tnai

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Ask HN: Your thoughts on environmental issues in general?
1 points by tnai 13y ago|0 comments
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by tnai 14y ago
On the contrary: Just because a website doesn't look good, doesn't make it bad. To me, the website presents all the information it needs to: the products they stock, their price and where to get them. Not every business wants to become inte
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by tnai 14y ago
There's also an R buildpack for Heroku. There's a sample app written using Sinatra (Ruby) included. https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/heroku-buildpack-r
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Daniel Kahneman: How cognitive illusions blind us to reason(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by tnai 15y ago|0 comments
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Embrace failure to start up success (nature.com)
1 points by tnai 15y ago|0 comments
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by tnai 15y ago
The original paper is available via the open access journal PLoS: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... Also worth reading is Robert May's commentary "Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?" http://www
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by tnai 15y ago
Deferred entry to University may be a good option. A (little known) benefit of deferred university education in the UK is that as an 'independent student' (or mature student) you may qualify for full payment of your student fees: http://w
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by tnai 16y ago
Announcement on TED blog http://blog.ted.com/2011/02/16/announcing-ted-conversations/ Direct link to TED conversations http://www.ted.com/conversations
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by tnai 16y ago
Not sure where I heard this ... Biology is really Chemistry. Chemistry is really Physics. Physics is really Maths. and Maths is really hard.
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Garage biotech: Life hackers (nature.com)
3 points by tnai 16y ago|0 comments
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by tnai 16y ago
I'd second this! Mendeley ( http://www.mendeley.com/ ) is great. Metadata extraction from pdf papers is a huge time saver.
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by tnai 16y ago
Creepy video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe60BcHbUA Parasitoids have fascinating life histories. I'd thoroughly recommend the book "Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology" by Charles Godfray.
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by tnai 16y ago
this blog thinks it might be for google's birthday: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/googles-particles-d...
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by tnai 17y ago
Indeed. Unless i'm mistaken, this is more "hosted by Google" than "provided by Google" - a simple form set up by a Google account holder using Google spreadsheets. Though that's not to say it's not useful or well meaning.
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The Edge Annual Question 2010. How is the Internet changing the way you think?(edge.org)
1 points by tnai 17y ago|0 comments
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by tnai 17y ago
Argument from authority? Hawking's seems quite muddled but not all his remarks are entirely "out there" (see Pagel's "Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator", for example).
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by tnai 17y ago
Yes, you're quite right. We are apes. (though that may also depend on your classification philosophy [1].) [1] http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/feedback/oct02.html