  by jlhamilton on 2/2/2010, 10:20 PM with 0 comments

• Playing to Learn

  by jlhamilton on 2/2/2010, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• Panopticlick

  by jlhamilton on 1/28/2010, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production

  by jlhamilton on 1/25/2010, 9:01 PM with 10 comments

• Tending the Garden of Technology

  by jlhamilton on 1/24/2010, 4:20 AM with 0 comments

• Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread

  by jlhamilton on 1/21/2010, 9:46 PM with 2 comments

• Nexus One Teardown

  by jlhamilton on 1/20/2010, 1:29 AM with 0 comments

• Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm?

  by jlhamilton on 1/5/2010, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Female Founder Successes of 2009

  by jlhamilton on 12/24/2009, 10:45 PM with 11 comments

• The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas

  by jlhamilton on 12/23/2009, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Make More Than GPA

  by jlhamilton on 12/17/2009, 7:46 PM with 56 comments

• Why facebook wants you to open up your profile

  by jlhamilton on 12/15/2009, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• 3-D Maps, Camera Phones Put ‘Reality’ in ‘Augmented Reality’

  by jlhamilton on 12/13/2009, 2:43 AM with 0 comments

• Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?

  by jlhamilton on 11/20/2009, 5:21 AM with -1 comments

• by jlhamilton on 11/20/2009, 5:20 AM with comments

• Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective

  by jlhamilton on 11/15/2009, 6:55 AM with 11 comments

• Why efficiency is not as important as you think

  by jlhamilton on 11/6/2009, 8:05 AM with 0 comments

• Excitement Fills New Chinese Exchange as Small Companies Sell Shares

  by jlhamilton on 11/2/2009, 4:54 PM with 1 comments

• Brain scanners can tell what you're thinking about

  by jlhamilton on 10/29/2009, 9:32 PM with 1 comments

• Imagining a World Without Annual Reviews

  by jlhamilton on 10/19/2009, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• Hacker Dojo in Mountain View sparks ideas and tinkering

  by jlhamilton on 10/16/2009, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Twitter confirms major cash boost

  by jlhamilton on 9/25/2009, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• Scientists Concoct a $2-Trillion-Per-Year Plan To Geoengineer The Sahara Desert

  by jlhamilton on 9/20/2009, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• Google Aims To Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo

  by jlhamilton on 9/18/2009, 5:23 AM with 1 comments

• Peninsula hackers find a place to collaborate in Mountain View

  by jlhamilton on 8/29/2009, 11:59 PM with 1 comments

• CouchDB From 10,000 Feet

  by jlhamilton on 8/20/2009, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Mass Genome Crunching Rearranges the Foundation of Life

  by jlhamilton on 8/20/2009, 12:29 AM with 0 comments

• Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Mechanics

  by jlhamilton on 8/17/2009, 2:38 AM with 0 comments

• Judge rules that DVD copying software is illegal

  by jlhamilton on 8/12/2009, 7:26 AM with 1 comments

• The Best Bits: Compressive sensing

  by jlhamilton on 7/7/2009, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Control, halt, delete [ft.com]

  by jlhamilton on 6/27/2009, 6:19 AM with 0 comments

• Is Science As Important As Football?

  by jlhamilton on 6/4/2009, 4:03 PM with 48 comments

• Scientists Recreate Bach’s Forgotten Horn

  by jlhamilton on 6/3/2009, 4:31 PM with 0 comments

• Move Over, Amazon? Google Aims to Sell e-Books

  by jlhamilton on 6/2/2009, 4:32 PM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 6/2/2009, 4:30 PM with comments

