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by davi 18y ago
Thanks. Nice to have a sketch of the thing's structure. It's a finite state machine, where the 'attributes' are the states, and the code is the transition rule. Test harnesses for this -- hm.
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by davi 18y ago
"If the goal of communication is having other people understand you, why would you deal in words that are notable precisely because they are difficult to understand?" Once in a while you meet someone else like yourself and experience plea
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by davi 18y ago
I don't think this is true in neuroscience -- GREs are more than a formality.
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by davi 18y ago
And the jury's out on any correlation to my success.
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by davi 18y ago
Me too. Somehow I aced the verbal section, with a moderate amount of study, starting ~6 weeks before the test. I think it might be because I was raised without a TV and so read a lot as a kid. The questions at the end of the test (it's a
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by davi 18y ago
Thanks -- I did watch the presentation ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420974 ) and I get how ACLs could be heavyweight and inflexible -- what I'm looking for are some concrete examples of how else people do it. For example, does Ruby
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by davi 18y ago
Any links? As only a sometime-programmer, the "ACL is Dead" idea is new to me. I could use some good examples.
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by davi 18y ago
Notes from lunchtime viewing of first 40 min ------------------------------------ ~9:29: "law is actually kind of a turing complete language" Law is fuzzy; ACLs are fuzzy. ACLs can't handle real law because they're not Turing complete. ~11
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by davi 18y ago
Article summarized by this quote from it: "... nothing has been done to change that, or any of the other bad incentives that led us here in the first place." The headline is a little misleading.
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by davi 18y ago
I didn't know about this either. Here's a way to manage plugin settings on Mac: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
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by davi 18y ago
"...computers are the way of future and lab work is for suckers. But alas, in the realm of biology, the micropipetters and mice-killers win again." Doing biology is the only way to develop biological intuition. Sometimes this means pipetti
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by davi 18y ago
Most interesting to me: "We are also trying a new fabrication technology for making chambers – rapid prototyping investment casting from http://www.proivc.com/ . This is more expensive than the spun-pipe based chambers we have been using
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by davi 18y ago
Let's turn to someone with (possibly) more credibility than Roger Ebert. Michael Hayden, the director of the CIA, thinks number one issue facing us on this time scale is population growth: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-tes
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Interview with chair of panel overseeing the $700 billion(npr.org)
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by davi 18y ago
Good stuff. Brings to mind classic Hubel & Wiesel work on receptive field structure of single neurons in the visual system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5PKV9Rj3o&feature=relat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDJSnJ2cIFc
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by davi 18y ago
You're right, that was a pretty crummy suggestion. I looked at the wikipedia IPSP page and didn't like it much, either. A little deeper googling gave me this: http://icwww.epfl.ch/~gerstner/SPNM/node15.html#SECTION02133... To help parse
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by davi 18y ago
There are plenty of microscopic techniques to distinguish inhibitory from excitatory cells. Computers can tell the difference if given appropriate microscopy images as input and the software to process those images. Not too hard. But thes
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by davi 18y ago
The Allen Brain Atlas, as currently realized, is likely to be very useful for disease research & basic biology. But, explaining how the brain works by profiling gene expression... I don't think so. Certainly not sufficient, maybe not
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by davi 18y ago
I get what you're saying, but I still think it's a misuse of trolling due to conflation w/ trawling. Even if I am 'right', though, I will be wrong in a few decades if enough people continue make this mistake. (Usage = correctness.)
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by davi 18y ago
Links to real info: http://www.biophot.caltech.edu/research/ofm/ofm.html [edit, more better:] http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayHTMLArtic...
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by davi 18y ago
Trawling.
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by davi 18y ago
"Programmers will listen to people ... not because what they say is all that intelligent or thoughtful, but because they say it like a Man’s Man™." Yep. We are primates. Purely logical communication is rare amongst us -- a speaker's body
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by davi 18y ago
Thanks, think I got it -- the passive elements can't duplicate a memristor, but transistors plus some passive elements can.
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by davi 18y ago
Early in the article: "[Chua] proved that memristor behavior could not be duplicated by any circuit built using only the other three elements, which is why the memristor is truly fundamental." Later in the article: "Emulating the behavior o
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by davi 18y ago
Yes, calling something "the functional equivalent of the synapse" implies you know the function of a synapse... The memristor has some functional properties in common with some synapses. Neither synapses nor memristors have been fully chara
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by davi 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362005
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by davi 18y ago
I've done both. Could/should write an essay on this question. Most important: I think that the specific qualities of a particular startup or particular lab outweigh the importance of the category "startup" or "lab". Good labs, bad labs; g
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by davi 18y ago
This reminds me of something I often forget: if I want something out of the ordinary, it's very unlikely anyone will give it to me unless I ask.
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by davi 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Sp...
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by davi 18y ago
Maybe 10x good developers don't get 10x pay because it takes teams to build high impact software, and the probability of anyone getting a team of all 10x good developers in the same room working on the same thing is low. (Assume something

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