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by pseud0r 10y ago
In 1915 Nikola Tesla wrote in the New York Times "Some day there will be, say, six great wireless telephone stations in a world system connecting all the inhabitants on this earth to one another, not only by voice, but by sight. It&#x2
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by pseud0r 10y ago
Sad day. I think Bret Victor is right in that Seymour Papert's ideas are not useful only in teaching children about computers. This essay inspired by Mindstorms is a great read http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming
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by pseud0r 10y ago
Yeah, direct manipulation of the program in real time. The issue with programming is often that programs tend not do work exactly how we think they work, so we have to reverse engineer/debug them to find out how they work and then chan
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by pseud0r 10y ago
There's a reason why people draw in photoshop instead of typing the values of pixels in an array. I think the biggest problem with textual programming isn't the text per se, but that text is used as the underlying format. I'd
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by pseud0r 10y ago
That's just because you lack the tools to efficiently create new DSLs
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by pseud0r 10y ago
Visual programming is really superset of textual programming. Is basically GUIs vs command lines. These day most people use a GUI such as Windows, Mac OS X or X Windows rather than using DOS or a pure Linux command line. The issue is that c
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by pseud0r 10y ago
Assuming development continues as today we should have the first (synaptic level) human connectome ready around 2035. Should be interesting.
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by pseud0r 11y ago
Sounds like maybe this could be used for deep-learning networks to learn what to pay attention to. The memorable regions should be the salient or important regions in the image. Basically the more you are paying attention, the more memorabl
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by pseud0r 11y ago
With an Aeropress and a coffee grinder you can make much better tasting coffe, much cheaper, and almost as fast.
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by pseud0r 11y ago
For anyone interested in why we age and what research needs to be done to cure it, I'd recommend this article http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v78/pdf/bcm_10... The most interesting par
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by pseud0r 12y ago
aging = rate of damage / rate of repair Some damage is intrinsic, caused by free radicals, wrongly transcribed DNA, misfolded proteins etc. Some damage is caused by external factors like sunlight (skin damage), sugar, smoking, pollutio
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by pseud0r 12y ago
Sugar can increase aging, see for example this for starts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product
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by pseud0r 12y ago
The sugar is causing the damage. Some studies also show some types of fruit juice being damaging, filtered juice being less healthy than unfiltered ones for example. One quote from Wikipedia on the issue "The total state of oxidative a
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Thinking Outside the Loop(podcasts.thoughtbot.com)
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by pseud0r 12y ago
These kind of things would be really great for science labs also. Let say you're doing some medical research, growing some cell cultures and you add some compounds to the cell cultures to see what happens. Then something weird happened
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by pseud0r 12y ago
I've found I can access lucid dream-like states of mind when meditating on LSD, including visualizing algorithms. I also feel more focused and awake in a sense, on LSD, compared to a lucid dream, but maybe that's just me. I haven&
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by pseud0r 12y ago
Actually most individual sentences aren't all that bad, it's more that the overall tone of the article seeks to portray bitcoin as something bad, though it does funnily enough seem to be somewhat pro-dogecoin. Thanks for letting m
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by pseud0r 12y ago
I find the Dunning-Kruger effect article on rational wiki rather ironic. Many of the articles on that wiki is written by people with only rudimentary knowledge of the topic that they're writing about, yet the authors claim to be expert
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by pseud0r 12y ago
The following is presented as indisputable facts in the article: Bitcoin is a scam Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme There is zero chance that bitcoin will ever be mainstream Bitcoin does not have a single advantage over fiat currency Bitcoin will
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by pseud0r 13y ago
The lawn mower has a private key that is uses to sign messages with. There are several solutions to the problem of verifying whether or not it's a lawn mower. One solution is to use a reputation system, you see others have borrowed tha