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by gone35 12y ago
I suspect there's a spectrum [of color perception among people with nominally normal color vision]. Indeed there is. The most common is a variant carried by around 2/3 of the human population (depending on ethnicity and gender),
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by gone35 12y ago
Recall that today's dominant notion that the only startups worth f(o)unding are cynically-leveraged, hockey stick Internet frivolities is a relatively recent development [1] --blame pmarca et al. for that. It isn't inconceivable
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by gone35 12y ago
What you did there is... quite something, and not trivial at all. Make sure you don't overlook whichever part of the brain or thinking framework/state that allowed you to pull that off.
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by gone35 12y ago
So much for 'the melting pot'... This society still has a long way to go.
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by gone35 12y ago
True true, but remember if you are willing to assume sparsity and use reconstruction algorithms, there are by now well-established ways to get around Shannon-Nyquist with high probability ( ie the whole compressed sensing stuff). Just sayi
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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Meet “Ginger” (the Segway) (2003)(hbswk.hbs.edu)
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by gone35 12y ago
I think tdicola's point is that, unlike any other watch, having an iWatch in your wrist immediately signals you also have an iPhone 5 or higher tucked somewhere in that moment --since the watch, stupidly, only works tethered to an iP
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by gone35 12y ago
Their patent portfolio is that ridiculous, so I wouldn't be surprised. I bet Motorola also holds the patent for "centering stuff" --hence the strangely off-centered everything.
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by gone35 12y ago
I was about to comment the exact same thing. Perhaps it looks better in person, but honestly I find it weirdly jarring and just wrong --I never thought I would feel such distaste for a millennial Apple device. It's a shame: if it loo
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by gone35 12y ago
Use your arrows. B-but I'm on an iPad. Swiping maybe? Nope. Nothing happens. Just broken layout pieces strewn about, plus some inscrutable green bar (seemingly) loading something. And then, just when it looks like something is abou
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by gone35 12y ago
Good point about screen sizes in general, but perhaps you miss the main appeal of small portable devices (aside from aesthetics alone): portability! And it matters too for portable screens: otherwise 5" palm pilots, extra-large tablets
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by gone35 12y ago
Perhaps it's already too late --with US inequality having risen up to gilded-age levels, as it has, for over a generation now.
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by gone35 12y ago
I'm disappointed this kind of disingenuous Gladwellese keeps making its way to the HN front page. Despite what the article claims, "pretesting" is not a thing (yet) in psychology. The whole premise of the article hinges on o
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by gone35 12y ago
I hope so. I'm old enough to remember the time when smaller meant better , and miniaturization was a sign of progress (Hell, to me the first iPhone, for all its wonders, seemed at the time way too big). Maybe one day people will re-di
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by gone35 12y ago
A position just opened up :) Most inappropriate HN job posting, ever. Is it perhaps a culture/language barrier? Do they even realize how callous their little segue is?
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by gone35 12y ago
The "dual" of this paper (Wehrman et al. 2009, mentioned in the introduction) is quite nice and worth reading along. It is likely paywalled (depending on institutional access), but there is a pre-print version available from Weh
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by gone35 12y ago
Wow. The essay they keep referring to throughout the exchange --Wadler's "Proposition and Types" [1]-- is hands down the best exposition of the Curry-Howard correspondence I've seen so far: deep but thoroughly readable
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by gone35 12y ago
What are the roadblocks? It's hard to tell in the general case and it's still an open research subject in the empirical literature [1]; but for the specific case of labor inequality, there is consistent evidence that race diffe
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by gone35 12y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that neither the accurate detection of binary signals using EEG nor the accurate communication of binary signals using TMS is particularly groundbreaking... in which case, the only thing novel about this study i
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by gone35 12y ago
Neckbeard. I understand the semantic emphasis (and appeal) of 'neckbeard'/'graybeard' in the IT subculture is patently on expertise/oldschoolness, not on gender at all --hell, I've used that noun with gu
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by gone35 12y ago
It will likely be updated in the coming hours/days. Also note these aftershock probabilities are quite crudely modeled anyway. Permalink: [1] http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html
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by gone35 12y ago
The plural of anecdote is data, so FWIW I'm exactly the opposite: not just for textbooks, but even for hardcover literature books I have right there in my bookshelf, I often end up digging up some PDF or Google Books version regardle
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by gone35 12y ago
FWIW, from his Twitter profile [1]: Astronaut, part-time dad, professional voice actor, F1 driver, liar. [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/stavros
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by gone35 12y ago
Wow, you were not exaggerating. From comment #11 of that bug report [1]: (...) You are not doing us a favor by reporting a bug. On the contrary, you are asking us to do you a favor and spend our valuable time helping overcome a problem _yo
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by gone35 12y ago
Spot on. It's interesting how one of the original goals of the technical co-founders was to develop an open diagnostics hardware platform for the research community. Perhaps a consortium-type non-profit structure would have been a bett
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by gone35 12y ago
I think the recursive transition network was also meant to include 'social-first' and 'local-first', but they forgot to proofread the output before hitting publish. Rookie mistake.
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by gone35 12y ago
Yup it seems off by at least an order of magnitude -- ie even for a theoretical maximum of 100 megatons.
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by gone35 12y ago
In regards to your "response" to the risk of transgene flow, frankly I don't even know where to begin... First, what you cite is not a comment from APHIS, but a verbatim quote from an earlier post from your company blog [1]
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by gone35 12y ago
Intuitively it's not clear why there are risks from our work. Far from it! The very workshop minutes you are citing [1, Appendix 3] directly contradict your point, with participants raising a number of serious concerns about your p
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by gone35 12y ago
Exactly, (...) Seriously? As the CEO of the company and the person ultimately responsible for this project, it is troubling that you endorse these simplistic and erroneous views of plant biosafety. Fitness is notoriously ecosystem-depende

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