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I'm quite comfortable saying that master/slave is an unsavory metaphor to use in your distributed architecture.

Software engineering was life changing for me. I studied cognitive and computer sciences (CMU '03) - and when I graduated I realized I didn't know much about writing software. Luck…

It's a fact that wealthy donors support specific research that interests them. On the one hand, hasn't research always been funded like this? Wealthy patrons have always supported …

This is basically what I do. I then use Gthnk ( http://gthnk.com ) to navigate all my markdown files. I sync with dropbox or seafile, but it's the same basic idea. Gthnk renders to…

It would appear the rat poison they are referring to is strychnine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine

Gthnk is journaling software. I use it as my technical "work journal" and I find the practice to be valuable. I've been working on this software for years by this point and I occas…

You've convinced me to try it out. My personal knowledge management project, Gthnk (gthnk.com), would appear to plug in easily as a Source - without any special plugin necessary. I…

I recommend the Multi-Account Containers extension by Mozilla, which has a "sort tabs" button that accomplishes what you want. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-…

I've heard the typical ICU/hospitalization course involves bilateral pneumonia, apparently requiring intubation and ventilation. It appears to be survivable as long as equipment an…

In the psychological sciences, it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. When a phenomenon with a large effect size is demonstrated with tens or hundreds of pa…

Hi Paul - looks interesting! What is the license? My presumption is that you intentionally did not embed a license within either of the documents.

I made a separate account for the Chromebook. I don't associate any personal info with this account. Of course, most people will reuse their existing accounts, but it's not strictl…

Happy Chromebook user here. I use the Asus c213 as my daily driver now. I do the heavy lifting on a Linux server. Crostini made it all click for the mobile development environment.…

It's called the "file drawer problem" in which research is conducted but not published because it wasn't significant. You're referring to "Type I error" in which a statistically si…

This is an open access article and the statistics are published. See p.41 for a per-country analysis of the effect on literacy. I would be ashamed to publish criticism about an ope…

Captain Disillusion has been way ahead of his time for so many years. I think his time has finally come.

Thank you for highlighting this! I wasn't aware of Patrick's software until you mentioned it, but there's a lot of great stuff there: - KnockKnock: perform system scan to list ever…

Wow. I can hardly believe what I'm looking at. We're so used to seeing one "bullet train" at a time, and even that is held as a lofty aspiration. Some day, maybe, my country might …

Thanks! Yes, I plan for agents to support death. In fact, I plan to backfill the entire human species into the database, most of whom are dead. I estimate this will grow the databa…

Thanks for providing a definition for the word "virtual." I think part of the problem here is that I've invented something we don't have precise language for, yet. I call the agent…