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by b_emery 15y ago
Good advice in general, but not sure that these would make one more creative. I'll add my favorite all-time suggestion on the subject, this post on structured serendipity: http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_2.html#zweig In summary, read outsid
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App allows Facebook viewing on Google+(reuters.com)
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by b_emery 15y ago
Given the finite number of shapes needed to create letters (a few lines, a few curves), it seems do-able.
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by b_emery 15y ago
Have you ever tried to use the matlab compiler for this sort of thing? Too limiting?
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by b_emery 15y ago
If it's anything like power plants in the US, then there are restrictions on the allowed deltaT above ambient, and for good reason. For example in California, the San Onofre Nuclear plant was found to significantly impact the local fisherie
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by b_emery 15y ago
Quote from that link: "There is some evidence, based on mitochondrial DNA, that the human race may have passed through a genetic bottleneck around this time, reducing genetic diversity below what would be expected from the age of the specie
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by b_emery 16y ago
Reminds me of a quote I'm fond of: "Procrastination is our substitute for immortality". - B. Kunkle
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How Technologies Have Biases(edge.org)
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by b_emery 16y ago
Took a bit of searching, but here's a previous discussion which you may find helpful. Someone is writing a book and using ruby and git to handle the formatting: http://chrismdp.github.com/2010/11/how-im-writing-my-book-us... HN discussion
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Software To Protect Your Bank Account(bucks.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by b_emery 16y ago
3 words: Bayesian Comment Filter. Just does the opposite of what the spam filter does. Use the corpus of great comments from the past to find great comments of the present. I'm only half joking. Fundamentally, the thread is about a filterin
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by b_emery 16y ago
Great ideas. The act of commenting on a thread should cost you a few Karma points. Right now there is now down side to commenting. If you comment and it cost you say 5 points, and you don't get 5 back, you'd probably think about it a little
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by b_emery 16y ago
Here's a group aiming to be the Arduino of robotics with a $1000 iRobot, ROS and Kinect based robot platform: http://www.bilibot.com/about I guess this still goes into the 'Homebrew Computer Club' category, but now all we need is a Woznia
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Technical description of Fukushima Daiichi situation(blogs.nature.com)
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Tsunami observations in tide data, Santa Barbara CA(sbc.lternet.edu)
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by b_emery 16y ago
Lots of good advice for scientists in there. The only new info for the typical CS grad is the utter lack of any programming training in most scientific disciplines. This is pretty classic: > "To all scientists out there, ask yourselve
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by b_emery 16y ago
I think this illustrates a need for an HN-like internet-global karma system. That is, unless some of you have sockpuppet armies upvoting your comments. Say it isn't so!
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by b_emery 16y ago
My random assortment of thoughts (subject to revision): Myths are just that. Some, but not much basis in reality. My experience based suspicion is that skills are weakly correlated with age, but more dependent on total focused-hrs spent. A
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by b_emery 16y ago
This could be an interesting addendum to the How Old Are You poll ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588 ). Personally, I feel like I'm writing the best code of my life, now at 41. Taking on a startup is different animal though.
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by b_emery 16y ago
Thanks for those. The dispute has an interesting source: "In other words, Messrs Donohue and Levitt did not run the test they thought they had—an “inadvertent but serious computer programming error”, according to Messrs Foote and Goetz"
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by b_emery 16y ago
As a side note here's an interesting article about how technology has affected prostitution in NYC: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_sextrade/all/1
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by b_emery 16y ago
The decrease in crime in NYC over the lase few decades is just remarkable. I remember reading about the problems of AIDS and crack, and just thinking there was no hope. I would have never thought it could turn around like it did. Gladwell's
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How To: On Setting Up SSH Agent Forwarding(longbeard.org)
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by b_emery 16y ago
My parents call it the rainbow pizza. As in 'the damn rainbow pizza again!'.
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by b_emery 16y ago
Agreed. In addition I tend to frequent blogs/sites specializing in things I care about (HN for startup and tech, calculatedriskblog.com for economic indicators, edhat.com for local news etc).
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by b_emery 16y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try that one next time I'm in NYC (visiting relatives on a work/vacation). I've found the other NYPL building to be pretty fun places to work.
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by b_emery 16y ago
Anyone have an idea what the huge spikes in unique IP's are all about?
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by b_emery 16y ago
Some similar charts here, such as S&P Composite since 1871, adjusted for inflation (much more useful in my opinion): http://dshort.com/articles/SP-Composite-pe-ratios.html
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by b_emery 16y ago
Business model alert: > I'd like to be able to photograph a law-enforcement badge with my camera, send it to some police website, and get back a real-time verification -- with picture -- that the officer is legit.
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by b_emery 16y ago
> I almost can feel when Google will be better than Bing and vice-versa. Can you please share some of those incites? I never use bing but have had trouble with google on occasion. Finding a home appliance manual can be pretty frustratin

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