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The Sunkist Principle(blog.joellehman.com)
2 points by jal278 14y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 14y ago
I had a similar response to "fab" this evening, some kind of design site. It looked interesting but in order to even view a product linked from facebook they required me to sign up. Immediate rage; I can't investigate if the site is inter
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Licking trees -- why we drink coffee instead of taking caffeine pills(blog.joellehman.com)
1 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
i'm glad you think novelty search is awesome, i'm doing my dissertation on it! out of curiosity, how did you hear about it?
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While not climax: Insert, remove(blog.joellehman.com)
6 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Disfigurement Paradox/Hacking Dating(blog.joellehman.com)
1 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
"and so because it's never possible to kill technology that's escaped into the wild we're stuck with it." Such a general truth, its why web devs have nightmares about old versions of IE
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Bill Buxton: An unsung hero of the iPad(blog.joellehman.com)
1 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Van Gogh didn't like Starry Night(blog.joellehman.com)
2 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Change the World: That Fleeting Holiday Idealism(blog.joellehman.com)
1 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Celery+Python for a distributed GA in 80LOC (blog.joellehman.com)
3 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
The idea of an 'open-source' replacement academia is compelling. Currently academia generally has partial transparency and a closed competitiveness between research groups, where replicating results is non-trivial (at least in the comp sci
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by jal278 15y ago
I agree, I think in the next few years something will be able to fill this gap. And maybe the problem is adoption right now. Anything we're not really excited about and is based on ancient paradigms (email is exactly what you would think
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Email's not sexy(blog.joellehman.com)
2 points by jal278 15y ago|3 comments
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Whose complexity is it anyways?(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
6 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Louis CK on George Carlin: Innovate by throwing it all away(blog.joellehman.com)
4 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Entrenched interests and corrupted systems(blog.joellehman.com)
2 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
Other people must be thinking this as well, but it seems likely/obvious that the graphing calculator will go extinct, replaced by an app on a touchscreen device (not an emulated ti-82, but a better more intuitive graphing calc). Sounds li
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by jal278 15y ago
It is still pretty impressive because these are biology novices, and RNA folding is a somewhat complicated biological process. AI does outperform humans on a regular basis, especially in narrow domains (chess, checkers, calculation, now jeo
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Misunderstanding Reality: Why Kevin Mitnick Spent a Year in Solitary(blog.joellehman.com)
6 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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You can't build railroads before it's railroad time(blog.joellehman.com)
2 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?grasemann:cogsci11 I believe this is the paper, from the abstract it seems like hyperlearning is related to greater consolidation of memory, which might imply creation of connections between things that are not re
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by jal278 15y ago
I bet there was a time that the individual musicians in Rage Against the Machine were pretty terrible, and that the songs they created when they were in a nascent stage were pretty terrible as well. Whether from the first time one of these
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by jal278 15y ago
Maybe it's almost a plus that the quote is a bit muddled; I interpreted it in a different way: Even if it is a bad song, at least you've written a full bad song, which means you may have learned something that may make your next creation be
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by jal278 15y ago
the process of creation is so strange sometimes. not only can something that you think is awful be instead widely appreciated, but sometimes what really is awful at an intermediate stage will somehow evolve into something really cool as y
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John Mayer on Finishing Awful Songs(blog.joellehman.com)
86 points by jal278 15y ago|28 comments
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by jal278 15y ago
To me, programming is a way of bringing your ideas into reality. At first, it is fun to do it all yourself. After awhile, I've discovered that I have more ideas than I can physically bring into reality myself. Then, the time sunk into progr
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Do people lose interest in programming as they age(quora.com)
9 points by jal278 15y ago|1 comments
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Are we getting dumber? (scraping/OCR/analyzing Google books with linux magic)(blog.joellehman.com)
1 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments
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Rock Paper Scissors Algorithms(dllu.net)
4 points by jal278 15y ago|0 comments

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