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by davi 18y ago
Final paragraph: "Sometimes your research should be based not on how glorious success might be, but on how little you will have lost if you screw up." Fair enough. But -- there should be outliers. Apollo. Hubble. Manhattan Project. G
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by davi 18y ago
I've just heard about this place, don't know anyone who went there: http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/
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by davi 18y ago
That was interesting, thanks for the link. However -- the neural functions cited by Kurzweil for which 'operations per second' have been estimated are: 1) edge and motion detection in the retina 2) computation of time delay between a sound
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by davi 18y ago
I get the point of the article, but I stubbed my toe on this quote within it: "By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computation capability of the Human Brain." How to quantify the 'computation capability' of the human brain? If we kn
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by davi 18y ago
"The programmer in question was adamant at the start that using FORTH was superior in terms of speed of delivery, space occupied by the code, and quality. In other words, much better than programming in assembler. He'd deliver DK Jr in reco
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by davi 18y ago
I was really burned out in 2000, but I had enough savings from the bubble to take some time off. It took me about 6 months to get really interested in things again, and what I ended up doing professionally at that point was totally differe
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by davi 18y ago
"This pad and polish combo removed between 1-2 microns." Very, very nice.
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by davi 18y ago
Maybe why needs an 8gb hack: "Currently, Mac OS X Leopard hosts both 32-bit and 64-bit apps on top of a 32-bit kernel (below). Using PAE, the 32-bit kernel can address 32GB of RAM in the Mac Pro and Xserve; Apple's consumer machines only su
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by davi 18y ago
In reverse chronological order: * Looking at 200,000 x 200,000 pixel images of cortex, where each pixel samples 3.75 nm square (you see the wires and the solder) * Sparsely expressing green fluorescent protein in pyramidal neurons of the hi
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by davi 18y ago
"reluctantly compromising perfectionism" -- an interesting notion, from last paragraph on last page.
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by davi 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift Maybe in a small population social news site, the 'norm' for content can drift in a similar fashion to allele frequency in a small gene pool.
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by davi 18y ago
I'm starting to envy people with even-keeled dispositions the way other people envy the rich.
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by davi 18y ago
It's a huge market, and it's uncracked despite user pain. Why? It's a boring question in terms of technology, but not in terms of thinking about user needs and behavior. And it's pretty interesting in terms of the amount of money that cou
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by davi 18y ago
Assignment incomplete: "Before you try to start a startup doing this, however, you should be prepared to explain why existing web-based Office alternatives haven’t taken the world by storm, and how you’re going to beat that." The author nee
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by davi 18y ago
"Natural selection can’t fix problems that arise late in the animals’ life spans" Another common theory is that the rate of aging in a given species is optimized for rate of predation: if you are likely to be killed by the end of the year,
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Interesting analysis of current innovation in ssd storage (scroll halfway through post)(archives.postgresql.org)
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by davi 18y ago
2005 follow-up at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact?cu...
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by davi 18y ago
For the "searchers" there are other, better schools than those of the Ivy League. I still wish I had gone to one of them. Less seriously, but maybe relatedly: Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed; Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.
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by davi 18y ago
Friends of mine in neuroscience, who do electrophysiology, love the instantaneous gratification of it: patch onto a cell. Watch/listen to it fire. Treat it with chemicals. Treat the cells innervating it with chemicals. Make them fire
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by davi 19y ago
Along this line: when people say, "I would <x>, but I don't have the time" (where <x> is some creative, interesting thing), usually one can substitute the word "energy" for "time" in their statement, and learn a lot more abo