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Thiel Fellowship Application Goes Live(apply.thielfellowship.org)
28 points by sz 16y ago|6 comments
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by sz 16y ago
Closer than one might think? http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natu...
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by sz 16y ago
Obviously the message is naive or delusional at face value (I would agree with you about a person that has this mentality wrt everthing) but it has a grain of truth—two, actually, that I can spot. I suspect the author realizes this. Just a
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by sz 16y ago
The Obama legislation that forces your parents medical insurance to cover you until you're 26 goes into effect next year. I'm planning a year off from college to work on projects that I can't realistically attempt while in school because I
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by sz 16y ago
This looks awesome, thanks. How to design abstractions was what I had in mind when posing the question.
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by sz 16y ago
(since I had to look it up what a SVM was) "Support vector machines (SVMs) are a set of related supervised learning methods... The standard SVM takes a set of input data, and predicts, for each given input, which of two possible classes the
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by sz 16y ago
No matter what you need to be able to produce something valuable, if only to be a good potential partner for a tech person. The most straightforward valuable thing to produce is code. Without that you may find good contractors but probably
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Ask HN: Particularly elegant programs to study?
44 points by sz 16y ago|24 comments
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by sz 16y ago
Sure you can extract _some_ value but is the tradeoff always worth it? Look at Windows Phone 7.
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by sz 16y ago
A dual question: what hardware do you use? Wacom tablets are expensive but drawing with a mouse sucks.
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by sz 16y ago
Check out The Unapologetic Mathematician "blath": http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/
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by sz 16y ago
Flagged. Dumb article.
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by sz 16y ago
The Inform 7 one is cool. It's almost not recognizable as a program. Imagine: programming by dictation.
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by sz 16y ago
Correlation, causation, blah blah blah.
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by sz 16y ago
Oh, and of course the average would have to be weighted by thread karma. average = total user karma / sum of thread karma over all threads commented in
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by sz 16y ago
My last reverse engineering project consisted mostly of hours sitting at Chipotle with hex printouts and a highlighter. That was a file format though, not a protocol.
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by sz 16y ago
Also maybe put the authors in the link text to avoid having to click through? Titles really don't help distinguish between these books.
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by sz 16y ago
John Baez rocks. In general. All of his stuff is great and his writing style will cheer you up when you feel like you need to go back to freshman calculus. I read some of his pieces on Lie algebras and A-D-E classifications. Very helpful
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by sz 16y ago
There was a gigantic list on Geocities compiled by Alexandre Stefanov of free math books. Maybe you can find it. Otherwise a lot of this stuff is torrentable. Also check international editions.
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by sz 16y ago
I didn't go through the whole list but I'd make sure to not miss out on the Feynman Lectures. Once you learn the material it's not really worth it to go back. They're nice because he gives you the story behind the equations. Further down
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by sz 16y ago
Math helps. I'm finding myself saying that more and more lately.
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by sz 16y ago
Man all the hype about Lisp just suddenly made sense to me. Why do we need all this other stuff? Loved the simple exposition and backronyms, contrary to some other opinions here.
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by sz 16y ago
Has this concept been tested? As a potential customer I don't have any reason to believe that this organizational structure works. The video is downright inspirational though, great job on that.
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by sz 16y ago
So where are the RGB coordinates on there?
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by sz 16y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Tell+me+a+joke .
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by sz 16y ago
I think you have it the wrong way. Every plane I've ever flown on (>100) starts numbering at the front, and you can see the wings are clearly swept downward.
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by sz 16y ago
12A looks like the obvious choice. No seat in front of you (I had that once and it was better than flying first).
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Scientists find damage to coral near BP well(physorg.com)
2 points by sz 16y ago|1 comments
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by sz 16y ago
I wonder if the full-body scanners would have caught this.
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by sz 16y ago
This might be a naive question, but is there any empirical evidence showing that blogging/tweeting actually helps your startup? Is this supposed to be for self-motivation or getting attention?

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