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by b_emery 9y ago
To solve (1), just any old scrap of paper, which is then (2) transferred to a personal wiki that lives in dropbox. I use this one (tiddlywiki.com), but anything with tagging and search would work. I appreciate the organization by time, tag,
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by b_emery 9y ago
If there was ever a time to bike Hwy 1, the time is now. Few cars and certainly no RVs.
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by b_emery 9y ago
It's another data point, and must be assessed relative to other data points. Some details of the origin of our species are better known than others, and thus some are more or less likely to be 'reset'. The evidence for Africa
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by b_emery 9y ago
For me it was that physics was about reality. In high school the key moment occurred when in a physics lab, after calculating and measuring and calculating more, we placed a cup on the floor, rolled a marble down the ramp and off the desk -
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by b_emery 9y ago
My experience is with several classes and teachers, so a combined total of probably 100 kids in different classes over several years - but you make a valid point. It's quite possible that in the decades since his work that his criticis
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by b_emery 9y ago
> It would be more helpful to ditch the 'myth' that age-segregated classrooms are an improvement over the one-room school house. Modern schooling forces children to learn on the teacher's schedule. I have two kids in a pub
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by b_emery 9y ago
Based on my readings, 'incomprehensible method + novel idea + good story' seems to work pretty well too.
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by b_emery 9y ago
Looks like someone has: Deep Learning-Based Classification of Hyperspectral Data http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6844831/
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by b_emery 9y ago
Working remote even 2 days per week would buy you 4 hrs/wk. That's huge. We just moved closer to my work and the kid's school. The 20 min gained per day (in the morning) has been surprisingly valuable.
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by b_emery 10y ago
"According to another theory, the term could derive from the Old Spanish Calit Fornay, an alteration of the Latin Calida Fornax, meaning hot furnace" This is the one I've always heard, the Khalif origin is new to me - and ver
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by b_emery 10y ago
Put them on github?
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by b_emery 10y ago
Summary: "Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has dumped trillions of dollars into wars, piled huge debt onto students, forced legions of foreigners to leave after getting advanced degrees, driven millions of Americans out of the w
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Dimon Warns ‘Something Is Wrong’ with the U.S(bloomberg.com)
2 points by b_emery 10y ago|2 comments
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by b_emery 10y ago
Makes me wonder: Would the slavery-based economy of Roman times represent a model for what will be the robot-based economy of the future?
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by b_emery 10y ago
It means that there is a 100% chance that one side of the coin has a head on it.
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by b_emery 10y ago
"Classification is done with TNT" which "stands for "Tree analysis using New Technology". It is a program for phylogenetic analysis under parsimony (with very fast tree-searching algorithms;"[1]. Interesting cl
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Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree(nytimes.com)
2 points by b_emery 10y ago|1 comments
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by b_emery 10y ago
Correct, just saying it's related. Also, I am not a medical doctor.
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by b_emery 10y ago
> PS: I don't know if is unrelathed or not, but i'm diagnosed with hypothyroidism. It is definitely related! Missing thyroid meds for just a few days could explain the symptoms you describe.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Indeed, I spoke with a pathologist friend about this. Non-experts assume its black and white (cancer or not) but there are many many shades of grey and other variables. Its very complex.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Seems like pathology is a white collar job that could be replaced by AI. But the pathologists I know are not worried about their jobs, (honestly, they are worried about it, but for other reasons - mostly changes in the US healthcare syste
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by b_emery 10y ago
That would be a decent lead indicator for a very narrow sector of the economy. I would love to see a count of hiring posts vs time. Edit: Too good of an idea to not be done already http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hi
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by b_emery 10y ago
That is a good one. Here are a few from my 4 yr old: off-board: as opposite of onboard; both-turnal: awake in day and night; sand-boni: Tractor smoothing sand at the beach;
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by b_emery 10y ago
I'm in science, though not bioinformatics - I know people who are. Cant comment on the oversupply or not, but the positions I know about are primarily funded through short-term grants, which means low-ish pay and minimal job security.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Or maybe halving the capital gains tax had something to do with it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Federal_...
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by b_emery 10y ago
So artist pay $20 per year, and to quote the article "100,000+ artists", he's looking at $2,000,000 gross per year? Three employees. Amazing
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by b_emery 10y ago
n+1 where n is the number of kids I have. Currently, n=3.
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by b_emery 10y ago
My two cents: Not sure what "Breaking the norm of company culture" means, but a company culture can be an important way to communicate the core values of a company. "Measure employee engagement" which is elsewhere on the
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by b_emery 10y ago
"Live in the future, then build what's missing." http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html Looks of good meta advice there. Also, read a lot from adjacent fields. I do this in research and the cross pollination
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by b_emery 10y ago
Best thread ever. I'm about to open up a container of Del Real "Salsa de Molcajete Roja" that I got from costco, that's pretty good. My favorite is from a local place here in Santa Barbara - "Hot Salsa" from th

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