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by Blahah 13y ago
Catchafire is awesome. Our goal with solvers is complementary. We're very focussed on enabling hackers and other technically skilled people to solve problems. And once we've got the platform in shape, we want to build a community
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I've spun up a few more servos.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks for this feedback. I agree with you. At the moment a lot of the projects are looking for open-source contributors. In fact, the first 'problem' posted was also the first thing to be solved: a charity's website was runn
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by Blahah 13y ago
Please do ask her to post on Solvers. If she needs help formulating the project just ask her to email us: team@solvers.io
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by Blahah 13y ago
Wow, I hope that's not the impression we're giving. These are scientific or charitable projects, not startups. We've already had a few nice problems solved. For example, a charity that does neuroscience training in Africa had
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks! Better-blast is one of my side-projects from my PhD that I don't have the skills or time to do alone. I've already had offers of help from some really talented engineers from all sorts of different backgrounds. Some of the
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by Blahah 13y ago
Hi, OP here. We started building Solvers after discussions on HN in November, so we really want to get your feedback on what we're doing. Please let us know what you think of the site, the idea, and how we can recruit more projects and
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by Blahah 13y ago
I appreciated your comment. Fwiw I think a lot of people here do make an effort to think and communicate. HN has brilliant technical and intellectual discussions interspersed with snide jabs and throwaway put-downs. Don't throw out the
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by Blahah 13y ago
I'm not suggesting cutting back on research, but distributing the research budget effectively. We need some long-term research into cancer cures, but not at the cost of the lives of people who can be saved today or in the very near fut
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by Blahah 13y ago
my impression is that quite a lot of the time, people get away with selling pigs. Lipstick can be really distracting
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by Blahah 13y ago
and my point is that it doens't matter if all you want is something pretty...
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by Blahah 13y ago
That's true only in the specific case of HIV in the USA - the funding in the USA for cancer vs HIV is about right for the global number of deaths from those diseases. Especially if you consider that cancer is showing no sign of being a
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by Blahah 13y ago
Sure. The WHO produces a report on causes of death wordwide[0]. Heart disease and stroke are the biggest killers, but these are, like cancer, really quite complex. Diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections kill a ridiculous number of p
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by Blahah 13y ago
Earth is not full, it is just badly managed. And overcrowding is only happening for poor people in parts of the world historically exploited by people who are now rich. Even if we accepted that Earth is full, surely we don't just let a
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by Blahah 13y ago
Really quite a huge number of people are asking that question already. And a massively disproportionate amount of science funding goes towards cancer research. Far more people in the world die of communicable and vector-borne diseases or il
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by Blahah 13y ago
Cars are fine, but people can't be trusted with them. Just like with guns, and, apparently, keyboards.
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by Blahah 13y ago
CDs, DVDs and USB sticks don't fit in a 5 1/4" disk drive.
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by Blahah 13y ago
According to the Helios 522 investigation report, all staff aboard the flight.
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by Blahah 13y ago
>You just need to turn off your transponder, and you can fly wherever you want? Just from reading comments in the linked piece, it seems that is true for some parts of the world. The malay military didn't have an operational air d
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by Blahah 13y ago
There is an emergency access code to get through the security door, at least on a 737: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/03/a-hypoth... .
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by Blahah 13y ago
He does reference the case of Helios Airways Flight 522[0], where a similar situation happened as a result of human error (leaving the pressurisation system set to manual). 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airway
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by Blahah 13y ago
Two things: 1. Sometimes you just have to take work that isn't ideal to pay the bills. I worked a full time job doing nights as an ecological surveyor on building projects during the second year of my undergrad. I didn't go to lec
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by Blahah 13y ago
some pigs can actually be quite attractive with carefully applied lipstick
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by Blahah 13y ago
Irony is when you express an idea using words that normally have the opposite meaning. That's not what's happening here. This is autology - a word that describes itself.
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by Blahah 13y ago
a mnemonic is a device for memorizing information... I don't see how that fits this situation?
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by Blahah 13y ago
Since this is a language thread, worth pointing out that an anecdote is a story about an event, place or person . What you've shared is in entertaining fact, not an anecdote.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Matlab (and Octave) has terrible performance in every benchmark comparison I've ever seen. For example see the Julia benchmarks: http://julialang.org/benchmarks/
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by Blahah 13y ago
Others might say chasing $50k/day is a stupid thing to do. With enough money to live off, plenty of people seek happiness elsewhere.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Got an email where I can register future interest? :). Or feel free to email me (address in profile). We have long-term high-impact crop engineering projects that can always be accelerated by better sequencing. And bioinformatics developers

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