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The Tedious Inevitability of Nobel Prize Disputes(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
watch 'til the end, Woz chokes up (and made me do the same)
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Divers Set Sights on Silver-Laden WWII Ship(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
I think the idea is that different categories of science might occur at different scales of funding. 50 junior faculty will likely do 50 safe-ish projects which will lead to tenure. 1 senior faculty with 25 million dollars might do somethin
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Two thousand years in one chart(economist.com)
96 points by davi 15y ago|21 comments
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by davi 15y ago
I subscribe to the Disposable Soma theory of aging. http://medicine.jrank.org/pages/1758/Theories-Biological-Agi... [1] In this scheme cancer is just one example of the balance between somatic maintenance and reproduction rate. [1] The d
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by davi 15y ago
To that extent, the answer to the OP's question is likely "See the essays I've written since Hackers and Painters came out."
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by davi 15y ago
1. [2001] 2. What he's up to these days: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ 3. One specific is helping with patent litigation (see comments at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/08/16/anyone-have-a-... )
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by davi 15y ago
I think of certain quiet people I know as having high signal-to-noise. When they start to emit, I listen carefully, because my attention will be rewarded with lots of signal per unit time.
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Pendulum waves(sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Ambitions as Deep as Their Pockets(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Agnes the Aging Suit(ft.com)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
There is a new field of extracting wiring diagrams from brains at the level of individual neurons. This is what I work on. http://openconnectomeproject.org has some introductory material. (This is not my site, it is by some people at JHU
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A body fit for a freaky big brain(discovermagazine.com)
3 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Harvard and class(theparisreview.org)
85 points by davi 15y ago|14 comments
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Tim O'Reilly: State of the Internet Operating System (2010)(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
What are some examples of "seat belt" and "airbag" changes you see shops making?
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by davi 15y ago
You give some good feedback but maybe you could have struck a stance of, "Hey, do you know you could be alienating a large fraction of your readers with the style of your job posting? Here is why." These guys are trying to do a startup. It'
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by davi 15y ago
This is great, it let me quickly relocate mechanical_fish's classic "gone to the zoo" metaphor. Probably still the all-time best post I've read on HN: http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?limit=100&username=mechani...
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The Most Highly Cited Paper in Publishing History(jbc.org)
52 points by davi 15y ago|10 comments
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Why chemists doubt arsenic-based DNA(ffame.org)
4 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
Interesting to see the Howard Hughes Medical Institute mention. I'm a Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of HHMI. I get a big budget, two people in my group, the ability to use massive internal resources (electrical and mechanical e
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by davi 15y ago
My take is he's uncomfortable with the deal and was likely not fully behind it. Agreed it's distancing language but my guess is that he doesn't want to undercut Ballmer's authority.
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The Data-Driven Life(nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Should Smallpox Be Put To Death?(pressblog.uchicago.edu)
36 points by davi 15y ago|28 comments
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"There are some people who don't wait."(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
4 points by davi 15y ago|1 comments
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by davi 15y ago
Ashburn, VA - Brain wiring diagram extraction I'm hiring a software developer for my group at Janelia Farm Research Campus, in Ashburn, VA. The goal will be to develop workflow for extracting wiring diagrams of neuronal circuits from large-
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Friendster to Erase Early Posts and Old Photos(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Non-Obvious Brand Icons Work(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments

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