Q4273j3b

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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
"Things happen to people by accident," she used to say. "A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just HAPPENED that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them. It just happened tha
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Freaky fast bare bones code editing with evil-mode (vim keybindings): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil Do stuff in the terminal from inside emacs---I imagine this would be super good for coding C, you can change you
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
When a lot of my friends say "privacy" they really mean: "the barriers I put up around my content, which is of course online". Then there's "privacy" in the sense of being a private person : you don&#x2
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Have you considered that some of it is just mad cabin fever? Sounds like you've been in the same house for at least 6 yrs. Why don't you take a term or two off to work and travel, starting this Jan or next summer? Let's suppo
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Even then (1) the users would have to be diligent & savvy enough to encrypt everything themselves before passing it to the service (remember Lavabit?), and (2) the service still hoovers up your metadata. Eh. Idk siliconc0w, it just se
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Whoops, you're absolutely right about the 30k. I'm leaving my poor arithmetic up there for posterity. So. So so so. First of all, I gotta say, you are very good at writing how you feel. Which is quite the nontrivial thing. People
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
If I read all that right: - you are making $60k/year post-tax off non-angel investments - your yearly expenditures are about $2.5k * 12 = $60k - you are about to quit your job (or already have) and anticipate an even lower expenditure
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Look up evil-mode. It puts vim keybindings into emacs, and it works nicely alongside org-mode. You can edit and navigate vim-style but you still get all the org-mode commands (collapse/uncollapse headers with TAB, put in timestamps wit
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Someone posted this link to an explanation a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6492366 It looks like that blogger will be writing more on Urbit soon. At the very least the comments on that blog post are in
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Haven't bought one yet, but I really want to get a Rite in the Rain pocket notebook for $4.25 and see if the legends are true / how much water damage it can stand. http://www.riteintherain.com/ . They make waterpro
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Surprisingly simple math (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854593 ), the data you just described, and also IP addresses. I wouldn't be surprised if they also use browsing habits (search history on LinkedIn, pr
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Nice! Yeah, I think it's really important not to be intimidated by stats & data science. I mean, as ihnorton said, if you want a career in academia, you need an academic degree. Period. You want to enter a v sophisticated field,
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Basic prob & stats: 1. _Stats: Data and Models_ by De Veaux, Velleman & Bock 2. _Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions_ by Mosteller 3. http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes Basic data analysis
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Yes, absolutely! Are you thinking a curated list of curators, or a social network where anyone can be an expert? Or something in between? It's great you're tackling the whole learning frontier
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
I'd love to read the YA novel of this. Larry Wall teaches Hermione archery and Scheme... But I wonder if this will ever happen in real life? It has been 7 years and while there are lots of structured decentralized experiences online, a
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Yes! Games are great. A fun easy framework for game-making is LÖVE. https://love2d.org/ You can show the kid some games made using LÖVE ( https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Games ), do some of these tu
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed the lag was because DDG doesn't let result pages know what search terms you used to find them, and was sending you through some generic middle page to hide that info? I think y
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
I mean, how "extremely difficult" are we talking? So long as it isn't esoteric, it can't be so difficult... otherwise no one would learn it, and it would become by definition esoteric... I guess "real hard but sti
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
After an actual desire to learn (which several others here have mentioned), the biggest obstacle to learning is bad teachers. I don't want my teacher to be a vast self-curated backwater of internet tutorials and apps. I don't ev
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville(gutenberg.org)
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by Q4273j3b 13y ago
I don't know, I kind of liked it. Is it poking fun at how these loosely-allied movements (Bayesian rationalism, transhumanism, etc.) are actually quite been-there, done-that, in an intellectual history sense? Here's what I noticed