david927

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   by david927 4y ago

   These people wouldn't have a Nobel Prize if they followed mainstream ideas and were, like so many of us, sycophants of what has hitherto existed. Most of the points of "disease" (with notable exceptions) were simply topics fo
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   Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2023)

   36 points by david927 4y ago|41 comments
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   by david927 4y ago

   Objective journalism is a necessary component of a free and democratic society. Without it, "availability cascades" and "rumor mills" are pervasive. Some of the cited examples are great examples of where journalism fai
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   by david927 4y ago

   Nicely said. Alan Kay talks a lot about this.
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   by david927 4y ago

   Have your text pulled from a database table and then key it by chosen language.
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   by david927 4y ago

   I expect it between now and summer.
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   by david927 4y ago

   I try to do one of these at the first of every month. It's hit-and-miss but you can look for Ask HN on the first of the month. It goes back a while.
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   by david927 4y ago

   I don't see how Paris is the best example. I would nominate Zurich. Strangely, I live with my wife and daughter in Boise, Idaho and we don't own a car. The high school, my work, grocery stores, etc. are all within a short walk.
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   by david927 4y ago

   He's generally overrated but Taxi Driver is not good cinema, it's great cinema.
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    by david927 4y ago

    "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber shows how debt is a unique tool in its ability to control people and, in this case, countries. I'm excited to hear that Brazil and Argentina are working on a common currency, and
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    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Feb 2023)

    1 points by david927 4y ago|1 comments
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    by david927 4y ago

    I'm using a browser and also getting redirected to Google.
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    by david927 4y ago

    Wait... are you saying Jara Cimrman did it first?!
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    by david927 4y ago

    When I was living there, I was told that you could go to a rug store, see a beautiful say, Persian Carpet worth thousands, and they would say, take it home and try it out. If you liked it, you came back to pay. They didn't take your
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    by david927 4y ago

    I agree. Things fall into existing grooves. Your band comes up with a new sound and people say, "That's kind of like Mazzy Star," and now you point it more that way. It falls into that nearby groove instead of continuing o
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    by david927 4y ago

    Much, much more vulnerable
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    by david927 4y ago

    Well, it had been slowly shifting around northern Canada for the hundreds of years we have records. Lately, though, it's been moving quite quickly towards Siberia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons&#
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    by david927 4y ago

    Searle's Chinese Room is becoming very relevant. Personally, it's how I've been describing to non-technical friends the difference between ChatGPT and AGI. It's fascinating how early this author got to these ideas!
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    by david927 4y ago

    Just BTC -- 1000000% gain
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    Methylated gases could be an unambiguous indicator of alien life(sciencenews.org)

    2 points by david927 4y ago|0 comments
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    by david927 4y ago

    I've faced that: Hour-long morning standups that went from pairs of people to other pairs of people to talk about things they should have spoken about earlier. So I just called it out before the meeting started, saying exactly that: up
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    by david927 4y ago

    Thank you. I stand corrected. And yet... you have to admit it’s intriguing...
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    by david927 4y ago

    I made a “play on words” to convey the notion of discarding data in the insistence on coming to a conclusion rather than simply holding ambiguity. No decision needs to be made. We don’t know if it’s a rock or anything else and that’s ok.
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    by david927 4y ago

    What is that called? Occam's Blindfold? We don't know it's a rock. We don't really know what it is, other than it's the first thing we've picked up from an interstellar trajectory, is bizarrely shaped, didn
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    by david927 4y ago

    This is an interesting paper and Oumuamua will remain fascinating for a long time. Maybe the answer to the Fermi Paradox (or 'Where the hell are they?') is that they're around and doing interstellar drive-bys and we're j
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    by david927 4y ago

    Fantastic. Thanks for posting this.
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    by david927 4y ago

    The author of the paper, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, made a nice video that talks about it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tEnm53zDs
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    Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

    220 points by david927 4y ago|503 comments
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    by david927 4y ago

    Notepad++ has NppCalc which has similar functionality. Nice work!
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    by david927 4y ago

    Peace and love for you all in 2023. Merry Christmas.