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by greg 1y ago
Not sure how “cutting edge” meta genomics still is, although it’s still not widespread. I worked on a project to provide free metagenomic analysis that was launched in 2017 and still going: https://czid.org/ I always keep m
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by greg 2y ago
I used EdgeDB 5.0 for a side project, and I loved it. It reminded me of the fun of developing an app with Django or Rails, but serverless with Typescript+React.
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by greg 3y ago
Thanks for the report. I’ll look into it tomorrow.
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by greg 3y ago
Engineer on the team here. Some of the interesting challenges of doing ChatGPT for circuit design were: 1) How to communicate the circuit connections to ChatGPT in the text prompt. We ended up just using the standard netlist format. Apparen
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by greg 5y ago
I worked on meta.org for a year starting in 2017 soon after it was acquired by CZI. There was no sign that I saw that the domain was ever destined for Facebook. Uninteresting as it may be, I take the reason for the shut down at face value.
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by greg 6y ago
What are you using to synchronize state across users?
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by greg 6y ago
This is really cool. My first impression is an open-source replacement for Segment.
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by greg 6y ago
I got the chance to play with Datafold and I would have loved to have had it when I was working for Facebook on data pipelines.
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What makes teams successful? 150,000 GitHub projects analyzed(research.gigaom.com)
79 points by greg 12y ago|15 comments
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by greg 12y ago
There is one new statement specifically referring to start-ups: "Second, pursuant to the "significant public benefit" parole authority under section 6 212(d)(5) ofthe INA, USCIS should propose a program that will permit DHS t
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Show HN: Calculate the chance of a parking ticket anywhere in San Francisco(parkroulette.com)
23 points by greg 13y ago|1 comments
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by greg 15y ago
Code samples?
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Inter-generational social mobility: #1 Denmark, #10 USA(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by greg 16y ago|0 comments
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by greg 16y ago
Get this thing on The Daly Show / Colbert Report.
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PHP: Bug #52435 ... please pay me my farmville credits(bugs.php.net)
9 points by greg 16y ago|1 comments
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Number of invites you've sent since joining Facebook(facebook.com)
2 points by greg 16y ago|0 comments
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by greg 16y ago
Michael makes the excellent point that a truly live, synchronous experience is very hard to do on the web. It would be valuable to study how people "sync up" in the real-world so they can all share the same experience at the same time.
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by greg 16y ago
I worked on Facebook ads for the past year so I know that some of the claims in this article are just wrong, but I think the average reader can figure that out for themselves. > People go to Facebook to interact with their friends. It
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by greg 16y ago
Don't see it anymore :(
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by greg 16y ago
If you look into the demographics of book sales you'll find this difference is born out at large. I'd guess that it has more to do with the typical subject of matter of fiction than its fact quotient. Women are more interested in inter-pers
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by greg 17y ago
This doesn't read so much like click fraud to me as hijacking a user's browser to convert organic traffic into affiliate credit. The fraudulent clicks are merely a cover story.
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Moving past the era of web-safe fonts(noupe.com)
3 points by greg 17y ago|0 comments
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Peace.facebook.com(peace.facebook.com)
76 points by greg 17y ago|50 comments
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Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard(pathname.com)
2 points by greg 17y ago|0 comments
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by greg 17y ago
So what generalizations can we make from these plots? Instance and rule based methods learn better? Random forest seems to be especially reliable.
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by greg 17y ago
Very interesting topic. A few checks on current comments: The metaphor of the brain as a carefully portioned soup of chemicals should be retired. The brain is a modularized information processor. While you can pour in more "happy" molecules
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by greg 17y ago
This could have been really funny. It wasn't.
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Godwin's Law of Internet Discussions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by greg 17y ago|1 comments
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by greg 17y ago
Appears that some people agree with me here. Email me if you ever want to discuss more.
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by greg 17y ago
Google analytics is installed on something like 40% of all sizable websites. What somebody should do with the API is link up the traffic flowing between those sites. Then you could tell how much value one site is delivering to another. You

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