I'll never figure out why people post this kind of stuff here (and then it gets upvoted). there's literally nothing "hacker" related or even novel about these notes - it's just bog standard stochastic process. like these are just notes for some grad class or something. invariably someone will pop in and respond to my complaint saying "well actually I used everything in these notes for a project 10 years ago". ok. it strikes me, strongly, as just weird virtue signaling.
max_ 8 hours ago [-]
Hackers don't also work on real world problems.
They are in physics labs, hedgefunds, university departments, hospitals.
PG for example describe Richard Feynman as a hacker.
The view that a hacker is someone who's interest is restricted to computers and startups is very narrow IMHO
eviks 9 hours ago [-]
It's hard to figure out human motivation if you preemptively dismiss humans explaining their motivation.
Another source of confusion: "hacker related" isn't a hard requirement.
nivertech 8 hours ago [-]
1. I use this in my current & some previous projects. I even remember using random walk to generate mountain landscape in one of the first games I coded as a kid.
2. If u can't model the world around u, u can't design good SW
addcommitpush 6 hours ago [-]
It is interesting to hackers, even if it is not hacking related.
They are in physics labs, hedgefunds, university departments, hospitals.
PG for example describe Richard Feynman as a hacker.
The view that a hacker is someone who's interest is restricted to computers and startups is very narrow IMHO
Another source of confusion: "hacker related" isn't a hard requirement.
2. If u can't model the world around u, u can't design good SW