ramsaysnuuhh

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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Fine, change "100-meter olympic dash" to "professional athlete in the USA". Sample size is sufficient (NBA+NFL+NHL+MLB comprise of 3000+ players), athletes hold a much higher position in society than computer scientists,
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Number of Japanese trans-men in the 100-meter olympic dash: 0. I think I need a million-dollar grant to raise awareness of this issue.
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
> This suggestion ignores the purpose of a Ph.D.: to produce a piece of original research, which is necessarily extremely specialized. Tell that crap to the tourists, the purpose of the Ph.D. is afaict to get the student a high paying jo
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
I learned Perl initially for sysadmin'ing from Minimal Perl ( http://www.amazon.com/Minimal-Perl-Unix-Linux-People/dp/1932... ). It teach a subset of Perl necessary to use it as a more powerful replacement for
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Number-Executives-Probabilistic-Thinki...
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Hand written notebooks and scattered word and spreadsheet documents. We are a computationally-intensive genomics lab in a top-ranked university.
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Am I the only one who read that as "Bang Bus App"?
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Ask HN: When is it too old to be an intern?
49 points by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago|30 comments
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Or maybe their work doesn't require billyjobob's personal approval and understanding, and therefore they don't feel like putting in the effort of reducing their life to 30 seconds?
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Is this even worth debating? No one at Google comes even close to the greatness of, say, Shannon or Deming.
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Issuance for bitcoin is not "algorithm", it's all the resources expended in running miners and developing new miners. Storage of fiat currency is arguably very cheap as well, since only a tiny fraction of it actually exists
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
Can anyone explain to me why being 64 bit matters on a phone?
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
But the quality and sophistication of software in, say, astronomy makes bioinformatics software look like it was written by 14 year old spammers in the former soviet bloc. The real problem is that biology went from being essentially a liber
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
SV and SF techies hate the homeless b/c they think they are all self-made. They walk out of Philz with their $4 coffee, look down at a bum, and think to themselves "Why doesn't he learn Ruby on Rails and become YCombinator m
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by ramsaysnuuhh 13y ago
> Biology is completely different from Computer Science and metaphors between the fields build no understanding and can only be misleading, every time I hear someone comparing DNA to a computer program I fall into pieces. That's the