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by bloaf 6y ago
Do you have an example of a mainstream presentation of a complicated math discovery that doesn't dumb down the complex problem? I will point out that math discoveries don't have quite the same kinds of asterisks as the physical sc
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by bloaf 6y ago
I've seen a lot of somewhat-awkward word-of-mouth endorsements of clubhouse lately, enough to make me think something inorganic is going on.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Reposting a comment I made a few years ago on a thread lamenting the "church of TED." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209761 I think that in science there is an inherent tension between what scientists know
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by bloaf 6y ago
Someone should make a profile noise generator that frequently updates profiles with non-substantive changes to make such tools less interesting.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Competition makes it harder for malicious actors to manipulate everyone's content, but lets not pretend that companies don't know how to create the illusion of competition [1,2] We already have the problem of people creating t
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by bloaf 6y ago
On whether a private company could prohibit the distribution of written materials in a town that they owned: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/501/ > Ownership does not always mean
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by bloaf 6y ago
> A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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by bloaf 6y ago
There were two albums, "Rogues Gallery" [1] and "Son of Rogues Gallery" [2] which came out in 2006 and 2013 that featured an eclectic mix of artists (some quite well known, e.g. Dr. John, Zappa, Sting) doing these kinds
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by bloaf 6y ago
Location: Houston, TX Remote: No problem Willing to relocate: Yes, especially to cooler climates Technologies: Mathematica, Python, .NET (C# F# WPF EF6 Powershell), SQL, tcl, git, amateur exposure to system administration on
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by bloaf 6y ago
The internet is fast. Computers are fast. One second is enough time for my machine to download 10M data points and render them into an interactive plot. https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/bench/uPlot-10M.html In m
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by bloaf 6y ago
Just delete the network firmware and forget to rewrite it.
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by bloaf 6y ago
This feels like an application where an APL one-liner would just be the fastest thing that there is.
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by bloaf 6y ago
I've always been mentally tickled by prologue type systems. I suspect but cannot prove that they would be very useful in conjunction with constrained optimization engines. Specifically: many optimization engines give very arcane feedb
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by bloaf 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/27/111091624/homeless-man-leaves... They are few, but some people do choose that lifestyle. I also wonder, when people bemoan the number of people with PhDs working as janito
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by bloaf 6y ago
I learned 90% of the things I know about operating systems by solving problems I myself caused.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Base jumping has a ridiculously high fatality rate (~1 in 60 people who try it die). I wonder if adding engines makes it safer or less safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping#Safety
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by bloaf 6y ago
I am sympathetic to Gates' position to this day. Some thoughts: If you gave someone in 1994 the GPT-3 code and dataset, it would be impossible for them to regress and very difficult to run even if we regressed it for them. AI algorith
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by bloaf 6y ago
Spreadsheets basically run entire massive companies. What is the standard of complexity which this fails to meet?
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by bloaf 6y ago
Thermodynamically, the higher concentration of CO2 in industrial flue gas means you can capture CO2 there more efficiently than you can from the ambient air. However, industrial carbon capture typically is a loser because processing the hu
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by bloaf 6y ago
All you have to do to substantiate it is follow his procedure and see if you can successfully fork such a project to github. Let me know how it goes!
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by bloaf 6y ago
See also: Altair (Python library for generating Vega-Lite) https://github.com/altair-viz/altair Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411859
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by bloaf 6y ago
> To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it-please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, s
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by bloaf 6y ago
Can also try out "hydranol" or "dihydral ether".
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by bloaf 6y ago
Mathematica seems to be betting on knowledge graphs https://www.wolfram.com/language/12/rdf-and-sparql and ctrl+f the RDF section here: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/04/version
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by bloaf 6y ago
Me. I do that.
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by bloaf 6y ago
GPT-3 would almost certainly have better grammar.
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by bloaf 6y ago
It's real in the sense that someone put those words into an open access Macedonian medical science journal. But this is not physically real: > This means that molecules of water could have gender like DNAs. On the other hand, the ea
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by bloaf 6y ago
This is a wild ride. I cannot tell if a more accurate translation would make the ride wilder or less wild.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Chemistry: Can we beat plants at photosynthesis?
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by bloaf 6y ago
If you want to do anything at meaningful scale, it's unlikely anyone is going to make biochar. If the big oil companies really feel pressured by a need to recycle plastic, they'll just look for a way to stick it into one of their

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