An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch.
IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits.
Not about IQ but I read somewhere about how the properties of octopus bodies (squishiness, bonelessness) form a very different understanding of the world compared to those of primates. Can't find where it was.
TierZoo on Youtube made a great video about octopuses and friends and mentioned that topic. It's quite an interesting stat to spec into when you don't have a high lifespan.
I had highly educated parents (university professors) and what I learned from them was a tiny fraction of the total amount of things that I've learned so far (from written material, other people, and life experience).
I think there's merit to what you said, but I don't think the crucial bit is the parents specifically. I think the crucial bit is that without language you can't easily communicate to others what you've learned, at least not complex things. This aspect doesn't depends on life expectancy as much. Instead it depends on two things: how much knowledge there is in society (of octopuses) and how doable it is to communicate that knowledge.
There was a thread about interviewing, someone talking about how hard interviewing was and failing dozens of them even as a senior engineer. (there is a thread about that once every month or two, indeed) A commenter responded saying something along the lines of, "When you find the right fit/role, the interview will seem suspiciously easy."
I thought it was interesting because it's such a huge anecdote without any ways of backing it up, but for some reasons it does match my own experience in the past decade+ for almost every job offer I've landed (a handful). For every interview where I felt like I struggled really hard (even though in the end I was able to solve the problems the interviewers asked), I did not get offers. For the ones I did land, it always seemed really easy and somewhat like "what? is that it?"
An article about EV vs. ICE was posted, written from the perspective of an EV being the natural way of building things (few moving parts, little heat loss, etc) and that this ICE was an intricate machine of thousands of parts channeling the spirit of fine watchmaking or Jules Verne.
I found the perspective refreshing but have never been able to find it since.
Somebody was writing about a concept of negotiations that focuses on values of the other party, and asking the question "what if your value is met" instead of arguing for your positions. The example was about gun control: "what if there's no crime, would you be willing to give up guns?"
Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship.
Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success.
I remember that story, but I sadly can't point you to a link. If you liked that story, you might also like The Egg [], though, which I also found via HN.
I found and lost a similar story. There were no mentions of human characters, only programs that were evolving in their own digital space. It was a standard HTML page amongst a collection of other works, not a book.
Someone commented: "how things have changed, emacs and vim are partners and the enemy is Eclipse and Visual Studio"
A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to learn about how computer works and be a sysadmin.
Someone once posted a short science fiction story about the animals that became the dominant intelligent species on earth after humans. First it was raccoons, then it was crows, traveling by air balloon. I loved it, and I’ve searched many subsequent times to no avail.
In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that you remember though. (http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/).
An article that provided a strong argument for why you should never stop reading, even if you forget most of what you read. There are a few articles I’ve found via Google on the same subject but they are not the one I saw on HN.
Not a "interesting thought" really, but I thought someone posted a link to a site for "un-mangling" text. would fix all the formatting issues like &, and other various issues caused by copy/pasting text from place to place.
I forget what I was doing recently but I thought "I should use that site" and couldn't find it anywhere after lots of searching. I should have bookmarked it :-/
Someone shared an MIT or Stanford class titled Deep learning for Biology or for Bioinformatics can't remember.
I thought I saved it but couldn't find it anywhere later.
Edit: The lectures were on youtube.
Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked.
I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system.
It involved using a single folder for all notes, with different categories, that were indicated in the file name. In fact the file name contained everything important. It also discussed never altering a file, but creating an index to refer to other related entries.
I think the person who wrote the forum post was a journalist of some sort? And they might have made reference to a Japanese system that was similar, but physical, which used lines on the top of index cards to indicate categories, and keeping the number of categories low (always 4?) was important.
I recall reading a phenomenal blog(?) post about data science in history in which the author presented some historical data relating to the northern renaissance (iirc, shipping logs) and then presented two completely plausible but divergent analyses of the data.
I've spent hours trying to find it again on multiple occasions with no success. :(
There was a guy who posted some comments explaining how the industry basically doesn't know exactly why some batteries work better than others, and that the research in this domain is a lot like "nobody know wtf they are doing".
