And sometimes it's like "if we make an animal entirely out of snakes, could it still be cuddly?"
Mike Samuel 🟣
@mvsamuel.bsky.social
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Programming languages person focused on software systems problems. Previously, first frontend engineer on Google Calendar, and was a security engineer who worked on the industrial-strength Mad Libs undergirding Gmail. Pro-trans-rights is pro-family.
![[Screenshot of "About the Authors" section from the preface of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" at https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/newchap00.pdf but with "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" blacked out]
The unredacted text reads:
About the Authors
Stuart Russell was born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with firstclass honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science
from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor and former chair of computer science, director of the Center for
Human-Compatible AI, and holder of the Smith–Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he
received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and
in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Honorary Fellow of Wadham
College, Oxford, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris
from 2012 to 2014. He has published over 300 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial
intelligence. His other books include The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction, Do
the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality (with Eric Wefald), and Human Compatible:
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control.
Peter Norvig is currently a Director of Research at Google, Inc., and was previously the
director responsible for the core Web search algorithms. He co-taught an online AI class
that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online
classes. He was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, overseeing research and development in artificial intelligence and robotics. He received
a B.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in [truncated]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnx52zdoyuf777kntfughiwa/bafkreidkd6vmvtr2cuba6scfcm34jgvc5wxwaot4vkcq2jrv3b27atppkm)
![[diff of two files with the only change on one line where `bite_me:` is removed from before the curly bracket starting an `if` statements then-block]
// Enqueue the ones we can't handle on the fast path.
! if (deferred) bite_me: {
deferredQueue.add(job);
continue;
--- 39,43 ----
// Enqueue the ones we can't handle on the fast path.
! if (deferred) {
deferredQueue.add(job);
continue;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnx52zdoyuf777kntfughiwa/bafkreiac2pfmtfm3ddxfus5h5fo3lgc6viymebivvlfkig53lesjxy3xh4)
![[Typescript playground editor pane on the left]
function lieAbout(b: boolean): false {
return b as false
}
export function lieMaxxing(
a: number,
b: number,
): number {
return lieAbout(a > b) ? b : a;
}
[Typescript compiler's plain JavaScript output on the right]
function lieAbout(b) {
return b;
}
export function lieMaxxing(a, b) {
return lieAbout(a > b) ? b : a;
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnx52zdoyuf777kntfughiwa/bafkreidcvw2qud73arin2mfy7kd7tvperetmyc2rxws3tz52cf4mebuwha)
![> > Merged main, and now it's just the deletions.
>
> Deletions are my favorite thing.
Now I've got an EDM remix of Rodgers and Hammerstein spliced with a ranty code reviewer yelling "Garbage code!!!", "DELETE IT!!!" stuck in my head.
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