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by _snydly 11y ago
I have Facebook blocked for the next week (because, you know, productivity). Can someone post LeCun's comment here?
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by _snydly 11y ago
I really can't explain why, but PLOS tries to: https://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/ They just increased the fees for their general purpose publication, PLOS ONE. Here's their reasoning: &q
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by _snydly 11y ago
> Mistake was on move 79, but #AlphaGo only came to that realisation on around move 87 That's cool to think of AlphaGo having "realizations"
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by _snydly 11y ago
Was it AlphaGo losing the game, or Lee Sedol winning it?
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by _snydly 11y ago
Yeah, if AlphaGO wins all 5, I'd next like to see some Blitz Go (if that's a thing).
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by _snydly 11y ago
As a result of this article, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of groups engineering this bacteria's systems into something that could survive and grow at lower temperatures. Or maybe they'll try to encapsulate the two enzy
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by _snydly 11y ago
> What else would you use? Oh, no, I was asking mostly as a noob. I've since decided to have a go at learning Scala, and your answer reinforces that decision.
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by _snydly 11y ago
I'm curious, why Scala over all other options?
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship Without Python 2(news.softpedia.com)
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by _snydly 11y ago
> So basically you thwack all the cells with something that pushes their lifecycles towards a similar schedule, and then later-on they tend to all still be on the same cycle? Yeah, that much is pretty well understood. http://j
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The techno-fad of the decade (1994)(bloomberg.com)
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by _snydly 11y ago
> So, the only question is what people agree that it means The details make this more complicated, so we're never going to agree. Just like most people agreeing that alcohol okay, but heroin isn't, we'd have to decide what
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by _snydly 11y ago
> Even n > 20 can be difficult for certain studies. For some expensive experiments even n=3 is difficult to reach. "Should we do another replicate and go from n=2 to n=3, or should we hire another post-doc?" is a relatively
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by _snydly 11y ago
It's better to wait for multiple, large randomized controlled trials to be performed before making claims about improved brain function. But maybe, for now, we can eat more chocolate for another ~proven benefit: "Flavanol-rich cho
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by _snydly 11y ago
> As a white person from a white family in the middle of the US, no one that I care about values me based on my salary. As someone of the same background and also from the middle of nowhere mid-US, I can say this is certainly true. It se
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by _snydly 11y ago
> I live by myself and barely even speak out loud at home. Not sure how other people feel about talking out loud at home, but as someone who also lives alone (in a 250 sqft apartment) and always wears headphones, I can't really imag
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by _snydly 11y ago
> hot lead To me at least, this sounds terrifying compared to the liquid nitrogen.
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by _snydly 11y ago
That's true, I shouldn't have compared my experience as a grad student in science to a project like Varnish. > Code is a liability is not ab asset. That's a great quote. I guess there's a sweet spot. Maybe, if only a
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by _snydly 11y ago
Pouring liquid nitrogen on your hand and letting it roll off is actually pretty fun (and safe). Just don't let it sit there.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
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by _snydly 11y ago
>> And eventually I no longer think about code lines as an asset to be accumulated, but rather as an expenditure to be avoided. Maybe I'm a bit odd, but I got into programming with code golf, using lots of J, K, and others. So my
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by _snydly 11y ago
Will Hacker News be blocked? It looks like it's currently available: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com