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by eggie 11y ago
Now that's down as well.
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by eggie 11y ago
It is better than you think. In my experience Italian, Spanish, and English voice recognition work almost flawlessly now. I'm also learning Chinese using a mixture of tools on my smartphone, including speech recognition. I can't t
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by eggie 11y ago
Yesterday I realized that it has been a long time since an old friend reached out by email to ask how I was doing. I still do, but I also don't use the most popular social media channels. I wonder if the simulation of contact provided
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by eggie 11y ago
As someone with a bit more experience with these technologies, would you please describe what GraphQL actually has to do with graphs? I work with very, very large graphs. I looked at GraphQL to see if it could be of use, but as far as I can
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by eggie 11y ago
A query on a graph or a tree can both be RESTful. You can describe traversals of the graph or tree in a query embedded in an HTTP endpoint. You don't need to make repeated round trip queries to do the traversal unless you are unwilling
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by eggie 11y ago
Facebook is what people want to sue because many (maybe most) had no idea that you could hang out with friends online in a big broadcasty way until it came around. Will that be true when they realize they can make their own website or blog
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by eggie 11y ago
It is so precisely AOL! WorldOnLine! They are actually online, just not on the open internet.
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by eggie 11y ago
But they do pay, in attention, which is monetized using ads.
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by eggie 11y ago
And now, thanks to the hobby of one developer, my phone blocks ads in /etc/hosts, preventing even in-app ads from appearing. My web browser on my laptop does just as well with a plugin. All that's left in my browsing experien
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by eggie 11y ago
I find it impressive that a basic feature of the interface that makes HN usable is completely avoided on Twitter. The platform provides absolutely no way to follow the thread of a conversation! To ensure that this mistake is permanent, they
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by eggie 11y ago
It didn't help improve the interface much. For example, on this site the interface shows me quickly who is replying to whom. A billion dollars in and Twitter still can't do this. They tried to be the world's largest chat room
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by eggie 11y ago
This video is much, much more engaging, explanatory and human. This should come first. And will I be able to replace the battery? ;)
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by eggie 11y ago
It's not just you. The video, while beautiful, is completely superfluous and distracting from the target market. In the video, nice people use a cool smartphone to take pictures. One edits them on their computer. People are enjoying wh
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A global reference for human genetic variation(nature.com)
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by eggie 11y ago
You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensive upgrades. For various reasons many people love the latter. I also don&#x2
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by eggie 11y ago
It's an unusual linux installer these days that requires root. Programs aren't going to write junk into your system directories on linux unless you give them permission to. I'm not sure how adding an additional layer of compl
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3000 Rice genomes are publicly available on AWS(aws.amazon.com)
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by eggie 11y ago
To see these systems like massive hydro-generation plants, you first have to assume that human attention for advertising is an infinitely-renewable resource. Revenue is certainly increasing rapidly in recent years: http://www.iab
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by eggie 11y ago
Unlike the others replying to you, I tend to agree. At least, I am dubious that they will "keep customers forever", which seems to be a key part of good unit economics. Things change, sometimes very fast.
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How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars(theatlantic.com)
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How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars(theatlantic.com)
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by eggie 11y ago
And with good reason. I work on graph data structures and have had four people suggest I check out "GraphQL" for my work. Alas it has almost nothing to do with graphs. Every time I read about it I feel that Facebook tech has jumpe
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by eggie 11y ago
The fact that they managed to convince Mr. Thiel that they have a unique approach indicates as much about his lack of education in biology as it does their ability to communicate. The problems with modeling human disease using "found&q
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by eggie 11y ago
I guess you could also say that CS is one of those "applied math" fields :) Seriously though, this kind platform is a critical component in scientific reproducibility. The dream is that we can have code, data, and the results of t
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by eggie 11y ago
The most important step we are missing is the first one, where we "easily" edit the genomes of humans. It is not yet easy, despite the enormous hype surrounding CRISPR-based approaches. Edit: and I understand that gene drive coul
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by eggie 11y ago
I also would love to hear someone who works in the space explain this.
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by eggie 11y ago
Shell languages are defined by their terseness. The author misunderstands how important this is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11vZzXCfAA0aOFAuHA0nA... The author has created a radically "better&quot
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by eggie 11y ago
I worked at OLPC. We didn't ship any kinetic charging systems as the most reliable ones had a mean time to failure on the order of ~three full charges. The scheme was cute and captured the imagination of people in the developed west bu
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by eggie 11y ago
She actually convinced me to save my likes using https://github.com/013/Soundcloud-Downloader , whose author used exactly this process to determine how to download the mp3s.
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by eggie 11y ago
I would not stress about this. Patenting works of nature seems increasingly tenuous even in this broken patent environment. Will we really be able to place patents on ubiquitous biological systems that are 500 million years old and present

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