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by aethertap 9y ago
I've been learning how to sketch recently (not for courtrooms, just for fun), but something I noticed in the process might be relevant. When you're sketching, you have to make choices about what's important and what to leave
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?(theatlantic.com)
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Cell-free biotech will make for better products(economist.com)
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High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India(genomebiology.biomedcentral.com)
268 points by aethertap 9y ago|94 comments
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by aethertap 10y ago
Well, it seems there are two of us on the Internet. I do almost everything except browsing the web straight from the terminal. > people knew about it from sheer novelty This is a really good point. The essence of the question probably bo
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by aethertap 10y ago
Deglazing is pretty hard on the seasoning of the pan (basically polymerized fats from cooking), which means your stuff will probably stick next time you cook with it. I actually use exactly the method above for caramelizing onions, and I us
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by aethertap 10y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. One of the things that I think could help would be to make the basic technology stack somehow different from html/css/js, so that different (not necessarily more or less) things are possible in the
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by aethertap 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but with a slightly different angle. I think one of the things that made the early Internet interesting was that it was populated almost exclusively by enthusiasts (geeks, artists, etc) with little commercial mot
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by aethertap 10y ago
I haven't yet reached the level of Rust mastery where I'm confident in this answer, but as far as I can tell it's very hard to make that kind of mistake. I'd be very interested to hear what others have to say on it thoug
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by aethertap 10y ago
Actually the type system catches that particular mistake: error[E0308]: mismatched types --> src/main.rs:5:6 | 5 | if x = 1 { | ^^^^^ expected bool, found () | = note: expected type `b
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Rocks suggest there's chaos in the solar system(plus.maths.org)
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by aethertap 10y ago
It's not nearly as complex as that, but I can comment on a GUI program I've been developing for the last few months using the GTK bindings for rust [1]. I'm comparing rust today with C++/Qt as it was about 8 years ago,
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DNA-editing breakthrough could fix 'broken genes' in the brain(independent.co.uk)
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by aethertap 10y ago
That's a great idea. My son (also four) really needs to see the consequences of candy eating. I'm pretty convinced that he would try to live exclusively on candy if we would buy it for him. My daughter was a thumb sucker, but she
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by aethertap 10y ago
I like the direction of this. I've been thinking lately about trying to inspire kids to greatness, similar to the way ancient Romans made their ancestors greatest achievements highly visible in their homes [1] to inspire and challenge
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Ask HN: What are your best unusual parenting practices?
10 points by aethertap 10y ago|3 comments
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Long-Term Administration of NMN Mitigates Age-Associated Decline in Mice(cell.com)
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Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go(newscientist.com)
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by aethertap 10y ago
Something I do with my kids every night after bedtime stories: we each think back over the day and tell each other what the best part of our day was. I started doing that in a bid to get them in the habit of noticing good things through the
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by aethertap 10y ago
I'd bet it's inversely proportional to the number of things we have available to worry about. Kids and older people don't typically have (as) much to worry about as middle age people who are raising kids, caring for elders, p
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet (2015)(quantamagazine.org)
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Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links(quantamagazine.org)
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Met Office research increases skill in predicting winter outlook(metoffice.gov.uk)
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Pixar Universal Scene Description(github.com)
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by aethertap 10y ago
I don't know if it is the same thing you're talking about, but I thought it was interesting that they could assume that the horses would know that a blanket causes both relief from cold weather and overheating in warm weather, and
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Horses can use symbols to talk to us(sciencemag.org)
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by aethertap 10y ago
Having a discussion like this serves numerous purposes for a skilled teacher. By having a genuine discussion, the teacher can: * get an immediate assessment of students' understanding * provoke deep processing by the students who parti
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Genetic Engineering to Clash with Evolution(quantamagazine.org)
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Turing Learning uses Turing test to drive unsupervised learning(sciencebulletin.org)
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by aethertap 10y ago
I did something very similar to this for an artificial life class back in college. My nets took significantly longer to learn how to race for some reason, but in the end it worked out. What I did was start off as simple as possible, just us

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