markusstrasser

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by markusstrasser 10mo ago
Author here. Somehow the worst thing I ever wrote is on the front page of HN. I wrote this fast so there's jargon and bad prose. The title is deliberately dry and bland so I wasn't expecting anyone to click it. Also I slightly ch
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by markusstrasser 1y ago
the interesting web problems (collaborative tools, creative software, scientific computing) have to fight against a framework ecosystem designed for the blandest landing pages. Nextjs and most web frameworks assume you're building an e
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by markusstrasser 1y ago
Fair enough. IMO the best solution is/was always hiccup (cljs) since it has no extra syntax to the core of the language (vectors/maps)
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by markusstrasser 1y ago
Wrong frame. It's just a playground
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by markusstrasser 1y ago
It's great people experiment. Yet, after a quick glance the framework seems to break expected semantics for no gain? For example: the "component" construct auto-renders the JSX within the brackets instead of being a function
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
smarter waifus for the wicked
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
It's a glorified youtube channel. Not a technology. That's most of the crux. It worked because Khan was early and made good content
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
Why are people getting hung up on his hubris? If his megalomania gives us Mathematica who cares. It's a phenomenal accomplishment. It can, out of the box, do hundreds of things that'd take you weeks in python/julia/etc o
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
sad that this guy could've continued doing good CS research as assoc prof but instead is compelled to do youtube and sell productivity courses of the three same rehashed ideas ad infinitum.
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
+1
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by markusstrasser 3y ago
he's been following his own advice religiously for years
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Bioinformatics Pipeline Example from the Bottom Up(ricomnl.com)
2 points by markusstrasser 5y ago|0 comments
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Ways to Accelerate Aging Research(longitudinal.blog)
2 points by markusstrasser 5y ago|0 comments
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What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It:Reflections After 2578 Papers(fantasticanachronism.com)
2 points by markusstrasser 5y ago|1 comments
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NewLimit: a company built to extend human healthspan(blog.newlimit.com)
64 points by markusstrasser 5y ago|136 comments
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by markusstrasser 5y ago
Patents were the more obvious go to but we didn't want to work with obfuscated patent descriptions for the next years
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by markusstrasser 5y ago
But you're right; open source projects for extracting infos (like PubTator) are valuable but ontologies/KGs need ongoing expert (ML, AI, SWEs, information architects, labelers) work (unlike most of Wikipedia or GH) so it's to
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by markusstrasser 5y ago
"follow the best institutions and ~50 top individuals" wasn't meant as a suggestion actually, just an observation of what most people do. You're right they "could work if designed to solve a specific real world prob
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by markusstrasser 5y ago
Hey, author here. Great discussion so far. Will update the post with some of the comments and critiques.
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by markusstrasser 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Will put some of that in the appendix of the post!