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by dood 18y ago
This is a big part of why I like the idea of an interconnected web of knowledge - as opposed to the silos most students are forced into today. As long as the learner is interested in one small area of knowledge, they can easily follow links
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by dood 18y ago
Sure, email in profile. But I should stress that I use the word passionate to mean enthusiastic, not to indicate I have any special skills or expertise!
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by dood 18y ago
Just in case you hadn't seen it: http://videolectures.net/ Part of the problem is that such videos are hard to find, and not usefully aggregated anywhere (a problem I am indirectly trying to solve ;).
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by dood 18y ago
An idea for new news: Start with the reddit concept: users submit and vote on links to articles, blog posts and so forth. Then, allow users to tag each link (or otherwise add metadata), and vote on the relevence of the story to the tag. Als
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by dood 18y ago
Startups are just an emerging niche. If you look at it that way, the metaness is irrelevant. Also, such a startup would be guaranteed to have an intimate understanding of the problems they are trying to solve!
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by dood 18y ago
I'm passionate about online learning. I like James Burke's knowledge web idea [ http://www.k-web.org/ ], but I'm not terribly optimistic about their approach/implementation. The idea is to make a network of knowledge which enables self-dire
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Fabric: simple pythonic deployment(nongnu.org)
5 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
If you are a fan of games, I heartily encourage you to give Go a good chance. It is both beautiful and profound, yet of broad practical benefit. Poker, though very different, is the only other game I know which is comparably elegant, applic
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by dood 18y ago
I mean unknown in the sense of unpredictability, chaos, combinatorial complexity.
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by dood 18y ago
The post gives a reasonable overview of why programmers may benefit from playing Go, but there is a whole lot more that could be said. Though I've not yet mastered either pursuit, I'll struggle to put some of my thoughts into words: Go is p
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by dood 18y ago
There is plenty of unknown in Go.
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by dood 18y ago
I've kept out of KGS for a long time since it was just too tempting, but this post has inspired me to get back into action. I'll also be looking out for other HN readers, username d00d.
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by dood 18y ago
One of the strongest current programs, MoGo, recently beat a 5 dan player on 9x9 using a monte carlo approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_go#Monte-Carlo_methods
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by dood 18y ago
Also check out the much improved docs for the upcoming .9.7 release: http://docs.pylonshq.com/ The docs still need a little work, but should be a big improvement when they're done (in the next couple of weeks I believe).
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The Pylons Book (first draft)(pylonsbook.com)
5 points by dood 18y ago|2 comments
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Piet: a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings(dangermouse.net)
9 points by dood 18y ago|1 comments
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by dood 18y ago
"Business isn’t a game, and I think some web entrepreneurs treat it that way." I like to think of it as a game, a fun problem to explore. Helps to keep thinking fresh and flexible. Just a matter of defining appropriate conditions of success
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by dood 18y ago
Thanks!
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by dood 18y ago
If memory serves, this has been on here lots of times, even since close to the early days.
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15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages(sixrevisions.com)
60 points by dood 18y ago|9 comments
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Do Bayesian statistics rule the brain?(mindhacks.com)
13 points by dood 18y ago|26 comments
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by dood 18y ago
There is a lot of noise around the subject, but if you boil it down I don't think it's much of mystery: Twitter represents an important new way to communicate. People like communicating. Some people also like tech/startups, so for them it's
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Extraordinary mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck celebrates his 80th birthday in self-imposed isolation(sciencenews.org)
24 points by dood 18y ago|1 comments
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Scipy - the embarrassing way to code(vetta.org)
66 points by dood 18y ago|37 comments
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Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here’s How(techcrunch.com)
4 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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Return of the Meta tag: Introducing AB Meta - Simple Annotation Format for Pages About Things(blog.adaptiveblue.com)
1 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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Sage: Can There be a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab?(sagemath.blogspot.com)
23 points by dood 18y ago|15 comments
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Developer Incompetence, an analysis(abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.com)
14 points by dood 18y ago|13 comments
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by dood 18y ago
Super-short version: Tagging that works. Tagging is widespread and well-understood, but somewhat broken. Finding and browsing using tags is slow and clumsy because current systems are pretty dumb – they have little understanding of the mean
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Yahoo's Open Strategy and the Yahoo Application Platform(techcrunch.com)
5 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments

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