mej10

31 ms·

361.
by mej10 14y ago
It is funny that you describe it as therapeutic. I have several manual tasks that I would describe that way. Just not washing dishes. :)
362.
by mej10 14y ago
You are slightly confused. False positives do indeed happen, but false negatives can never happen (if one of the bits aren't set for the corresponding hash, then it is guaranteed to have never been added before). Collisions in hash tables a
363.
by mej10 14y ago
Yeah, mine literally just has a dial that is only used to turn it on and off. No buttons, switches, anything. You just turn the dial like 0.2cm and it turns on. I can't imagine being OK with wasting time washing dishes by hand.
364.
by mej10 14y ago
How about... you know, not dying? At least in the foreseeable future. You can do a lot more awesome engineering and science and exploration if you don't die after ~80 years.
365.
by mej10 14y ago
Perhaps the reason you have never had to think about it is because you developed a good foundation for reasoning about algorithm time complexity? I will say that I have never personally had to concern myself with a sorting algorithm (though
366.
by mej10 14y ago
Yep, you are right. I can't believe I forgot that.
367.
by mej10 14y ago
This is a good point as well, and more in line with what the original commenter was asking. Using pi as a base is even briefly discussed on wikipedia. I had some interest in using e as the basis for a while, since (as is pointed out on wiki
368.
by mej10 14y ago
Depends on what you mean by setting pi = 1. You can subtract (pi - 1) from every number, giving you a translation of the real numbers. You can divide everything by pi, giving you a slight compression that ultimately doesn't mean anything. Y
369.
by mej10 14y ago
You should just share it.
370.
by mej10 14y ago
That doesn't really seem like a great attitude to have. It is far too hands-off and unreliable. I just can't imagine thinking "Well, I voted. That's the best I can do."
371.
by mej10 14y ago
Any time I have mentioned that someone should change their diet to help them deal with any number of problems (weight, mild depression, seasonal affective disorder, overall energy levels), I am universally met with disbelief and dismissal.
372.
by mej10 14y ago
In my opinion, if people really think timing and luck matter more than skill and determination, then they shouldn't be doing startups (unless their goals aren't to create an awesome/important company, but to have fun or something else). Tim
373.
by mej10 14y ago
So anything > 3 requires a bunch of "hard science". That does a great job of highlighting the fact that almost all of the readers of HN will be incapable of producing any of these. Time for a career change.
374.
by mej10 14y ago
That is awesome and I really hope you can pull it off.
375.
by mej10 14y ago
Yeah, pretty much any of his recent ideas/companies are "frighteningly ambitious". I do wonder how YC would handle someone that is as ambitious and skilled as Musk, but without his financial success. (Un?)Fortunately for them I think that i
376.
by mej10 14y ago
Honestly, someone's willingness to learn programming just to implement their idea (if they stick with it) would be a huge positive to me. It is the people that think 99% of the work is having an idea that dishearten me. "Oh, if you implemen
377.
by mej10 14y ago
How many people know that you are a programmer? For a while, every social occasion I went to someone wanted to talk to me about building their startup idea. I eventually started hinting at things similar to this post. Some people get a kind
378.
by mej10 14y ago
A lot of genetic traits follow normal distribution due to the way genes are combined. It doesn't follow at all from this that human skill follows a normal distribution, especially looking at the whole population. It seems to be more like a
379.
by mej10 14y ago
Weirdness in this case is just a sign that your model of your fellow humans is broken in some regard.
380.
by mej10 14y ago
Without citations of scientific research, this is really just an exercise in generalizing from one example. http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
381.
by mej10 14y ago
Yeah, I am interested in this too. Any chance you can release some metrics?
382.
by mej10 14y ago
Now the question is: how do you get this trait without being put in such dire situations?
383.
by mej10 14y ago
You make being as profitable as Apple sound so easy.
384.
by mej10 14y ago
I definitely wouldn't stop on a Light Table like thing if you have made much progress. While I am very excited and optimistic about Light Table, there are a lot of choices to make. Especially as they are somehow going to try to monetize it,
385.
by mej10 14y ago
I take pictures of my notes and post them on Evernote. It has surprisingly good handwriting recognition.
386.
by mej10 14y ago
"Contrary to the stereotype, rationality doesn't mean denying emotion. When emotion is appropriate to the reality of the situation, it should be embraced; only when emotion isn't appropriate should it be suppressed." http://lesswrong.com/l
387.
by mej10 14y ago
Thanks for that.
388.
by mej10 14y ago
Would you have been able to start it _as_ your son was born? I am just curious as to how important you think the overall timeline was. Also, I think it is an interesting idea to contrast "youth culture" and "geek culture". My current goals
389.
by mej10 14y ago
Is there a way to have a culture that supports both? I currently enjoy the "youth culture" but am increasingly getting tired of certain aspects of it. I really do enjoy having fun with coworkers, but I am increasingly aware of the marginal
390.
by mej10 14y ago
Let's see, the previous post is based on published psychological research, and this post points out a failing of humans that is, dare I say it, obvious to anyone that has critically observed any person, ever. He isn't exactly making controv

More ›