neilshevlin

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MtGox rehabilitation plan open for voting [pdf](mtgox.com)
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by neilshevlin 5y ago
I took one of his twitter polls where he asked a mathematical question. And the little Nasim shouting 'imbecile' worked in perfect symbiosis with the little Kahneman to engage System 2 and think about my answer.
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by neilshevlin 5y ago
There have been only a few things I have done with frequency in my life. Playing musical instruments in one of them. I have never been deliberate in practice. I have never sat down and made a schedule to practice playing the guitar or piano
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by neilshevlin 5y ago
It's definitely a tricky issue. While we do need natural resources to support a transition to renewables, the mining industry is comically slow to move on anything. Fortran might still be considered cutting edge to some companies. This
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
Morrowind: Dense, lot's of lore and immersion. More open, and less guided. I think at this time the cult of linear narrative was in it's infancy. And so you could kind of do more of what you wanted in Morrowind. Oblivion: Brillian
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
Brainstorming itself might be over-generalised or not fit for the individual in all cases. But Osborne was really focusing on methodical approaches to creativity. Which is something we don't know enough about. But my thoughts on this h
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
I've always had a soft spot for Venus. The floating city idea is not my favourite, perhaps for research there could be applications. A monumental breakthrough in carbon sequestration, in method and cost might do it for Venus though. B
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
We ran a summer camp program for college students for several years. It started with 40 college students and each year we started adding more people. What was interesting was that each year believed that it's group size was perfect, an
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
On a good note, getting access to really high quality Earth observation data is really good for geophysics and geoscience research.
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Ask HN: Choosing between 0.01 or 0.0001 percent success
1 points by neilshevlin 6y ago|2 comments
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
Not sure how immediately effective this is. But interest seems to prove there is a hugely underserved community of people with ADHD who could probably benefit from software tools to help deal with executive function deficits. But the best p
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
For the technical subjects, I haven't managed find a program more comprehensive as brilliant.org. It covers a great deal of the technical subjects to perhaps most of the undergraduate level of understanding. I then supplement a course
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
I'm particularly excited that the author mentioned manufacturing in space. I can imagine a future where purchasing power is greater in space than in some countries on Earth. Which was often the cause of earth based risky emigration. I
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
Seems to back up. Most services working outside of incognito
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
I fell in love with this straight away. I'd love to be able to add my whole library tho.
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Ask HN: What would we do, if we figured out asteroid mining
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Open Source Reading Lists(docs.google.com)
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by neilshevlin 6y ago
Please feel free to add in any topics that interest you and you're competent in. You could be as specific or as general as you like. There are some examples on the google doc. But you could have something like, Introduction to philosop
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Building Submarines(shevlin.substack.com)
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Ask HN: Rapid Hardware Prototyping
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Ask HN: Examples of young people who did hard things?
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Ask HN: How to build a 'full stack' workshop/laboratory?
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Ask HN: The most impressive non-academic achievement?
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Ask HN: What should a college student do in the place of a cancelled internship
1 points by neilshevlin 6y ago|1 comments