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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 t…

Tr33-D notation? treenotation.org

any tips for ALPHA detectors :)? Somehow, those are significantly harder to DIY than beta/gamma..

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 …

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 …

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... http…

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 parad…

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 re…

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 usu…

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 pr…

Lol that trick also covers much of quantum mechanics, and relativity. (The gauge in “gauge theory” is a basis, btw)

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/…

:o the original Manci Pixie Dream girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

Author is Cosma Shalizi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi

Curiously, stackoverflow uses upvotes and downvotes too. How does that work?

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 ne…

This one seems most interesting: (Gary Weiss doxxes the NYT reporter who threatened to doxx) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635818

https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...