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by noam87 9y ago
I would love to hear more about these types of companies on HN.
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by noam87 9y ago
Lately I've been doing all my personal coding in C and/or scheme (guile). It's a fun stack and I love the "timelessness" of both languages -- code examples from books written in the 80's, or old libraries, stil
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by noam87 9y ago
Any more on this subject for further reading / listening?
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by noam87 9y ago
I might be doing this treatment at some point since I failed Ipi and PD-1. -- What were the long-term side effects for you? -- Have you had neurological/memory problems since? Congrats on the success :)
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by noam87 9y ago
Edx courses are fantastic. I found them to be the most intellectually satisfying, where other sites kind of water down the same subject.
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by noam87 9y ago
> Everything that Arthur Schopenhauer wrote. Though you're probably good just skimming over anything he had to say about women or non-white people :p Even my 19th-century edition of his essays comes with a prefatory warning.
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by noam87 9y ago
Were they irrelevant? -- I see plenty doom and gloom in my history books and, hell, twitter feed. It was just a few decades ago that 80 million people died in a single war.
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by noam87 9y ago
For me it's Simpson's paradox: it throws everyone off -- it's caused (and will continue to cause) real-world damage, it's everywhere once you see it -- it's in how newspapers report science, it's in our socia
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by noam87 9y ago
Hi, I'm Regular User Steve. I use Chrome because Google told me it connects faster to the Internet or uses less data or something. Last year someone gave me a virus with Gmail so this time around I got a Mac because the guy at the stor
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by noam87 9y ago
Agree with all your points... I really hope these are addressed because Julia would actually make a fantastic general-purpose language. I really wish there was something like a high-performance Elixir out there... which is basically lisp wi
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by noam87 9y ago
um some parts are more high-level than others, but a lot would be gibberish. Familiarity with the contents of e.g "Molecular Biology Of The Cell" would greatly increase your experience. -- That book is big and exhaustive (and expe
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by noam87 9y ago
(on my phone right now) Hasn't this been known for a while now? (with COX-2 NSAIDs specifically, like Advil). Even the standard book "The Biology Of Cancer" (2014) mentions it in passing in one of the later chapters. I believ
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by noam87 9y ago
If I understand this correctly, does it not imply that there is a class of statements/ideas which Penrose (or I) can deduce, but which cannot be algorithmically proved? - If so my next question is: what is an example of such a statemen
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by noam87 9y ago
Wow that's awful.
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by noam87 9y ago
Now repeat this for every article about anything that requires the minutest amount of expertise, and you have the nth reason why the general public is so dangerously misinformed about... well, everything . I've recently been enjoying
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by noam87 9y ago
Dropbox is just one of the best examples out there of everything that makes a software product solid: do one thing, do it well, don't bother the user, and be profitable. * It 100% "just works" on all my devices (Mac, Linux,
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by noam87 9y ago
This company has to be a front for something; there has to be more to this story... I refuse to believe this is real. $120 million raised!
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by noam87 9y ago
What makes you think that about Julia?
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by noam87 9y ago
This is why I love used books. My copy of Schopenhauer's collected essays has gone through 4 owners since 1914, all 4 of whom have signed and dated the front cover, all of 4 of whom have marked and underlined at different spots (includ
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by noam87 9y ago
In a similar vein: "Probability Through Problems": https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-0-387-21659... I love this book. What's the best way to learn a mathematical field? To discover it your
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by noam87 9y ago
No way those numbers are right. At least not in Toronto. I'm a back end dev with under 5 years experience and you couldn't get me to set the clock on your microwave for $53k.
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by noam87 9y ago
Honestly, I learned to code with vim, and it never struck me as particularly complicated. The commands follow a pretty consistent logic... the defaults aren't great but it took me one google search to find out what a vimrc file is. ema
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by noam87 9y ago
Is this not fair grounds for mistrial? (honest question)
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by noam87 9y ago
I too would love to read about a "hybrid" solution such as this (esp. muistakes made between iterations).
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by noam87 9y ago
Interesting puzzle: one can leave out one letter, then another, and measure at what rate does understandability decrease for people (until eventually it's complete gibberish). Also, given a large enough audience, one could try differen
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by noam87 10y ago
> The r/videos subreddit has a rule against videos of fights/assault. Specifically against videos of police brutality / misconduct... which coincidentally came into effect around the time a police officer joined as moderat
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by noam87 10y ago
Yeah, I hope it won't rely solely on its own cloud service for backup for those reasons. I like my hardware products to remain functional even if the company goes under.
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by noam87 10y ago
Same here. Tablet screens hurt my brain, and I would love a product like this for annotating papers / articles / textbooks. There's reMarkable coming out later this year, targeted for a more general audience ( https:/&#x
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by noam87 10y ago
You know how these articles never end? "So I've decided to give away all my riches to the less fortunate and go back to scraping by for a living like everyone else." Give me a break. Don't like managing your wealth? Just
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by noam87 10y ago
I've been reading Von Neumann's "Theory Of Self-Reproducing Automata" (freely available on Internet Archive and very much worth it!) and he constantly references and credits Turing. Nor have I ever heard anyone claim Tur

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