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by jsomers 6y ago
Good question! I would feel free to use the doc itself as the forum—maybe just create a section at the bottom for general comments.
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A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)(google.com)
28 points by jsomers 6y ago|7 comments
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Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book(observablehq.com)
43 points by jsomers 6y ago|4 comments
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I should have loved biology(jsomers.net)
800 points by jsomers 6y ago|298 comments
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How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System(newyorker.com)
247 points by jsomers 6y ago|97 comments
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Engineers Take on the Ventilator Shortage(newyorker.com)
1 points by jsomers 6y ago|0 comments
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Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors(jsomers.net)
69 points by jsomers 7y ago|8 comments
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Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 7y ago|0 comments
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How Hackers Won the Water(newyorker.com)
2 points by jsomers 7y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 7y ago
I didn’t mean to say that nobody uses the software, just that I don’t know anybody who does. Which just makes it hard for me to get a handle on its value. The question I’d ask those physicists is whether Mathematica does the kinds of things
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by jsomers 7y ago
It’s hard to think about Wolfram. His tone is so off-putting — he’s constantly discovering the glorious and singular capabilities of his own products — but for instance he did basically invent the now-ubiquitous idea of the computational no
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by jsomers 8y ago
I recently built a little trivia game for my friend, and not wanting to spin up a database, I used Google Sheets as the backend. My friend can edit the sheet at will, and the app pulls the data in via JavaScript. Google already sets the rig
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Machining the Ultimate Hackathon Prize(blog.janestreet.com)
3 points by jsomers 8y ago|0 comments
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IsTheWeatherWeird.com(istheweatherweird.com)
2 points by jsomers 8y ago|0 comments
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The Braindead Megaphone (2007) [pdf](as1020.pbworks.com)
11 points by jsomers 8y ago|1 comments
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A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers(jsomers.net)
566 points by jsomers 8y ago|179 comments
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How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games(newyorker.com)
247 points by jsomers 8y ago|78 comments
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Using websockets to easily build GUIs for Python programs(gist.github.com)
79 points by jsomers 8y ago|37 comments
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Redesigning the Scientific Paper(theatlantic.com)
339 points by jsomers 9y ago|107 comments
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by jsomers 9y ago
I started it somewhat arbitrarily in 1900.
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by jsomers 9y ago
Occasionally you see articles on HN with a date in the title, like “(1998)” — and over the years I’ve noticed that these tend to be some of the best posts. It makes sense: on a site devoted to news , an article posted so long after it was
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Show HN: Hacker News Classics(jsomers.net)
864 points by jsomers 9y ago|107 comments
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The Shallowness of Google Translate (by Douglas Hofstadter)(theatlantic.com)
54 points by jsomers 9y ago|24 comments
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The Shallowness of Google Translate, by Douglas Hofstadter(theatlantic.com)
5 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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Saving the World from Code(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 9y ago
That's a cool device, and I thought about getting one -- but for me, I wanted the satisfaction of putting ink to paper.
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A typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc(jsomers.net)
68 points by jsomers 9y ago|11 comments
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Keepers of the Secrets(villagevoice.com)
2 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc(jsomers.net)
2 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 9y ago|0 comments

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