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I think one of best examples of this was the push to make mandatory the National Animal Identification System. The idea was put every farm animal into a database and RFID the large…

I was reading the proceedings of the 2013 SAT competition and was pleasantly surprised to find Knuth listed as a contestant! It also included a few paragraphs he wrote about his su…

Counterpoint: try googling "Volstate EPB". I'm no expert, but I think it would be a shame if small struggling ISPs get the short end of the stick. It's hard for me to make a judgem…

For me, testing comes to mind.

Absolutely. I was really surprised to hear this. I'm sadly getting the impression that the only large entities who have thrown funding into audits are the intelligence agencies.

I drag the scrollbar and use pageup/down keys as much as I use the mousewheel. I don't enjoy getting near the bottom of the page and suddenly being warped several screens ahead, th…

I just looked at 1024 on Google Play, and I have to say it would really sting to work on Threes for a year then read that "If you played 2048 in Hacker News, That [sic] you should …

Not unpleasant. The 'i' feels funny and I'm not sure about the curvy 'y'. Maybe it's too similar to 'g'. But really not unpleasant.

It would be funny if a technology pioneered by "Singular Computing" were a primary contributor to reaching the Singularity.

Part of me wonders whether https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967516 was related. This is all very sobering.

I enjoy HN comments for their tempered, rational thought. I don't think diminutive hyperbole benefits your position here.

I disagree that jack0fnone is mentally ill. I see him as a 14 year old. It's perfectly understandable that a 14 year old might go through a bitcoin phase, be awestruck by gwern.net…

Cellist-Organist-luthier here. Don't be silly. Imagine arguing against the merits of the organ by saying "It gives up the expressiveness of the Oboe/Flute with no tangible benefit …

I don't have anything constructive to say besides that I'm always impressed by your work, Gwern. Thanks for all the references as always.

> How many diseases have we cured in the past 20 years? The past 40 years? Medical advances are really, really slow. It would be really interesting if we began noticing a medical a…

I'd be interested to get a sense of how these issues vary from country to country and field to field.

Microsoft needs to pull out of mobile and tighten their grip on the desktop market. I can say anecdotally that the only reason many people stay with Windows is for games. I'd like …