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Re:Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @06:08AM (#10849837)
amazing, write this up please!
Re:ClojureScript performance revisited
on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @07:06AM (#10737308)
kind of misleading when it's throttled the whole time isn't it?
Re:ClojureScript Unraveled
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:22AM (#9491743)
there is a community curating effort around http://cljsjs.github.io/ for popular external libraries
Re:Pixie: A sweet Clojure-ish language
on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:06AM (#9170098)
the point is to free yourself to focus on semantics rather than endlessly learning syntax
Re:AnalyticsMD (YC W15) Applies AI to Optimize the ER
on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:00PM (#8967770)
What is your tech stack?
Re:The Man Behind Common Core Math
on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @11:17AM (#8819863)
I have looked over some of the common core material given to both early grade school and middle schoolers and its very clearly attempting to teach abstract reasoning. There is alot of word problems that ask how to decouple a concept from the concrete values calculated in a previous step. Most people from older generations are not going to see the value in this... parents (and teachers) need to know there is much more to math than arithmetic
Re:What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @09:50PM (#8634159)
Such conditions emerged over very large timespans in which life had plenty of time to evolve in response. What you are talking about is the same changes but over a few hundred years...this would be absolutely DISASTROUS for life. Rising CO2 is already acidifying the oceans and we've already seen symptoms such as coral bleaching.
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @05:59PM (#8495451)
can you recommend some shows/channels? Are there any online streams?
Re:IBM Watson API
on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @11:12AM (#8361889)
The Q&A is not particularly interesting...are there other api's we can experiment with? Also, is there any precedent for getting clojure up on bluemix?
Re:“Transducers” by Rich Hickey at Strange Loop [video]
on Saturday September 20, 2014 @02:02AM (#8343814)
Removing conj is what finally made it click
Re:SICL – A fresh implementation of Common Lisp
on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:07PM (#8285875)
The lisp internet is horrific
Re:Town Becomes a Beer Ad, but Residents Don’t Feel Like a Party
on Sunday September 07, 2014 @05:44PM (#8282527)
My sis lives there and made $1000 waiting tables last night, a big win for a college kid
Re:To Make Streets Safe, Make Them Dangerous
on Saturday September 06, 2014 @05:11AM (#8277894)
1. tourists everywhere
2. tourists staring up at buildings (big no no)
3. NYPD has better things to do than go after speeders. everybody is flying
4. culture of impatience...people are in too much of a hurry to cross safely
Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase
on Friday September 05, 2014 @04:01AM (#8272760)
I want to allow rich open data formats but provide grossly superior tools for their creation, viewing, and editing in a single slick interface. People dont want a personal wiki. Or to use org mode or whatever. They want the computer from the star trek enterprise, tailored to them. Simple, clean, interactive, adaptive
I have a unique (so far) webstack that is enables alot of magic but some of the tech is new so theres alot of exploring atm.
Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase
on Friday September 05, 2014 @12:53AM (#8272372)
I am working on this in the nyc area if anyone is interested. Definitely need a cofounder
Re:List of people who have petitioned for the right to be forgotten
on Thursday August 07, 2014 @08:47AM (#8147403)
For our entire history we've been able to move on to the next town/region/country and get a fresh start. Until we get that back, I think we may be entering a dark era.
Re:Interactive SICP
on Sunday July 20, 2014 @10:13PM (#8062207)
I had no idea these existed, you just made my week
Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter
on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:57PM (#7025146)
Paul Adams (macarthur fellow 1986) teaches a class on self organization of the brain, and he begins with similar physics analogies involving phase changes. You can check out his stuff here: http://www.syndar.org/
Re:DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:18PM (#6910447)
It's important to be wary of the term 'junk DNA'...just because a segment of a chromosome is noncoding does not mean it has no role in the genome's function. Assembly of functional structure ie a Replisome requires formation of elaborate secondary and tertiary 3-D conformations that support the primary replication machinery. This is facilated by topoisomerases, binding proteins, a whole soup of RNAs, and spans of "junk" which allow the necessary conformations. In other cases, the 'junk' can serve to insulate highly conserved genes. "Junk" is a terrible characterization.
This is one of those instances where the press/pop media can be a bit behind. Some bchem textbooks from even a few years ago are obsolete. Research into DNA-DNA interaction really has become hotter in only the last few years as we've begun pinning down protein roles. There is a whole layer of interaction between epigenetics, differential RNA splicing, and DNA-DNA feedback that is just mind-boggling.