Viewing profile — mcdonji
mcdonji
HN member- Joined
- Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 2:36 PM UTC
- HN karma
- 23
- Public activity
- 17 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About mcdonji
No profile information was provided.
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #36072783
I think the effort in the testing of the thousands of drugs was to help create the AI model. Then they used that model and it seems to have identified a promising antibiotic. The n…
-
comment
Comment #36050732
This is a fun project, and I respect implementing anything birthed from XKCD, but I agree and don't think I'd use this sort of thing to generate my passwords. ( Or I'll just stick …
-
comment
Comment #28483108
Proposal on how to utilize crypto to do some good.
- story
-
comment
Comment #26176283
That was it! Thanks.
-
comment
Comment #26176271
Yes! Thanks!
-
story
What are some side projects with journal link?
A couple of weeks back a read a hacker news article where an entrepreneur chronicled his efforts in his start up and had an "/open" link on the website. (the content was something …
-
comment
Comment #21072928
That is a brilliant demo. I get the impression we could scale that out to many dimensions and the quantum computing would be really fast. Could you give some indication of the time…
-
comment
Comment #13941761
This is a brilliant idea. I really like the idea of bringing modelling into everyday thinking. I do not understand the idea of hiding the hard stuff. Why can't I have access to and…
-
comment
Comment #13080474
Unfortunate that academics have reasonable solutions (or at least something reasonable to try) to many of the troubles we are encountering but we are unable to hear and internalize…
-
comment
Comment #10759395
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. I have used this metaphor of code as a living entity before and it resonates with those that have lived through such growth. The ar…
-
comment
Comment #9627587
Do the same thing you did for the Gittorrent. A GUI client that runs a torrent of a php file that connects to a torrent of a database file. You just need to always be connecting to…
-
comment
Comment #8902442
It seems to me Musk was attempting to get the people who should be pushing bold new ideas to do so. The Hyperloop idea might have been premature but it certainly engaged people in …
-
comment
Comment #7938178
I thought so too but when I actually tried using "the language" it was more like using an application (excel?). For example there are no sockets. You can't create a hello world pro…
-
comment
Comment #6052968
Wow this is really smart. Even in mundane enterprise applications the concept of the Player Model is important. In domain design we often speak of ubiquitous language between devel…
-
comment
Comment #4821128
He sounds quite bright. It seems he (and his people) are actually making a dent and are producing some tangible value. He said he could have gone to work for Wall Street. Does Wall…
-
comment
Comment #4749862
I am also really curious about these points and would like to hear what Chris has to say about them.