• Organization and intelligence

  by jlhamilton on 6/2/2009, 3:15 AM with 0 comments

• Other Worlds and Wasted Talents

  by jlhamilton on 5/12/2009, 3:18 AM with 9 comments

• The Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system

  by jlhamilton on 5/6/2009, 6:46 AM with 18 comments

• An Unschooling Manifesto

  by jlhamilton on 4/26/2009, 5:49 PM with 89 comments

• Low carbers: critical thinkers and a bulwark against illiteracy

  by jlhamilton on 4/19/2009, 6:37 AM with 4 comments

• Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own

  by jlhamilton on 3/20/2009, 5:10 PM with 15 comments

• Seattle Paper Stops Printing and Shifts to Web

  by jlhamilton on 3/16/2009, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• Robots of War

  by jlhamilton on 3/14/2009, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Open-source Python development at Less Wrong

  by jlhamilton on 3/11/2009, 5:10 PM with 0 comments

• Newsweek Plans Makeover to Fit a Smaller Audience

  by jlhamilton on 2/10/2009, 6:11 AM with 1 comments

• Math that's purely fun

  by jlhamilton on 2/7/2009, 8:35 AM with 0 comments

• Surge of Nerds Rebuilds Afghanistan

  by jlhamilton on 2/1/2009, 8:59 AM with 3 comments

• Fostering creativity by relinquishing the obvious

  by jlhamilton on 1/25/2009, 6:37 AM with 0 comments

• Bryan O'Sullivan on the Power of Haskell

  by jlhamilton on 1/22/2009, 1:38 AM with 2 comments

• Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”

  by jlhamilton on 1/13/2009, 5:49 AM with 11 comments

• Test Drive of Tesla Roadster (and Weebly)

  by jlhamilton on 11/18/2008, 2:52 AM with 0 comments

• UCLA researchers use Scotch tape to produce X-rays

  by jlhamilton on 10/25/2008, 3:56 AM with 0 comments

• From Tesla Motors to the “Patriot Hack”

  by jlhamilton on 10/9/2008, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• Invisibility cloaks could take sting out of tsunamis

  by jlhamilton on 10/4/2008, 12:57 AM with 1 comments

• The United States of Mind

  by jlhamilton on 9/27/2008, 5:45 AM with 0 comments

• Where is the pencil czar?

  by jlhamilton on 9/14/2008, 8:16 PM with 9 comments

• Long-Term Capital: It’s a Short-Term Memory

  by jlhamilton on 9/8/2008, 12:04 AM with 0 comments

• When All Your Best Employees are Going Broke

  by jlhamilton on 9/7/2008, 5:23 PM with 21 comments

• New Computer Game, Spore, Takes Cues From Evolutionary Biology

  by jlhamilton on 9/2/2008, 5:42 AM with 0 comments

• High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius

  by jlhamilton on 8/8/2008, 2:07 AM with 4 comments

• Big Money

  by jlhamilton on 8/4/2008, 11:58 PM with 0 comments

• Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula

  by jlhamilton on 7/24/2008, 3:00 AM with 25 comments

• Is Modern Mathematics Reliable?

  by jlhamilton on 7/22/2008, 6:03 AM with 0 comments

• Throwing precaution to the wind

  by jlhamilton on 7/16/2008, 6:15 AM with 0 comments

• Neo-Amish Drop Outs

  by jlhamilton on 7/15/2008, 5:25 AM with 0 comments

• Is transactional memory the answer for improving parallel programming? [pdf]

  by jlhamilton on 7/14/2008, 6:52 AM with 0 comments

• The Britney Spears Problem: An algorithmic challenge

  by jlhamilton on 7/11/2008, 5:10 AM with 0 comments

• The Fear of Common Knowledge

  by jlhamilton on 7/10/2008, 6:42 PM with 4 comments

• To Beat the Heat, Learn to Sweat It Out

  by jlhamilton on 7/6/2008, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• Investing in a Quality Programming Chair

  by jlhamilton on 7/6/2008, 2:08 AM with 16 comments

• The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

  by jlhamilton on 6/29/2008, 5:45 AM with 1 comments

• Arch Linux 2008.06: Overlord

  by jlhamilton on 6/25/2008, 3:29 AM with 1 comments

• Haskell hacking

  by jlhamilton on 6/24/2008, 1:52 AM with 0 comments

• Diamonds on Demand

  by jlhamilton on 6/18/2008, 12:12 AM with 1 comments

• Seven habits essential for tackling the multitasking virus

  by jlhamilton on 6/13/2008, 3:40 AM with 0 comments

• Seasteading: engineering the long tail of nations

  by jlhamilton on 6/11/2008, 4:16 AM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 6/6/2008, 1:58 AM with comments

