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by wwarner 8y ago
I don't know if it makes him ignorant, but I agree the statement sweeps the philosophical issues Gödel addressed under the rug. There were two major works of the 20th century that would never have been attempted if the authors had know
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by wwarner 8y ago
I've done a bit of feldenkrais. It makes you think about being a bit nicer to yourself, a bit more patient. I would think it would be an excellent approach to training for a marathon, or learning math for that matter.
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by wwarner 8y ago
Imma say here that while perl5->perl6 transition didn't work out very well, the perl4->perl5 transition was hugely successful. Back to Go!
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by wwarner 8y ago
That is an excellent observation! In a sense, copyleft is the most inclusive code of conduct ever devised.
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by wwarner 8y ago
True, but not fair, to Gates OR to Allen. "After a few years all that passes. Bill and I have always been friends, even through the ups and downs" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/02&#
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by wwarner 8y ago
I learned a lot from this post. I didn't know that so many observations resulted in the same 5/6 ratio.
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by wwarner 8y ago
I absolutely love docker for development. It saves so much set up time, and of course is handy later.
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by wwarner 8y ago
The NY MTA spends $1.3B/month, about $16B/year. A $100B investment in the subway system is about 7 years of normal spending.
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The MTA spends about $836M every 19 days(signalproblems.substack.com)
9 points by wwarner 8y ago|8 comments
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by wwarner 8y ago
Basically, the invention is a machine with which a person could build a dialog system by playing the role of a user. It creates a fast iteration loop around trying an input phrase and associating it to automated responses.
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Patent: FLEXIBLE AND EXPANDABLE DIALOGUE SYSTEM [pdf](patentimages.storage.googleapis.com)
1 points by wwarner 8y ago|1 comments
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Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid(geekwire.com)
1 points by wwarner 8y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 8y ago
LIGO provides observations simultaneously at the smallest and largest scales. This kind of experimentation is going to lead to theoretical advances.
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Gravity doesn’t leak into large, hidden dimensions(sciencenews.org)
2 points by wwarner 8y ago|1 comments
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by wwarner 8y ago
I'm of 2 minds. He goes to bat for the rest of us defending the quality of the kernel and the open source movement, and he wastes no time and he doesn't mince words. But he was doing the same thing 20 years ago and was nicer about
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by wwarner 8y ago
I think it's good for Bezos to fight homelessness, but funding drug treatment programs from the sale of legal drugs would be a better long term solution. Treatment should be the first, if not the only, spending target of marijuana reve
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3D printed microlattice lithium-ion batteries(engineering.cmu.edu)
1 points by wwarner 8y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 8y ago
I'll make a defense of pdf publishing here. The points the author makes are good, but also show why pdf has a role to play. Responsive design being the most difficult. Imagine you're producing a scientific paper, and it contains a
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by wwarner 8y ago
The most persuasive argument is no argument at all. Quality, speed and accuracy don't need advocates. If the idea is really good, just mentioning it is enough for the team to adopt it. If I think someone should adopt my style, my tool,
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by wwarner 8y ago
Yes, plan, the more planning the better. But set the deadline first , and plan and design around meeting the deadline. Ask yourself, "I have two weeks to deliver this, but if I had to deliver something tomorrow afternoon, what would
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by wwarner 8y ago
I guess we don't agree on what "tons" means. I don't remember searching through millions of projects on source forge.
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by wwarner 8y ago
Concur. He completely disregards the enormous human freedom and prosperity that comes from open source. It's amazing to be able to launch flask in a container and have a web app running in 10 minutes, and it wouldn't be possible
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by wwarner 8y ago
A standardized AST! That's a big win.
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by wwarner 8y ago
immutability ftw
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by wwarner 8y ago
The $100B proposal was a complete overhaul, including the signaling system, major reworking of subway station, track improvements etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/magazine/subway-new-york-...
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by wwarner 8y ago
$19B for a new signaling system? A true "sweeping overhall" will include a hell of a lot more than that. There was a times article a few weeks ago that sketched out a much more ambitious overhall, and pegged the price at $100B, wh
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by wwarner 8y ago
Fair enough, but setting the expectation of participation and transparency is a worthwhile goal in and of itself, more important that any individual failure to actually realize it.
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by wwarner 9y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't consider a finite number of states when mapping the concepts back to physics. Feels like infinity performs a useful function in mathematical reasoning, but there is no reason to believe anything we
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by wwarner 9y ago
Screen shot from my twitter feed https://twitter.com/warnerw/status/976431809889210368
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New foam lowers cost of hydrogen(eurekalert.org)
2 points by wwarner 9y ago|0 comments

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