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by mojoe 9y ago
I use Jinja2 to template all my static sites -- it helps me host compellingsciencefiction.com straight from AWS S3 very, very cheaply.
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by mojoe 9y ago
Bringing back metals to earth is fantastic, but the real prize is manufacturing in space itself -- less hauling of goods at high prices out of our huge gravity well.
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Out of the 100 or so data scientists in my division, I know of less than 5 people who still occasionally use SAS. It's all either (decreasingly) R or (increasingly) Python. edit: scala with spark is increasing in use as well.
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R is good for one-off analysis problems, but is really bad for large distributed production systems. My team moved a large internal analysis application from R to Python because Python works well for both statisticians and software engineer
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What happens to animals in the vacuum of space?(joeste.ch)
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Building an email newsletter: easy, fun, cheap(joeste.ch)
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Ask HN: Remote work for my pregnant wife?
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“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” [pdf](staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
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by mojoe 9y ago
Right now the algorithm basically looks at the most upvoted items on HN in the last 24 hours, and then searches those articles for certain STEM related keywords. Please feel free to reply to any of the emails with suggestions/questions
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Show HN: News Refinery, a daily newsletter(refinery.news)
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I believe this concept was where the term "meme" came from (coined by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene )
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The Enchiridion by Epictetus (and basically every other book on stoic philosophy). http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html My own opinion is that a lot of mental toughness can be developed simply by realizing w
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The author mentions that ebikes in China run around $500. Has anyone here tried importing one of those models?
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I wonder how much temporal awareness a greenland shark has. Does it have any inkling of how long it has lived? Apparently some sharks can be trained: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/blogs/comments/target_train...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
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I watched the video and read some background, basically my understanding is that the entire series of events went like this, at a high level: The guy in the hotel room had been showing someone his pellet gun. Someone saw this through the ho
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I think you're on to something. Probably spark some kind of mania.
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Nice, thanks! Interestingly, I could only see the grid pattern on Bikini and Enyu.
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Consciously avoiding FOMO is something I also try to do. Takes a certain amount of mental discipline, but reduces stress significantly (for me, at least).
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10 Issues of Compelling Science Fiction: A Retrospective(compellingsciencefiction.com)
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Compelling Science Fiction issue 9(compellingsciencefiction.com)
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There are pretty huge barriers to open sourcing work in certain large companies.
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Cassini has completed its mission at Saturn. As predicted, the spacecraft lost contact with Earth Sept. 15 at 4:55 a.m. PDT (7:55 a.m. EDT): https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cas...
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Cassini's Grand Tour(nationalgeographic.com)
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The analogy works even deeper -- I've seen articles talking about how large amounts of lane changing actually slows traffic overall.
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I feel like there's some cognitive dissonance surrounding hedge funds in popular culture -- on the one hand you have people saying that any outsized short-term gains seen by hedge funds are the result of some selection/survivorshi
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This isn't really interesting unless we know the absolute value of all the money in circulation in each system.
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The Setting of the Sun(compellingsciencefiction.com)
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Google Keep -- when I think of something that needs done, I write it down and set a reminder for the next available non-work time.
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A brief review of “Walkaway: A Novel”(compellingsciencefiction.com)
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