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by jackfoxy 15y ago
He's making fun of people who look for meaning that is not there in "the collapse of the wave function" by coming up with a outrageous metaphor.
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Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics(motls.blogspot.com)
6 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|5 comments
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Nix NASA Completely, Apollo Astronaut Says(space.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation of QM(motls.blogspot.com)
15 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|8 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I cashed mine, but photocopied it first.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I thought the long term trend has shown for a long time the size of chip components converging to the size of an atom by the late teens. A little hard to imagine how physical transistors can get smaller than that. Possibly qubits could buil
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
http://www.wordnik.com/words/compatriot Second definition from American Heritage Dictionary: 2. A colleague.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
There are certain customers and prospects, and certain industries, where this is endemic, where you just have to stop listening to customers. Sometimes they actually do not know what they want/need. If you faithfully log feature requests, y
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Not to be snarky, but I won't read anything by this guy. Back in the 90s when I subscribed to Forbes magazine he had a column for a couple of years, and he consistently wrote the most content-free columns I've ever tried to read. It's a tri
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Jansens's talk of genetic code is just an artsy guy gushing, which I don't mean to detract from his marvelous accomplishment, but it does plant the seed of an idea. In principle you could integrate cad/cam, a physics simulator, genetic algo
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I possibly overlooked it, but I didn't see how much leaner the fuel mix could be for the same power output. Seems like a pretty important consideration.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I know how to do something people will pay me money for. I can wander from urban center to urban center around the world (today literally or via the internet), and people will still pay me money to use my knowledge to build stuff, much like
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
There are all sorts of ways HN could be monitized (which is what I meant by commercialized) without at all impacting its usefulness for evaluating Y Combinator applicants. I just think it will take real investment to upgrade HN, and if it's
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
The way to save HN from its own success is to take it to the next level. You need to spin it up into a commercial enterprise. Improving the quality of HN, as it stands today, requires expenditure of human effort, either in the form of profe
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Concord, CA Client side developer http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sof/2286624649.html
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Internet security hits major milestone, as .com signs on(gcn.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I read Okasaki's PhD thesis by the same name, which he expanded into the book. Very well written, concise, full of useful theoretical information. The book expands into some data structures not covered in the thesis because the treatment wo
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Why does he mention .NET? I have not heard of Clojure being available on the .NET stack.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
2-4 status checks a day, and you have not launched? That is dysfunctional. The only time that kind of status checking is warranted is during some sort of production crisis, which by definition you cannot be having. The right big company job
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Interesting reasoning behind the distinction the judge made. A router doesn't meet the legal definition of a computer. Here's a judge with some understanding of technology. I'm not a lawyer, but I assume in the U.S. this would still qualify
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Levin’s Great Discoveries(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Chris Okasaki has some high praise for languages implementing indentation as part of the syntax http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-praise-of-mandatory-i... Personally I think Coffeescript is a big step forward. A pity it will likely n
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Not the actual title of anything in this post, but contained in "Official Statement from Dr. Rudy Schild, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cosmology." Seems like a very unscientific statement, in tha
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
South is one of the greatest true-to-life adventure stories ever written. I heard a few years back some famous underwater explorer was contemplating diving to the wreck of the Endurance . Hurley left behind a number of glass plate negati
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Too bad Atlas Shrugged Part 1 has already been wrapped. They could have written into the script the high-minded progressive talking head convincing others to contribute their labor "for the cause" cashing out for millions. This is synchro
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Hecklers And Twecklers At Technical Talks(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
5 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Apparently some clips now available, here's one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK5Sq3bIHY Release date 4/15/11...isn't that tax day?
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Gerontocracy.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
What egregious mistake are your referring to? People in the west have frequently conflated Russia and the Soviet Union for nearly a century. It doesn't discredit the rest of what the author has to say. And as for the events of September 193
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Google May Have Promoted a Contest to Get Kids’ Social Security Numbers(nymag.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments

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