DaniFong

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by DaniFong 18y ago
Like in the old unix talk :-) I used to prefer this mode, but some of my friends hated it.
842.
by DaniFong 18y ago
nods Okay. My bad for the title. I just used the title of the article itself. It didn't occur to me that it would provoke, but I see that amply now.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Maybe it's a problem of language. Perhaps 'user-interface' is the wrong phrase for what Mathematica enables. It seems closer to 'interactive exploration'. Mathematica is really intended for general purpose exploration, and in that task, as
844.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Sorry, I meant it's $45 for a semester.
845.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I should just mention Amy, that I love your work. Twistori is so cool. But my point is mostly that, despite the bullshit, Mathematica is radically more powerful for building user interfaces (up to a certain complexity) than anything I've se
846.
by DaniFong 18y ago
The student version costs $45, which is as much as a textbook, and less than one hundredth the cost of most semesters at American colleges.
847.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Can you give an example of a company that isn't constantly spinning its own PR story? It's annoying, sure, but I'm not sure it's actually, from a business perspective, detrimental.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The marketing message is pervasive about everything Wolfram. It gets on my nerves a bit, too. However it doesn't detract much from the information. Once I sat down and started actually using Mathematica 7, my mind was totally blown.
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Why Spend More than Five Minutes on a GUI?(blog.wolfram.com)
22 points by DaniFong 18y ago|28 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
It probably depends on your personality. It used to help me work to talk to my dog. On the other hand, some of my friends can only work with a closed door.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I also work in alternative energy. My cofounder and I are physicists and the third principal is an electromechanical engineer. My cofounder has management experience and technical/mathematical chops, and he's been a joy to work with. He has
852.
by DaniFong 18y ago
From my perspective, porn varies from positive and affirm to degrading and disgusting. I think that is some sense, we are our actions. At least they long outlive us. Make sure that your actions are consistent with your values, and not just
853.
by DaniFong 18y ago
It's not so unusual, I do it too: http://daniellefong.com/2008/08/24/enhancing-multitasking-to...
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I knew a kid who desperately wanted straight A+'s. He was really sharp, and took physics and math. But when he got to third year, quantum mechanics loomed ahead, and, reportedly, he wasn't sure if he could ace it. He abandoned physics, and
855.
by DaniFong 18y ago
The Finite Element Method. The Fast Fourier Transform. Max-Flow-Min-Cut. (Ford-Fulkerson) Simulated annealing. Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (the protocol used by ethernet) And if it counts, dynamic programming, in
856.
by DaniFong 18y ago
If you look at the other end, though, those at the top of many fields did have remarkable experiences growing up. Being academically precocious is no marker of predestiny, but for some, it can mean one's ducks are in a line. It can help. I
857.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Do other humans even pass your test? How can you be sure that they are not producing behavior simply consistent with sentience, rather than actually being indicative. Animals too have behavior consistent with subjective emotional experi
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The word you're likely looking for is 'sapient.' According to the wikipedia, 'Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively.' I think there's a pretty clear case for the ability of animals to feel emotions, and feel pain. Whethe
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The critical issue is not whether there exist people existing willingly in a state of oppression, but whether there exist people wanting to get out of it.
860.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Even in combinatorial game theory, people tended to focus on simple games that could be solved. My friend was considered doing work on game theory for more complex games like Starcraft. Apparently there was one research group at the Univers
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by DaniFong 18y ago
It's supposed to be undergrad, which is like that at Caltech (and for that matter, many physics departments). Real Genius is a terrific movie, and it leapt to mind as being definitive. :-)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
My mother is an excellent writer and novelist, but the market has completely dried up for that. Nobody really reads any more. She's turned to writing scripts though, there seems to be more traction there.
863.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I think that fun is the wrong word. Fun would imply laughing and smiling, I think. Many works of creativity happen when there's ideas or feelings inside that are dying to get out.
864.
by DaniFong 18y ago
John Doerr seeks salvation and profit in greentech. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_doerr_sees_salvation...
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Could you explain more about what the 'semi-evil' precautionary principle means in practice? Many of the medical treatments I've been interested in, developed of late, have had as their proving ground Europe and South Korea. The American me
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I would argue than universal healthcare is a good candidate. By this table one might expect a drop in healthcare costs from 15% of the GDP to 10%, which is 700 billion a year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care#Economics
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Shoot, sorry about that.
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The Ultimate Paper Airplane: Japan's Bid to Launch a Paper Airplane from the Space Station(airspacemag.com)
3 points by DaniFong 18y ago|3 comments
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Very Stunning, Very Space, Very Cool: The Launch of Space Tourism(technologyreview.com)
1 points by DaniFong 18y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Maybe you know more about this than me, but last I had heard, it was the use of agricultural DDT that was most condemned, whereas DDT for epidemic control was supported by, for example, WHO. The idea was that, after some years, agricultural

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