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aghillo | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Professional growth in 2 min a day [total rebuild of iOS app]

Super good first impressions and a very stylish app. Really looking to working with this over the next few weeks.

aghillo | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?

(3^3)3.3.5 ? Maybe…

aghillo | 4 years ago | on: 1Password Blue Ocean Strategy

Would you mind explaining your migration process from 1Password to Keychain? Was it fairly simple?

aghillo | 4 years ago | on: A History of Haggis

You could ruin your mashed potato by making clapshot :)

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply

Indeed. Thomas De Gentd averaged 298w for 6hr on stage 17 of the Giro d’italia a few days ago according to his strava feed (measured off his SRM powermeter).

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock

The Isle of Wight in the UK has a quirky ‘4 tides’ a day - sort of https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Southampton-i-e-the-coast-of-...

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

It may well be this classic from my old office colleague https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Rich...

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”

Point 9? That Google could (will?) just kill it at some point?

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”

Intrigued. Why ‘shocking piece of technology’?

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite

I like this. Previously I’ve used notebooks to explain a data pipeline from different perspectives. One notebook showing the ETL process going from raw data to RDF triples in a store; one SPARQL notebook showing the raw queries; and then a final decision support notebook using a Python binding to the underlying SPARQL query library. It seemed to work well.

aghillo | 5 years ago | on: Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?

It’s also used in low-level bladder cancers as a wash of the bladder. I think it’s a similar idea in that it helps provoke an immunology response that’s been found to be helpful.

aghillo | 6 years ago | on: A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’

Yes. A typical example would be the use of statistical emulators, emulating process (physical) based models that are computationally complex in the environmental sciences.

aghillo | 6 years ago | on: Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With

Here’s a report on the Ariane 5 incident https://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2010/bib/lions96ariane...

aghillo | 6 years ago | on: An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail

Feel free not to follow the links - but please don’t tell others what to do and not do.

aghillo | 6 years ago | on: An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail

I think it’s probably this link which has been in the news recently https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S259019821930017X

aghillo | 7 years ago | on: Applied Category Theory

That looks very interesting and could be source of interesting ideas. Thank you.

aghillo | 7 years ago | on: Applied Category Theory

Is there any accessible work using Category Theory that looks at API composition? I’m thinking here about data intensive systems that are often composed of different elements (e.g. Kafka, Cassandra, bespoke microservices, ...) and are glued together in an application. Could Category Theory help in getting a grip on this complexity?

aghillo | 7 years ago | on: Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011)

Gosh, for my Bachelor’s final year dissertation in 1990 I implemented a distributed version of Linda / Tuplespace in C++ across Ansaware and Tanenbaum’s Amoeba OS. Seems a lifetime ago!

aghillo | 7 years ago | on: Eight low-tech ways to keep cool in a heatwave (2013)

Except it doesn’t of course https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/heat-health/#?ta...

aghillo | 8 years ago | on: The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong

Cycling doesn’t seem any worse than other sports, at least in the UK https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-...