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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019) on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:58AM (#19805715)
Thanks bro.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019) on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:58PM (#19802511)
You temporarily need (during summer only): either 1) a professional academic to work with your AI team to produce published research, or 2) a professional academic to develop tools and curricula to "teach" AI to a non-STEM audience.

  Location: Anywhere / Remote
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Temporarily only
  Technologies: AI, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP, SQL.
  Email: [email protected]
Résumé/CV: Looking for a Summer Gig near warm surfing water: Not looking for a permanent job (am a tenured full professor at a university in the mid-west). I get summers off. Have studied AI via Andrew Ng's MOOC. The goal is to work with an AI team and publish peer-reviewed journal papers. I don't need pay. Preference will be given to offers involving: "enough room to lay my sleeping bag plus access to a kitchen & bathroom -- near the beach in SoCal or Florida or some such". 46 years old, born in India, U.S. citizen, language learner (basic Spanish, basic French, proficient Hindi), good cook, surfer, very active and into fitness. TEDx speaker. One of my interests would be: "teaching" AI to a non-STEM audience.
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:19PM (#19626811)
Is this a 2D slice of the actual spherical black hole?

Because if a black hole is a sphere, then shouldn't the whole thing be golden?

Re:Crystal Meth Is Spreading on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:56PM (#19588454)
Free feel to answer any of these:

- what helped you break the addiction (but your friends didn't have)?

- demographics? (age when started, location, socio-economic class, race, etc.?)

- what % of US school-kids do you think will try Meth?

Ask HN: Was Elizabeth Holmes just a face controlled by people in the background?

The more I read about Elizabeth Holmes, the more implausible the whole thing seems.She drops out of Stanford to start a blood-testing start-up. Plot-twist, she has no background in blood or testing.Her company makes various blood testing prototypes. Plot-twist, they're actually glue-guns bought off Amazon.Her company gets a contract from US's largest pharmacy chain to do blood-tests....

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How is this possible during a booming economy and one of the largest growth spurts in the stock market ever?

Dear App, I love you, but can't leave a review on the Google Play Store because

... it insists on making me use my real name* when I leave the review.Apparently, Google used to let people create an alt-name just for reviews (like Amazon does), but after Sundar got a few billions that changed.I totally love you, App. Would love to leave a five-star rating. Would love to describe in great detail why you rock. Would love to support your creators and thank them.But I can't...

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Re:The Path Amazon Rejected on Sunday February 17, 2019 @10:20PM (#19188381)
de Blasio tweeted this after Amazon cancelled: https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1096110674613358593

"working with the community" is code for "bribe" among the community organizer types.

I guess it wasn't.

I'll tell my sister about this to see if it helps. I did just now find an FAQ about "family and friends" transactions on PayPal, and it should be relatively easy for her to find.

Odd thing is that she's sent money to my previous PayPal account before without a hitch.

PayPal will hold money until I prove I shipped. I didn't sell anything.

Man, how far PayPal has fallen.I created a new PayPal account. It's linked to a Bank account, and a Credit card of mine.My sister "PayPalled" me some money (to buy something for her).PayPal held it and told me I needed to provide evidence of shipping before they'd release it.I emailed them to tell them I wasn't a "seller", this was a private transaction.Received an auto-generated email telling...

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Re:The map is not the territory (2015) on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:40AM (#19111831)
Good interpretation. Upvoted.
Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:51PM (#19110249)
Jeff Bezos, if you're reading this:

Do a Playgirl spread, for charity. Spreadeagle.

Defang them.

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Edit:

defang them (pun intended... get it? "fang") by doing Playgirl now, and publishing those sext images alongside. And do it for some great charity.

Everybody will have a huge laugh over it, Jeff will be a hero, and National Enquirer will have nothing to publish.

Re:The map is not the territory (2015) on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:13AM (#19094491)
What are your thoughts on what he meant by "in all the Land there are no other relics..."?
Re:What Is Glitter? on Saturday December 22, 2018 @02:02PM (#18741944)
Whatever it may be, it's likely not safe for living things to breathe-in or to eat.
Recommended: Chrome extension called "eyeCare" that one can set up to periodically remind one to do eye exercises.
I could never go back to sleeping on a thick mattress. I used to do 10" of foam, on a 10" box spring. Never again.

The mattress-pad I use is 4mm of sponge. I use it to help with air-flow under my body. I think I'm eventually going to wean myself off it and sleep on a sheet on a wooden floor (or perhaps a tatami mat type thing).

It helps a lot that I don't have a "steady" love-life. I keep a bed in a guest-bedroom for the dalliances though. Nobody else I've met in real life so far agrees with the concept of sleeping without a mattress. Pity (for them).

Got any thoughts on the use of pillows?

A pain in the small of my back went away after I started sleeping on a hard floor with a thin mattress-pad underneath. The discomfort was brutal the first week though.

I still love using my big squishy pillow tho, because I like sleeping on my side.

I know that sleeping without a pillow has to be good for me... 2 million years of homo-noid evolution without pillows is all the facts I need.

However, the most I'm able to go without a pillow is 2 nights. I have such terrible sleep, that I give in and use a pillow the 3rd night.

Without a pillow I find I can't sleep on my side (which I love doing), and if I'm sleeping on my stomach then there's too much pressure on whichever face-cheek faces down, causing mild bruising.

I'd love to learn to stop using pillows though.