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by ihnorton 13y ago
There are some non-robot implementations of this kind of idea out there, including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibritumomab_tiuxetan and more generally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_ant
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by ihnorton 13y ago
From the ruling: "The Act’s demonstrated purpose is to ensure that if any State decides to recognize same-sex marriages, those unions will be treated as second-class marriages for purposes of federal law. This raises a most serious que
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by ihnorton 13y ago
This American Life did a story on the idea and backlash: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/483/s...
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by ihnorton 13y ago
This blog post linked from the OP is very nice: http://clear-lines.com/blog/post/Support-Vector-Machine-in-F... F# looks lovely, but I have yet to find good cross-platform 2D plotting and 3D visualization story. (ActiViz would give me eve
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Artificial light, sleep deficiency, and the rise of LEDs(nature.com)
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by ihnorton 13y ago
In the heyday of Bell Labs and PARC, AT&T still had plenty of linemen and operators, and Xerox had toner salespeople and service technicians.
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by ihnorton 13y ago
> - will only run on the hardware platforms for which you have developed. What fast browser JITs are actively developed for platforms other than ARM, AMD64 and IA32? V8 does not support anything else, and while Firefox enables SpiderMon
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Cool, thanks. I had not seen anything official either - just pipe-dreaming that one of those commenters I saw knew something special.
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by ihnorton 14y ago
g++ vs itself, or g++ vs msvc? g++ uses Itanium C++ ABI on at least linux/mac/mingw, and the mangling and vtable layouts seem to be the same (I'm very interested in any information to the contrary - though I realize vtables are only part of
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Figured as much - it would be hard to take any language seriously without C interop. But that's a long way from "C++ binary compatibility." I've heard this several times, so I was hoping it might be true.
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by ihnorton 14y ago
> binary compatibility with C and C++ libraries and tools >(they say that tail recursion doesn't let you use the C > calling conventions that these tools and libraries expect > you to use) I've read variations of this comm
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by ihnorton 14y ago
This recent piece in Time (surprise?) did some very interesting case-studies around tracing the line-items in several hospital bills: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medica...
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Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth(chronicle.com)
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Retinal vascular biomarkers for Alzheimer’s detection [pdf](nature.com)
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KiwiViewer: native 3D visualization for iOS (Android: WIP)(kitware.com)
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clReflect: C++ reflection with Clang(donw.org)
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by ihnorton 14y ago
tl;dr: Every time this comes up I wish the writer would start with a personal "taxonomy of big problems" to better frame the discussion. At very least, I wish these writers would preface with a few examples of what kind of "big problem" the
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Does Erlang do something special to make C++ interfacing easy? Any info/links would be appreciated - I have only found info about calling C-exported code with ports.
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by ihnorton 14y ago
> (google search, web mail, amazon, online banking and investing, etc.) The transformative power of all of those (excepting maybe GMail) was realized in the form of cgi-generated webpages (click, refresh). Performance is not a requireme
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Not sure why you think that. Because that's how grant peer-review works? Who will compose the review panels for this funding? Mostly the same people who already compose the review panels for existing NIH/NINDS/etc. funding mechanism
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Correct or not, cantastoria's criticism is that giving money to charlatans takes that money away from basic research. I don't understand who the supposed charlatans are. The basic scientists lauded by cantastoria for doing existi
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by ihnorton 14y ago
isn't this project assuming that there is a 'normative' human brain, and that we all have the same neuron structure? At a certain resolution the structure of the brain is certainly close to normative, as demonstrated by decades of dissect
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Right, and people had been playing with rockets for 30 years before the Apollo project. There is something to be said for large, concerted effort toward a singular goal. There are still enough massive gaps in our understanding of the brain
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Not exactly. The Obama initiative is markedly different from a recently announced European project that will invest 1 billion euros in a Swiss-led effort to build a silicon-based “brain.” The project seeks to construct a superc
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CMake Build System for Python 2.7(github.com)
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by ihnorton 14y ago
> Julia's benchmarks just turned me off. They are ignoring the "reasonable idioms" of each language, specifically focusing only on RECURSIVE and ITERATIVE algos. I read the benchmarks as an invitation to experiment (which I am) - not as
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Actually, after a serious public kerfuffle, Monsanto pledged not to use this technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...
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by ihnorton 14y ago
> 4) Imagine if Harvard, the Mayo Clinic, and Cedars-Sinai could suddenly clear drugs and devices like the FDA. none of those entities have sovereign immunity!
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by ihnorton 14y ago
Getting access to devices is definitely a big hurdle, but there are people working in this area already. Maybe you could contribute to framework engineering in collaboration with groups who can get (or reverse engineer, more likely) communi
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by ihnorton 14y ago
A few more suggestions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5089663

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