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by hawktheslayer 6y ago
Curious if it became a chore or was it more of a relaxing pasttime?
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by hawktheslayer 6y ago
Wow even with my now poorly trained attention span I couldn't peel away. Very impressive! I would long to see a whole story told in this way.
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by hawktheslayer 6y ago
Man where was this site when I was studying for my Linear Systems and Signals class in my EE program?
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by hawktheslayer 6y ago
I'm now imagining Sundar walking around the Google offices with the buzzer from the Taboo game.
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by hawktheslayer 6y ago
I might just use this trick of nature to inform how I manage my staff at work. We spend so much time trying to maximize efficiently, but perhaps at the cost of stability.
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by hawktheslayer 7y ago
I recently had twins and was very grateful my company recently added 6 weeks of paternity leave. Had this not been the case I would have been forced to use up my sick time which I will likely neee to use with my kids, and also would have be
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
I love that the article explains why it doesn't strike the thumb. Sometimes I am not fast enough and it does hit my thumb, which is why I opt for the method where you wind it around your thumb to create a trigger.
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
This article calls to mind the Voltaire quote "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." If you ascribe to this idea then the argument of the article takes on even greater force.
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
As someone who enjoys learning this is really enticing to me. However with the demands of my busy work/life schedule, my increasingly challenged attention span--mainly due to the number of competing free resources out there--and my wid
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
I made the switch to automatic a year ago, mainly so my wife could use my car--and I still suffer from Phantom Clutch Syndrome. I am tempted to switch back by the time my kids are old enough to drive so I can teach them, that is if humans a
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but their animated logo in the middle of the page is incredibly distracting to me.
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
I find the best way for my feeble mind to understand more than 3 or 4 dimensions is a parallel coordinate graph where you can view the relationships between two of the dimensions at a time. You can do this interactively in R using plotly:
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
Elon Musk's quote comes to mind now whenever I read about flying cars: " A bunch of cars flying all over the place is not an anxiety reducing situation " https://youtu.be/2Nz69M6khCs
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
Thanks DavidVoid for sharing the Feynman links, I did enjoy it. He had such a neat way of thinking about and experimenting with concepts that happen almost invisibly behind the scenes.
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
Wow I started reading it and it rings true enough that honestly I don't want to think about it too much and I stopped reading. Maybe we are on a spectrum and I and towards that end but not completely without the ability to have fantasi
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
Reading about what Predata was trying to do reminds me of the field of Psychohistory in Asimov's Foundation series. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
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by hawktheslayer 8y ago
I fully share the feeling that they were describing of Kubrick where he couldn't " see " things described verbally. For instance I have the hardest time picturing a word spelled out loud to me. Also, a recent discussion here
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Ten reasons I don't have an opinion (2012)(jamesaltucher.com)
3 points by hawktheslayer 8y ago|0 comments
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
To try and escape both pitfalls I attempt to follow Altucher's advice to have less opinions. https://jamesaltucher.com/2012/12/ten-reasons-i-dont-have-op...
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
Thanks for sharing! You thought this one through more thoroughly than I have. And your closing line about it being impractical is unfortunately all too true.
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Ask HN: Any resources or tips to making a really good (Tableau) dashboard?
1 points by hawktheslayer 9y ago|0 comments
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
I like the idea of adding +spam@gmail.com, but it would be really easy for this to be invalidated by just stripping this from your email before selling it in a mailing list.
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Tiangong-1 breaks over South Pacific(news.sky.com)
3 points by hawktheslayer 9y ago|0 comments
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Chinese Space Station to hit earth within hours(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by hawktheslayer 9y ago|1 comments
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
It's nice to see they have an easy to get to Delete My Activity feature but I have to guess that it deletes it only from the perpective of me being able to ever view it again.
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
For Chrome I like to use the "Bookmark all tabs" option (Ctrl-Shift-D). When I am in the middle of researching a topic but want to shift gears, I save bookmarks to a new subfolder in my "Working Tabs" folder. Then I de
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
I work in a corporate environment in business intelligence and this rings true. This year we are tasked with retiring an arbitrary number of reports (mostly old Crystal reports) since they take too much of our time to maintain them. This wi
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
It can't be worse than my coffee addiction...
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by hawktheslayer 9y ago
These are great and I need to start using these. For instance the dominantcolor script extracts color schemes from pictures. Something I've tried to do by eye in the past with limited success. http://www.fmwconcepts.com&#x2F
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They're made out of meat (1991)(mit.edu)
1 points by hawktheslayer 9y ago|0 comments

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