patkai

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by patkai 9y ago
Already four years ago they ran experiments [1] on how to program your mood. They built an API to your emotions, and they started selling it, without you knowing it. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/tech
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by patkai 9y ago
I wrote my MSc thesis on Genetic Algorithms in 1998 and I've been waiting for the time when they become popular. There is a lot of discussion going on about the need for "explainable models" and I'm quite surprised that
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by patkai 9y ago
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a good friend of Fidel, his books must be available in bookshops.
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by patkai 9y ago
I remember those quite dark times in Hungary, I was a small boy in school and one couldn't travel without complicated paperwork and the option of refusals to the West - and we got permission to buy foreign money only once per three yea
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by patkai 9y ago
"Some of the best programmers I have known have been philosophers and lit majors" Or musicians like Rich Hickey. Without a strong sense of aesthetics you can't build good software, that's where the "over-engineered&
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by patkai 9y ago
I watched several of his YouTube videos. I wish I had a colleague, a boss, a mentor, a neighbour or a grandpa like him. May he find peace and satisfaction in the thought in his old age that he could be so humane, inspiring and loveable in a
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by patkai 9y ago
"Xanadu is a story of building castles in the air for thirty years" You mean the name "Xanadu" is perfectly fitting :)
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by patkai 9y ago
> "there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team" That took some time for me to sink in. I can fully understand the aversion towards dedicated teams á la Jobs, but we are talking about an OS that is used keenly b
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by patkai 9y ago
"15 inches" - none of the photos I've seen show more than 15 mm.
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by patkai 9y ago
One trick I discovered last year is that whenever I feel like procrastinating I reach for my Kindle Oasis. It sucks much less energy than HN or browsing or aimless computer work.
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> "Ethicalness", however, nobody seems to care about measuring. I would add that it is not entirely their job. After all, all the stakeholders have a primary goal, the infrastructure engineer will maximise infrastructure metric
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by patkai 9y ago
https://wego.here.com
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by patkai 9y ago
We need an alternative to free content on the web. I often read Nautilus and never pay them anything, it's wrong. Any SV-based disruptors interested in this? These contributors are special, they contribute a lot to society and they are
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by patkai 9y ago
One of those paradoxical situations when something _really_ needs to be regulated but can't be regulated. E.g. how do you know what data set is the result of an algorithm (a dubious consolidation step?), or how do you regulate algorith
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by patkai 9y ago
Is there a way to vote this as the funniest HN submission of the year? I started laughing and when I thought "what will happen when the vague concept of the Internet-of-Things becomes a reality" I can't stop. I always loved S
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by patkai 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Estonia, Estonians and during my many visits I admired how quickly they transformed their small but not insignificant country to an innovative model nation. I hope they can stop brain drain and our Estonian colleagues
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by patkai 9y ago
Code as data is such a big deal that - whatever you say - I will never ever understand why we don't all do Lisps.
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by patkai 9y ago
You are right that "the impact factor of a journal is meaningful and provides a simple/preliminary heuristic for measuring up _some_ aspects of a paper published in it" - but this is not what you wrote. 1. Imre Lakatos and ma
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by patkai 9y ago
Good question! The scientific method does not include references to "impact factor" :)
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by patkai 9y ago
The only solution is to own your company, otherwise an impersonal set of shareholders own you. The IPO removes moral degrees of freedom. Everyone, build SMEs!
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by patkai 9y ago
"Eastern European Jews" should be more like "motivated, liberal, hardworking and a terrific high school identifying talent early". There is a related thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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by patkai 9y ago
You are probably right, but I couldn't find a better example of a benevolent dictator - like Linus - more or less _sourcing_ the building of the cathedral from the bazaar with a strong grip on the process. But I know that analogies sho
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by patkai 9y ago
When I read Cathedral and the bazaar I was genuinely surprised that it is not entitled "the cathedral _with_ a bazaar". Both have a role, e.g. the Linux kernel is a cathedral while GNU software is the bazaar - neither of them woul
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by patkai 9y ago
Reading George Polya's books might be a way of learning this technique. At least they explain very well the method of thinking about math.
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by patkai 9y ago
This question is not just worth understanding in itself but it would be essential to ask at many levels, as science education is becoming the key to the survival of humanity. As a Hungarian who left the country 20 years ago I have been fasc
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I would add Eugene Wigner, also Nobel laureate.
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by patkai 9y ago
It's interesting that we tend to ask for advice from rich people. Once I've heard a very annoyed George Soros saying in an interview - CNN or similar - that "you got me here not because I know stuff but because I'm rich&
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He probably wasn't at all. https://www.quora.com/Was-Einstein-a-fake-and-a-plagiarist
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And there goes integrity. It applies to many other situations, where taking investment, accepting help, or committing to excessive mortgage makes you lose your integrity - you simply won't be able to afford it. One of the many down sid
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by patkai 9y ago
Is there a good writeup on "WSDL: Lessons learned", with some depth?

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