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by vsingh 18y ago
It's actually surprising how terrible the front page articles are on a weekend. Among the trash today are this tired rehash of useless proverbs, a PDF presentation of UNIX commands, and a pop psychology article from the LA Times.
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by vsingh 18y ago
I thought the idea was that anything that would have seemed appropriate on the old Reddit would be appropriate here. By that measure I think this article passes. I wonder if this forum is misnamed. Maybe it should be called "Maker News". St
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Be Good(paulgraham.com)
182 points by vsingh 18y ago|202 comments
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by vsingh 18y ago
This is neat stuff. Coincidentally, I just submitted my undergraduate thesis today, on the topic of carbon nanotube transistors. Our devices use multi-walled nanotubes, which are ~50nm in diameter. These things look to be an order of magnit
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by vsingh 19y ago
On a more personal note, let me add: writing your thesis.
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by vsingh 19y ago
Somewhat tangential, but: I'd love to have a script that automatically downloads the FLV file for every YouTube video I've bookmarked in del.icio.us. My collection of videos is slowly leaking away due to takedown requests.
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Elephant intelligence(en.wikipedia.org)
32 points by vsingh 19y ago|10 comments
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by vsingh 19y ago
Heh. Fair. I guess I did overreact a bit to your comment. :)
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by vsingh 19y ago
Notwithstanding your objection to my use of poetic license, let me refocus: I argue your revulsion of TED's smugness is similar to other people's revulsion of our culture here. I once said: "It surprises me that people can indict others wit
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by vsingh 19y ago
So what if they're smug? We're smug - wasn't it only a little while ago that reddit was excoriating us for being a bunch of smug, elitist bastards? And we replied, "Yeah! That's the point!"
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by vsingh 19y ago
Does he really claim to have a complete unified theory of physics, or is that just media hype?
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by vsingh 19y ago
It surprises me that people can indict others with the adjective "holier-than-thou" and not feel ashamed of themselves. The word screams, "I'm going to bring you down to my level!"
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by vsingh 19y ago
Alright, I asked for help in #io, and it looks like there was some known problem with SIMD due to a recent patch. In order to fix it for now, go to libs/basekit/source/UArray_math.c, and comment out the line: #define IO_USE_SIMD 1
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by vsingh 19y ago
Yes, I get those errors too. The first error that shows up after executing 'make' is: In file included from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp_x86.h:47, from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp.h:115,
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by vsingh 19y ago
Does anyone know how to compile this on Ubuntu? I Googled and found two guides, but neither of them worked. I'll post the particular compiler error I got when I get home.
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Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid (TED talk)(ted.com)
2 points by vsingh 19y ago|0 comments
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by vsingh 19y ago
I uploaded it to scribd for the lazy among us: http://www.scribd.com/doc/941859/Brain-drugs-boost-try-for-m...