TheEzEzz

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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I probably spend about 10 minutes a day tracking. I keep a textfile open and have a markup language for documenting what I eat and how I feel. I shy away from prepared food, both because it complicates analysis and because I've noticed it h
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Self-tracking is great. I track everything I eat and a range of markers and symptoms. Over the last few years I've greatly stabilized my mood, sleeping patterns, and productivity. I only wish there were better tools on the market. There's a
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
The quantum N-body problem is a 3N dimensional problem. If your element has 100 electrons then you need to model a 300 dimensional space. If you took a very coarse discretization of 10 cells per dimension, you'd need a computer with at leas
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
That's a valid hypothesis, but is empirically false.
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Not too long ago it was Markram himself accusing another group of what you accuse him of (oversimplification), http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/11/henry-markram-calls-ibm-cat... From what I've read about Blue Brain it appears that validation
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
There is actually quite a ways to go before we have high fidelity macro models of the heart in action. (The numerical research I do is closely related). 3D fluid simulations are expensive. Hopefully the quasi-discreteness of the brain reduc
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Definitely. I'm gonna dogfood it a few more weeks and then throw it up on github.
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My understanding was that the device did work there was just a human element to the interpretation.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Just last week I was about to start learning Vim, but after perusing the shortcut list I decided I could do better, so I rolled my own. Basically it's just a multi-modal keystroke catcher/dispatcher running transparently in the background.
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Yes. And look what happens when a more powerful group of humans (Conquistadors) meets a slightly less powerful group of humans (Aztecs). Now imagine the more powerful group is made of steel, have brains that run at gigahertz frequencies, an
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
The primary reason we usually avoid violence is not that we find it irresistibly repugnant, but because we've become intelligent enough to realize it normally creates more problems than it solves. Do you honestly believe that most people
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Earthbound resources are drastically cheaper.
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As someone in the opposite position to you (academic coder, considering abandoning academia for industry), I offer up my take: the painful bits of scientific coding are infinitely more painful and numerous than the painful bits of non-scien
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This is exactly a situation where the FDA should step in. The FDA should make sure that people can trust what they are buying (when it pertains to health), not make sure that people don't have the choice in the first place.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Javascript is not a low-level language resembling a primitive machine interface, and CoffeeScript mostly provides syntactic sugar, not new semantics or a different paradigm. In order for A:B :: C:D it is not the case that A and C need to
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I'm a paleo guy and I agree with what you wrote, but I'm uncomfortable with stating it with such certainty. Personally, when I'm evaluating a fringe idea one thing I look for is modesty in the people proposing it. When a proponent speaks wi
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
That is the most interesting bit of space knowledge I've ever read. It certainly seems like the potential in Venus is much greater than on Mars. I wonder why the space industry is so fixated on Mars?
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I would love to see the day where having a successful library on github being used by other researchers would be valued as much as publishing a paper or two.
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Yes, but the metric should be quality, not quantity. Both do matter to the current system, but there is a perception that it is quantity that has taken precedence.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Perhaps we could have a mix: top level comments have karma shown, but child comments do not. This way when quickly scanning for a good top level comment to read you have something to guide you, but for nested discussions karma is hidden to
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
53 metric tons worth of fuel? The fuel requirements to decelerate are much lower than the requirements to reach orbit, for multiple reasons. You aren't fighting against gravity, your weight is greatly reduced (having burnt the fuel to get t
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
At my current university all postdocs in my department carry the official title of Visiting Assistant Professor. They are listed under the tab 'Visiting Faculty' on the departmental website. At least in name they are faculty, and they are p
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Postdocs are full-time faculty members. They just aren't permanent.
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Hm, if fuel is so cheap then why not bring enough fuel with you to decelerate before de-orbiting? Then you don't have to worry about reentry heat.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I really want to see some technology mojo pumped into academia. I've spent a fare amount of time thinking about it, so here's an idea dump for you. * A markup feature for people to highlight and comment on specific portions of a paper. This
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
> How do we make a world that harnesses rather than suppresses this enormous amount of creative and industrious energy that is not being utilized? I think this is exactly what we're seeing more of. Sites like reddit really allow for peo
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
'Ring' by Stephen Baxter explores the idea of a dark matter form of life. It's a good hard scifi read if you're into that.
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What would happen if Senate votes weren't made public? It would decrease accountability of senators to constituents, sure, but would it also decrease the power of special interest groups?
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There's a strong motive to defect from cooperation, unfortunately. If 100 nations are discussing banding together to defend themselves, and everyone realizes it will only take 50 nations to repel an attack, then there is going to be a very
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Why can't they both be right? We're omnivores. I would be surprised if there weren't multiple diets that led to health.

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