brianclements

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Ask HN: Is data representation a manifestation of the uncertainty pricipal?
1 points by brianclements 10y ago|0 comments
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by brianclements 10y ago
Let me supplement physical toys (which are most important for sure) with some additional ideas for building future programmers. Children ages 3-7 are really just beginning to learn how to think abstractly, which is a pretty core competency
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Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by brianclements 10y ago|0 comments
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by brianclements 10y ago
I think AI politicians or complex algorithms just risk being a more complicated form of legalese that even less people can understand (legalese in code/math form). With law in code form like that, you need to demand much more of the ed
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by brianclements 10y ago
Speaking as a Workflowy user to your concerns, it's the best of all worlds for me: - nightly export to dropbox as plaintext and a backup as a type of json format with more metadata. If Workflowy goes away tomorrow, I have everything an
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by brianclements 11y ago
Of course a well rounded education comes from many sources and factors, both internal and external. But in general I feel that: STEM training = literacy for the jobs we have now Liberal arts training = big picture training for innovation th
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by brianclements 11y ago
Of the handful of people I know that have bought Tesla's, they are very much not of the hacking mindset. I'm not saying this is forever true, but I think the type of person that can actually afford one usually has the "premiu
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by brianclements 11y ago
For every starry-eyed and future creating technologist, who really does see the best-case scenario for what current and near-future technologies can accomplish, they need to always be shadowed by a team of altruistic business/PR/a
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by brianclements 11y ago
"I wonder how much the economy would break down, and have to change, if email suddenly went away?" Or suddenly went proprietary.
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by brianclements 11y ago
In which case you can make a Darwinian distinction between a "clumsy" curiosity and a "cautious" one, with the cautious types eventually winning out.
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by brianclements 11y ago
Technically, this might be syntax, but as someone who is learning Racket (and programming) in the beginning stages, it's so much less syntax to remember then even python (underscore, double underscore, with, decorators, list comprehe
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40 maps that explain the Middle East(vox.com)
2 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianclements 11y ago
Might be a way to get unofficial feedback from the community as the news spreads and make final tweaks before they release it.
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by brianclements 11y ago
And lets not forget the musical domain: Stradivarius [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius
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by brianclements 11y ago
Thanks for the leads. Very informative. Contracts make sense, and will probably be the first experiments with this. That seems to be what blockchain tech is tapping into first. I would think though that new languages developed for this woul
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by brianclements 11y ago
I grant you the absurdity of enforcing all laws with machines/computers/robots. I don't think I was as clear as intended. But I do feel that there are plenty of processes and certain law domains that are equally absurd wh
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Ask HN: Government law as code?
6 points by brianclements 11y ago|8 comments
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by brianclements 11y ago
I heard this interview with the CEO. So Dstillery says they have anonymous but unique identifiers for each phone. They probably then track where people shop at, where they live, where they spend their time, etc, and probably cross reference
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Company tracked Iowa caucusgoers’ phones(usatoday.com)
2 points by brianclements 11y ago|1 comments
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Undercover in New York(globalwitness.org)
2 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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20 Years Ago: The Most Important Internet Law Was Signed, Almost by Accident(techdirt.com)
6 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks(news.mit.edu)
2 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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Coeio » Designs and sells eco-friendly Infinity Burial products(coeio.com)
1 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianclements 11y ago
Yes, this is the other side of it. Make the hours you do have as productive as possible. Efficient problem solving and creative design (not just marathon coding) are also about getting your mind and body right. Get on consistent sleep patte
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by brianclements 11y ago
I've been using this method for years. Very simple, and gets the job done. Most websites and desktop apps default to whites and off-whites which convert perfectly to blacks and off-blacks when enabled. Pocket, Firefox, and FBReader on
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by brianclements 11y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not the price of the electronics (which are very cheap), or the availability of them (they are plentiful), or even the knowledge to learn (this is the age of the Internet on mobile device
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by brianclements 11y ago
Reminds me of a Radiolab episode[1] about a similar effort to bring back a specific species of tortoise in the Galapagos islands. The offending infringing species there where goats. What was really interesting was the method used for the er
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by brianclements 11y ago
I think looking at the presence of the tech alone isn't enough to predict/correlate with broader economic productivity. The bottleneck really is the access to it in a legal (copyright), cost-effective, and scalable (special vs c
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The Spreading of Misinformation Online [pdf](pnas.org)
4 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments
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Steve Israel: Confessions of a Congressman(nytimes.com)
3 points by brianclements 11y ago|0 comments

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