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by idm 6y ago
I'm quite comfortable saying that master/slave is an unsavory metaphor to use in your distributed architecture.
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by idm 6y ago
Software engineering was life changing for me. I studied cognitive and computer sciences (CMU '03) - and when I graduated I realized I didn't know much about writing software. Luckily, I found a software engineering course (Berkel
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by idm 6y ago
It's a fact that wealthy donors support specific research that interests them. On the one hand, hasn't research always been funded like this? Wealthy patrons have always supported work that somehow gratified them. And history is r
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by idm 6y ago
This is basically what I do. I then use Gthnk ( http://gthnk.com ) to navigate all my markdown files. I sync with dropbox or seafile, but it's the same basic idea. Gthnk renders to PDF for printing. In fact, a medium-term go
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by idm 6y ago
It would appear the rat poison they are referring to is strychnine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine
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by idm 6y ago
Gthnk is journaling software. I use it as my technical "work journal" and I find the practice to be valuable. I've been working on this software for years by this point and I occasionally post updates about it to HN. The cur
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Announcing Gthnk 0.7(gthnk.com)
1 points by idm 6y ago|0 comments
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by idm 6y ago
You've convinced me to try it out. My personal knowledge management project, Gthnk (gthnk.com), would appear to plug in easily as a Source - without any special plugin necessary. I really like what you've made!
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by idm 6y ago
I recommend the Multi-Account Containers extension by Mozilla, which has a "sort tabs" button that accomplishes what you want. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... I am no
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by idm 7y ago
I've heard the typical ICU/hospitalization course involves bilateral pneumonia, apparently requiring intubation and ventilation. It appears to be survivable as long as equipment and personnel are available. And that's the pr
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by idm 7y ago
In the psychological sciences, it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. When a phenomenon with a large effect size is demonstrated with tens or hundreds of participants, everybody crows about how the sample s
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by idm 7y ago
Hi Paul - looks interesting! What is the license? My presumption is that you intentionally did not embed a license within either of the documents.
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Open Source Mueller Report, Full-Text eBook(github.com)
3 points by idm 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Routine, a book about daily life(idmiller.com)
2 points by idm 8y ago|0 comments
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by idm 8y ago
I made a separate account for the Chromebook. I don't associate any personal info with this account. Of course, most people will reuse their existing accounts, but it's not strictly required to provide personal details in order to
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by idm 8y ago
Happy Chromebook user here. I use the Asus c213 as my daily driver now. I do the heavy lifting on a Linux server. Crostini made it all click for the mobile development environment. VS Code was the last piece of the workflow that I was missi
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by idm 8y ago
It's called the "file drawer problem" in which research is conducted but not published because it wasn't significant. You're referring to "Type I error" in which a statistically significant result is obtai
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by idm 8y ago
This is an open access article and the statistics are published. See p.41 for a per-country analysis of the effect on literacy. I would be ashamed to publish criticism about an open access scientific article without having any understandin
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CSV Pipes 0.1: zsh/bash operations for CSV files that won't fit in RAM(projects.sisrlab.com)
1 points by idm 8y ago|0 comments
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Announcing Gthnk 0.5(gthnk.com)
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by idm 9y ago
Captain Disillusion has been way ahead of his time for so many years. I think his time has finally come.
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by idm 9y ago
Thank you for highlighting this! I wasn't aware of Patrick's software until you mentioned it, but there's a lot of great stuff there: - KnockKnock: perform system scan to list everything you have installed, like kexts, browse
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by idm 10y ago
Wow. I can hardly believe what I'm looking at. We're so used to seeing one "bullet train" at a time, and even that is held as a lofty aspiration. Some day, maybe, my country might have one too. That Chinese train ya
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by idm 10y ago
Thanks! Yes, I plan for agents to support death. In fact, I plan to backfill the entire human species into the database, most of whom are dead. I estimate this will grow the database by 80-110 billion agents.
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by idm 10y ago
Thanks for providing a definition for the word "virtual." I think part of the problem here is that I've invented something we don't have precise language for, yet. I call the agent population synthetic and I call the
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by idm 10y ago
Geographically, yes the precision is at the country level. Within each country, there is another breakdown by age and sex, another by religion, another for language, and so on. So, there are a few ways - beyond geography - that you can sl
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by idm 10y ago
Naturally. :) I wonder why id 1 isn't working ... Thanks for the report!
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by idm 10y ago
That's a really clever idea!
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by idm 10y ago
The public API is rate limited. However, if you want to purchase a dump, we can work something out.
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by idm 10y ago
Absolutely. This is an active project and I have a plugin system for synthesizing additional data sources. In the research literature, I have seen several impressive US census-derived synthetic population projects, so finer-grained data ar

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