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by rms 16y ago
One tool I wish I would have known about in college is Anki. Spaced repetition lets you memorize stuff a lot faster than flashcards. http://ichi2.net/anki/
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by rms 16y ago
Gave you $8 and reblogged. http://www.thinkgene.com/openpcr-dna-amplification-for-anyon... Btw, if anyone reading this wants to upgrade their OpenPCR setup with a nice PCR hood, I have a beautiful one for sale for $1500.
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by rms 16y ago
Google Docs is HIPAA compliant?
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by rms 16y ago
Yeah, I really wish PG would just turn New Mogul back on. It was really becoming something amazing.
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by rms 16y ago
Verizon FIOS is slowly getting to more and more of Pittsburgh... it's available 3 blocks from where I live. :/
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by rms 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
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by rms 16y ago
I give more credit to Nate Silver's lawyer than that.
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FiveThirtyEight to Partner with New York Times(fivethirtyeight.com)
47 points by rms 16y ago|9 comments
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by rms 16y ago
Agreed.
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Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)(lesswrong.com)
94 points by rms 16y ago|18 comments
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by rms 16y ago
From my experience working at US Airways, they will never buy whatever it is you are building, even though their business is crippled by the 70's era software that the entire operation depends on. Do you have any background or connections i
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by rms 16y ago
Yes, preventing BP from doing business in the USA would be a corporate death penalty.
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by rms 16y ago
The corporate death penalty exists and it is a shame that it is never practiced. See the case of multiple time convicted felon and statistical mass murderer Pfizer, where the law mandated a corporate death penalty, but the government hacked
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by rms 16y ago
Great story. If you like this, you may like Eliezer's Harry Potter fan fiction! http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
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by rms 16y ago
For fans of Tao, his Google Buzz is worth following. http://www.google.com/profiles/114134834346472219368
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by rms 16y ago
My favorite example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvVAV09-dQ8
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by rms 16y ago
Well that was a great investment, right? What is it worth now?
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by rms 16y ago
Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal :(
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by rms 16y ago
When I worked at Radioshack, I had access to the database of receipts with the credit card information stored on them.
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by rms 16y ago
Definitely. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/How_To_Actually_Change_Your_M...
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by rms 16y ago
PG: as a first category for Hacker News, I suggest meetups. It's been a while since there has been a Pittsburgh Hacker News meetup. Anyone from Pittsburgh reading this that may be potentially interested in a meetup should comment here or em
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by rms 16y ago
The easiest arbitrage opportunities are always illegal...
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by rms 16y ago
They don't like doing their own packaging -- head shops aren't exactly apothecaries.
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by rms 16y ago
Or http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5981/958
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by rms 16y ago
The second most surreal thing that happened to me at the SIAI house (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362364 ) was finding the stash of Ray Kurzweil drink mix in the pantry. The back of the package said that the drink is best enjoy
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by rms 16y ago
William Shatner is playing the dad? This show is actually going to work.
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by rms 16y ago
Are you self-aware yet? If not, you should come back and stay longer. Though someone else may be sleeping in the Chinese room (really, it's more of a Chinese closet) now.
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by rms 16y ago
I think my answer here answers your question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363449 Usually the way of gauging process is that people come up with specific goals and then either meet those goals or don't meet them. I didn't have a w
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by rms 16y ago
On Less Wrong and at the SIAI house, we quickly learn to stop saying certain or "100%". Do you think a Singularity within the next 50 years is 95% likely? 80% likely? Also, for certain definitions of inevitable, extinction is inevitable w
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by rms 16y ago
Sure. I may not have been the typical visitor, but I'm not sure that there is a Typical Visiting Fellow. I went there with low expectations of actually accomplishing anything. I'm not yet at the point where I can write the sort of hardcore

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