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by davi 18y ago
I like the simplicity of your site as it stands, just throwing an idea out there. The first thing one does when one sees a good idea is to think about how it could be elaborated on -- that's probably the nature of a lot of the feedback you'
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by davi 18y ago
Agreed. See also these pearls from Greenspun [1]: Computers are the tools of the devil. ... Everything I've learned about computers at MIT I've boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the
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by davi 18y ago
Cool. You have Clusterify as a 'completed' project at: http://clusterify.com/projects/completed/ But not as an idea at: http://clusterify.com/projects/proposed/ So when a project is completed, it gets pulled off the proposed page? Or y
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by davi 18y ago
Good links, thanks. But do you think a chimpanzee carrier makes it okay to inflict (with reasonably high likelihood) mutations and health problems on animals you are expecting will have near-human, or even human, levels of intelligence? I d
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by davi 18y ago
some 'notes' look like 'chords' When? [severely edited, trying to fix bad writing]
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by davi 18y ago
Magenta exists. But article is not useless. It is talking about perception of electromagnetic cocktail. Check out this experiment: http://www.greatreality.com/Color2Color.htm [related HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45
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by davi 18y ago
So why not do it? Why not give Harvard’s George Church the money he says could be used to resurrect a Neanderthal from DNA? I’m bracing for a long list of objections from the world’s self-appointed keepers of bioethics Good. Brace your
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by davi 18y ago
Emmm...... no. Yes. Title is total linkbait, article is old. But the science is cool (overexpress chaperone molecules in liver, increase traffic to lysosomes even in old mice). What's a good HN denizen to do? How about add a link to som
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by davi 18y ago
Hm, parterburn = stwc on reddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7xrm8/stuff_that_was_... Anyway, this post is not HN, IMHO.
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by davi 18y ago
Looks like both links are to the original.
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by davi 18y ago
Also faster iterative cycles: from beginning to end, a startup can fail faster than a scientific career.
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NASA Tailplane Icing Video(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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by davi 18y ago
I'm just saying that it is not the hope of a big reward that keep them going, but a genuine interest in their current work. So knowing about the tournament market doesn't make much of a difference. There's an intermediate state between fl
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by davi 18y ago
Analogue between academic science and web startups: 'A tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes
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Taken for granted: the man who wasn't there(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
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by davi 18y ago
Well, I guess I'm the only one with this particular bee in my bonnet.... :)
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"Targeted posts" -- how I wish Posterous worked(davi.posterous.com)
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by davi 18y ago
Interesting work. Headline is an overstatement. From the paper's abstract: "Consolidation is inhibited by reversible, intracortical antagonism of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) or cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) during post-MD sleep."[1] S
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by davi 18y ago
Sounds like a good trajectory. Although there is a difference between exposing API to developers vs. giving users a feature, my "I want to own my data" worries will be greatly assuaged if a good API exists.
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by davi 18y ago
Absolutely right. Here's an additional use case from my world: I'm in grad school & often want to share data and thoughts with various scientific honchos whose time budgets are very limited. Now I can cc. a Posterous group called "my ad
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by davi 18y ago
Shit. I'm now at serious risk of turning into a fanboy. The only thing that really keeps me from diving in is that my data are owned by someone else. I see I can use it w/ my own domain, which is really cool ( http://posterous.com/faq/ ),
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by davi 18y ago
Looks like you don't need a Posterous account to view password-protected content. Just the password. Not true on LiveJournal. (Not a user of either, yet, but this is how things look on inspection. Corrections/amplifications welcomed.) T
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by davi 18y ago
Posterous does "roll deep" on HN, but I'm also really excited about this feature. The general blog semantic of visible/invisible is simple but underpowered: there are a lot of things I want to show to one group of people that would just be
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by davi 18y ago
Ad for 'opportunity' to be an astroturfer & coffee-getter at a marketing company in Seattle.
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by davi 18y ago
Rantings. Not worth the time to skim.
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by davi 18y ago
Reminds me of algorithm for giving a clear science talk: while have next slide { tell the audience what you're about to say go to next slide say it tell the audience what you just said }
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by davi 18y ago
I think it's fairly likely that in the next 50 years, strong anti-aging therapeutics will become available. This could reshape business practices significantly: long term strategies would directly reward their practitioners.
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by davi 18y ago
"I have often dreamed of a study that somehow measures the impact of ego on workplace productivity. The results, I imagine, would be staggering, with as much as a 50 percent increase in productivity resulting from the eradication of egos."
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by davi 18y ago
Very nice link on the melting copper clusters.
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by davi 18y ago
"the most important mechanical tolerances in atomically precise fabrication are (with a caveat or two) proportional to the lattice constant (unit cell size) of the material in question"

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