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by westoncb 7y ago
The difference between hypotheses and theories isn't about whether one is more likely true, they are different kinds of structures with different roles. A hypothesis is ideally 'atomic': it's making a single assertion th
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It's been interesting the past few years to see this same stereotyped critique of HN coming up over and over. The consistency of certain aspects recurring together in them is interesting to me. Here's a few I've noticed: 1) T
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I was curious to read the self-criticism section since I fall into the memory-skeptic camp myself. And I did in fact find my main concerns referenced there, though my impression is that they weren't taken seriously. One telltale sign i
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I watched Andrew's talk recently, and I highly recommend it to other readers interested in the above topic. It's full of clearly expressed, interesting ideas. When I read: > What I want is a semi-tangible expression tree that I
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I agree to some extent, though I think PlayCanvas is more analogous to OS X than it is to Windows—partly because of the priority given to design and high standards for quality and partly because if you need to get lower level you can still
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Nice! That looks like fun. I'd really like to do a more complete asteroids remake and put proper time/thought into the design + aesthetic—it's one of my favorite games strictly for gameplay. I actually did another version 15
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by westoncb 7y ago
I'm surprised I never see playcanvas on HN. It's great technology that should be better known IMO. I first came across it working on a project where I needed to load and animate a number of complex .fbx character models. Spent loa
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by westoncb 7y ago
Location: Tucson, AZ Remote: yes Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: JavaScript, three.js, Electron, CSS/HTML variants, webpack. In the past: Java desktop and mobile, Objective-C (iOS dev). Résumé/CV: http
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SEEKING WORK | Tucson, AZ | Remote Primarily a generalist, though my specialty for a few years now has been doing computer graphics and computational geometry with web technologies. -------------------------------------------------- Exampl
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> Is this a bad thing? There is some optimal standard for any class of cases. (At the very least varying the standard will produce better/worse results in relation to particular classes of cases.) So, no— > are you going to gathe
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The comment they are replying to isn't requesting a similar standard to that for accepting a scientific theory—it was pointing out the danger of punishing people for assessing controversial events with an attitude of scientific inquiry
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> The standard of evidence is lower in civil cases than criminal ones. That's probably because the standard of accuracy is tied to severity of punishment (they're will to pay more for a higher standard in cases where it's
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Their exact words are "court and science"—and the bigger point from the gp comment was about evaluating these things in the spirit of "scientific inquiry".
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> Demanding the same standard of evidence we demand in court and science to disrupt human power structures helps those with power retain it and use it against those who have less power. Okay sure, but you're talking about loosening
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> My work stress level is basically maxed out and has been for a long time. It's probably really worth it to change your work situation—it might help with the other issues even if it seems unrelated. When you're really stressed
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Yes, it strikes me as overreaction. I've been shocked to see in the past few years how common it is for nothing more than the implication of some unqualified 'association' between people/groups to settle folks' mind
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If you skim it, it will look that way. What the editor is tackling has some overlap with common IDE features, but it’s taking a deeper approach to addressing them. You listed one item from a big list of tasks, but the more interesting thing
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by westoncb 7y ago
It seems like that is part of the plan, e.g.: The nodes being provisioned are all local nodes, running in the same node container. Obviously we’d like to provision nodes running on other computers, or provision from a managed cloud service
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I think the main reason is that there is no short phrase like 'edit distance' that can be used to describe the function/structure of most mathematical objects/concepts/etc.
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Something like that is basically my guiding principle when evolving architectures. I generally start with minimal grouping/barriers, but eventually areas start appearing as likely candidates as things that could end up developing compl
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An idea related to this helped me get a grasp on writing proofs when I was first struggling to teach myself mathematics. The idea was roughly: A particular formalized proof (or lemma) is one of many ways of expressing/representing a mo
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by westoncb 7y ago
Interesting how many different directions people have gone in doing something along these lines... Since 2014 I've been building a system with a similar objective, but focusing on 1) visualizing at (hopefully) the most useful level of
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Neon: Rust Bindings for Node.js(neon-bindings.com)
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That’s interesting—I’ve noticed my ability to explain programming concepts to newcomers seems to have degraded. I think you can maintain it by continually teaching, but in my case I had a gap of 5 years or so, and trying again afterward I f
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PlayCanvas: Fast and lightweight WebGL game engine(github.com)
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It seems like that's how this question is always answered. I'd also be interested to see some good application code. Also curious about some good, not too hugely sized, game code (preferably something not written in C/C++, ma
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I don't know that there's any particular message I would substitute those with. I think I'd mostly just avoid setting unreasonable expectations. My guess is that the common phrases/sentiments echoed as a I was growing up
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> more about working any amount of hours on something that you subconsciously believe is fundamentally misaligned with your core principles/true self. That rings true to me. My speculation as to why: at the most general level, our
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by westoncb 7y ago
IMO, unless you're writing a new renderer from scratch or doing something else super custom, three.js is the best way of doing real-time 3d for the web these days. But, here's their article on text in three.js: https://
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by westoncb 7y ago
I wonder if it would be plausible to use this with webgl via WASM... Or if anyone's working on a javascript implementation of the algorithm. Good text rendering/layout is about the only thing I feel like I'm missing from bein

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