There was also this one comment by a guy explaining that the components used in Apple devices are "premium" components coming from the first batches, and that they make Apple's hardware more reliable than another computer with the same components
I read about it about a year ago. It was about a small program with 4 letters and someone posted 2 blog posts about it in a weeks time abusing the tool to see what it can come up with. The tool or program seemed to have an exploitative nature and seemed to be used in the security field. It worked with, I think binary files, but I recall it also allowed other programs to be ran on it. You provided an exit state and an input state and the program it needs to work with and tried all sorts of things within the provided program to reach the provided exit state. The blog post abused it to optimise to something interesting which I can't recall anymore. The writer of the blog post had more experience with it and already liked to toy around with it. It's not angr.
Iirc it 2as called something like nmap or jobn. Something with 4 letters and not the most straightforward name.
A blog post by a pythics PHD (or may be biolog or chemistry, I don’t remember.) about the sad state of utility software in his/her area of study. The software the author developed during the PhD program has become the acedemic standard.
There was one motivational type article about how you should “go first” or “be first” when approaching problems in life. Like when making friends or just socially in general. I was looking for it again recently but couldn’t find it.
tldw: it can be mathematically proven that the best strategy is to take the initiative when looking for a partner/job/vacancy, starting with your prefered choice and working down from there, and let others shoot you down if need be
A post about a startup that was trying to create an open database of algorithmic ways to treat patients. I've tried and tried to find this with HN's search engine, but can't seem to pick the right search terms.
[+] [-] ahmedfromtunis|7 years ago|reply
IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits.
I wish I can find that piece again!
[+] [-] nabla9|7 years ago|reply
It does not matter how smart you are if you can't learn from parent and have only few years to gain life experience.
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I had highly educated parents (university professors) and what I learned from them was a tiny fraction of the total amount of things that I've learned so far (from written material, other people, and life experience).
I think there's merit to what you said, but I don't think the crucial bit is the parents specifically. I think the crucial bit is that without language you can't easily communicate to others what you've learned, at least not complex things. This aspect doesn't depends on life expectancy as much. Instead it depends on two things: how much knowledge there is in society (of octopuses) and how doable it is to communicate that knowledge.
[+] [-] godot|7 years ago|reply
I thought it was interesting because it's such a huge anecdote without any ways of backing it up, but for some reasons it does match my own experience in the past decade+ for almost every job offer I've landed (a handful). For every interview where I felt like I struggled really hard (even though in the end I was able to solve the problems the interviewers asked), I did not get offers. For the ones I did land, it always seemed really easy and somewhat like "what? is that it?"
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[+] [-] codebeaker|7 years ago|reply
I found the perspective refreshing but have never been able to find it since.
[+] [-] spicyj|7 years ago|reply
http://teslaclubsweden.se/test-drive-of-a-petrol-car/
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[+] [-] jdietrich|7 years ago|reply
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/08/varieties-of-argumentat...
In the context of negotiation, the book Getting To Yes describes a similar concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes
[+] [-] gojomo|7 years ago|reply
Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success.
[+] [-] 0bit|7 years ago|reply
That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.
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[] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
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A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
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In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that you remember though. (http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/).
There might also be an free archive somewhere..
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526
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I forget what I was doing recently but I thought "I should use that site" and couldn't find it anywhere after lots of searching. I should have bookmarked it :-/
[+] [-] teddyh|7 years ago|reply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103356
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I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system.
It involved using a single folder for all notes, with different categories, that were indicated in the file name. In fact the file name contained everything important. It also discussed never altering a file, but creating an index to refer to other related entries.
I think the person who wrote the forum post was a journalist of some sort? And they might have made reference to a Japanese system that was similar, but physical, which used lines on the top of index cards to indicate categories, and keeping the number of categories low (always 4?) was important.
I'd love to find that forum post again.
[+] [-] jswrenn|7 years ago|reply
I've spent hours trying to find it again on multiple occasions with no success. :(
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[+] [-] thiht|7 years ago|reply
There was also this one comment by a guy explaining that the components used in Apple devices are "premium" components coming from the first batches, and that they make Apple's hardware more reliable than another computer with the same components
[+] [-] hetspookjee|7 years ago|reply
Iirc it 2as called something like nmap or jobn. Something with 4 letters and not the most straightforward name.
Please help me out.
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[+] [-] charlysl|7 years ago|reply
MIT Math for CS, Matching Problems: https://youtu.be/5RSMLgy06Ew
tldw: it can be mathematically proven that the best strategy is to take the initiative when looking for a partner/job/vacancy, starting with your prefered choice and working down from there, and let others shoot you down if need be
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Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well.
I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...