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by noam87 11y ago
> To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. (Ernest Renan)
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by noam87 11y ago
Also Kimchi! My gf and I make kimchi about once a season (in a large Chinese ceramic fermentation jar). It's a great ritual; it takes a few hours but is very enjoyable... every batch comes out unique, and the result is delicious. Or, i
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by noam87 11y ago
Interesting, I've had the opposite reaction. I find it to be about the nicest programming language to work with. I even started writing a little toy database in Julia, and find it really easy to reason about. Package management system
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by noam87 11y ago
Usually I'd agree... but I legitimately cannot access the content because the page is so broken. I actually found out what this thing is from your comment.
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by noam87 11y ago
And what happens when the US decides that Hitler and Mussolini are actually pretty great guys, and that fascism must spread through Europe whether by "persuasion or force" (1); or that a democratically elected leader must be repla
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by noam87 11y ago
My tweet just two days ago: https://twitter.com/87noam/status/706963428414455812
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by noam87 11y ago
Chicken scheme is a friendly implementation, they have a good package manager and modules repository, along with an api search tool, an active IRC, and pretty extensive documentation. It also compiles to C which is really nice. The book The
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by noam87 11y ago
Agree. I think there is one reason only why lisp/scheme are not mainstream: community. 1. Ruby + Clojurescript have prominent, opinionated community leaders who spend an immense amount of resources on proselytizing and preaching agreed
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by noam87 11y ago
> I like the audio feature here by the way, I can listen while working, pretty awesome. Yeah, great idea! I might start doing this myself for my own blog.
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by noam87 11y ago
A bold proposal indeed from Mr. Conda. It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great city, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars, all in rags and importuning e
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by noam87 11y ago
I linked to an hour long lecture from a domain expert who offers a thorough, evidence based critique of modern research practices in the health sciences. I hope you watch it, because it raises important problems in current research practice
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by noam87 11y ago
This bogus study keeps getting cited and misrepresented: > Gatorade, chewable energy cubes, organic peanut butter and power bars. All of those are junk food. Drinking a large bottle of Gatorade is exactly equivalent in sugar content to
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by noam87 11y ago
And apparently models REALLY have a thing for truck drivers.
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by noam87 11y ago
(Some of us on Linux)
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by noam87 11y ago
What sort of companies / products did you build? How did you first start? Did you sell the company, or is it a revenue generating model? How did you support yourself while building the company?
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by noam87 11y ago
I wonder... do we have the knowhow to build `logical_fallacy_bot` and deploy it to the general Internet yet?
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by noam87 11y ago
It's a shame that so many people fall for the trope of the anti-science hippie when it comes to criticism of modern farming. Believe it or not, most of us who criticize industrialized farming techniques are not tinfoil-hat antivaxers,
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by noam87 11y ago
Aside from biographies, which are plenty and mostly good, there's nothing better than being able to go to the source! All of his surviving notes are available in illustrated and annotated forms. I found them once when I was at the uni
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by noam87 11y ago
Is this Hacker News or /r/programming? Was hoping for a more informative discussion on one of my intellectual heroes. To me, Da Vinci is up there in the "alien" category along with Von Neumann... there is no field in whi
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by noam87 11y ago
The tone of that article is very confusing. What's the point he's trying to make? (honest question)
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by noam87 11y ago
> The problem with these kind of articles and releases is that for most people, $9 vs $100 isn't that big of a difference. What world do you live in? Median household income in the U.S is $51k.
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by noam87 11y ago
Have we arrived at the conclusion that the people who convinced the middle class that unions are evil did not have our best interests in mind yet, or are we gonna keep shooting ourselves in the foot? Keep shooting ourselves in the foot it i
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by noam87 11y ago
Media companies are so charitable... every day they are making it harder and harder for customers to pay for their content.
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by noam87 11y ago
My hope at least, is that this is a transitory phase. Once AI gets good enough at interpreting voice commands, handwriting, and physical gestures, there will be less and less of a need to interact with the ugly glowing screen. Hopefully wit
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by noam87 11y ago
Met my current very lovely girlfriend online (and many other perfectly lovely people, some of whom are still friends). I think the number 1 mistake people make online, which leads to disillusion, is thinking that online dating is a replacem
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by noam87 11y ago
Digital won't replace print just as the radio and TV didn't replace print (and interactive didn't replace passive, and print didn't replace the spoken word). They are wholly different ways to interact with information, e
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by noam87 11y ago
Ugh, apples today taste disgustingly sweet to me. My teeth shouldn't feel like I drank a litre of coke from eating an apple. It's sad... the saddest thing is the loss of variety. There is such an amazing variety of wild apples, be
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by noam87 11y ago
I've been wondering for years no why nobody offers sweetener-free pops. I just want something bubbly with a hint of flavor, but without the sweetness: like lemon-flavored club soda for example. I have a hard time believing there's
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by noam87 11y ago
Same. What a shame... I think I'll try to watch it this way but it's so frustrating. edit: damn, now the video just stops. not buffering (AFAICT), just... stopped. And lastly, I couldn't un-fullscreen the video. What a truly