jgamman

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by jgamman 19y ago
I've been waiting for an ereader since the late '90s. this kindle thing is a bit underwhelming but i am really looking forward to digital books: a) all off-copyright books are(should) be free - dickens, jane austin, jack london, jules vern
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by jgamman 19y ago
yes, using mathematics in marketing is an imperative. the rate of change of user demographics should be a critical piece of your daily round-ups....
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by jgamman 19y ago
i guess you wouldn't like to hear that his first quantum physics publication was as a teenager? i read somewhere that when Feynman first met SW, he said he was amazing.
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by jgamman 19y ago
i don't think you understand evolution. BTW children's brain structure is fundamentally different from adults, the neurons literally are different - one concrete example of this is how children seem to learn languages effortlessly until th
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by jgamman 19y ago
feature request: tour to include some case-scenarios? my home pc has literally GBs of photos - can you provide some scenarios that would tempt my wife to invest some time in using your web app? examples include: backup your photos with our
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by jgamman 19y ago
not sure i trust a 2-h old account with 1 karma... but it's nice to offer.
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by jgamman 19y ago
AOL vs the web: Facebook vs Open Social etc etc pay walls are always evil.
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by jgamman 19y ago
repeat after me people: do not get your science/medical info from the media. they're mostly idiots - wait for the peer reviewed literature.
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by jgamman 19y ago
>"There's a good chance that the machines will be smarter than us. There are two scenarios. The optimistic one is that these new superhuman machines are very gentle and they treat us like pets. The pessimistic scenario is they're not ve
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by jgamman 19y ago
upmod for the title relevence
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by jgamman 19y ago
geometrical progression (1,2,4,8...) would imply that the next year will acquire more new users than the total sum of previous users. if a products adoption hits this perfect storm, then whatever has flavour of the month (year) vibe will g
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by jgamman 19y ago
this is why i surf hacker news...
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by jgamman 19y ago
next stop on their website: "radiohead likes up and coming XXXX, download their album here"
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by jgamman 19y ago
photovoltaics, slow but steady. not much else counts if we don't have the juice to run it. continuing with the energy theme, the fusion reactor is approaching unity with the next iteration predicted to >= unity, if that bad boy can gen
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by jgamman 19y ago
heck of a CV...
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by jgamman 19y ago
counter argument - i loathe people that interview me with $hit puzzle questions and pat 'where do you see yourself in 10 yrs' type questions. that kind on non-thinking and non-personal behaviour will extend right through to your actual wor
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by jgamman 19y ago
in other news, 1000's of professional climatologists have amassed 10's of 1000's of peer-reviewed literature that is consistent with anthropogenic enhanced warming. oh how can i decide who to trust in this crazy world?!! won't someone plea
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by jgamman 19y ago
it's rubbish. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. there is no exception to the third law of TD known and boy have people looked. novel force previously unknown to physics vs investment scam... hhhmmm which should i choos
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by jgamman 19y ago
hhmmm, guy who makes his living selling books about how to do well at college blasts essay from guy who says 'college... meh'. nuff said.
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by jgamman 19y ago
this group is pure evil. it's been roundly whumped on the scienceblogs network (yeah, that's real scientists, not PR paid lackeys for the walled garden science press). PLoS is the future. R&D without access to the primary literature i
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by jgamman 19y ago
didn't i read some of that in an old JoSoftware article? the "just a big ol' pile of work" bit seems to be how he describes PM using his bugtracker - maybe there's a 4th place that does software development well: Fog Creek.
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by jgamman 19y ago
success is being able to do what you want: if he's an image-geek, working with the premier image software company might be a real plus for him/her. i don't see many people hassling norvig for be 'hired' by google...
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by jgamman 19y ago
a case can be made that advertising at the correct moment in time for a particular individual is information. you want a new mattress, open the pipe, mattresses galore, buy, close pipe. the key is to figure out the when and the personal
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by jgamman 19y ago
i believe the etiquette is a discreet click of the up arrow, perhaps a wry smirk at your screen, then move along, nothing to see here...
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Why you need a plan B in grad school(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 19y ago
school vouchers don't need to be aggregated to the school level, just the teacher. a headmaster is then the facilities manager (school sports and stuff are a good part of school). you may not like vouchers and they are not the whole answe
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by jgamman 19y ago
>I recall reading, though I can't remember where, that physicists in some country were more likely to become extreme religious fanatics. i gave up at this point. or is he being sarcastic? i think he broke all the rules in the above pa
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by jgamman 19y ago
definitely, they may (should) be looking at what they will need back-end wise for the next few years. if building on a dodgy base is too risky, you have to build the better foundation. they're not a start-up anymore, it's a new set of cha
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An untapped search problem?(pipeline.corante.com)
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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The project generator(tdbspecialprojects.com)
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|1 comments

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