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Re:Fraud, so much fraud on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:49PM (#41673568)
Seems to be censored from the NIH staff directory now https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/staff/masliah-eliezer
Re:Bouba/Kiki Effect on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:13PM (#27887894)
Cool to see this on HN -- I wrote a program for a psych lab in college that was exploring this effect. The idea was to see if homogenous sensory stimuli had a faster reaction time & accuracy compared to disparate ones.

eg. Was the response to [ Bouba-like image + Bouba-like audio ] faster/more accurate than [ Bouba-like image + Kiki-like audio ]

Seemed like it may provide some insight into speech perception and synesthesia.

Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:41PM (#25649175)
Where can I contact you?
Maybe something like this[0] will become more common. Seems to have had some success in increasing the Salmon population (via plankton boom) but was obviously quite controversial.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizing-ocean...

Re:Robinhood Is Down Again? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:27AM (#22475924)
For the algotraders out there, figured their status page could be an interesting indicator:

https://github.com/wk0/is-millennial-retail-trading

Re:Payment Request API on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:36AM (#22464740)
Fairly related: https://interledger.org/

Pretty sure a lot of blockchain projects are banking on this spec becoming official.

Re:Turtleocracy on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:55PM (#22300657)
Is the Hedgehog and the Fox just an overly-complex (but more concrete) derivation of monism vs pluralism?
Re:Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow? on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @11:34AM (#21928774)
ribbonfarm? A bit more flowery
Re:Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow? on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @11:34AM (#21928769)
Ribbonfarm? A bit more flowery
Going to hijack this thread to plug some basic Telegram API tutorials I've written on Medium

* Send and Receive Messages with the Telegram API https://medium.com/@wk0/send-and-receive-messages-with-the-t...

* Running a Serverless Telegram Bot from AWS Lambda https://medium.com/@wk0/running-a-serverless-telegram-bot-fr...

* Integrating Your Serverless Telegram Bot with AWS API Gateway (published today) https://medium.com/@wk0/integrating-your-serverless-telegram...

I have over VNC
Re:Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:15AM (#20155580)
Phil Demers, who worked at Marineland (referenced in article), was just on the Joe Rogan Experience (episode #1297). They discuss this legislation pretty heavily.
Re:Go is Google's language, not ours on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:42AM (#19981681)
IBM seems to be using swift on the server [1], probably most notably with their Kitura web framework [2].

TensorFlow also has a Swift API in development [3]. The people at FastAI seem quite excited about it [4].

[1] https://developer.ibm.com/swift/

[2] https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura

[3] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/api_docs

[4] https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/

Re:IPFS Camp 2019 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:22PM (#19742228)
There are two 'code-along' style videos on the IPFS youtube page I found helpful

IPFS PubSub Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv_Teb--1zg

Google Docs esque clone with CDRTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ

Theres also a pubsub room example on the ipfs-shipyard github: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-pubsub-room

notably, the 2 & 10 year has not yet inverted

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

Re:What tools are you using for knowledge graph building? on Thursday May 11, 2017 @10:58AM (#14316463)
I've used Apache Jena (Java) for a research project with DBpedia. I know there are some other options that are a bit quicker for processing RDFs, but I think most are proprietary.