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by 10ren 16y ago
Looks like I placed too much weight on your parenthetical "and themselves" > interactions between cell types and their environment (and themselves) is a giant information content multiplier and we're actually in agreement; my first comm
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by 10ren 16y ago
Environment being another source of information was mentioned (in my 2nd paragraph), but interactions that are determined by their starting points don't add information - even if the result looks more complex. This idea (and the comment abo
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think it's unusual, but if your startup is in the same field as your non-tech nursing job, you have the fantastic advantage of domain knowledge - you actually know the problems and frustrations of the field; and you can also speak its l
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm not so sure about the simulation, but Ray's right that the brain cannot be more complex than the data that specifies it, speaking information-theoretically. A biologist probably wouldn't get this, because he has too much knowledge of ho
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Reflections on Trusting Trust [ken thompson's turing award lecture](cm.bell-labs.com)
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by 10ren 16y ago
I didn't mean that definition of "fail", but I guess I was cheating a bit with the "creating something useful", in that I was assuming that you already know what would be useful - whereas that is often the difficult part. In my defence, I s
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by 10ren 16y ago
I see what you mean about that being a lottery. I guess the amount of money made does have a lottery aspect. But it still seems reasonable to me that one man can generate one man's worth of value, whether employed or independent. But whethe
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by 10ren 16y ago
> why the hell are you playing? If you build something that solves a problem that people have (ie. is useful), and you arrange for people get to know about it somehow, then I think you can't help but be successful. But "successful" migh
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by 10ren 16y ago
Here's that reddit post: Great post explaining a soldier's mindset, written for redditors http://www.reddit.com/tb/d19pt
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by 10ren 16y ago
Computer science seems actually to be the exception. Yes, though the insight could have been had earlier, it somehow wasn't. And this is common in computer science. I now attempt to support this thesis. Even the stereotypical "impractical"
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think I see what he means, but upvoting etc isn't necessarily mechanical. The mechanical conformity he's talking about sounds like social conformity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments That warehousing system sound
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by 10ren 16y ago
The single biggest barrier for me is questions that I could google for, but I don't think of it, because in my mind it's just a thought or need, not an explicit question. For example, issues about cooking, while cooking. Something like a (w
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm sorry, Dan. I'm afraid I can't do that. But seriously, I think he's just imagining something like a butler, who anticipates your information needs, or at least your context and where you're coming from. It's a kind of AI, as he says,
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by 10ren 16y ago
As an introductory text, it reads more like a summary of journal articles. However, I would recommend chapter 2, which builds a complete compiler for a very simple language (arithmetic expressions). In the first edition, that did it in C, a
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by 10ren 16y ago
One of Oracle's selling points for their database was independence over hardware vendors. Java offers the same - although today's hardware is much less diverse. Sun in fact did litigate over Java, as the article offhandedly mentions, though
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by 10ren 16y ago
With the number of official offspring. Sadly, many studies have shown that a surprisingly high percentage of children are not the biological children of their fathers. IIRC, around 5%. And it's well known that many high-profile/successful
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by 10ren 16y ago
The business model of similar pens is selling the paper. Because the dots make each square inch globally unique, they are effectively selling - and making - real estate (a bit like ICANN selling domain names.) I think this is unbelievably
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The Hot New Medium: Paper [2001](wired.com)
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"Why is software so expensive?" [Dijkstra](userweb.cs.utexas.edu)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Aside: sorting advertisements by bids originated with goto.com in Feb 1998 (from Idealab), years before Google started using it. It was a great idea, original and effective, though I'm not how to feel about their patenting it. If they hadn
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by 10ren 16y ago
The danger of LaTeX is you end up in the thrall of its beauty, forgetting your quest.
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by 10ren 16y ago
He did say "partially (largely?)", which I interpret as contributing factor. I think you're in agreement. Simply being physically active goes a long way to solving everyday psychopathologies, like mild anxiety or depression; and is a curati
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by 10ren 16y ago
The tutorials as live demos are great. You should say "live demo" somewhere, because "tutorial" makes it sound like text. The front page is a bit split-personality: you have the idea of data mining; and the idea of sharing data sets. I thin
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by 10ren 16y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. There are many great articles that 1. are very helpful to read again; 2. you missed the first time; 3. newcomers haven't even had a chance to miss yet. Especially for newcomers, considering the rate that HN gro
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The Curse of Xanadu (1995)(wired.com)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Amazingly, Java is still growing http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=+java+developer&l=&#38... This is probably acting as a proxy for growth in programming jobs and IT in general.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I've always thought that software is a young man's game, whereas law is an old man's game. This is because when new legislation is introduced, the first thing that any discussion of it does is to consider what the law was 200 years ago. New
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by 10ren 16y ago
As a high school student, I thrilled to the idea that long numbers (eg. pi digits) might contain messages. As a postgrad, I now know that the long numbers are actually a form of information (eg. a digital photograph is just a number: a sequ
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by 10ren 16y ago
Glowing is an interesting idea, but I think just placing the search button beneath would be helpful enough - then it's obvious to the user that they need to hit that, and it's easy to find. That would solve both of the problems that I had,
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by 10ren 16y ago
That's right - though you enter your own URL. Extra idea: it might also show you complements (products/services that fit in nicely with yours; these are usually pretty obvious in established industries - razors+shaving cream; milk+eggs; tyr

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