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by klik99 7y ago
>> if you looked suspicious you would get stopped or worse. Off topic, but remember when Bob Dylan was picked up by cops, mistaken for a homeless man in Long Beach, NJ when he walked up to a house for sale? https://www.npr.
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by klik99 7y ago
Coronavirus is absolutely a black swan event, but it will probably affect mainland china more than us/japan. I don't see it having as big an effect on pure software companies, but it will affect hardware and companies that rely on
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by klik99 7y ago
# of deals and # of first financings seem to be in a normal dec-feb drop period, but I think the overall index is driven by insane amounts of money per deal that peaked in june last year, making it look like a scary situation if you look at
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by klik99 7y ago
When a founder becomes a VC, his interests in the company he invests in are different than the founders interests. That difference in interest should be obvious but since they portray themselves as founders first, which they were before, in
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by klik99 7y ago
This is my experience too, esp if you aren't on the latest hardware, but are on the latest os If I wasn't a developer, I would never upgrade the os and just keep using an older phone
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by klik99 7y ago
Regarding the smoothness, some of that is animation, but a lot is just in the accuracy/feel/refresh rate/special sauce of the touchscreen and multi-touch.
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by klik99 7y ago
I know you're mocking him, but I didn't read it as a flex at all. If you've raised a kid, it sounds about right, it's not outlandishly precocious, I think he was just saying that screen time doesn't make your kid du
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by klik99 7y ago
"relatively tiny inputs tend to produce outsized sensory effects" - this is what I was getting at with "low effort, high stimulus", and it's def bad. My point is by dismissing "screen time" wholesale, we c
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by klik99 7y ago
Totally agree - and, generally, the adults I know who were raised this way may be super talented but have so little creativity - at music school I knew this Korean violinist who was just amazing classical player, she could tell you the pitc
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by klik99 7y ago
Getting off topic, since I just wanted to point out that screens CAN be good, and the more research lumps all "screen time" together the less research there is into HOW they can be better. But we didn't push it or anything -
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by klik99 7y ago
Reading the guidelines now, "Use known letters (or their best attempt to write the letters) to represent written language especially for meaningful words like their names or phrases such as "I love you."" - they weren&#x
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by klik99 7y ago
It is true, though I'll give two minor concessions/clarifications: My 2 year old is basically 3 - his birthday is in Feb, close enough that calling him 2-year-old is bending the truth, but not technically breaking it :) The alphab
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by klik99 7y ago
If I had a dime for every pop science article that shows "good parts of the brain light up in MIR machine for X" images... well I'd have a helluva lot of dimes
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by klik99 7y ago
I could talk about this for hours, but "screen time" is too vague - placing a kid in front of a youtube autoplay stream is vastly different than playing a word game on the iPad with their parents right next to them. I've foun
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by klik99 7y ago
Knuth suggests, in TAOCP, that the best way to write a program is to write it once, scrap it completely and rewrite from scratch. Very much in line with spending an entire semester making one perfect program vs spending a semester writing a
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by klik99 7y ago
It's rare to see such honest self-reflection on a sensitive topic like this. The need for recognition in some way or another is hardwired into us, and I don't believe it's intrinsically bad - we are a communal animal and we w
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by klik99 7y ago
This may be correct, but you cannot be certain of this at all. Everyone always thinks they're at the end of history in one way or another. Saying that current big tech companies have reached a critical threshold and will remain static
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by klik99 7y ago
or a very overtrained neural net machine commenter
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by klik99 7y ago
Fascinating - after several years of designing and a year of implementation, I'm running a closed beta of an LLVM-compiled language (general purpose but made for audio and dsp) that was strongly influenced by Lucid. For performance rea
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by klik99 7y ago
There's a certain class of programmers tool that requires constant tweaking, like a road bike used in the city - and typically the users suffer from OCD or stockholm syndrome, because they won't stop evangelizing. I thought emacs
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by klik99 7y ago
I've been fascinated by Sidis in the past, yet never really got his transfer ticket fascination. Maybe because I've been steeped in graph theory for the last couple of years but listening to that episode made me realize the beauty
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by klik99 7y ago
Before I read the article, I thought the “bus ticket” was referencing William Sidis, who in the early 20th century gave a mathematics lecture at MIT at 10, a Harvard student at 11, was expected to revolutionize math but then dropped out of
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by klik99 7y ago
I'm in tears reading this and his wife's account ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-remains-dr-jessica-brande... ) - I didn't realize how short life was until I realized I only had 52 weeks with each of
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by klik99 8y ago
What about the value of the data? For a B2B company like MS, seems to me that the goodwill would really be worth that much if it generates future intangibles (useful data). I still see almost every professional with a linkedin account, even
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by klik99 8y ago
At the scope of the Drake equation octopi are still pretty close to us since we both have neurons, so it's a few steps past life "seeding" (good way to phrase it btw). If we saw intelligence in something descended from a pre-
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by klik99 9y ago
This addresses a very particular type of entrepreneur, one that I built a lot of my early contracting business on. Someone who calls themselves the "idea person" but rarely gets their hands dirty. I have met many of them via elanc
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by klik99 9y ago
I saw Stroustrup give a talk and he said exactly this - C++ is a toolbox of different paradigms that aren't meant to be combined. If you avoid frameworks that impose a particular paradigm and/or shield the parts of the codebase wi
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by klik99 9y ago
Sure, it might not be trig, but in your description there is still calculation (the ball is growing larger at x rate, so adjust my legs accordingly), just not of the self-aware conscious variety. There are really two definitions of 'ca
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by klik99 9y ago
But otherwise a good article... I realize this is getting hung up on the clickbaity title...
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by klik99 9y ago
The brain is actually really good at math - the best example I've heard of this (I think from the book 'Blink') is catching a flyball - in an instant someone is able to calculate the trajectory, wind speed, spin and coordinat

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