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by jwco 14y ago
I would not pay anything because I don't mind the ads.
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The Coming Zombie Apocalypse(designmind.frogdesign.com)
5 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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Share Logins to Bypass Compulsory Registration(bugmenot.com)
1 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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Data Mining with Maximal Information Coefficient(web.mit.edu)
2 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jwco 14y ago
Here are a couple reasons why teen me (I'm almost 30 now) may not have preferred eBooks over actual books: 1) I had only moved once in my life, and did not appreciate how much physical space books take up during a move. After moving ~4-5 t
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Principles for Budding Scientists(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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DIDO Interference Cancellation Explained in Patent(freepatentsonline.com)
1 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jwco 14y ago
Actually, I think this is an interesting lie for a different reason. Look at their no. 1 competitor, Google. They had a PhD in computer science as CEO and now a guy who well on his way to a PhD came up with an algorithm that, as far as I c
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Offshore Psychedelic Tourism and Drug Discovery/Patenting(ieet.org)
2 points by jwco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jwco 14y ago
No need for (b) typos and (c) trolls, but (a) opinions are output that computers currently fail to effectively provide, but things that much of human society currently depends on. I was going to cite medicine and marketing as examples, and
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by jwco 15y ago
I don't know what "music theory" is, and I agree that I wouldn't listen to Radiohead if I didn't like the melodies (there are other mathy/geeky bands out there I don't listen to, an extreme case being Information Society giving you instruct
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by jwco 15y ago
Thanks but I am really interested in reading more about NP hardness in real world situations. Operations research may be a place to start but then my question becomes "Where does NP hardness arise in operations research?" Here's an example
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Ask HN: What companies attack an NP-Hard problem as part of their core business?
1 points by jwco 15y ago|2 comments
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Elegant=Complex(edge.org)
1 points by jwco 15y ago|0 comments
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by jwco 15y ago
"Playing soccer well depends little on having good ideas." This statement seems to me to be profoundly wrong. Perhaps some ways of "playing soccer well" depend little on having good ideas. But soccer is a very complex game: the configurati
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by jwco 15y ago
Just to be clear, the first comment was not a joke: " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Pote...
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by jwco 15y ago
According to the Wikipedia article on LSD, the US DEA claims that the drug among other things "produces...no lasting positive effect in treating alcoholics." The TSA chimed in, noting that LSD also produces no safeguard against "things that
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by jwco 15y ago
To quote the article: "To complicate matters further, LSD also acts at other receptors." So LSD appears to interact with more than "one of the signaling systems in your brain."
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by jwco 15y ago
“Design a two-dimensional cellular automata such that we can create a self-replicating pattern.” What clients might require cellular automata, and automata such as these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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PARC, Thinfilm unveil first printed, flexible CMOS computer circuit(extremetech.com)
1 points by jwco 15y ago|0 comments
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by jwco 15y ago
Fair enough. I don't know much about Peripheral Blood Stem Cells in particular, but I am under the impression that stem cells in general are not serving much of a purpose besides waiting around to become differentiated into other cell type
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by jwco 15y ago
I wonder if you excised the word "shamelessly" from this comment, if people would have had a more interesting discussion, i.e. about building a site that enables people (including non-hackers), say in similarly life-threatened positions, to
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by jwco 15y ago
The first question of the FAQ ( http://amitguptaneedsyou.tumblr.com/faq ) should have you assuaged.
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by jwco 15y ago
It's long, so some choice quotes: "So you've got to always cooperate by random drift. But if we'd always cooperate, now we can guess what happens next: we invite Always defect. You have oscillations here, you have a mathematical model of hu
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Evolution of Cooperation, by Nowak(edge.org)
2 points by jwco 15y ago|1 comments
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by jwco 15y ago
Agree, but Apple has also always appealed to artists/lovers of the arts, and post-return-of-Jobs Apple translated that into the iPod and iTunes/iTunes Store, the latter of which is filled with things like reviews and ads of sorts, or at lea
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by jwco 15y ago
Tom Hoover is Drew's fraternity bro, MIT '05 Course 6 classmate, and Bit 9 co-worker prior to Dropbox taking off. He also installed Gentoo on my old laptop so I could take a Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics.
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by jwco 15y ago
Crowdsourcing health insurance is a really interesting idea. Why shouldn't I, and many other people, open our medical records and insurance information? I.e. post it to some publicly accessible database, anonymously or not. Could we get ins
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by jwco 15y ago
So there is some theoretical and experimental work arguing that the Fibonacci sequence minimizes the energy of soft particles interacting repulsively when constrained to the surface of a cylinder. In 2009, some physicists found the pattern
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by jwco 15y ago
As a commenter on the Atlantic pointed out, lets not forget to consider the American Museum of Natural History's role here as the prime mover in the cascade of journalists. It surprises me that they didn't have more of an internal peer rev

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