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by biofox 10y ago
Unfortunately, you're probably right. I was mainly trying to point out that it's not a binary choice.
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by biofox 10y ago
I agree, it's not for all. I think the preference comes down to the weightings individuals assign to: the importance of propagating their values vs their genes; and the value of existing humans vs potential humans.
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by biofox 10y ago
I'd argue that there's a third option: adoption. There are children who have already been born, and are subject to the burden of existence. Instead of creating new humans with the potential to suffer, help support and nurture thos
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Xerox Alto Restoration – Ethernet pioneers/founders of 3Com visit [video](youtube.com)
95 points by biofox 10y ago|35 comments
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by biofox 10y ago
Here's a video on an early HP calculator watch. While not on computer watches, it has a nice introduction on the early history of calculator watches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQrsSEaZkI
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by biofox 10y ago
"Sarah, put on the green coat or the red sweater. We're going to go out, okay?" Choice among humans increases the likelihood of compliance. And choice isn't important, it's the appearance of choice that's impo
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by biofox 10y ago
Having checking archive.org it seems not to have changed. NASA's main site from 1997 also has a nice interface: https://web.archive.org/web/19970711085416/http://www.nasa.g...
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by biofox 10y ago
At least they had a link for an all text version. I wish more sites today had a lo-fi option.
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Hacker Typer(hackertyper.net)
2 points by biofox 10y ago|0 comments
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by biofox 10y ago
My brain initially misread that as 8086. I started to wonder if people might have an aversion to using processor model numbers due to their familiarity... but apparently not.
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by biofox 10y ago
I was also confused. Personally, I find the use of tau nonsensical -- especially when it's used alongside pi. Established conventions should only be changed when there's a clear need to do so. Inventing a redundant constant does l
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by biofox 10y ago
Which makes me wonder: what would it take to match the capabilities of this setup with modern hardware?
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by biofox 10y ago
I suspect it selects for a very particular type of person -- someone who values the opportunity to work for google more than their own time; and consequently results in employees who are eager and willing to put the company before themselve
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by biofox 10y ago
The same could be said for any industry. Anyone can practise carpentry, but if someone is going to do so professionally and build structures that can cause injury or damage if they fail, then they should be accountable for the consequences.
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by biofox 10y ago
20 under 20 should be countered by someone funding 50 over 50. Disrupt the SV age bias by taking 50 experienced professionals, and giving them the freedom and resources to do whatever they like.
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by biofox 10y ago
I might be wrong, but I believe they were handwritten in the submitted manuscripts then manually typeset by the publisher. In Feynman's PhD thesis, all of the formulae are written in: http://cds.cern.ch/record/1014
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by biofox 10y ago
There was a Channel 4 documentary a few years ago where they made and tested one of these. I didn't see it, but there are clips online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IeGYkwVIWw
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by biofox 10y ago
This is what happens for me even with shorter lists. Or, I try to ease myself into working by starting with a list, but start feeling overwhelmed as the list grows longer. When this happens, I more often than not end up procrastinating. It
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by biofox 10y ago
As others have said below, issues that have little to do with parallelisation can heavily influence performance, e.g. caching and I/O. Referring to the list on wikipedia again, compare two different 4-core CPUs: Intel Core i5-2500K 4-c
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by biofox 10y ago
The shortcoming of clock frequency as a performance measure is illustrated by comparing Instructions per Second (MIPS) [1]. e.g. ARM Cortex A7: 2,850 MIPS at 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Krait (Cortex A15-like, 2-core): 9,900 MIPS at 1.5 GHz Both proce
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by biofox 10y ago
See the paper in my other reply to the parent. Admittedly, it only solves the technical problems (and only in mice so far), but it's a big step forward.
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by biofox 10y ago
A huge amount of progress has been made in this area. The most promising report I've seen was in Nat Methods a few weeks ago: "we demonstrated stable multiplexed local field potentials and single-unit recordings in mouse brains fo
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by biofox 10y ago
I partially agree with you, but sentience isn't the same as intelligence. From having had dogs I get the impression that most of them are every bit as sentient as I am. There's also a large amount of speciesism involved in how we
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by biofox 10y ago
Scientists are not sadists, and welfare is taken extremely seriously. What people don't see are the efforts to enrich living environments, provide sedation and analgesia, or the reams of protocols on monitoring and rapidly terminating
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by biofox 10y ago
"For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne to another lab in Beijing, China, where he conducts research on monkeys w
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by biofox 10y ago
I'd be interested to know if anyone has advice on how to break out of these thought patterns.
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by biofox 10y ago
With regards to mortality as a motivator, I often find the opposite to be true. When I am reminded of death or illness, I usually end up falling into a spiral of procrastination -- anything to avoid the thought of oblivion. I find it to be
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by biofox 10y ago
That will only lead to more tax money being funnelled into law enforcement instead of public services.
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by biofox 10y ago
I haven't read the book, but this doesn't seem to fit with what's known about general intelligence, nor the examples of polymaths from the renaissance period. I suspect the causes are societal, from the constraints placed on
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by biofox 10y ago
This is an extremely irresponsible attitude, and I'm shocked to see it expressed on HN! As engineers / technologists / experts, we have a duty as a community to ensure our products are safe! Of course, end users also have a d

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