dhj | 10 years ago | on: Phantom Time Hypothesis
To be fair, it is presented very clearly as a conspiracy theory.
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dhj | 10 years ago | on: The collaboration curse
Sending your boss(es) this article before starting the discussion can help:
http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
... Most people getting work done are typically on a Maker schedule. People scheduling and benefiting from the meetings are typically on a Manager schedule. This article can help those on a Manager schedule understand why large blocks of work time should be reserved for those doing the work. Managers need to strive to make meetings short, sweet and at the beginning or end of a day and concentrated on a specific day. Those are very specific items that can improve the Maker's productivity. The Manager should be protecting Makers from meetings, not subjecting them to meetings and this article makes that clear.
dhj | 10 years ago | on: How convolutional neural networks see the world
Very interesting question and worth an experiment or two. Personally, I don't think it would help because the patterns are complex and it is an internal representation. It would be like feeding it a hash values and labelling them "hash values". That wouldn't necessarily help you discriminate pre-hashed values. That said, I would definitely be interested in the results of a real test.
dhj | 10 years ago | on: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
AWS Snowball is a play on AWS Glacier. Glacier is the slow moving practically frozen storage system. Snowball takes the same stuff and hurls it rapidly to a destination. Pretty slick.
dhj | 10 years ago | on: Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It
You don't need to appeal to "quantum effect" to think that being able to understand, well enough to simulate, THE SIMPLEST NEURAL SYSTEM of any organism would be helpful before jumping in feet first with 1 billion euros into the most complex neural system. Of course it is a process over 10 years and they have "only" spent 200 million so far. I would expect that quite a bit of that money is going to study model organisms from c. elegans to mouse to chimpanzee. Studying simpler model organisms is one of the best ways we have to understand fundamental biological principles.
dhj | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Interactive Penrose tiles
I like the interactive processing canvas and penrose tiling is always cool. The interface / external html could use some more feedback about what is going on.
Site repo: https://github.com/etisab/etisab.github.io
Penrose repo: https://github.com/etisab/penrosetiler
dhj | 10 years ago | on: The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu
Ah. Good point. I expected dpkg to handle data blobs that were allowed to be moved into specific locations. I guess that would make post install configs impossible.
dhj | 10 years ago | on: The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu
Sounds like a security nightmare.
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