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by Jun8 7y ago
Tao's Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective ( https://www.amazon.com/Solving-Mathematical-Problems-Persona... ) mentioned here is an excellent book that provides keys to mathematical approach to problem
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"One thinks of the big wooden box, locked, in Isaac Newton’s rooms in Trinity College. In this box he kept alchemistic manuscripts, deistic tracts and other occult materials." Interesting thing is, most of the contents of this box
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by Jun8 7y ago
Able to answer this since I just read an article on this in the Economist ( https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/06/29/... ): It seems whale genes have evolved to supress cancer. These i
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by Jun8 7y ago
I think the reason this sort of thinking works is that it's an effective way to perform exhaustive search in idea space where metrics may be hard to define, based on combinatorics. A very early example of such an approach was Ramon Llu
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Ahh, the topic of word squares! Let me start by saying this: If you find this sort of thing even remotely interesting, you owe it to yourself to immediately order Making The Alphabet Dance ( https://www.amazon.com/Making-Al
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by Jun8 7y ago
My take is: If the karma.fm link that you're posting provides value to the crowd than it's not bad form. This will also enable you to get feedback about your site (design, accessibility, etc.) from the HN crowd. Another (I think b
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Notes, video summaries, etc. are always welcome, I think. It would be great if in addition to raw notes, you add 1-2 sentence summaries to each note cluster.
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Excellent example, thanks. I read somewhere that Lem was unhappy with both (by Tarkovsky and Soderbergh) adaptations because they didn't put the if we encounter aliens they will be too alien to communicate idea front and center like he
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"The greatest potential loss in our relations to machines is not runaway GDP or disinformation, but rather the existential right to enjoy the surprise and uniqueness of human effort." This is similar to the "Artist's Lam
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It's not wide-ranging but Terence Tao's Solving Mathematical Problems ( https://books.google.com/books/about/Solving_Mathematical_Pr... ) makes you understand mathematical thinking better than any other
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Quick example of skill stacking: You won't be the world's best chess player or boxer, but, hey, being the world champion in chess boxing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing )? That may well be within y
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I take that as a compliment :-) It's not clear how the BM cookie technology works ( https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie ) but is understood to be hardware based, i.e. not brain in a vat, biological technolog
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To make this idea more concrete: why not use the brain of the rat (or any similar animal) in place of the NN, I.e. remove the brain in embryo stage and train it with visual stimuli relevant to the problem to be solved. I’d wager that a ra
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by Jun8 7y ago
+1 When random comments on HN carry more journalistic heft than NYT articles titled like Reddit posts we have a problem!
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IDEA: A site that creates a good Chinese name either from your name or totally from scratch, with good visualization option to tweak 10-20 factors. Uses AI algorithms trained on nuances of names. If you pay extra, you can have the auto-gene
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Absolutely! I didn’t mean backing as in backing a business but in a philanthropic sense. If one get a number of rich tech people or VC or incubator to shell in $100k, one can easily “raise” $2-3M for the endeavor. And they can use it for PR
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IDEA: Can organizations like YC and other VCs fund such activities? Series would have a nicely printed version and a pdf version free to read online. All nicely typeset. Can start with a series on “Forgotten Sci-fi” classics, e.g. Tiptree’s
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The Paris Review interview with him: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/harold-bloom-...
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Three important lessons from Peter Boghossian ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boghossian ) on managing deep disagreements: 1. Measure your differences. Rather than devolve into Yes, it is/No, it isn't bla
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How to Disagree Better [video](nytimes.com)
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This is an excellent piece! The techniques she uses successfully to modify her husband's behavior are also applicable in the workspace, esp. for new tech managers who have to deal with some interesting personality types. Many useful le
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What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage(nytimes.com)
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I've long been interested in this area, but your brain is not something you experiment with willy-nilly: if you do damage, it's not like bricking your raspberry-pi while trying some cool things. That's why direct electrical o
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He was a monstrous personality. Case in point: She placed her daughter, Allegra ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Byron ), in a convent when she was four, taking her away from her mother. Her letter from the conve
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There are several important cases that are coming up, e.g. see below for some discussion on prominent pending cases: * Cases to watch: https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-cases-2020-census-gerrymandering-lgbtq-discriminat
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List of cases US Supreme Court will hear in the 2019-2020 Term(oyez.org)
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This is a very interesting subject! 1) We know that our minds can do so much more. Why? Review the various well-documented feats of memory/computation that people have been capable of. This is like seeing a fellow human run a mile
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Good information, thanks. Some years ago, while skimming The DFW Reader ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21423291-the-david-foste... ), I saw the fact he included the exclusivity of who to humans on his lis
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While on the topic of insufferable linguistic pedantry: I always cringe when people use that to introduce subordinate clauses instead of who when the subject refers to humans, but don’t say anything because the majority does not seem to
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Yes, but then how will the Amazon (or FedEx/UPS/etc) delivery person put the package inside? There’s a business idea here in connecting their handhelds to the Lockerbie and apps on customer phones.

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