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by tconfrey 5y ago
With this plus the recent detection of gravitational waves, it seems like we just keep discovering new ways of probing the universe.
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Radio astronomy revolutionizing our understanding of non-solar system planets?(scitechdaily.com)
2 points by tconfrey 5y ago|1 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
paywall bypass: https://archive.vn/s8rZD Its about diversification: "tends to move independently of other assets"... "an optimal portfolio contained a bitcoin allocation of 1-5%"
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by tconfrey 5y ago
I see parallels with the evolution of finding things online. Originally Yahoo went with a human curated nested categories approach - essentially an index of web pages. It was supplanted by AltaVista (and later Google) because automated sear
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by tconfrey 5y ago
@cyberge99 check out BrainTool[1]. Its a Chromium extension that allows you to capture bookmarks and notes into a hierarchical topic tree thats stored in an org-mode syntax plain text file editable w emacs or any org editor (incl Orgzly on
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Totally agree. A tab is just an open bookmark. But it's pretty clear that the bookmark metaphor is getting stale, now that we all spend all our time in a browser. I like the authors analog of looking around at his desk and bookshelves
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Thanks Eugene!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
That makes sense! It got a lot of traction, so I modeled my post after it but then ended up having to post the links in a comment :-(
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Ask HN: Come this HN post has clickable links
5 points by tconfrey 5y ago|4 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Hi @Greenskid, note that you can directly import a Tabs Outliner export file into BrainTool (Import, under Options). LMK how it goes and pass the word to other Tabs Outliner diaspora.
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Clickable links: 90 second YouTube intro: https://youtu.be/7zvyvATpoVM Landing page: https://braintool.org Some articles on use: https://braintool.org/posts.html Github repo: https://
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Show HN: BrainTool – Beyond Bookmarks, a Topic Manager for your online life
10 points by tconfrey 5y ago|12 comments
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Does time always flow in the direction of increasing entropy?(medium.com)
1 points by tconfrey 5y ago|0 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Still interesting and relevant in this age of note taking and bidirectional links. Another take: https://ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
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The TAO of Topic Maps (2003) [pdf](iro.umontreal.ca)
3 points by tconfrey 5y ago|1 comments
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by tconfrey 5y ago
What about org-mode? See this treatise: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ I hadn't heard of ReStructuredText!
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Check out BrainTool ( https://braintool.org ) it's a browser extension that allows you to trivially add pages to a custom hierarchal 'Topic tree' along with notes on why you're saving the page, and then to cont
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by tconfrey 5y ago
Given that most of everyone's 'stuff' is now accessed in a browser, it's clear that there's a problem to be solved helping us all keep track of everything. Bookmarks clearly don't cut it any more. It seems craz
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Valentines Day...(poemflow.com)
3 points by tconfrey 17y ago|0 comments
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by tconfrey 17y ago
First I'd say that at a company level there should be an overall plan for the interview that you fit in to. Interviews work better if the hiring manager assigns specific areas to specific interviewers, otherwise you can all end up focusing
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by tconfrey 17y ago
The article's more than 18 months old. So while its interesting its a bit dated. I'd like to know what Mr King thinks now and how he feels the short story has fared since '07. My personal belief is that the short story, and maybe even the p
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by tconfrey 18y ago
Sounds a lot like what cyc ( http://www.cyc.com/cyc/company/about ) has been trying to do for the last 25 years and actually the holy grail of AI since the 50s. I think its still way out of reach for non-trivial data-sets. Something like th
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by tconfrey 18y ago
One thing I find useful is the Its All Text! add-on for Firefox. It lets me use emacs as an external editor for any browser text area. Its ideal for blog entries, web mail or any filling in text in a small text entry area (like this one on
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by tconfrey 18y ago
Thanks iamdave (Dave?). Our contention on punctuation is that its an artifact of text annotated for display on a static medium. With a TextFlow on an active display device, timing and white space can be used to convey those same aspects, as
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Obama Inauguration speech as a TextFlow(textflows.com)
3 points by tconfrey 18y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: sendmail vs mailto: links for viral content sharing?
4 points by tconfrey 18y ago|2 comments