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melipone | 9 years ago | on: Launch HN: Lively (YC W17) – 401(k) for Healthcare

Hope that does not replace Medicare!

melipone | 9 years ago | on: Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning

"Machine learning explained to my girlfriend" is a show stopper. How can we have this kind of sexist attitude in 2016?

I will denounce all such posts. This is not PC, it's stopping bigotry wherever it lives.

melipone | 10 years ago | on: Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly

What I got was that the rapid emergence of biological feedback was essential for regularizing climate which in turn enabled life on earth to evolve. In a way, life itself enabled life on earth. It's the rarity of this emergence that is important rather than the rarity of intelligent life. Another thing I got is that life itself will destroy life the way climate change is going :-)

melipone | 10 years ago | on: Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

Lisp has been around a while. Java has been around a while. Clojure is the perfect combination and I predict it will be around a while. It's exhilarating to program in Clojure. That's the only word I can find to describe what I feel to program in that language.

melipone | 10 years ago | on: Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

Lisp has been around a while, Java has been around a while. Clojure is the perfect combination and I predict it will be around a while.

melipone | 10 years ago | on: YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it

Genial! I've used AT&T text synthetizer before to learn to pronounce certain phrases and that works well too.

melipone | 10 years ago | on: If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear

I like that the article mentioned the difference between privacy and secrecy. I've been struggling with that for a while. What is private is secret but what is secret (a secret recipe, for example) is not necessarily private. But in some cases, a secret can be considered private (a secret love affair, for example). I'm confused...

melipone | 10 years ago | on: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

There is a petition on whitehouse.gov to get free identity theft insurance coverage for life: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/provide-lifetime-i...

melipone | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Clojure by Example

Remind me of the little schemer. How about a "The little clojurist" book?

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence

It seems to me it's more about the effects of AI on people and society than about AI itself.

melipone | 11 years ago | on: For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet

Is that him who wants students to drop out of college? And he went to Stanford ... What a hypocrite!

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching

I stopped reading where it says that SVM is used for big data. SVM can only process about 10000 examples.

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?

It can certainly replace an optometrist. I really don't trust those doctors with binary search (better/not better) :-)

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Why Walking Helps Us Think

It's funny that dogs love to go on a walk too. All the different smells are so stimulating for them.

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Learn Lisp the Hard Way

That was my first Lisp book 30 years ago already.

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Functional programming in Clojure

Is there a time limit to this course or is it self-paced?

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Jrnl – A simple command line journal application

I love orgmode mysef. I was going to ask to make an export to orgmode format

melipone | 11 years ago | on: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

How are the categories obtained?

melipone | 12 years ago | on: Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear

It does not work for technical papers but if I am struggling with forming a sentence, I'll certainly keep it in mind.

melipone | 12 years ago | on: Common Lisp in the 21st Century

CL in the 21st Century is Clojure.