mnemonicsloth

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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> Thanks to Curiosity, we have a better idea of where water existed (and may still exist) on Mars, as well as where we might be able to find evidence of ancient life. I don't understand why everyone is so excited about finding life
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> No language feature (or library) exists in isolation (or at least it shouldn’t). Feature interaction is among the hardest of problems, and often underestimated both as a problem and as something useful The problem of feature interactio
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> And in Go, which has a 19-by-19 board and over 10^150 possible positions, even an amateur human can still rout the world’s top-ranked computer programs. Surprising, in retrospect, how fast that changed.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
1. Good link 2. I wish I could answer your question about the other projects. All I can say is that I saw this on Friday in a bioinformatics lecture. I'm not a bioinformatician. I don't know all the various projects relate to e
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Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases, all expressed in OWL(obofoundry.org)
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Back when most wealth was inherited (before 1800 say), upper class families used to practice primogeniture, or giving all the money to the oldest son. If they didn't do that, then the kids in the nth generation would get something lik
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Walter Benjamin is the original inspiration for the postmodernists. His writing is nonsensically opaque. If his name appears in an article, it's a good sign that the article is about to go off the rails.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> [why would I] benefit from switching to Factor? Here's how it usually goes: It works like this: You try Factor. You stick with its weirdness through one or two small projects. Somewhere in there your brain starts to accept the n
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
It's true that hierarchy is bad, but I don't see why it was necessary to spend 1500 words in saying so. He also misses something big: your relationship with your boss is more important than the shape of your organization. A good
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> Everything is a system... The problem is that this sometimes isn't good enough. A cell is certainly a system, but cells are far too complex to model with current techniques. The usual next step, breaking the cell down into a gro
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
A lot of people would rather keep their diaries private. Montaigne wouldn't have been Montaigne if he was writing for other people.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Most Common Lisps (certainly the compiled ones) do tail call optimization. Clojure doesn't because it's a Lisp in Java, and Java doesn't. Back when Clojure was just starting to get some attention I watched a video [1] of Ric
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
It bothers me that the authors' assumptions are so controversial and that they hide them in the middle of the article. In the simulations the authors are using, civilizations have lifetimes, meaning that all of them end after a while.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Yes. Invading ships wouldn't be able to bring a lot of fuel/propellant with them beyond what's necessary to decelerate from the trip. And they would have to be warm enough to support life, so they'd radiate a lot of he
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
But some are very evil, and they're the ones calling the shots. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...
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Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater(en.wikipedia.org)
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Yahui: The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery (2011)(opendemocracy.net)
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It depends on how big a commitment you want to make. I quit my job to go study biology and it worked out pretty well for me. Programming opens doors for you because the majority of biology grad students can't do it. You get good wor
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Second generation sequencing is fast and in wide use. Third generation sequencing is the new hotness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_sequencing
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Metagenomics is the biological equivalent of suddenly being able to see dark matter. Normally, if you want to analyze a microbe, you do it by culturing the organism in Petri dishes. By varying the growth medium you can find out a lot about
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
The purpose of this comment section is the airing of unpopular views. Judging by your reaction I must be doing OK. You could have shared a bit about your background with these languages. What do you know about Erlang, ML, Haskell and Lisp
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Okay. So what's your rationale?
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
C, C++, Java, Python and Ruby are inferior to ML, Erlang, Haskell and Lisp. Nobody who has used Lisp and Java seriously believes that Java is the better tool. But the people who know both are drowned out by huge numbers of mediocre devs w
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I'm trying to change careers into this space. Can you tell me more? (Links appreciated)
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
This should have been called The Open eBook Project. Books and ebooks are really not the same thing at all.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
1. Way to go guys. 2. Do you do journal articles? 3. Do you have data on the biotechnology business? (I'm looking to start a biotech startup) I'm re-tooling right now. Taking a break from computer stuff to do a Masters (maybe a
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
It may not be disingenuous. Judging by all the repetition in the article it was probably by written by someone who had no idea what the researchers were talking about.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> Nobody cites any sensible proof... At the time, there was no proof of the Holocaust, or of the rape of Nanking or the genocide in Bosnia. There usually isn't proof of genocide when it's going on because any country authori
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Yes, like I said, the Democrats did it because the entertainment industry is an important constituency of theirs. The Republicans did it because they thought it would be good for business. But the businesses that benefit most from expandi
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
1. Most Republicans don't understand DRM 2. Most Republicans favor DRM because the Chamber of Commerce favors it. 3. The primary proponents of DRM in the Chamber of Commerce are groups the Republicans hate: the RIAA, MPAA and a few oth

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