lowkeynthorough

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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
The researcher probably wasnt surprised, it looks like the person you replied to was surprised. Perhaps i was surprised that you were surprised? :)
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Hey dang, is there a moderately strict guideline that says that Show HN articles should have source code? This post is somewhat interesting, but you can imagine marketers abusing the format.
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Tr33-D notation? treenotation.org
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
any tips for ALPHA detectors :)? Somehow, those are significantly harder to DIY than beta/gamma..
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
DeepMind actually solved harder problems than most of the ones mentioned. All the proteins mentioned in the article (except for the chaperones) are 100 amino-acid and shorter, the therapeutic ones are even shorter, dozen(s) of AA. Thus, gre
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Thanks!! i have tried chasing that lead.. (found only childrens songs on youtube so I thought it might be based on a childrens song.. your posts above those were awesome but guess not the same style haha) Also there was a deckhand on that s
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Hey could you help me track down this probably Norwegian folk like song? Most likely its a oneoff song by some band but many on that thread have been keft hanging for years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZcAhIAUto&
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
I think there is a kind of blind spot, if not contradiction, in the essay. It could be a good kind of paradox like the immovable object vs irresistible force thing.. it’s the paradox of lisp, of bel, of Julia, of mit style hacking.. they MI
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
I think you almost hit the nail on the head.. it’s like a paraphrase of that saying about genius vs talent.. the difference between good work and great work is.. good work takes resources, but properly great work surprises us with how litt
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/986607864180441088 Taleb’s response at the time (2018; for reference; they are both profs at NYU) The other commenters are more balanced than usual for a taleb thread.. well wor
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Grad student here. I recently did the obvious NDSolve thing but Mathematica kept beachballing, and after heating up my computer tremendously returned an empty set. Turns out, my problem was really simple and I could solve it by hand.
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Lol that trick also covers much of quantum mechanics, and relativity. (The gauge in “gauge theory” is a basis, btw)
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
The active compound, the tasty AND toxic bit, is quite interesting. It binds to DNA and is also an MDMA precursor (ie safrole is on DEA watchlists) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
:o the original Manci Pixie Dream girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Author is Cosma Shalizi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
Curiously, stackoverflow uses upvotes and downvotes too. How does that work?
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
I’d like to make a similar argument for traditional mass media.. Readers don’t get to have nuanced discussions with content producers (journalist,editors,etc). This leads to not necessarily prosocial tendencies exhibited in, eg, the NYT dox
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
This one seems most interesting: (Gary Weiss doxxes the NYT reporter who threatened to doxx) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635818
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by lowkeynthorough 6y ago
https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...