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by mclide 3y ago
The brilliant American Life segment with a juxtaposition of the “Greetings, People of Earth” story with reporting on ChatGPT and the Orcas creates a bricolage that may spur thoughts around questions related to our ability to recognize non-h
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by mclide 3y ago
See Swank used in Slime https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp
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by mclide 3y ago
What about medicine?
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by mclide 3y ago
I actually used Lisp to implement an early (1995) social media platform, which provided a low barrier to entry and allowed me to try things quickly, beating the averages for a few years. http://shiny.link/QpGMwJ
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by mclide 3y ago
Meanwhile, "In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today." https://twitter.com/GlobalAffairs&
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by mclide 3y ago
Despite the lack of examples, it still completes trivial clojure like "(defn connect [" and other lisp syntax like "(define (hello" which is promising for further refinement training on Lisp languages.
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by mclide 3y ago
Given the large number of individuals that have access to such top secret documents, it is likely that enemies already are in the know of the sensitive information. Classifying information as top secret primarily functions to prevent the ge
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by mclide 4y ago
By now, there is at least one other organism that can detect and act upon the signal. If farmers applies knowledge about this signal to improve their yields, plants may be selected for their ability to emit sounds under stress.
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by mclide 4y ago
Many libraries accept book donations. That way your book will be reused, possibly also providing the library with a little bit of extra funding.
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by mclide 5y ago
Wikipedia articles related to politics should have warning labels about bias and potential disinformation when linked from google/twitter/facebook. Entrenched activist admins and editors sabotage its ability to self-correct entrie
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by mclide 7y ago
A recent Chrome update shipped with a bug that damages the file system on MacOS machines with System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled, including machines that do not support SIP. The bug affects MacOSX 10.10 and older. Symptoms include
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by mclide 8y ago
If you have more consulting work than you can/should handle, increase your rates.
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by mclide 8y ago
The concern of users becoming the product when using an ad-based business model was discussed in a 1995 paper presented at the Third International World-Wide Web conference: "The design of a medium strongly affects the revenue model th
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Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs(nature.com)
161 points by mclide 8y ago|37 comments
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by mclide 8y ago
The AARDA autoimmune patient advocacy organization says more than 50 million Americans suffer from an autoimmune disease, with 75% being women. https://www.aarda.org/news-information/statistics/
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Online $75K hackathon on Devpost found lacking transparency(medcitynews.com)
2 points by mclide 9y ago|0 comments
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How not to run a $75K online hackathon(medcitynews.com)
5 points by mclide 9y ago|0 comments
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by mclide 9y ago
See also Mount Tam Biotechnologies, a spin-off from the Buck Institute focusing on mTOR modulators, shown to extend lifespan in mice. Their initial application addresses Lupus, an autoimmune disease. http://www.mounttambiotech.co
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by mclide 9y ago
Correct, that's me attempting to spread the gospel of Common Lisp web server programming to what seemed like an endless mass of Apple developers at WWDC 97.
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by mclide 9y ago
Apple invited me to present at WWDC97 as a young independent developer with a startup making software for "webmasters" on the Apple internet platform; "What cool sites use" according to Apple's marketing back then.
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by mclide 9y ago
The key to make sense of the data for these diseases is a record of patient’s symptoms. Assembling useful datasets is not only a question about access, but also about resolving human factors to successfully collect the essential information
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by mclide 12y ago
The test before reading/watching news is "would I read/watch this if it was a week old?" If you wouldn't, don't waste your time on it now.
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by mclide 12y ago
Alternative title: You shall not think you're happier than we are.
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by mclide 13y ago
HyperText'93 was the first major conference where the web had a substantial presence. Yet the web as a topic was nearly absent from the papers and presentations due to its novelty. There were several posters at the conference though. W
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Twenty years ago web pioneers met in Seattle to prepare world domination(kevcom.com)
2 points by mclide 13y ago|1 comments