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by zach 1y ago
The fact that it has no clearly discernible purpose is evidence for it being something to be enjoyed for aesthetics, spiritual purposes, or, most likely I think, entertainment. Attach some string and it is a durable, highly portable puzzle
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by zach 2y ago
The DAK Industries Catalog is a wild masterpiece of copywriting. One carefully-curated product per page, with no table of specifications or even a price box, just densely information-packed, quirky, well-paced, clever conversational descrip
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by zach 2y ago
Choplifters of the world unite and take over
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by zach 3y ago
I agree, robotaxis do not belong in LA, at least culturally. The collective suffering of working-class commuters ascending and descending the income gradient on packed freeways is the thing that powers LA, like children’s screams powered th
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by zach 3y ago
I was not as aware of all the drama that happened before I got there (August 1999) except for reading Stormy Weather* and hearing the weird twice-daily all-office pages for Todd Porter that made me wonder if he was holed up somewhere. From
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by zach 3y ago
If you’re interested, I worked for a short time on Daikanana and have some thoughts on this topic, some of which match up to themes in John’s book: https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1596-5-things-w... To make thi
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by zach 3y ago
I noticed that Evan O’Dorney’s generals was chaired by Bhargava and this question was asked: What is Brauer's theorem? [I had no idea and they moved on] He clearly should have read Bhargava’s generals, where Andrew Wiles ask
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by zach 3y ago
Very much so — this was looking at graduation, so even its most recent data from 2015 represented students who applied to college no later than spring of 2011. Since then, computer science has certainly been growing: “The number of students
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by zach 6y ago
Hey, Matthew. I have some bad news: I can’t read this article without a Medium account. This is probably going to be fatal to its hopes of being widely read via HN.
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by zach 7y ago
One of the most memorable moments of my career was when I joined a project and, the very first day, had the equivalent of a “showrunner” sit me and another engineer down and pitch the project to us. It was mostly the same pitch that the sho
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by zach 7y ago
When I started a real estate startup, it was because I had gotten the wall version of the Thomas Bros. map — of course! — and plotted LA’s median home prices, crime and school stats. My idea was, wow, wouldn’t it be great to give other peop
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by zach 8y ago
Ken Nordine also lent his unique narrative stylings to a game from the LaserDisc era of arcade video games, in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKyWNEGh_yk&t=30s It's hard to describe exactly, but the technolo
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by zach 8y ago
Sure; like the song says, the village of Motunui is all you need. But the "render just one frame" just means that package is a cut-down version of the "Animation" package which lets you render the entire scene while disp
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by zach 8y ago
Right, score inflation alongside grade inflation. The administrators of the GMAT have an answer to that: https://www.gmac.com/why-gmac/gmac-news/gmnews/2017/july-201... It says that it doesn't expla
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by zach 8y ago
> "Academic researchers say that uptick is a sign of grade inflation, not of smarter students." I don't think this is right. There is good evidence that the highest percentiles of students (the ones populating the competit
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by zach 8y ago
Productivity has skyrocketed since the 1970s in the durable-goods sector, but not so much in the rest of the economy: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/tfp-and-great-sta...
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by zach 8y ago
Interesting. It would be similar to this concept in American sports, where a team like the New York Yankees (the San Francisco housing market of baseball) can keep their economic advantage but has to pay a tax on it, the proceeds going to l
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by zach 8y ago
Seems trivial, but I have met someone whose ardent hobby was programming go-playing programs. With the creation of AlphaGo Zero, one could say all the clever code ever written by humans for the purpose of playing go is obsolete. More releva
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by zach 8y ago
Looking at the trend here, you can see why many business forecasters and economists have predicted that advances in artificial intelligence will create huge new returns to capital. That future is worth reflecting on because it suggests a fu
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by zach 8y ago
Indeed, Thalmic Labs (YC W13) had a article about the Myo nearly five years ago in the same publication: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forearm-gestures-...
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by zach 9y ago
Wow, surprised to see “One Million Jobs” still here, from back when Uber was widely praised, and even so it encountered rampant skepticism[1]. Especially curious to see it on the same list as the “Future of Work” which implicitly contradict
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by zach 9y ago
Sounds like a task that had better have a good software-only fallback, because not many people are going to have a light sensor. And if the software-only implementation works well enough, why would they buy one?
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by zach 9y ago
Just going off of an NYT article from last year about how Amish communities, and especially those who live among farm animals (what I, at least, think of as the "most Amish" lifestyle), have really healthy gut microbiomes: https:
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by zach 9y ago
Wow. We thought the Amish were just getting lots of healthy exercise, but it turns out they’re the genetic Knights Templar, guarding a secret source of life for hundreds of years. Of course, their lifestyle probably maintains the healthiest
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by zach 9y ago
Data entry has always been a strongly female occupation. Even sixty years later, data entry workers were 92% female: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-02/news/870226065... It seems concerning that the de-
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by zach 9y ago
I have good news: if we get smarter people, it seems that we may get better ethics too. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2741266_cod...
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by zach 10y ago
Just yesterday I was looking up how to recommend someone for a MacArthur grant specifically for the Adams brothers. Sadly, the nomination committee is anonymous and does not accept recommendations. It's a shame because this seems like
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by zach 10y ago
The shortcomings of this noxious but common "prove you're a genius by your ROI" attitude is exactly why Y Combinator has been as successful as it has been. There is no mystery here. PG, JL, TLB and RTM obviously thought highl
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by zach 10y ago
By "They tend to publish academic papers" you mean you used an "academic paper" template and uploaded it to your website.
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by zach 10y ago
So you could call this exact sort of profile a "Write Around the Murray"? http://www.writearoundthemurray.org.au/

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