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by bglazer 11y ago
This is really, really cool. That said, flying objects are inherently dangerous. I was at a bike race and a guy was following the pack with a DJI drone. One motor suddenly failed and the thing plummeted to the ground from 40ft and broke int
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by bglazer 11y ago
Can you tell me more about your research? I became really fascinated with motor control after reading an introductory neuroscience book a while back. I feel like this is not an area that receives as much attention as it should.
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by bglazer 11y ago
I agree that the current Von Neumann architecture is probably not adequate. However, I think there is some active research in this area. Here are a couple links: From today actually. Memristors are an exciting development if they can scale
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by bglazer 11y ago
In the movie "The Lion in Winter" there is a fight scene that is quite similar to what you describe as accurate. It's actually quite disturbing, as it depicts the frightening amount of intimacy involved in wrestling someone t
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by bglazer 11y ago
The paper itself [1] and a Wired article covering it [2], were received very poorly on HN when they were originally posted before. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399090 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com
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by bglazer 12y ago
Can't recommend these notebooks enough. They cover an incredible variety of statistics, physics, and other topics. They're lucidly written and well cited. He's definitely an inspiration to keep reading and understanding.
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by bglazer 12y ago
> I left academia--more-or-less--after doing several post-docs and taking a hard look at an employment landscape where colleagues who were at least as good as me were taking offers from second- or third-teir institutions because that was
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OpenCultures list of free Math textbooks(openculture.com)
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by bglazer 12y ago
Yes I understand that, I meant on the 3d embedding of it presented in this article
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by bglazer 12y ago
Someone (smarter than me) should program a Pacman clone that takes place on one of these tori.
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by bglazer 12y ago
That's one of the best math articles I've ever read frankly. I was just wondering the other day how to visualize a square flat torus, and I didn't realize that this was such a compelling mathematical question.
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by bglazer 12y ago
The shots of the whale and ROV together (that I guess are from a camera attached to the tether) are hauntingly beautiful. Here's a couple fun fact about sperm whales: They have the largest brain among all animals living and extinct (17
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by bglazer 12y ago
Here's a video for those interested: http://www.arkive.org/barnacle-goose/branta-leucopsis/video-...
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by bglazer 12y ago
1. Train dog to press button 2. Train dog to press button when bell rings 3. Connect bell to the internet 4. SaaS dog selfies 5. Profit!
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by bglazer 12y ago
I think you make an interesting and very valid point that "Stallman and the FSF are basically the platinum standard by which all free software rhetoric is judged". That said, it's unfortunate that the standard for free softwa
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by bglazer 12y ago
> For example, find me someone who can tell me what kind of hardware we need for an AGI. Can't do it, because no one has any idea. Wouldn't the human brain qualify?
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by bglazer 12y ago
I think it's running that opens up a lot of possibilities. That's really not possible in the vast majority of spaces, especially with a headset. Maybe I'm overestimating the amount of physical effort people are willing to tak
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by bglazer 12y ago
I developed a mild fascination with omnidirectional treadmills a while back. It's such an interesting engineering challenge. Anyways, the large size and hefty cost of these treadmills seems almost unavoidable, and therefore makes them
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by bglazer 12y ago
Hey thanks for responding Thomas! Good luck bringing even more people on board the universal fund. It's a really interesting model.
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by bglazer 12y ago
Excellent analysis. I can't believe they don't solicit a recurring donation to the universal fund immediately after a one time donationd! The donor is clearly already in the giving mindset. I wonder how this SaaS "subscriptio
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by bglazer 12y ago
You sound very similar to myself. Here's what happened to me: I coasted through highschool and tried to do the same through college. It didn't work. My GPA tanked, which discouraged me, and my GPA tanked some more. I finally exper
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by bglazer 12y ago
I certainly understand. I do get sick of feeling like a weird liberal occasionally. But really, is it that bad ? Also, there's clear evidence [1][2] that people are leaving "mixed" communities to live in areas that are more
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by bglazer 12y ago
I was going to add a comment at the end about how I fear that I may be fighting a losing battle against socioeconomic feedback loops. That's profoundly sad to me though. Concentrating all of the technological revolution's talent a
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by bglazer 12y ago
I live in Memphis TN and I've found that comments on HN towards the middle of the US are skewed negative. Perhaps I have a bias for remembering negative comments. Nonetheless, I find this attitude perplexing from the HN crowd. I unders
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by bglazer 12y ago
Very impressive! I like the styling of the page. What languages are you using?
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by bglazer 12y ago
> Is it fear of being fired for making such a request? Are the employers so powerful and the employees in such a weak bargaining position? Frankly, yes. I would be literally the only person I know who has such an arrangement. Have you ne
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by bglazer 12y ago
Hi Sean, having skimmed the presentation you linked to, Glitch's programming model seems similar to VHDL and Verilog, in that the "tick" is an explicit construct and statements are not guaranteed to execute sequentially. I&
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by bglazer 12y ago
Thank you Arjuna! Congratulations on publishing your game. From your linked post: > Even the people around you won't understand the mental suffering that you are silently muscling through; you, torn between two worlds as the aforeme
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by bglazer 12y ago
> If the project timeline is "work for 6-8 months, then show people" it's possible you built an amazing thing only you know how to use and nobody else really wants. This absolutely terrifies me. > The simplest hack here
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by bglazer 12y ago
This is very interesting. I'm not sure how my company culture would tolerate my leaving early, but it does seem like the most practical option for actually getting work done. I feel like I probably have enough autonomy to do this, but

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