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by exdsq 5y ago
I've recently started getting into computational archaeology and found the entire ecosystem is built around R, meaning I am now starting to learn about it. Anyone have a suggestion of the standard books/courses one should start wi
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by exdsq 5y ago
Not in the North, no.
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Thanks for your response! So is it true to say every genome could be sequenced, assuming time and money isn’t an issue?
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by exdsq 5y ago
What’s the choke point of scanning an entire genome? Is it purely computational? Imaging? Biological unknowns?
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by exdsq 5y ago
If you're a researcher in the field is it not a fundamental skill to be able to make these judgement calls yourself? And if wasted time is a concern to you, what makes you think others would be willing to put in the time to try and con
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by exdsq 5y ago
> I know this isn't the point you were going for, but this _is_ a heuristic that is deployed in some companies/institutions (at least the UK variant certainly is). Which companies/institutions are you thinking of?
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by exdsq 5y ago
OP greatly overestimates the knowledge of the average HN user!
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by exdsq 5y ago
If signaling is what gets you off, it might help that the authors are based at Cambridge
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yahoo, the company that had just acquired his broadcast.com startup ha!
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by exdsq 5y ago
I’m pretty sure he said he has an MCSE in Microsoft Server Administration or something similar on Shark Tank lol
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by exdsq 5y ago
I think it’s very very hard to judge what a child of someone like Steve Jobs can be capable of or do in isolation of that fact such that it’s a useless comparison.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Note that this is even more interesting/impressive based on OPs age: “I am a 13 year old developer who likes writing libraries, webservers, and command line apps.”
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by exdsq 5y ago
Terry Pratchetts Disc World novels. Endless quotes and jokes that I think about on a weekly basis if not more.
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by exdsq 5y ago
A white paper was sent to a small group of people in 2008, yes. But the group that acted on that is a subset of those people, that consists of maybe Hal Finney, Craig White, whoever Satoshi is, and a couple others. It's an extraordinar
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by exdsq 5y ago
That sort of level of critical thinking really should be the outcome of all degrees too, tbh!
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I learned the other day that this is how the first international payment was made on Amazon - money sent inside a floppy disk sent to Bezos :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
> But bitcoin isn't being billed as a value-store like gold, it's being sold more as a replacement for payment systems like credit cards, ACH transfers, or PayPal. This used to be the case years and years ago but it's be
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by exdsq 5y ago
You've been doing blockchain on-and-off since before the genesis of Bitcoin? What were you doing?
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by exdsq 5y ago
I had a 16-core desktop and moved to the M1 Max and am just as happy - nothing kills it. PostgreSQL docker containers, intensive CPU scripts running, maybe a Minikube cluster, Slack, Chrome, RStudio, and I can still watch 4k video. It'
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by exdsq 5y ago
Say Amazon Gaming runs a promotional NFT for an MP5 across both CoD and Battlefield. CoD and Battlefield teams both implement the MP5 and include them as a legendary drop in Lootboxes. If you get the NFT in either CoD or Battlefield it auto
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by exdsq 5y ago
Well for one, it lets you have a store with txs and accounts for free with little code! It’s like a framework for money, and would let you trade items across games so for example I could buy a gun in CoD for a party hat in RuneScape or what
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by exdsq 5y ago
I haven't been to the Tenderloin since I moved to the Bay - is it as bad as people say? I thought it wasn't so much violent crime as daylight drug taking etc... Hope you're okay!
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by exdsq 5y ago
The initial complaint was that it's technically impossible, I just gave two random options but even within CoD it's still possible to have tradable items from lootboxes.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Say Call of Duty and Battlefield decide to introduce cross-game weapons. Both games add the weapons as per usual. A user can use one of these weapons if they have the NFT in their wallet (I assume both games have some integration with the w
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by exdsq 5y ago
It might be worth mentioning I was using ERC-721 tokens in 2018 and worked on one of the top 10 chains for a few years, before that I worked with Unity but for architecture (digital twins) rather than games. So I’m not a total novice here.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I used Nix at work but eventually realized, managing dependencies, compiling cross-platform, and deploying wasn’t actually bad enough to warrant that level of complexity
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by exdsq 5y ago
No idea! CoD just got an Attack on Titan skin, Halo Infinite has some questionable skins that could definitely become franchised, Gears of War 5 has a few Halo Skins in it but I assume they were built from scratch. Online games seem to be g
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by exdsq 5y ago
For sure! But what I mean is if NFTs catch on then there's no reason to imagine Unity/Unreal/Whatever won't create a standard for them that allows game developers to easily integrate them into textures/skins/et
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by exdsq 5y ago
Crazy idea but couldn't a game include the asset but an NFT in a wallet associated to a user account allows them to actually use it?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Stephen Diehl has been working on his own Digital ledger so in my mind he's biased anyway.

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