paulchap

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by paulchap 6y ago
For some reason, this reminds me of https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2howud
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by paulchap 6y ago
The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. Yet the modern computer is the equivalent of a bicycle with stabilisers: the added support might be nice for children, but comes at the cost of agility and manoeuvr
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by paulchap 6y ago
Funnily enough, I got a warning telling me uBlock prevented this page from loading...
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by paulchap 6y ago
By that logic, wouldn't any company inventing/developing a new technology be forming a monopoly?
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The Bit Player – Documentary about Claude Shannon(thebitplayer.com)
4 points by paulchap 6y ago|1 comments
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What to Do When Your Uncle Believes Coronavirus Conspiracies(nytimes.com)
2 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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DxO One Camera Module for Smartphones(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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Sanbot Robots(sanbot.co.uk)
1 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulchap 6y ago
The one you found is the most ambiguous, since there's no background in the (cleverly) cropped testimonial photo, but Google Images turned up pictures for every single testimonial[0,1,2,3]. The timestamps from these websites go severy
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Digital Audio on VHS: Technics SV-P100 [video](youtu.be)
1 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulchap 6y ago
How exactly do you arrive at this conclusion?
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by paulchap 6y ago
Fortunately, Flash is not a limit for ZomboCom: https://html5zombo.com/
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by paulchap 6y ago
I don't think any VC would like to be attached to the app if the author were to be committing fraud under the FTC Act. Not only are the app reviews suspicious, but the testimonial pictures[0] are definitely faked. [0] https:/&#x2
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Viruses and the Evolution of Life(asmscience.org)
4 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulchap 6y ago
He does have a GitHub account[0]. He successfully founded his own company. Entries from his blog also made the frontpage on HN several times[1]. You, on the other hand, do not have a GitHub account tied to your HN account, or any other reco
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by paulchap 6y ago
I couldn't find anything corroborating this claim, and the entry seems to be removed from Wikipedia for lack of source, so is this really true?
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QTile – An XMonad-like tiling WM written in Python(qtile.org)
65 points by paulchap 6y ago|24 comments
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Evaluating Wearables' Sensor Data for Forecasting Psychological State of User(dl.acm.org)
2 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Lab’s 13th launch ends in failure(theverge.com)
2 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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Modular Device for Flight Control (Patent)(patents.google.com)
1 points by paulchap 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulchap 6y ago
I guess now would be a good time to recommend 'Permutation City' by Greg Egan... Great book!
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Zuckerberg Loses $7B as Firms Boycott Facebook Ads(bloomberg.com)
1 points by paulchap 6y ago|1 comments
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by paulchap 6y ago
I don't think that laws that dictate companies how they have to manage their property are inherently bad. > Consumer protection law should protect consumers, not their convenience. My comment was targeted at the claim that mild cen
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by paulchap 6y ago
Cyc got hyped for while in the early 90s. It became apparent, however, that rule-based wasn't going to play as big a role as ML in the future of AI research. It still exists, but the company is really secretive, and hasn't release
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by paulchap 6y ago
> I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's _technically_ private property. It _is_ private property. The companies in question are just exertin
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by paulchap 6y ago
Because Cyc crashed in a truly spectacular fashion.
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by paulchap 6y ago
Linking to one flagged comment from a green account doesn't really support your position that the entire community is "racist-adjacent". Neither does linking to a blog post that claims Scott shut SSC down to protect his patie
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by paulchap 6y ago
I don't know the movie, so I agree with the title being a bit strange, and I probably could have done with a slightly more factually oriented article, but I appreciate the effort to keep it light. And the stereotypical girls' cliq
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by paulchap 6y ago
Found it! Things of Science: http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/ for the price of 5$/year. [edit: looks like I misremembered though, neither the Make article nor the website mention radioactivity... must have got
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by paulchap 6y ago
I think I read about something about a subscription bankrolled by the US government in an early edition of Make Magazine (2006-ish). Every month you'd get an item + a booklet of some sort which suggested an experiment. Apparently you g

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