• Don't Phage Me, Bro

  by jlhamilton on 6/4/2008, 4:21 AM with 0 comments

• A freelance lifestyle in a corporate workplace

  by jlhamilton on 6/1/2008, 4:36 PM with 2 comments

• The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb

  by jlhamilton on 6/1/2008, 5:23 AM with 0 comments

• The Homeless Billionaire

  by jlhamilton on 5/25/2008, 1:04 AM with 27 comments

• Maker Faire

  by jlhamilton on 5/14/2008, 4:32 AM with 1 comments

• Gmail performance improvements

  by jlhamilton on 5/14/2008, 12:20 AM with 0 comments

• YouTube for Smart People

  by jlhamilton on 4/17/2008, 4:42 AM with 0 comments

• Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley

  by jlhamilton on 4/10/2008, 1:36 AM with 0 comments

• Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

  by jlhamilton on 4/3/2008, 4:54 AM with 14 comments

• Who's Your City?

  by jlhamilton on 3/30/2008, 9:24 PM with 0 comments

• When You Listen to Fools, the Mob Rules

  by jlhamilton on 3/18/2008, 4:25 AM with 0 comments

• The Next Slum?

  by jlhamilton on 3/17/2008, 4:19 AM with 4 comments

• ‘The Amazing Race,’ as Played in the Lab

  by jlhamilton on 3/16/2008, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

  by jlhamilton on 3/11/2008, 3:52 AM with 0 comments

• More Monads on the Cheap: Inlined fromMaybe

  by jlhamilton on 3/10/2008, 5:43 AM with 0 comments

• The Celebrity Solution

  by jlhamilton on 3/9/2008, 6:46 AM with 1 comments

• Do All Companies Have to be Evil?

  by jlhamilton on 3/9/2008, 6:38 AM with 2 comments

• From Ridiculous to Revolutionary

  by jlhamilton on 3/7/2008, 5:50 AM with 0 comments

• You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!

  by jlhamilton on 3/1/2008, 8:31 PM with 10 comments

• Functional Programming Seminar

  by jlhamilton on 3/1/2008, 1:43 AM with 0 comments

• Probability paradox

  by jlhamilton on 2/19/2008, 7:42 AM with 0 comments

• Using Haskell and HAppS for Openomy API v2.0

  by jlhamilton on 1/23/2008, 8:07 AM with 0 comments

• Why Apple might not be able to get away with it anymore

  by jlhamilton on 1/15/2008, 6:25 AM with 0 comments

• TEDsters build site to track Kenyan violence

  by jlhamilton on 1/13/2008, 7:28 AM with 0 comments

• 'In Defense of Food' Author Offers Advice for Health

  by jlhamilton on 1/3/2008, 3:30 AM with 0 comments

• by jlhamilton on 12/17/2007, 7:23 AM with comments

• Which company best nurtures upstart acquisitions: Yahoo or Google?

  by jlhamilton on 11/13/2007, 7:57 AM with 0 comments

• Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy

  by jlhamilton on 11/9/2007, 6:43 AM with 0 comments

• Exercise on the Brain

  by jlhamilton on 11/9/2007, 6:12 AM with 0 comments

• No Slouch Itself, Intel Helps Others Innovate

  by jlhamilton on 10/17/2007, 5:02 AM with 0 comments

• Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?

  by jlhamilton on 9/14/2007, 5:58 AM with 0 comments