mileszim

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by mileszim 8y ago
I see where I wasn't clear in addressing your point--I am not trying to equate ad tracking with securities fraud or workplace ethics disasters, I am comparing their role in shaping our current behaviors and perspectives. In general, we
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by mileszim 8y ago
Removing regulations on financial institutions also improves economic efficiency. It also results in stuff like say, the 2008 housing collapse, or the failure of entire countries (see: Greece). Arguing against privacy protection by claiming
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by mileszim 8y ago
I find it somewhat amusing this is even something we discuss--that there are "right" and "wrong" ad blockers is such a twisted re-framing of our right to personal privacy as default. (I'm not indemnifying you at all
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by mileszim 8y ago
For anyone still holding onto the belief they can break free of being tracked and sold and still remain functional in modern life, I offer you a challenge: For one month, do everything in your power to avoid being tracked. Take it as far as
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by mileszim 8y ago
Great read! Thanks for investigating this kind of thing, it's beyond useful.
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100+ Lessons Learned for Project Managers(llis.nasa.gov)
4 points by mileszim 8y ago|0 comments
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by mileszim 8y ago
This is great, I think I'm going to explain it using your method from now on. Edit: I love that there's a segment of people in the QM community approaching these "very serious" thought experiments like Schrodinger's
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by mileszim 9y ago
Good point, I liked the work he's criticizing so I think I'm currently primed to take the post too seriously
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by mileszim 9y ago
The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world only. For Aaronson to twist it into an argument of cosmology seems markedl
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by mileszim 9y ago
Will second this, Red Mars (and the good parts of the second two in the trilogy) do a fantastic job of working through scenarios of both the sociopolitical and technical challenges we may face as the era of Mars exploration begins. The gene
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by mileszim 9y ago
The counter from Sax Russell in Red Mars to this exact debate, straight from the book: > "The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random
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by mileszim 11y ago
Cool! Do you have any plans to track historical changes of geospacial areas? What reference frame are you using for labeling areas? (places America considers countries vs what China considers, for example)
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by mileszim 12y ago
Nice work! A few months ago I did the same and built a small tool to reverse-geocode the coordinates to see a) if all of its doable and b) how accurate it was ( https://github.com/mileszim/yaktrak ) I'm impressed wi
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by mileszim 12y ago
Check out http://www.grandpad.net/ Some awesome friends of mine at Chapman University have been building exactly that: a tablet for seniors.
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by mileszim 12y ago
Recipes based on the content of your pantry/fridge. The ideal solution would provide a db based on sensors/user input to know what ingredients and amount of those ingredients you have. Additionally, you can hook it into some calor
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by mileszim 12y ago
This is silly hit-piece journalism. Of course the internet has changed... I'm surprised he expected conformity to his ideology as it opened up to everyone and everyone else's ideologies. There is no "right" or "wron
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S+ Contactless Sleep Monitor(mysplus.com)
4 points by mileszim 12y ago|1 comments
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by mileszim 12y ago
This is cool! I like the simplicity of the design, both the finished resume and the tool for creating it. Any plans to support listing/describing past projects?
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by mileszim 12y ago
Meditation, undertaken through rigorous discipline, shows evidence for something. What that is, is still up for debate. If you're referring instead to feedback techniques to curb anxiety responses, that is used in legitimate therapy. N
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by mileszim 12y ago
Wow! I had no idea that 2 ambiguously-phrased suggestions would completely stop the biological processes causing my overactive amygdala! This is it everyone, the field of therapy is dead. Let's destroy all the benzodiazepines prescribe
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by mileszim 12y ago
Is it ok to witch-hunt a perfectly adequate CEO because you disagree with his personal life? Oh wait...
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by mileszim 12y ago
So the author takes a group of 19-20 year olds and tasks them with a project which: a) asks them to converse in forced manner with someone they do not know, and then b) explicitly record themselves doing so. I don't know very many peop
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by mileszim 13y ago
Whoops, you're totally right! I misread the comment I responded to. Melanin is only useful when radiation is emitted. It can't coerce decay to happen more quickly.
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by mileszim 13y ago
Melanin has about a 30% absorption rate of ionizing radiation in the gamma spectrum, and remains stable (not oxidized in the traditional rate) while producing a current. The fungus is able to produce an acidic fuel source from the current t
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by mileszim 13y ago
The problem is that the active molecule itself has a complex structure, and it is very hard to get a high-resolution image of even one of its structures (melanin can be folded in lots of ways). There's some potential for better imaging
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by mileszim 13y ago
This is a very cool fungus, I'm glad this was posted! The trickery of its survival comes from its use of melanin, specifically pheomelanin. Basically what happens is when ionizing radiation strikes pheomelanin, an incident electron is
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by mileszim 13y ago
I'm sorry to hear you had this struggle to identify with what you like, but you seem like you've worked it out to some degree. It sounds like you just didn't enjoy CS and got stuck in the field. That's fine, but it'
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by mileszim 13y ago
as they should be!