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by sbe 16y ago
It depends on where your interests lie. Math is all around us and is involved in most everything we do, so any subject will work. When was the last time something made you stop and think "that's cool--how does it work?" What was it and wh
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by sbe 16y ago
Find a problem that piques your interest, then learn the math that's relevant to the problem. You can choose a problem from most any subject, like math, physics, or economics. Having a problem that piques your interest--something to work t
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Vote for the best idea to improve global health. Or submit your own.(bodyshockthefuture.org)
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Ask HN: Login under emacs/w3m; Post request without content-length
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by sbe 16y ago
Food Recommendation Engine Create a "Taste Genome" comparable to Pandora's "Music Genome" and let people select which foods they like, then recommend foods with similar taste profiles. (foodgenome.com appears to be an abandoned attempt at
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by sbe 16y ago
I believe humans will eventually be able to live forever. Why? I believe our knowledge of biological systems will advance to the point that they can be accurately simulated on a computer within 10-15 years. That will greatly reduce the ti
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by sbe 16y ago
iTex. -- Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound." -- Source: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/2153202/Stop-the-...
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by sbe 16y ago
Erlang or OCaml. Build an AMQP stack.
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by sbe 16y ago
I chose Instapaper with the InstaChrome extension. I tried Read It Later several months back, but never really liked it. Thanks again!
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by sbe 16y ago
Thanks. Guess I'll look into one of them. Any suggestions?
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Ask HN: Can you save stories without upvoting them?
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by sbe 16y ago
Find out how to minimize the taxes you owe. Choose a local credit union over a bank. Figure out how you want to change the world. Use OCW, if necessary, to get a general idea of how to do it. (If it's a scientific issue, for example.) Get