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Change for charity: a project proposal to teach web development(juanreyero.com)
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Plan for teaching the ways of the hackers to my son(juanreyero.com)
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by juanre 13y ago
Thank you very much!
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by juanre 13y ago
You don't have to go all the way to full Common Lisp server-side development. At http://greaterskies.com I wrote in CL the engine that computes and creates the personalized PDF maps of the sky, then built an sbcl custom co
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by juanre 13y ago
And how about the hubris of my self of yesterday claiming the right to decide what my self of today should be spending time on? I need to write down things that need doing and can't be forgotten, but surely I am in a better position t
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by juanre 13y ago
"The biggest, most enduring lesson of our system of schooling is that learning is work, to be avoided when possible." Indeed. The antidote for my 13 and 15 years old boys are being Udacity courses. I encourage them to study for
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by juanre 13y ago
Mindfulness in Plain English is a readable and accessible introduction to meditation, available online at http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
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by juanre 13y ago
A classic example of irrationality is mental accounting. Say you are going to the theater. You have a $100 ticket and a $100 bill, and on the way to the theater you lose the ticket. Would you spend your $100 to buy another one? Most peo
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by juanre 13y ago
I took Caltech/Coursera class "Principles of Economics for Scientists" this winter. I was struck by how lean and clear the concepts are once you bother to write them down mathematically. Much better than the hand-wavy expla
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Show HN: Visualize full-globe wind forecast(windsandwaves.com)
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by juanre 13y ago
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), Woody Guthrie: [...] The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "The
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by juanre 13y ago
Those of you with an interest in economics and a programming background might find this amusing: https://github.com/juanre/econopy It's a python implementation of a bunch of classical economics models I wrote as a way to avoid actually do
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1864 - The sewing machine: its history, construction and application(books.google.co.uk)
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by juanre 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Spain/Europe/US) Common Lisp, Python, models, data analysis, image processing. Please check out my resumé and some of my work at http://juanreyero.com/ . Contact writing at joanmg's gmail address.
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by juanre 14y ago
(The author of org-jekyll here). If anyone is going to try it out please note that there's an org-mode-8.0 branch that should work with the new org-mode release. As soon as I can test it with the new version I'll merge into master and wi
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Bitcoin trading in mtgox has stopped(support.mtgox.com)
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by juanre 14y ago
A good option when you only need to monitor a few signals is to use an xbee series 2 module, that will also wirelessly transfer the data to a central server. It can run attached to an Arduino, but also stand-alone. "Building Wireless Sens
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by juanre 14y ago
Having a boring life in which most day's memorable second is similar to the previous one is not a bad thing. It's living a meaningless life we should be weary of. Shameless plug: but I do want to indulge in the ego pampering of storing mem
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by juanre 14y ago
I had the same experience learning to unicycle in my late thirties. Fall, try again, repeat. It's hard to actually get hurt (the unicycle just slips from under your butt and you end up more or less standing) and if you persevere you'll re
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by juanre 14y ago
In the color science community lots of people use matlab. I find matplotlib and numpy to be a great combination.
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by juanre 14y ago
For those of you interested in the topic, the best publicly available database I've found is http://www.astronexus.com/node/34 , and The Book for astronomical computation is Astronomical Algorithms, by Jean Meeus, http://www.willbell.com/
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Atul Gawande, excellence via recognizing failures(newyorker.com)
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by juanre 14y ago
I became a mechanical engineer because I was fascinated by machine tools, but ended up writing software and devising printing algorithms for a living. This article is a treasure. Just the kind of field guide that people like me need to go
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HP's limited options(sfgate.com)
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John Hunter (of matplotlib fame) Memorial Fund(numfocus.org)
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Good enough is better than perfection - Lucy Kellaway on Jiro's sushi(ft.com)
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by juanre 14y ago
Tangential: a great source of perspective, humility and historical insight is E. B. Sledge's first hand account of the WWII battles at Okinawa and Peleliu. With The Old Breed, http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891...
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Gazzaniga on the interpreter in your head(discovermagazine.com)
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by juanre 14y ago
Can't resist posting my own visual explanation: http://juanreyero.com/article/math/bayes.html
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by juanre 14y ago
This is great, Pedro. Just bought a copy. I've tried ---and failed--- many times to learn music: I hope this will be the one. Now if you just found the way to include a couple of properly tuned ears in the package...

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