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by jfaucett 9y ago
So I read your links. How is Angela Kerr's job any different than a spam filter function? We've got production grade techniques for handling that now, and without going into technical details everything you mentioned as being in h
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> The editor has to put in the hours to reject the crap that people submit Does that process need to be any different from PRs on github? Can't all that be distributed across a team of researchers working on the topic of the journal
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by jfaucett 9y ago
First, I'd question that you really need to incentivize it. People - myself included - are doing research in a topic because they are passionate about it and most are more than happy to look at new research and ideas about things they
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I'm going to be honest. IMHO publishing a paper should be like doing a PR on github and there is no reason it shouldn't be. You do your research, read the "PR" i.e. submission guidelines and submit it, - sure let the com
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> We don't have to protect nature but we want to because it is beautiful and amazing. Yes, but at what costs? Taking away half the available land and water resources on the planet - which is what they are advocating for - will inev
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Wilson, Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor emeritus, says that setting aside half of the Earth’s land and half of its oceans would be enough to save 85 percent of species, which are becoming extinct at a rate between 100 and 1,0
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> I'm not sure how you guys feel about this, Here's my main problems with google and why I've been trying to get away from them as much as possible. 1. Very poor quality customer service. They might have better customer se
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes. I've migrated to other services for just about everything they offer except gmail. I'm still looking but have not found a comparable service in terms of quality and pricing. If anyone has suggestions I would be really interes
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by jfaucett 9y ago
This looks like a great resource. I really think the chapter difficulty idea is a good one and wish more math books adopted this approach. On another pedagogical note and as someone who reads a lot of math texts, I wish math textbooks would
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The Geometry of the Dot and Cross Products [pdf](math.oregonstate.edu)
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Oh man this page brings back some golden memories! I remember working with ImageMagick for the first time in 2010 or 2011 when I wrote a bash script to programmatically scale and center thousands of images for creating image gallery thumbna
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> 'jfaucett probably is fine sacrificing losing this small minority. precisely. In my experience, this small minority can actually be subdivided broadly into two groups: those with very high data privacy concerns and scammers/s
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by jfaucett 9y ago
All my side projects and any projects I control use exclusively social login. Here's why. 1. Its way easier on me. I don't have to worry about password resets or users hacking an account in the site. OAuth and be done. 2. I don&#x
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes. I think we've all experienced and been perpetrators of this. Its so base and natural to want to maintain your own viewpoints that everyone does this naturally. The way I try to get around it for myself is actually imagine I am tha
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Here's some books I would like to see on a coffee table. 1. An illustrated book of bad arguments 2. Maus by Art Spiegelman 3. Amano: The Complete Prints of Yoshitaka Amano 4. Chinese Calligraphy: 50 Characters to Inspire Peace and Calm
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by jfaucett 9y ago
All I want is a resource like "google" for all newspaper articles ever that we have stored anywhere. Whenever I'm studying a topic, I'll often look up very old or contemporary newspaper writings to see how our perception
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by jfaucett 9y ago
agreed. Still, I think of myself as an optimist and would like to think we HNers could civilly discuss any topic that popped up on HN :)
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by jfaucett 9y ago
This is the opinion page of NYT. I wonder how far this perspective wanders from reality. If there's anything I've learned from studying the Arab-Israeli conflict its that most individual perspectives provide a universally bad acco
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by jfaucett 9y ago
We don't want a finitely long MUID, otherwise we couldn't represent infinite universes. A quantum bit represents infinite states. The "fiction" part is that we (currently) need to collapse quantum bits.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> If there is infinite, there is no MUID Formally, you could still have MUIDs even if there are infinite universes so long as they are countably infinite. Practically, the system would work as well so long as you could allocate new qbits
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> If there are truly separate "universes", then by definition wouldn't it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not. Well, if the multiple universes theory provides falsifiable p
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by jfaucett 9y ago
The standard thing everyone understands is you buy a stock S1 at time t1 and sell it later at t2 (let this be S2). The difference (S2 - S1) is your profit. You are hoping the stock price goes up. If it drops you lose money. Time(t) : ---buy
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Amazon only covered 4% of US retail in 2017. Where did you get that statistic? Was that before the wholefoods acquisition? That seems very high to me, especially when you consider what retail covers. [1] > I think it depends on the
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms. This concentration of powe
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by jfaucett 9y ago
This. The overhead squat is the secret sauce. When I first started olympic weight lifting (I had already been hitting the gym for years) I had an olympic lifter teach me the move, b/c my squatting technique was so poor. It should be th
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I wanted to make that distinction as well. It is very important. The internet and ed-tech have quite clearly been fantastic for the motivated learners who want to teach themselves. It has made imho largely zero dent into doing away with the
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by jfaucett 9y ago
so... we pretty much completely agree :)
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes, I didn't mention fission for 2 reasons #1 anyone who looks into nuclear already knows this and #2 anyone else is usually just confused by it. I don't spend every day on HN so I just missed that story and dont have time to loo
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes. I usually do one or several projects to learn how a new language works. The projects I do depend on the language. I hate reading books and even moreso watching videos about a specific programming language, but thats prolly just my ADSD
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Anytime an energy discussion comes up, I try to help dispell this myth that wind and solar will solve all our problems, especially in the global context of rising energy needs. If you care about the envirome

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