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by davi 17y ago
"We set up a small group of people to take every silly idea, every cool trick, everything interesting that existed in any kind of working state somewhere in the game and put them into a single prototype level. When the level started to get
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Alex Jones On 'Losing The News,' And Why It Matters(npr.org)
1 points by davi 17y ago|0 comments
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by davi 17y ago
"In 2004 Dr. Sinclair co-founded Sirtris with Christoph Westphal, a scientific entrepreneur. Helped by growing interest in the sirtuin story, Dr. Westphal was able to sell the company last year to GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million."
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Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging (nytimes.com)
4 points by davi 17y ago|2 comments
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by davi 17y ago
The math is right but misses the point: to learn how to do your own startup. To learn from what the founders are doing right and wrong, and to start building up your own network of contacts, in preparation for striking out on your own. Plu
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by davi 17y ago
Hey man, don't lump me in. I'm a hungry hominid and I know it. Back to my previously programmed reality...
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by davi 17y ago
I was at a family gathering of my in-laws last weekend. A bunch of older men, aged 50-75, were sitting around the table with beers and scotches, and talking about the decline of the newspaper, what it meant, etc. One had an iPhone and rea
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by davi 17y ago
Why is he talking about 'terabytes of source data' then? If they're procedurally generated, then stored and rendered, they "are that large". Maybe I'm missing something. [edit: also he talks about the workflow the artists use -- they are
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by davi 17y ago
"unlimited numbers of 128,000 x 128,000 pixel textures, terabytes of source data" (part1, 3:33) rare to hear about images this large in routine use. cool. ---- on id's experience with developing for multiple platforms at once: build up in
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by davi 17y ago
If you think k=abilities, that not what I meant. k=how good your idea is, how well it is timed relative to the rest of the world, how well connected you are, etc. The quality of the idea matters. It is necessary but not sufficient for suc
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by davi 17y ago
"Corollary III: given your abilities, what only matters is time spent on execution" Wrong. In this model, V = kt where V = value, k = some constant, and t = amount of time spent on execution. Clearly the value of k matters, not just t.
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by davi 17y ago
Just noticed this, I don't know how long they've been doing it. But it makes me think (along w/ other of their moves) that they "getting it" as far as bringing news online.
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Nytimes is now letting readers upmod good comments (e.g.)(community.nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 17y ago|2 comments
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by davi 17y ago
Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215527 Have HN's impressions of the tool change since this discussion? I didn't know Microsoft was doing anything like this.
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Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by davi 17y ago
What else is on your list so far?
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by davi 17y ago
Thanks. :) It's been a long road, hope to get a paper out in the next ~6 months or so. Shoot me an email (address on my home page) if you ever want to be in touch outside of HN.
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by davi 17y ago
"Are you really trying to create a high throughput electron microscopy workflow?" Yes. We've increased acquisition rates by a factor of ~15-20x over what is available using commercially available TEM systems. We now have tens of terabytes
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by davi 17y ago
"So each entry contained all possible numbers in increments of 0.02, with Null in all places where the sample did not contain that number." OK. That is heinous. It makes me cringe. And if the person who made it thought that it was an exa
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by davi 17y ago
"A little knowledge can be far more dangerous then no knowledge. ... Not being computer literate is almost as bad as being just plain illiterate." Need examples before I can know whether I agree or strenuously disagree.
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by davi 17y ago
"In the Army study of I.E.D. detection, researchers found that troops who were good at spotting bombs in simulations tended to think of themselves as predators, not prey. That frame of mind by itself may work to reduce anxiety, experts say.
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by davi 17y ago
"Our website does fairly well, in spite of us. We have put very little in terms of monetary resources in it and we are every marketer's nightmare." 4 years later: http://news.bookweb.org/news/2982.html Wordsworth still feels like it's mis
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Wordsworth responds to Amazon in 2000; bankrupt in 2004(joelonsoftware.com)
4 points by davi 17y ago|4 comments
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Top 250 microns of the ocean is a film ecosystem(nytimes.com)
3 points by davi 17y ago|0 comments
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by davi 17y ago
Cool. I just clicked around to find a web-based viewer of these rules & found: http://www.collidoscope.com/cgolve/golpatternviewer.html And paste in e.g. one of the crystal & decay oscillators: x = 77, y = 91, rule = B3/S23 5b2o$5
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by davi 17y ago
It's neat that I can find someone else who has the same answer as me for something that's mildly obscure, and that this answer has 3 upvotes already. Hackers and stonemasonry, who knew? Makes sense, though.
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by davi 17y ago
9 photons for 60% success rate of conscious perception http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.h...
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by davi 17y ago
A Maker's marketing can be more interesting than a non-Maker's reporting.
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by davi 17y ago
I got a job offer from aD back in the day... went for a walk w/ Greenspun + Alex to talk about it. I didn't like how everyone at the company's ego seemed to depend so entirely on programming ability (I was fresh out of college and cared a
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by davi 17y ago
I found it interesting. This feature seems like it obviates some of the value provided by services like Posterous, at least for Facebook users.

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