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by aheilbut 15y ago
It's interesting that one of the references Aaronson cites [63] is the pg essay "How to do philosophy" http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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by aheilbut 15y ago
The coolest instance of this is that Paul Hegarty taught the Fall 2010 CS193p class.
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NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well"(next.68k.org)
31 points by aheilbut 15y ago|10 comments
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by aheilbut 15y ago
I'm looking forward to this going to SCOTUS...
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by aheilbut 15y ago
What about Rhapsody?
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by aheilbut 15y ago
datemyschool seems to be killing it so far...
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by aheilbut 15y ago
I think that in many ways, this is more like printing a resume on neon-yellow construction paper.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
In the end, the power is going to be with the payors, who are plenty savvy themselves, not the pharma companies. Drugs are a relatively small part (10-15%) of the overall cost of healthcare.
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Ask HN: How do you keep up with the scientific literature?
6 points by aheilbut 15y ago|3 comments
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by aheilbut 15y ago
question: Is the Bitcoin approach to distributed, secure transactions useful (and is it novel?) without the currency generation component? Are they potentially separable?
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by aheilbut 15y ago
No position, and I don't like the stock, but my point is that the fundamentals do matter. MSFT remains a very large and profitable company, and it is at a stage where that influences valuation much more than sentiment does.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Apparently those dividends and the underlying "fundamentals" do buy something, because the company is still worth $200B.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
Doesn't seem to work on a desktop, in Chrome.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
An understanding of this isn't complete without reading the Gawker take on the original NYT article.
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by aheilbut 15y ago
His claim is that that any 5 variable function can be expressed with no more than 28 gates, which isn't obvious. While a vast number of truth tables have been written down over the last few decades, it's unlikely that anybody else actually
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by aheilbut 15y ago
And what is 'academic outcome' a predictor of?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
In-Q-Tel http://www.iqt.org/
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by aheilbut 16y ago
An event monitor isn't a life-critical system. Perhaps it messes up a study, and ticks off some cardiologists, but it's not as if somebody's implantable defibrillator is depending on EC2 being online.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
There isn't nearly enough time to read a even a fraction of the information published that is (more or less) carefully selected, analzyed, vetted, and explicated in papers. Nobody has time to trawl through random junk that people will uploa
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by aheilbut 16y ago
It's not irrational at all. If there's not yet any pragmatic benefit to knowing that you have a significant risk of getting a serious disease in the future, it's probably better not to know. You can select which tests to make available to
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Instanza is a place to hang out and connect with other students. (instanza.com)
2 points by aheilbut 16y ago|2 comments
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by aheilbut 16y ago
I love twitter, but I wonder how many of these 155 million tweets/day are spam?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The open access publishers like PLoS also have publication charges. The fact is that properly reviewed and edited journals do add value, producing journals costs money, and at some point, somebody has to pay.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
It passes the jwz test...
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by aheilbut 16y ago
It is pretty strange that there are so many big names playing along. On the other hand, there's quite a long tradition of eminent, tenured, (and often aging) scientists going a little bit off the deep end, especially in areas outside of th
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Because NASA is a big government bureaucracy, and he's been working there since 1966. Instead of thinking that there's got to be some truth to it, think that when there's a whiff of BS and it looks like the work of a bunch of delusional c
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by aheilbut 16y ago
"It's even worse than it appears / but it's alright" - Garcia / Hunter
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Well, I've yet to find a to do list app that actually works for me.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Isn't this the standard way to explain and visualize dynamic programming?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Perhaps, but it'd be less of a context switch than remembering what directory I'm in and where it was that I wanted to go. It may be that I'm growing old and dull, but I'm better at clicking on things than remembering them.

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