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by gnatman 2y ago
Although it is tech-focused, IndieHackers might have some posts beneficial to you. https://www.indiehackers.com/
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by gnatman 2y ago
Fenyman worked with Thinking Machines on their first supercomputer, The Connection Machine in the 80s. Here's some great background and anecdotes from the founder, Danny Hillis: https://longnow.org/essays/richard-f
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by gnatman 2y ago
This paper estimates Kp = (8.4±0.8). Because the scale is logarithmic, the difference between 8 and 9.2 is obviously quite extreme. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asna.2022007...
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by gnatman 2y ago
There was a really good article in a February issue of the New Yorker about solar storms: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/what-a-major-s...
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by gnatman 2y ago
His interview on Numberphile is great- very smart guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
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by gnatman 2y ago
Does anyone remember the "Personal Cooling System" sold in the Sharper Image catalogue in the late 90s / early 00s?
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by gnatman 2y ago
Exactly. Simply "identify the target"! It's an incredibly broad handwave that ignores all the unsolved problems in computer vision and warfare fire control.
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by gnatman 2y ago
I guess autonomous platforms are exciting to defense procurement and war planners because they can use them much more aggressively in theatre without risking expensive pilots. It's hard not to think of the recent reporting on the &quot
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by gnatman 2y ago
@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER - experiments with circuit bending, synths, and other instruments https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw
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by gnatman 2y ago
Yes- luckily, in this instance anyway, the things that some HN posters view as "trivial" are to me cumbersome and mysterious!
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by gnatman 2y ago
In the realm of cold calling / emailing, 1% conversion is actually pretty normal. 2-5% would be unusually good. I would stick with what you're doing and don't lose faith! If you want to try different strategies in parallel, I
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by gnatman 2y ago
SelfControl for MacOS - let's you set a domain blocklist and a time limit. It's pretty tamper proof too, surviving reboots, etc. Really helps me buckle down when I'm resistant to getting work done!
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by gnatman 3y ago
Labyrinths - Jorge Borges (I've gifted this many times) Duino Elegies - Rainer Rilke, translated by Robert Hunter
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by gnatman 3y ago
Fantastic book. After I finished it, I was thinking- OK, how can I now best devote the rest of my life to surfing?
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by gnatman 3y ago
Because he’s a fascinating and mysterious character on top of being the most brilliant mathematician since Euler.
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by gnatman 3y ago
OK, now do 37k out of 2 million
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by gnatman 3y ago
Cliff Stoll has been a frequent guest on youtube's Numberphile [0] - what an amazing personality. Quesera's comment that he has an "outsized curiosity" seems apt! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt
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by gnatman 3y ago
We’re fine, thanks.
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by gnatman 3y ago
Looking at the timeline cited in this article, there appear to be many predecessors to the Kodak camera Sasson developed [0]. The title submitted to HN doesn’t match reality- Sasson’s was perhaps the first portable digital still camera, i
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by gnatman 3y ago
He shares a great bit of this on Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4
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by gnatman 3y ago
I found this book that may be of interest as well: The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History, by Jean Ford Brennan [0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220511181506/http://www.columb...
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by gnatman 3y ago
I'm sorry this isn't what you asked for but it made me think of this clip [0] from a documentary about Benoit Mandelbrot- he worked at IBM Research for 35 years [1]. I just love the quote: "It was 1958- the giant American cor
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by gnatman 3y ago
That’s a great story. What’s the deal with a cone clutch- does it kick back on the pedal or something?
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by gnatman 3y ago
I guess we have to be a little suspicious these days about image provenance but yall sound paranoid. A couple of famous ornithologists are going to take a 6-week expedition and then trash their careers by using DALL-E? If the grip looks wei
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by gnatman 3y ago
"My grandfather used to say: 'Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without b
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by gnatman 3y ago
I'm a salesman, not a SWE. I use GPT-4 to write simple scripts and excel macros that would otherwise be impractical for me to figure out manually. At first I was trying to use GPT-4 to write emails, but I'm very picky on tonality
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by gnatman 3y ago
Y'all should read the article. It goes into more depth than these two comments! For example, two species can have sex, AND produce viable offspring, but NOT produce fertile offspring. Like a donkey and horse producing a typically infer
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by gnatman 3y ago
>> One annoying thing about both the Collatz and Goldbach conjectures is that if they are unprovable, it's also impossible to prove they're unprovable (unless math is inconsistent). This has been proved! That’s the most fu
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by gnatman 3y ago
>> Crypto haters are quick to shout that cryptocurrencies have no practical use, and introduce many problems, but this is a perfect use case for them. The negative discussion has detracted from some truly disrupting technologies being
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by gnatman 3y ago
Sounds familiar! https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/upshot/how-mortgage-fraud... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-209-bi...

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