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Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: The Internet of Unprofitable Things

Interesting subject - but I found myself pretty quickly lost in the technica terms. I do not even know what an NTP server is.

Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce

So they’re complaining that they’re being out-competed?

Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

What I don’t understand is why people are excited about the new features of JavaScript. The problem with JavaScript has never been that it doesn’t have enough features or syntactic sugar. The problem with JavaScript is that it has a rotten, unsafe core. Its very nature is antithetical to writing robust software, yet we need it to create dynamic UI applications.

Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: Tattoo Ink Nanoparticles Persist in Lymph Nodes (2017)

Although comical, this is definitely false now, right?

Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: Scientists reverse aging-associated skin wrinkles and hair loss in a mouse model

Look at the picture of the mouse - it’s not aging, it’s dying. Yes, they “reverse” the condition, but only by the cessation of giving these little guys poison (doxycycline, a harsh antibiotic). This could have been called “high doses of doxycycline almost kills mice.”

Joboman555 | 7 years ago | on: The Avail Programming Language

Constructive Criticism: I could not find any code examples on the website within 3 minutes of searching, gave up, and left.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead

Cutting out meat is not significantly associated with weight loss. Cutting out simple carbohydrates, especially sugar, is.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails

I think this is missing the main point of Project Based Learning: you choose what you want to learn. You cannot treat motivation as a constant when comparing educational methods. Students get much more from their learning when it is intrinsic and specific to their interests, as is the case when doing a project.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails

If you think that companies by introverts are undervalued, a ton of money could be made exploiting this trend.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: Why HackerRank and other coding tests are ageist

This is maligned and dangerous. It has been shown that credentialing hurts the marketplace and consumers. Having a credential authority would not cause there to be a skill bar, it would just require all of us to pay money to a worthless authority.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day (Day 2)

Failure rate doesn't matter. 99% failure * 1B > 90% failure * 1M

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: p5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators

Link took over 10 seconds to load on iPad before I gave up.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API

Anyone know what license this is under?

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style

These people are not particularly good at interpreting statistics.

Joboman555 | 8 years ago | on: Z-order curve usage to decrease dimensionality to 1

This stuff mostly goes over my head, but I'd like to understand it. In the original method, why is op concatenating the two positions into one number, rather than just storing the lat/lon pair and using something like Euclidean distance?

Joboman555 | 9 years ago | on: Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf]

I took a class with the Sanjoy (the author) this past fall. Awesome guy and a great teacher.