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by pieterk 6y ago
are you swiping left/right over the “home indicator” at the bottom of the screen? this is an interaction that not many people know about, but it is so much faster than swiping up, and then choosing the right app.
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by pieterk 6y ago
https://archive.org/details/lettersofmozarth000861mbp
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by pieterk 7y ago
If you do this with a dynamically loaded library that you write to during execution, can C become a dynamic language?
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by pieterk 7y ago
bingo. facebook needs to build the next Tik Tok or they’ll lose
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by pieterk 7y ago
If anyone is interested in how this new material is made: it’s literally grown from scratch. Imagine a 3D printer at atom scale. But because the scale is so small, the nozzle has to deposit a gas. The magic is in making the individual gas m
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by pieterk 7y ago
The actual difference here is the encoding, into a representation of a dataset annotated by thousands of people. Sounds like a basis of knowledge or even understanding. I bet this scales way better than any other method on large datasets
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by pieterk 7y ago
So many ideas! Where’s the Mechanical Engineers at? Coca-Cola or Pepsi better see this.
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by pieterk 7y ago
Would it be possible to advance the POV up as the game goes on? Should be cool to see other planets etc etc.
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by pieterk 7y ago
So sad that this has to be a museum piece. The bottles could also double as water storage and a heating system. Or be plastic yet filled with sand or something. Wonder how much more expensive these would be to manufacture. Making no waste i
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Advanced Extremely High Frequency(lockheedmartin.com)
1 points by pieterk 7y ago|0 comments
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by pieterk 7y ago
Had to create a throwaway for that!?
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by pieterk 7y ago
Aren’t these frequencies merely defined by the rate of chemical reactions that occur between neurons (eg. how fast action potentials get generated and travel)? If that’s true, it seems that this study points in the direction that bees and p
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by pieterk 7y ago
Makes a lot of sense, an infectious can-do attitude as it may. https://www.reddit.com/r/redneckengineering/top/?t=all
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by pieterk 7y ago
Slides are here btw: https://media.nips.cc/Conferences/2013/nips-dec2013-pearl-ba...
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by pieterk 7y ago
Lots of thoughts already on this page, hard to focus a discussion but I'll try to get to the essence. The mnemonic medium tool is fantastic, it forces our brain to keep an idea current; we tend to naturally forget stuff if it isn'
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by pieterk 7y ago
Another great service would be one to advertise my products on or disseminate ideas with. To like minded, or just interested people. I’d pay you a monthly service and will keep up my inventory. Customers would build up a profile of things t
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by pieterk 7y ago
Great point! I think ISPs are fine services, they can host and serve websites like they’ve always done. I pay for my service, you pay for yours, we can connect, it balances out. If you decide to do something that adds value for the both of
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by pieterk 7y ago
There’s a massive power struggle indeed, but if you look who’s really behind those organizations, you’ll see people just like you and me, imperfect minds in funky bodies that came from the same place we all once did. World leaders and CEOs
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by pieterk 7y ago
I love how you phrased that! I’m also tired of what’s going on. These corporations allow groups of people to compete for our attention just like individuals. Some giants we created are now getting in our way so much that people are starting
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by pieterk 7y ago
I’m so sorry to hear you have such a dark outlook. I totally agree, those companies are not about the consumer anymore, but that’s fine. That’s their problem. I see computers and the internet as an extension of ourselves, and so they still
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by pieterk 7y ago
When will we realize that adwords and everything it inspired was a wrong turn for the internet? I’d much rather pay a monthly fee to get the services I want. I understand that Google and Facebook have gone too far down this path, and they w
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by pieterk 7y ago
User retention? ;) Color me interested! There’s so many layers to measure: from natural language understanding to pagerank-style relevance ordering, filtering duplicates to presenting the different permanences of content (breaking news vs b
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by pieterk 7y ago
For Google’s current product, yes. What if they would start to offer a paid ‘utility’ search that is both transparent and regulated, and part of the service fee would go to fighting adversaries?
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by pieterk 7y ago
The competition is around serving the most relevant monetizable information. Google’s search quality for static content is arguably decreasing, while that kind of Search is a service I would personally like to pay for. If Google were to “sp
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by pieterk 7y ago
Somebody will have to make a guess where to draw the first line, and we’ll have to iterate. People seem to think the first guess is upon the House: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079174
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by pieterk 7y ago
You can enable this through the Accessibility settings. It makes sense to be the default but I’m glad they made this configurable.
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by pieterk 7y ago
Absolutely amazing perspective. A fun dive into the fundamentals of life (DNA, Epigenetics), computing (Turing, Von Neumann), and quantum biology. Couldn’t help but think of SICP’s eval/apply and the dual nature of code and data.
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by pieterk 7y ago
Fascinating explanation of neurons by Prof. Eric Lander, part of OpenCourseWare published Introduction to Biology https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introduction-to-bi...
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Action Potential Mechanism(ocw.mit.edu)
2 points by pieterk 7y ago|1 comments
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by pieterk 7y ago
Thanks for replying. Don't get me wrong, money is a great representation of time, I said it's just not equivalent. The article points out what happens if you put a monetary value on it. In this case perverting the relationship bet

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