burning_hamster

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by burning_hamster 7y ago
I know exactly what you mean. And yet after a page worth of text I felt like the editor made the right call: the text would have lost a bit of its soul if they had redacted it in a socially more accepted way.
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
Not OP, but suits can be really hot and uncomfortable so you only wear them if you must. For example, you would definitely wear one during harvest but maybe not if you are just doing a checkup. Not wearing one then obviously runs the risk o
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
The comparison is with other philosophy texts.
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
For the time being, talent is limited. Their costly engineers' time might be spent more productively on other products. Windows is already no longer their primary cash cow (nor even their secondary -- IIRC, it comes third in revenue af
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
This assumes a tabula rasa state of mind, where children have not formed any intuitions about the parts of the world they have not formally been taught about. However, when we learn about the sciences, we always discard incorrect intuitions
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
> pick up Laine's other book, Life Ascending, and then get back to The Vital Question As an ex-biochemist who has read both books, this is excellent advice.
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
> experimentally solve multiple high-resolution 3D models per week I thought this was only true if you already have a structure; otherwise you typically run into the [phase problem]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phas
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
I think the best starting point is Robert Martin, Clean Code. Most people that have read the book (and it is a classic so many have) will swear by it. I most certainly do.
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
> We also have very few real-world applications for spiking neurons that exceed their ANN counterparts. You are being generous. "Zero" does not qualify for "few". On a more serious note: > I don't get the appe
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
Very impressive CV. You had a busy and productive last couple of years. Major point: you have worked on a large variety of very different tasks, which is exactly the right thing to do at this stage and will benefit you hugely in the long ru
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
His TED talk is probably my all time favourite. https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything
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by burning_hamster 8y ago
Radio, actually: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-does-live-traffic-on-...