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Enlightened people, very boring at parties.

I had the same question, the piano is already a well developed and standardized instrument from centuries of revision and engineering. Returning to one string seems like a step bac…

Oooh, I like that idea! I'm gonna try to figure that out today.

One of the great beauties of working with scripting languages, they work just fine on lighter laptops. The MacBook Air is a great machine for the node/python/php programmer on the …

> It turns out what they had tried to do was harder than expected Literally every business/engineering project ever.

Brain hack: Formulate your thinking in terms of positive statements. Example: * Negative statement: Don't use object inheritance, it leads to confusing code. * Positive statement: …

There are also way fewer cars in those photos that anywhere comparable in LA today. Maybe these things are related?

Thank you, that really helps! The original article alone is pretty confusing.

Yes! This makes me so happy that Miyazaki would unretire and make more movies!

The "where is this child" query is unaffected by the ordering, whether Z-order, Hilbert, or other. However querying "which children are in this area" requires that you come up with…

> Instead of projecting the Earth directly onto a single square, it projects the Earth onto the 6 faces of a cube enclosing the Earth and then applies an extra non-linear transform…

Yes! So much covered in so few words. This ordering works shockingly well for constructing robust solutions to complex problems. Keep it simple. Do what needs to be done now, leave…

First, it must be said that this is super cool, and I love it so much! I've got questions... 1. What is the relationship between the bottom colored dots and the colored notes? I'm …

Two weeks. I refer to it as the cussing period because it's full of situations where I know something is possible and easy, but I have to figure out how to find the right documenta…

In my circle of peers, and perhaps beyond, we use "clever" as a pejorative. It roughly means what you said in the last sentence, "more of a display of cleverness than actual clever…

Nice! This is definitely an important tool when creating a site traffic in images to be displayed across a variety different sized screens. Having worked on this type of project be…

I also secretly wish you would punch him in the face.

Here is an interesting development contradicting edA-qa mort-ora-y's premise, AI Software Learns To Make AI Software: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603381/ai-software-learns..…

I really love this article about Fan Hui and AlphaGo, [The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google's AI Play Go]( https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-google... ). I…

It's not boorish. I only learned about this practice of new American slavery from a friend who had come out of prison recently. Not enough people are talking about it, so nobody kn…

I wonder if this list comes out any differently today, 12 years later.

It's a secondary work, "The function of criticism: On T. S. Eliot’s essay on the evaluation of literature" by Denis Donoghue.

Paul Feyerabend argues as much in [Against Method]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method ), that "science is an anarchic enterprise." Our greatest innovations were created …

I'm a 40-something programmer learning to weld. It's really fun! You can do it too.

We should send even smaller nano-probes that would be even easier to accelerate and would have the capability to collect dust and build it into larger probes that would talk back t…