mrpsbrk

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by mrpsbrk 15y ago
nevertheless, Einsten didn't pause much for advanced Maths at his "wonder year", and seem to have given the subject more thought only when older...
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by mrpsbrk 15y ago
Compare with http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771.full another post at HN at around the same time, about the importance of stupidity in science. Two very different conceptions of dumb. I would also like to stress that it is not r
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Man, judging by such mythical stuff as the "Courrier Tablet", that cool "Surface" whathchaisit, and a host of other theoretical stuff i hear all the time, i would venture, as weird as it might sound, Microsoft Research...
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
This i would say lends loads of support to the "RNA world" hypothesis (that says RNA replication is the basic mechanism of life and DNA is just like storage of sorts, like RNA=RAM, DNA=HD)...
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Yeah, totally, where exactly does the energy flow chain lies there is somewhat beyond me!
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
No, actually, i've read dozens of explanations, i went metalinguistic and read discussions about discussions of monads, and this guy is totally correct, the ONE SINGLE most important thing to know about a monad, it would seem, is that you a
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
>> I was actually hoping you would expand more on "maybe we wouldn't really like it". I just meant that the whole culture, you know, the boom-and-sell and become a millionaire, that this just isn't the best thing in the world. That
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Man, living in Brazil i can attest to you that there are plenty of hackers around, but no nasdaq. Maybe it can't be done, and maybe we wouldn't really like it if we got it. In Raghuram Rajam's book (Fault Lines) there is something about h
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Hi. I am a designer that is trying without too much zeal to learn to program. Here go some advice, no idea whether it helps. First, i believe that "looking great" and "being good user experience" are actually very, very different things. De
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Design contests are evil. Why so: 1) It takes the design itself to be a matter of taste. Obviously taste is important, but to design based on taste means designing without knowing anything about your company. 2) People entering the contest
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
More than anything, i would say: read. Reading good stuff will subliminally creep into what you write (also known as the secret to originality is bad memory). There is simply no time available to read the books that are so good that you sho
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Maybe it should shrink as you realize better and more concise ways to say the same thing ;-)
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
I have this kinda particular interpretation that "the best science is the one that makes fewer assumptions", or that, at least, is better equipped to access and deal with its own assumptions. In that vein, what bothers me about Kurzweil is
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Of course, the problem is not to know which books you must read, there are aplenty o' those, but how to stop reading books that are not must reads.
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
I used to think that any kind of data management in FB-like site would boil down to a friend list. I even had dozens of lists in orkut back when i gave lots of energy to that site, but it turns out lists are weirdly inappropriate to this ki
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by mrpsbrk 16y ago
Orkut in Brazil used to be just as impossible to displace as FB, and it's in the process of being displaced. So it can be done. Come to think of it, the same happened to ICQ over MSN, and in fact the very very old out there might see Usenet