TriinT

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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Please! You are the one who called lack of Facebook a "real problem". I merely pointed out that there are actual real problems. Sure, I agree that this is HN and that this is NOT the place to discuss actual real problems (the truly real
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   "Your comment isn't really useful :/ you're obviously an outlier. Most people would go insane if they couldn't access youtube or facebook." Facebook has 200 million users or so. The world has over 6 billion people. Hence, only 3% or so of
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   When I think of solving "real problems", I think of: - curing cancer - cheap water purification - vaccines for tropical diseases (the U.S. / European pharma companies have very little incentive to work on them) - energy-efficient desalinati
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   What are "nonoparticles"? Are they particles whose size is in the "nonometer" range?
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   Primes with millions of digits are not useful for Cryptography(nathanieljohnston.com)

   6 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   Neuromorphic Electronic Systems (1990) [pdf](stanford.edu)

   2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning(select.cs.cmu.edu)

   5 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   Greg Chaitin on the limits of Reason (2006) [pdf] (cs.auckland.ac.nz)

   16 points by TriinT 17y ago|2 comments
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   Feynman the Babylonian(golem.ph.utexas.edu)

   30 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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    Reconstruct a graph from Yes / No questions(rgrig.blogspot.com)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Are you taking the piss, or are you just being PC?
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    Google Book Downloader(googlebookdownloader.codeplex.com)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Maybe I am missing something obvious, but aren't logs and containers floating a foot below the surface also fatal for non-hydrofoil vessels?
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Am I the only one who's getting a 404 error on this link?
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    I was being facetious...
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    That's the most ignorant comment I have read in a long time. You have never been to Scandinavia, I presume. Newsflash: Europe is more than Italy and Spain. Most people in Germany and Scandinavia, for instance, leave their parents' home at
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    I would still call it "reproductively focused". Condoms and being legally forced to support your biological kids have both been invented since we stopped evolving ;-)
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    Wireless Power Transmission Test (1974) [vid](youtube.com)

    3 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Back when I worked as a programmer at a hedge fund, I would reply: "I teach computers how to steal money within the law." It's accurate. Sounds badass. And the ladies get enticed by the aura of mystery around it.
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    Mining the Moon (2004)(popularmechanics.com)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    We should organize HN surfing trips :-) That way, when we were not in the water, we could about interesting tech stuff...
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Once you're in the cockpit, all it matters is the performance. I would rather fly a MIG-21 than an F-4. But, of course, if I had enough money I would prefer to fly a SU-27 or an F-16, so that I could have the performance and the looks ;-)
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Most of us are destined to be forgotten by all but our dear ones. Grow up. There's only one von Neumann born per millenium. The bright side is that not being von Neumann does not mean one can't do meaningful work.
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    Surf Physics [pdf](fisica.net)

    2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Surfing is hacking mother nature's laws of fluid dynamics and gravity ;-) http://www.fisica.net/ondulatoria/surf_physics.pdf
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    That thing may be ugly but it shot down countless American F-4 Phantoms over the skies of North Vietnam. Do not underestimate Soviet tech.
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    You are ignorant. Go read about the Balkans, and come back when you are less ignorant. I used to be ignorant too, and cheered when NATO bombed Belgrade. One day I visited the Balkans and what the people there told me, made me change my mind
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Following that line of thought, any grad student whose research is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is working overtime to support human slaughter, too. Or is kosher to kill civilians just as long as it's the US
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Your analysis makes a lot of sense. But do NATO air forces other than the USAF have AWACS aircraft? I am not taking sides here, but do note that a soldier does what he is told. As far as I know, Zoltan did not murder any civilians. He was s
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    Marvin Minsky on health and the human mind (TED 2003)(ted.com)

    2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments