solresol

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by solresol 3y ago
Maybe I was just early in the game, but yes, I've got access. I didn't have any particular project that I wanted it for. Email address in my profile.
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by solresol 4y ago
I have heard this version of events many times, but that's not how I remember it. I remember the only international flights allowed as being the repatriation flights. (e.g. when an overseas government organised for some non-Chinese who
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by solresol 4y ago
New Scientist (but I read the print version).
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by solresol 4y ago
Terraform, Helm (or just plain Kubernetes config), Ansible, other devops technologies.
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by solresol 4y ago
This would be the most beautiful experiment. Somehow we would need to track to two code bases for a decade afterwards and see which was the better choice.
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by solresol 4y ago
I had various bowel problems while on it, which were slightly unusual and hard to relate back to taking metformin, but they all cleared up when I stopped taking it. It's a very well-known drug, and a lot of patients have taken it for a
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by solresol 4y ago
Niches = riches. You want a super-tight thing that you do (e.g. "I fix performance issues for large NodeJS code bases", or better still "I write tooling to measure performance hotspots in NodeJS code bases".) Despite thi
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by solresol 4y ago
He's a specialist in bankruptcy and liquidation administration. Essentially the debtors have appointed him to take over and identify what can be sold or salvaged. He gets paid out of whatever funds he can find.
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by solresol 4y ago
> Prompt: lecture notes about p-adic machine learning In p-adic machine learning, the p-adic numbers are used to represent features. The p-adic numbers are a number system that can represent both exact values and values that are unce
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by solresol 4y ago
This being HN, writing a piece of software to do something that hasn't been done before. That increases the total number of goods and services in the world. Variations: synthesising a new chemical, teaching someone a new skill.
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by solresol 4y ago
I can sort-of see a business model where they host SSH-based applications -- ideally with a Mosh option. As a user, I log in and get a menu of the different applications I am subscribed to that they host, or I can ssh-exec a particular appl
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by solresol 4y ago
And any of his other examples would work with powers-of-p if p is prime. Those infinite series aren't divergent if you are measuring their size p-adically. Gouvea's book actually goes through the things that RobAlni has just disco
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by solresol 4y ago
Location: Sydney, Australia (but I often work for startups in the USA west coast) Remote: yes Willing to relocate: maybe Technologies: Python, Haskell, Postgresql, Terraform, Spacy Résumé/CV: https://github.com/gregb367
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by solresol 4y ago
Started a Masters in Research at age 48. Exerted almost no effort and have ended up with 3 publishable papers and two other papers in progress. Ticked off my bucket list to get an Erdos number (already had a Bacon and Metallica number). Loo
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by solresol 4y ago
> the real-time typing feature was one of the main things that killed Wave Nah. I was there. One thing killed Wave, and nothing else: not-invented-here syndrome from Mountain View executive team. It wouldn't have mattered whether W
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by solresol 4y ago
A better comparison would be with Greater Sydney (442 people per square kilometre).
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by solresol 4y ago
I think it is a misunderstanding. The two places in the world where everyone agrees it is easiest to get medtech devices developed are Australia and Mexico. (Source: was doing medtech development for a while in the early 2010s).
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by solresol 4y ago
There are people who reject smartphones because of (addictiveness, non-mindfulness, invasiveness of privacy). Your movement aligns with that. There are many, many people (myself included) who want to see black-box predictors banned unless t
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by solresol 4y ago
Not the pp, but: 1. For many countries (e.g. Australia), quite successfully. We said no, and then we didn't. 2. We can replace physical activity (e.g. machinery instead of human motion), and that doesn't move human beings from the
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Ask HN: Experience with the Y Combinator speed dating for edtech?
4 points by solresol 5y ago|0 comments
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by solresol 5y ago
I think it's fabulous. Just signed up to be notified when it's ready. ;-) Anyway, you now have my email.
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by solresol 5y ago
Metformin is known to work (a little) and seems to have a longevity effect that no-one understands. Orlistat works, as long as you can live your life near a toilet. Semaglutide - looks very promising. Gastric sleeving and other surgical int
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by solresol 5y ago
Can you output methanol? Maersk is commissioning some new ships that are methanol powered; if they succeed their requirements alone will probably exceed current worldwide methanol production 10x.
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Ask HN: Founder Visas for Australia
2 points by solresol 5y ago|3 comments
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by solresol 5y ago
If there's an index and the query planner is choosing sequential scan, it's doing so because it thinks that the random access pattern for the indexed data is going to be slower than the sequential access for the whole dataset. It&
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by solresol 5y ago
Unfortunately not -- look at what is happening in NSW (Australia). >90% vaccination rate, and essentially exponential growth in cases and hospitalisation. The only things that changed were: omicron instead of delta, and the dropping of r
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by solresol 5y ago
> introduce some form of government seizure over time And if you don't want your property seized because it's valuable to you, maybe you could pay the government a percentage of the price of the land to prevent that from happen
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by solresol 5y ago
> What stops all of the landlords from just pricing the tax into rent? Nothing stops them from doing that at all; in fact they should. Total rent = (rent from the improved structure on the land) + (rent from land) Landlords should be giv
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by solresol 5y ago
I disagree with your prescriptions for a solution, and the pushback on them will be fairly intense from economists, politicians and many others. I could go into detail about the policies, but there are problems with them. And anyway, there
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by solresol 5y ago
It depends entirely on the jurisdiction. In Australia for example, any technology that is accepted by both parties can be used. I have signed contracts with GnuPG (a long time ago) for example. I have also sent documents to my Remarkable ta

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