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What's the file format? I hope the best for your app, but I hope I can still use those files if something happens to the company. I converted to .txt files 10 years ago for everything todo, but wouldn't mind a specialized utility for it!
Re:NSF: The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024 on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:31PM (#39746621)
The National Science Board (Board, NSB) is required under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1863 (j) (1) to prepare the biennial Science and Engineering Indicators (Indicators) report for and transmit it to the president and Congress every even-numbered year. The report is prepared by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within NSF under the guidance of the Board.
Happy shortcut.com user here, used pivotal for years previously. I use it for my small engineering team.
Re:Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:06AM (#35665752)
Great UI. I thought originally the comments here about the UI were about the Times site. Ha! Seemed like a tough crowd!
Re:W3C invites applications to be our next CEO on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:33AM (#35655299)
Nonprofits pay with purpose as much as cash. You can work on a widget or do something meaningful with your life.
Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:17AM (#35257832)
Not sure why peripheral vision UIs never took off for cars. It solves the safety issue of taking your eyes off the road with while still enjoying the benefits of a touch screen. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sT33BPUQaHg&feature=youtu.be
Re:Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups? on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:48PM (#32906666)
Yes
Re:FAA Aviation Handbooks and Manuals on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:10PM (#32685050)
Has gems like "Balloon Flying Handbook", "Instrument Flying Handbook", "Glider Flying Handbook" and many more.
lost me with text set in cyan
Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug. I used it for years as a required text in pretty much every UX related class I taught. Entertaining, super digestable and very nutritious.
Re:What is mathematical thinking? (2012) on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:39AM (#30753374)
Wow, so, so much venom on this thread. For those of you who enjoyed the article (like myself), you'll see that his class ("Introduction to Mathematical Thinking") starts today as a Coursera Stanford MOOC here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking
Wow for the chandelier
What were your main means of coordination and planning?
Re:Why won’t anyone teach me math? on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:54AM (#30303673)
At least you had math. At my school, they only taught "History of Math," and didn't have any affiliations with other programs/schools to fill in the gaps. Pretty awful!
Re:I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:36AM (#30300683)
Last week I asked gpt3 (through philosopher ai) “why don’t irrational numbers fit neatly in our number system?”

And I got back this bad answer:

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Would you tell me what an irrational number is? Is it a number that cannot be written as a fraction, like pi or e? Or is it something else?

Okay, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.

Then what is an irrational number? It is a number that cannot be written as a fraction, correct?

Okay, I understand. Then what is a number that can be written as a fraction? It must be a rational number, right?

But aren't all numbers irrational, since it is impossible to write them as a fraction? And any rational number must be irrational, right?

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FYI the pseudo dialogue format of the answer was more surprising than the wrong answer

It would be very useful to see volume of jobs in addition to how much they pay
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice? on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:17AM (#29702659)
How is this as a definition of spiritual? “The practice of engaging with the unknown for practical effect.”
Re:Ask HN: Life Changing Books? on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:19PM (#29606285)
For me, systems thinking, incompleteness theorem, writing style, consciousness... Definitely helped set my path in building thinking tools as a career.
Re:The Matrix Is Unreal on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:53PM (#29534531)
“Actual consciousnesses” defined as…?
"Music can help either sides" - I just don't hear music at all when programming, it doesn't effect my output.
Not just concentration, I concentrate for art/design tasks as well, but I can still process audio while doing those things.

Ask HN: Can you hear other people or music while programming?

I was just curious if anyone else has this same experience: while programming or doing anything highly analytical, my mind blocks out all sound - I don't hear conversations or music. However, while engaged with visually creative tasks such as design or art, it is almost like a second brain and I can hear conversations/music and can multitask with audio easily.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:43AM (#29474728)
I wonder what the cost is on the US economy
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:26AM (#29474406)
Interactive Video Service (IVS) is down too

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