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by nategri 9y ago
Had precisely the same experience except it was for an Apple II project instead of NES emulation. Turned me into one of those a-holes who think everyone should start with assembly if they want to learn C.
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by nategri 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that's it just running up against a wall :) But your point still stands! Part of the joy of this project has been interacting with and observing a biological system that for all intents and purposes behaves like it
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The weights on the neural connections are fixed, so it probably has no capacity for learning in the way that you're thinking. However, this might actually be the case in the biological worm. This organism is simple enough that the only
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by nategri 9y ago
Author here. Thanks for all the awesome feedback, it's been a wonderful day :) For a 1 minute clip showing nematoduino's reaction to nose touch stimulation, with a comparison to a biological worm, check out this YouTube video I ju
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Show HN: Nematoduino – Implementing a Worm on the Arduino UNO(github.com)
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by nategri 9y ago
I remember when people on digg would ceaselessly hate on twitter back in 2008, and now here I am on HN in 2017, ceaselessly hating on Snapchat.
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by nategri 9y ago
That's actually a standard joke in fusion research: "Always 20 years away." Although it looks like they're updating their model to be more accurate, as now it appears to be "Always 30 years away."
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by nategri 9y ago
Collecting and writing code for Apple II computers. More recently: 3D printing, and I'm just starting my first robotics project.
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by nategri 9y ago
Knew this wasn't for me when he had to introduce what a derivative was with a weird metaphor. I like this approach to teaching things (it's Feynman-y) but half the time I end up hung up on trying to understand a particular author&
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by nategri 9y ago
Terrence McKenna is my absolute favorite new age(ish) nonsense spouter. And I mean this sincerely. His ideas have a beauty to them.
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by nategri 9y ago
I badly want to do this, but my car doesn't have a built-in hotspot and I can already tell tethering it to my phone every time will be more trouble than its worth.
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by nategri 9y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Jam packed with ideas crucial to the next 100-150 years. I reference these the way more insufferable people reference Ayn Rand.
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by nategri 9y ago
>Which they violated whenever the script required it :-) Pretty sure it only ever came up when it was being violated. A rule literally made to be broken, lol.
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by nategri 9y ago
PhD physicist here. Struggled through the 'normal' public education math program, and didn't get good traction on stuff until college when my instructors starting focusing on more 'evidence based' math and physics.
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by nategri 9y ago
My PhD was in a sister field to the one these researchers are in (we split when they built terrestrial particle accelerators, while we kept looking at the natural ones in the sky). This is tongue in cheek stuff. The way one might speak to a
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by nategri 9y ago
>"Most of well-known particles are composite of quarks" And that's why they're boring. At this point, bring me hints of supersymmetry or bring me pillows.
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by nategri 9y ago
composite particle... yawn
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by nategri 9y ago
Calling all HN physics cranks.
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by nategri 9y ago
"You don't own space, naysa does"
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Um
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by nategri 9y ago
Linguistic prescriptivism is bad, mmmmmkay
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by nategri 9y ago
A lot of this cheap stuff is high-margin "weaponized food" that's had thousands of man-hours thrown at it to make it addictive. Capitalism is optimizing for the wrong parameter, just like it does in just about every other sit
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by nategri 9y ago
1.) Create a dichotomy 2.) Say physics is to blame for skewing the dichotomy one way 3.) Say most physicists pursue goals on the opposite side of the dichotomy Gotcha.
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by nategri 9y ago
You're confusing language with its representation (orthography)
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by nategri 9y ago
"Dongles, Dongles Everywhere" Straw men, straw men everywhere!
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by nategri 9y ago
Why not simply make guacamole in a cement mixer?
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by nategri 9y ago
Unusual, yes, but half a meg wouldn't exactly be an exotic amount of RAM for a 1980s 8-bit.
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by nategri 9y ago
Extending the concept of 'front' and 'back' to a vertical pile of hotdogs is a separate, but relevant, problem.
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This is probably the best take I've seen on the issue. Well put.
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by nategri 9y ago
Started with a Stallman-esque rant I could get down with and then ended in a very un-Stallman-esque and opaque ad. :(

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