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Re:Horrifying PDF Experiments on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:26AM (#25612047)
The researcher probably wasnt surprised, it looks like the person you replied to was surprised. Perhaps i was surprised that you were surprised? :)
Hey dang, is there a moderately strict guideline that says that Show HN articles should have source code? This post is somewhat interesting, but you can imagine marketers abusing the format.
Re:Programming Languages as Objects in Nature on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:56AM (#25534573)
Tr33-D notation? treenotation.org
Re:Show HN: A DIY particle detector kit developed at CERN on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:52AM (#25384714)
any tips for ALPHA detectors :)? Somehow, those are significantly harder to DIY than beta/gamma..
Re:Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017) on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:36AM (#25285772)
DeepMind actually solved harder problems than most of the ones mentioned. All the proteins mentioned in the article (except for the chaperones) are 100 amino-acid and shorter, the therapeutic ones are even shorter, dozen(s) of AA. Thus, great preview of what is to come, though its from (2017). C&EN is truly the quantamagazine of biochem...
Thanks!! i have tried chasing that lead.. (found only childrens songs on youtube so I thought it might be based on a childrens song.. your posts above those were awesome but guess not the same style haha)

Also there was a deckhand on that ship called Henrik Wallgren[0], guess it could be the same person wonder how likely you think that is..

[0] https://youtu.be/VHeAlOcHeSI

Hey could you help me track down this probably Norwegian folk like song? Most likely its a oneoff song by some band but many on that thread have been keft hanging for years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZcAhIAUto&t=0m36s

Re:Early Work on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:46AM (#24857402)
I think there is a kind of blind spot, if not contradiction, in the essay. It could be a good kind of paradox like the immovable object vs irresistible force thing.. it’s the paradox of lisp, of bel, of Julia, of mit style hacking.. they MIGHT aspire to be good jokes but as far as I can see they are at best, some kind of inside joke.. it’s a special kind of lame.. maybe we shouldn’t ask whether jokes can be ambitious but whether ambitions can be truly hysterically funny
Re:Early Work on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:34AM (#24857304)
I think you almost hit the nail on the head.. it’s like a paraphrase of that saying about genius vs talent.. the difference between good work and great work is.. good work takes resources, but properly great work surprises us with how little it takes..
Re:Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:32AM (#24694984)
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/986607864180441088

Taleb’s response at the time (2018; for reference; they are both profs at NYU)

The other commenters are more balanced than usual for a taleb thread.. well worth giving a look.

Re:What are Differential Equations and how do they work? on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:21PM (#24681986)
Grad student here. I recently did the obvious NDSolve thing but Mathematica kept beachballing, and after heating up my computer tremendously returned an empty set. Turns out, my problem was really simple and I could solve it by hand.
Re:Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:49AM (#24478240)
Lol that trick also covers much of quantum mechanics, and relativity. (The gauge in “gauge theory” is a basis, btw)
Re:The Native-American Origins of Gumbo on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:34AM (#24234339)
The active compound, the tasty AND toxic bit, is quite interesting. It binds to DNA and is also an MDMA precursor (ie safrole is on DEA watchlists)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole

Re:The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015) on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:19AM (#24196692)
:o the original Manci Pixie Dream girl

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

Re:“The Edge of Chaos” (2017) on Saturday August 15, 2020 @10:16AM (#24169019)
Re:Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:38AM (#23998690)
Curiously, stackoverflow uses upvotes and downvotes too. How does that work?
Re:Seeking Truth in a Time of Misinformation on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:51AM (#23777301)
I’d like to make a similar argument for traditional mass media.. Readers don’t get to have nuanced discussions with content producers (journalist,editors,etc). This leads to not necessarily prosocial tendencies exhibited in, eg, the NYT doxxing of SSC or Vice not doing Naomi Wu a solid. Perhaps this is what Taleb may ascribe to a lack of skin in game? In the social web there is however the possibility of getting burned by the mob, so hmmmm.
This one seems most interesting: (Gary Weiss doxxes the NYT reporter who threatened to doxx)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635818