mnemonicsloth

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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
A straw man is a proxy, a fake, a stand-in for the real thing. So to make a straw man argument, I have to distort something you've said so that it becomes easier to refute. Feel free to explain how I can do this when your post is reproduc
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
You left out the sentence that starts with "I learned on my own startup..." Why?
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
I love the phrase "trading at a not-preposterous 55x earnings" Let's look at P/E ratios of their competition at the top: XON 13 GE 18 MSFT 24 AT&T 30 Citigroup 8 Let's look at some other big web/software firms: Oracle 26 Adobe 42 Yahoo
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Because understanding is almost always easier than data collection and tool-building. Pure lack of understanding -- having all the data and having no idea what it means -- can keep a problem open for a generation or two. Einstein is famous
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
It's never the case that even close to all the cells in the visual cortex are being used. It's always a tiny fraction of that. This is also true of any individual transistor in a processor. An ALU contains hardware to perform many opera
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
It's interesting -- I started writing this exact definition of "works" in my post above. Anthropomorphic bias, right? Even with this understanding, though, I can't wrap my brain around what you're saying above. Computer vision doesn't "wo
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Besides Slime, there's also the Cusp plugin for Eclipse (although I haven't used it): http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/index.html And for Scheme/Emacs there's Quack (google quack.el)
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Here are some background and pointers. I'm not a computer vision guy, but these might get you started. Computer vision is really hard . The computational resources we can spend on the problem are orders of magnitude smaller than what we'
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
No, thank you. I've just been forced to learn about a new language proposal, a new (to me) set of morphisms, and a nonstandard approach to proving stuff in topology. That's a rich link.
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
What is a "point-free holomorphism" ? I study math, hack Scheme, and find myself totally confused by terminology. Maybe it's a riddle or something -- "What does complex-smoothness have to do with lambda calculus?"
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Summary: American high schools are less effective than they could be because they employ bitter old cranks that the students wisely ignore. Also: "any TV exposure before 6 years old and your kid's basic cognitive wiring and spatial percepti
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
My two contrarian cents: 1. Stop worrying about your age. It isn't significant. Taking a historical perspective, people who found successful companies in their early 20's are pretty rare. Don't forget that YC's young-founder approach is
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Because even millionaire bombshells need something to get upset about, and complaining about anything else would have been utterly ridiculous.
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Military proposes $20B power satellite to shorten logistical tail.(foxnews.com)
6 points by mnemonicsloth 19y ago|2 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
"In those days, racism was culturally embedded..." But when the Stupid Ages ended, everything got all better, because now everyone is too smart to be racist.
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
I think this is software-centric thinking. If you look at hardware, you really need a Ph.D. to make a serious contribution to theory, and a lot of important founders (Intel springs to mind) had doctorates.
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
... Serious Philosopher. Isn't that the whole problem expressed in two words? Euclid was arguably "more serious" as a philosopher than a mathematician -- his principal contribution was to build a logical framework around others' results.
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
No, I think the real problem is that talking about politics brings out the worst in people who disagree with you (because you make them feel angry), and the only the mildly unsavory in people who don't (because you make them feel smug). Ho
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
No kidding. Also: Life Partners of Homosexuals Frequently Gay Themselves.
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
A Really important set of ideas, but I wouldn't want to learn them from this book. The author seems to think you can take two entire academic sub-specialties (History of Science, History of Technology) and cram their collective information
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Massive self-aggrandizing factual error in the third paragraph: It's a life that philosophers have traditionally regarded as nasty, brutish, and short. Um, Jean Jacques Rousseau? Noble Savage? Only a few decades after Hobbes? It may
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by mnemonicsloth 19y ago
Amphetamines. Good enough for Erdos, Good enough for me. Of course, stark terror of politically-motivated violence works even better (cf. career of Leonhard Euler).