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by pontus 6y ago
Another thing I've always wanted to do if I was financially independent is to pick a really important problem without any obvious incremental solution and work on it. Very unlikely to solve it, but it was be very satisfying to work on
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by pontus 6y ago
Go back to school and either get another degree or just take classes that you find interesting. That's something I've always wanted to do if I was in your position. Just learn for the sake of learning without any external pressure
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by pontus 6y ago
I think that even if her work was spot on, Google has every right to have her retract her research. You can say that this is hypocritical of Google, which I actually don't really agree with. Even if we take it as fact that she was some
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Ray Dalio is giving $100 for you to donate to charity(twitter.com)
2 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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by pontus 6y ago
I think this is actually pretty spot on. The same, ironically, goes for comments that espouse a view that's contrarian against the already contrarian HN perspective. I say ironically because in many ways HN prides itself with being con
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by pontus 6y ago
That may be, but my impression is not that the comments are downvoted because they're not funny, but rather because they attempt to be funny. In other words, the content of the comment could be really insightful, but if it's phras
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by pontus 6y ago
It's hard to come up with something funny to say on the spot, but thanks for sort of making my point.
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Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?
24 points by pontus 6y ago|42 comments
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by pontus 6y ago
This is really exciting news for mice! Before long they'll probably outlive humans. For all those naysayers out there, you're thinking linearly when you should really be thinking exponentially. I suspect that the first mouse to re
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by pontus 6y ago
One of the contributing factors here is that many places outside FAANG that hire programmers are not particularly profitable nor do they envision any exponential growth in their future. As such, they can't afford to pay their programme
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Uber Completes Acquisition of Postmates(techcrunch.com)
4 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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How Do Proteins Fold? (DeepMind)(economist.com)
2 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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Book Pressure Using Active and Passive Orders(mindbowling.wordpress.com)
1 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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by pontus 6y ago
Love the password: "INFECTEDIKNOWWHATIAMDOING"
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by pontus 6y ago
I was very tempted to leave a tangentially related comment here, but decided to stay on topic. One of the things I like about HN's system is how simple and transparent it is. I don't have to worry about how some algorithm is going
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by pontus 6y ago
This is good! The usual pushback of saying that we should hire the best person for the job and that enforcing quotas like this hinders a company from performing optimally, is too simplistic. There are going to be plenty of people who are qu
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by pontus 6y ago
Yes and no. If I wanted to start a social network today, it would not be sufficient to just clone Facebook because the space is already so saturated (it's zero-sum). I would have to have something very novel. If, however, I wanted to s
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by pontus 6y ago
I really appreciate the message in this article. I think another way to partition the world is into zero-sum and non-zero sum situations. In non-zero sum situations it's more important to be correct than novel, but in zero-sum situatio
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by pontus 6y ago
If anything, I think the example of medical equipment sounds more like a good idea with poor execution.
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by pontus 6y ago
I think this is a good framework to think about this. Thanks for sharing!
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by pontus 6y ago
I found this super useful. It has a bit more suggestions than the article. https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
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by pontus 6y ago
I would sort of agree. I think that the tenure process creates a lot of weird incentives. That being said, I think another part of the system that is at least as important to fix is admissions. Right now we're admitting people to PhD p
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by pontus 6y ago
More so because grad students receive grants that cover their tuition and some basic salary. In other words, unlike undergraduate students, graduate students actually costs money.
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by pontus 6y ago
Being a Swede, I normally feel pretty proud of the approaches we take to problems, but man did they screw this one up.
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by pontus 6y ago
I would say that the exception is grad school which is much more meritocratic than undergraduate admissions.
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by pontus 6y ago
"When you're junior, coachability is what gets you hired. How quickly can we train you to be effective? When you're medium, technical chops get you hired. Can you do useful work right now and quickly fill gaps in knowledge? W
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by pontus 6y ago
I have bought a few items off of wish, and each time I have been astounded at the crap I got. I mean, it was dirt cheap so I don't know what I was expecting. Honestly surprised that the business is still going, let alone going public.
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by pontus 6y ago
I think this approach is a bit disingenuous. Her claim is that since we can't directly observe black hole evaporation, we can't know which mathematical model is "correct" in describing the phenomenon and that we're
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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom?(lesswrong.com)
2 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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by pontus 6y ago
It has tons of great interactive widgets that you can play around with to gain some intuition around things like time dilation, length contraction, simultaneity etc.

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