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by balsam 13y ago
yes, from interviews I get the feeling that Musk is not as smart as the people who are working for him. See for example, the interview with Sal Khan of Khan academy. Musk seems to be not as sharp as Sal, even given that he was tired. Not de
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What's the craziest thing in your field that you suspect is true?(reddit.com)
7 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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427GHz self-aligned graphene transistors: a path to large-scale fabrication(pnas.org)
2 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)(pubs.acs.org)
77 points by balsam 13y ago|65 comments
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by balsam 13y ago
[spoiler alert] Jiro Horikoshi's life has certain parallels with that of the other (more famous) (weapon) developer, Feynman.
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The Wind Rises:Miyazaki's take on Jet Design & Experimental Painting(iwatchstuff.com)
2 points by balsam 13y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 13y ago
Woz had a bit more to say later.. http://gizmodo.com/5978777/woz-says-kutchers-steve-jobs-movi...
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Hieroglyph(beta):where artists&boffins work out grand visions(N Stephenson &al)(hieroglyph.asu.edu)
1 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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FPV to Space and back(rcexplorer.se)
1 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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by balsam 13y ago
Academia (meaning anything post-masters) has a very nuanced understanding of the word "novel". Skimming through the paper (linked below) it seems that the novel part is that they "show that the amount of information about the
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"To come up with something truly original, you have to ignore common sense."(vooza.com)
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by balsam 13y ago
I was relieved the map showed Israel as a hub instead of India (which was cited as the "source"). if you think Asiana scored it for "culturalism" then this here could win the whole game. First disclosure: not an Indian.S
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by balsam 13y ago
I wonder why he didn't allude to Socrates' arguments for accepting death. It would bolster the essay's appeal to reason. As it stands this stuff is open to less rational attacks.
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by balsam 13y ago
what is the range of matrix sizes that would enjoy a speedup over ScaLAPACK? let's assume a 8 or 16-core cluster with N nodes, so, a function of N.
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by balsam 13y ago
Heads-up: you got competition from the YC-backed hackerrank https://www.hackerrank.com/
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by balsam 13y ago
sciam didn't mention it, but the last two authors are the same guys who modernized wireless cellphone charging (Tesla's coils were deemed too dangerous) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiTricity
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by balsam 13y ago
too late, but can you quote the exact passage in the Republic? this really sounds cool, that I really don't want to find out if the wikipedia guy and the philosopher phd that came up top on the google and you are the same person.
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by balsam 13y ago
PG's reply here is still consistent, if we assume that hackerschool is meant to train effective programmers, not so much star ones. But you raise an interesting parallel, though. It seems that a premise of YC is not so much to train gr
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(Thom Yorke's new gig) Soundhalo: Can Live Shows Ever Be "Live" Again?(lowecounsel.com)
1 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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FDA permits marketing of brain-wave test for ADHD(fda.gov)
2 points by balsam 13y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 13y ago
as i was not quite able to articulate below, it feels to me that forum comments, email and todo-lists lie on the same protocol manifold but not quite at the optimal point. (RE: your yesterday's comments... i use browser tabs as a to-do
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by balsam 13y ago
possibly oblique but not tangent: how is the email-as-todolist thing going? streak seems to be the closest to that but comments-with-state sounds closer... and how does this fit into your periodic table?
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by balsam 13y ago
Has anybody had a difficult relationship with her parents? This, essentially, is what the dynamic is. Except the government is not actually parents and thus the guilt of hurting their children under the rationale of protecting them, though
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by balsam 13y ago
i think the most interesting takeaway, that none of the comments touch on, is PG thinks there are a finite number of good ideas (even though this is currently larger than the number of good startups.) this probably means that (he thinks) th
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by balsam 13y ago
This book: purportedly gives power to men. 50 shades of grey: describes a powerful man ceding power to a woman. Conclusion: politics brings out the extremes in people.
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Debunking The Narrative Of Silicon Valley's Innovation Might(forbes.com)
2 points by balsam 13y ago|0 comments
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The Entrepreneurial State(tedxtalks.ted.com)
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by balsam 13y ago
I am rather interested in what Sean Carroll meant exactly when he says that things are getting nailed. I've a feeling he's referring to some very specific, recent developments. Speaking as a neophyte --- the jazz analogy is truly
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Debunking The Narrative Of Silicon Valley's Innovation Might(forbes.com)
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by balsam 13y ago
You know, actually the US isn't that much freer in practice compared to Singapore. In theory, perhaps. And the reason has less to do with the decline of rugged individualism amongst soccer moms than the existence of a constant low-level bac

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