Procrastes

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by Procrastes 6y ago
I also wrote a book with O'Reilly and have collaborated on several more with other publishers and indies. I have to say working with the folks at O'Reilly was my best publishing experience by far. Even if I didn't get an anim
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by Procrastes 6y ago
Just one study, but apparently not. "Plasma BDNF concentrations did not correlate with either short-term fatal outcome or type of injury following severe TBI."[1] 1. Plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels after severe tra
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by Procrastes 6y ago
> Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious? > No. It doesn't matter whether the Von Neumann machine is running a weather simulation, playing
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by Procrastes 7y ago
> charitable behavior is heavily driven by visibility (hardly any donations are anonymous) That doesn't bear out with what I see. Looking at a dataset of 2.8 million donations through our site, roughly 20% are anonymous. That's
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by Procrastes 7y ago
Sometimes, the only thing that gets me through a week of stressful, complicated, brainy crap, is washing the dishes, washing, folding and putting away clothes. I learned a long time ago that, for me, this is life. The rest is just shots acr
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by Procrastes 7y ago
A friend of mine studied healthcare management for his thesis. One of the hidden costs in US Healthcare is the waste and duplication that comes from competition. His example was a town with enough population to support a single CT machine.
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by Procrastes 7y ago
Talk about a coincidence. I just interviewed (for an article) someone today who happened to mention out of the blue that he's mentioned in the "Art of Computer Programming". He asked me if I "had heard of Donald Knuth.&q
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by Procrastes 7y ago
A cheap answer would be for Youtube to present a last edited date for any video in an easy to check place. Since current copyright makes it difficult to make a copy of the video and link to the copy, we've fallen into the bad habit of
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by Procrastes 7y ago
I really think their play with Libra is to become a new M-PESA rather than a Paypal. They've got a good shot at doing it. Still makes no sense to me for it to be a cryptocurrency though?
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by Procrastes 7y ago
The Java class and many other occurrences grew out of the name of the Observer/Observable design pattern[1] in the "Gang of Four" "Design Patterns" book.[2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obs
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by Procrastes 7y ago
This is very cool! I'm currently using Netlify to host tiny sites for non profits and local candidates. I love Netlify, but this would be an interesting alternative. Being able to edit in the browser could also be a big deal to allow s
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by Procrastes 7y ago
Really appreciated your service at my last company, and I recognize some of how hard what you do really is. In my case you're over 400 miles off. That's not a complaint; I'm amazed at how much you manage to get right.
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Researchers report high performance solid-state sodium-ion battery(phys.org)
2 points by Procrastes 7y ago|0 comments
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by Procrastes 7y ago
Just want to point out how appropriate this reply was on many levels. The core article was about privacy and using w3m overcomes most intrusions. The presentation on the site is apparently awful, but w3m removes all that and distills the pa
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by Procrastes 8y ago
This. This is the song of my people. Also, I'm going to have to look into this monastic scribe logging system. This could have really helped with that HFS+/SSD, hotswap thing.
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by Procrastes 8y ago
I absolutely thought this would be an article on building just enough pesonality in user interfaces. I still think that would make an awesome article.
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Then we don't have enough memory to understand our technology either. We accomplish that as a superorganism, and by building tools to augment our abilities. Maybe bacteria built us as complex, extraterrestrial spore capsules.
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by Procrastes 8y ago
For me: * Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter * The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins * Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman * Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our
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by Procrastes 8y ago
When arguing against the fundamental ability of people to rule themselves, here the ability to eventually make good decisions based on the available data, it's a good idea to consider the alternatives. For this specific case, a loud an
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Great analogy and great idea!
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Beautiful. Works great with portrait poses, less well with groups.
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by Procrastes 8y ago
I believe it was an HN thread years ago where I first discovered Dotsies. I spent a very satisfying afternoon learning to read it and write it. I then labelled all sorts of cables and patch boards and such with it around my cubicle for fun.
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by Procrastes 8y ago
I switch back and forth between brain.fm and mynoise.net. They both work great for different moods and levels of fatigue or distraction. Some days brain.fm is all that gets me working. I don't pay any attention to their claims. The mus
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Great idea and awesome execution!
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by Procrastes 8y ago
I browsed the streams. Fun projects! Lots of opinions expressed here and I would tend to agree that none of these folks seem to be doing anything with customers. I'd love to see a challenge where the goal was to have 5 customers in 24
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OSINT visualizing relationships between domains, IPs, and email addresses(medium.com)
3 points by Procrastes 8y ago|0 comments
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Maybe it looks something like this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atom...
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MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts(news.mit.edu)
30 points by Procrastes 8y ago|2 comments
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by Procrastes 8y ago
Like another commenter, I was in my 20s. I had no background in Math or CS when I read GEB. I was just a self taught C programmer writing door games for BBS systems. I read it cover to cover and it inflated my mind like a segmented bouncy c
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by Procrastes 9y ago
Just spotted this in another thread[1]. It seems like an interesting idea, although I don't know how I feel about maintaining Perl. (Not a Show HN because it's not my project). 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

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