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by mojoe 11y ago
This line surprised me: “The dirty secret is that we don’t even understand the nematode C. Elegans, which only has 302 neurons [in contrast with the nearly 100 billion in the human brain]. We don’t have a complete model of this tiny organis
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by mojoe 11y ago
First let me say thank you for your work on R packages, you've helped a lot of people accomplish some great things! Unfortunately I can't go into specific details without potentially divulging proprietary information, but broadly
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by mojoe 11y ago
The one thing that sometimes gets overlooked when people decide whether to use R or Python is how robust the language and libraries are. I've programmed professionally in both, and R is really bad for production environments. The packa
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by mojoe 11y ago
Colorado is putting a diverging diamond interchange in near where I live in Boulder county. Work will be finishing soon and I was wondering if any HNers have had experience with these types of interchanges. It looks very promising, and hope
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Diverging Diamond Interchange(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by mojoe 11y ago|8 comments
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by mojoe 11y ago
Colorado is putting a diverging diamond interchange in near where I live in Boulder county. Work will be finishing soon and I was wondering if any HNers have had experience with these types of interchanges. It looks very promising, and hope
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Diverging Diamond Interchange(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mojoe 11y ago
I program a decent amount in R, and this left-arrow assignment operator is incredibly annoying. I believe it's a holdout from the days when there was a single key that would input '<-'.
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by mojoe 11y ago
I really like this concept -- there have been many studies on how language shapes thinking (for example, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028501... , http://www.nature.com/
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by mojoe 11y ago
The last sentence of the article is probably the most useful: "The safest bet for now is to keep an eye on the National Hurricane Center’s forecasts."
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by mojoe 11y ago
I'm in Colorado and remember the big snowstorms in 1997. There were a lot of downed power lines and trees due to the heavy, wet snow.
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El Niño reaches 'strong' intensity, will dramatically reshape world's weather(mashable.com)
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Companies generally do not publish their algorithms, unless they are filing for a patent. I came across this great blog post a while back that will give you a pretty solid foundation for NAND management: http://codecapsule.com&#x
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by mojoe 11y ago
Until very recently I wrote firmware for SSD controllers. In addition to the error correction mentioned in the article, we also used RAIN (Redundant Array of Independant NAND) as yet another data protection measure. You can read more about
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by mojoe 11y ago
From a brief perusal this looks like it could be a great resource. A suggestion for list makers: it would be awesome if there were metadata attached to these lists that would allow people to mention what aspects of the lists they found most
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by mojoe 11y ago
Our current plan is to meet at the Dark Horse on July 13. Please see the meetup page for more information. The idea right now is to meet local interesting people who read Hacker News!
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Hacker News Meetup in Boulder, CO(meetup.com)
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by mojoe 11y ago
You are probably talking specifically about the four day diet cycle referenced in this article, but I want to point out that there are already many, many studies supporting the link between calorie restriction and slow aging -- this literat
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by mojoe 11y ago
I would bet that mutated plants created via this "atomic" method are statistically much safer than GMO plants, in the sense that it's much more likely to have unintended consequences with GMO plants. For instance, when BT (Ba
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by mojoe 11y ago
The title bugs me. I don't think this story describes a standard experience working for a tech giant.
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by mojoe 11y ago
When I saw this it immediately reminded me of the "lysine contingency" from Jurassic Park, where they genetically alter the dinosaurs to be dependent on lysine supplements to prevent their ability to survive outside the park.
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Targeted DNA degradation using a CRISPR device stably carried in the host genome(nature.com)
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This talk covers the earth-imaging cube sats that comprise the basis for Planet Labs' global-sensing and analytics platform. The fact that they use modern processors and other electronics for their satellites is super interesting. It&#
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Entrepreneurship Takes Flight(ecorner.stanford.edu)
1 points by mojoe 11y ago|1 comments
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I think healthy fast food is starting to arrive -- I live in Colorado, and we've got quite a few good places (like "Mad Greens" http://www.madgreens.com/ "the Protein Bar" http://www.thep
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by mojoe 11y ago
I would really like to see a long-term study of heavy Soylent use. It would be awesome if we're getting close to an optimally healthy meal replacement, but I have some serious doubts about the stuff due to the lack of phytochemicals. V
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by mojoe 11y ago
Going the other direction (from pure software engineering to data science), a great resource I found is a book called "Think Stats": http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ . The book is available as a free PDF d
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by mojoe 11y ago
My friend and I built something similar to this a few years back, but we never found the right audience. Here's the old kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1847359812/motobox-conn... Ours c
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by mojoe 11y ago
Question for the data scientists out there: is it more straightforward to become a data scientist from a software engineering background or from a math background? Data science is a varied field, but from what I've heard a lot of the w
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by mojoe 11y ago
And by "low-level" I mean "close to the hardware" -- the comment has nothing to do with seniority :)

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