pors | 6 months ago | on: AiXiv: A Platform for AI Researchers
Very cool! Is the code open source?
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pors | 6 months ago | on: Show HN: Citation Needed
Your comment was not in the category of an armchair dev/hater, otherwise I wouldn't have replied :)
I'm working on a "pivot" of paperzilla, which is paper discovery. Basically you subscribe to a research topic and you get a daily list of possible interesting papers for you in summarized form. If you are a scientist or following new science, please let me know. I'd love to hear what your daily ritual is for finding new papers and what tools you use (if any). You can reach me at mark at paperzilla dot ai.
pors | 6 months ago | on: Show HN: Citation Needed
Hmm interesting. I agree with you 100%. It is funny because I made this as an aside for another project I'm working on, paperzilla.ai, which I made exactly to solve this problem: people claiming stuff by pointing at a paper (while not providing it). Citation Needed was tech-driven: when I found out I could find a paper backing up a snippet of text, I thought that was pretty cool. But you are right, it can be used to back up any claim. Thanks for your response!
pors | 10 months ago | on: Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
I had the same question and decided to get into the basics at least. I highly recommend the fast.ai course.
pors | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
I agree with the recommendation of "Mastering Bitcoin".
I recently also started diving into blockchain related tech, and I blog about it here: http://decentralized.blog/
So far mostly about IPFS, but soon more on the working of the different blockchains out there.
pors | 8 years ago | on: Stek.io adopts Hackpad – Free and open source alternatives
I'm one of the people behind stekpad.com. Next to this free alternative for hackpad (closing down in 9 days!) we also started maintaining the source code actively and provide a number of open source tools.
Here are the links to all open source repos that were used to create stekpad:
- https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad
- https://github.com/hackpad/docker-hackpad
- https://github.com/hackpad/Python-Hackpad-API
- https://github.com/Stek-io/hackpad-email-reader
- https://github.com/Stek-io/hackpad-migrator
We could use some help. So if you code in Javascript, Java or Scala and would like to contribute, please let me know!
pors | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: We made a WordPress plug-in to replace Clef
This looks nice, does it let me restrict who can sign in to my site in some way?
pors | 8 years ago | on: The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less
There is lots of proof now that obesity is not caused by "more calories in than calories out", it is caused by hormone reactions to what you eat (esp. insulin). Just read the books by Gary Taubs for zillions of details and references to studies.
So the "eat less" claim in this article is again back to the old MD advice, "eat less and move more". Not going to work if you don't look at your macronutrients.
pors | 9 years ago | on: Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]
> the formula is still as simple as calories in - calories out = weight loss.
That is only simple in theory. To make that actually work for yourself it helps to have an approach like a high-fat, low-carb diet (which suppresses hunger e.g.).
pors | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
Make sure that working on your long term goals gets priority over working on the rest of your todos. It sounds simple, but it is not.
How to do that is different for everyone. What worked for me is the "Deep Work" method as described in this book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work
pors | 11 years ago | on: Buttercoin is shutting down
You can have Bitcoin at Buttercoin while not having a linked bank account. I transferred a very small account from another wallet to Buttercoin.
pors | 13 years ago | on: Twitter Completely Down
Maybe it's built only on top of the streaming API? https://dev.twitter.com/status
pors | 14 years ago | on: Hotspots.io team (YCW11) acquired by Twitter
> Working at Twitter isn't really a "day job"
Why not? You have a boss and do what he tells you. That's nowhere near having your own startup.
pors | 14 years ago | on: On Becoming Rich and Successful
Gee, how many clichés can you stuff in an article?
pors | 14 years ago | on: Is your website blocked by the Great Firewall of China?
Yeah, very true. Have a look here, the GFW adds at least 200ms to simple ping: http://just-ping.com/
pors | 14 years ago | on: Heroku is down
How does that work? If you have a link explaining it a bit that would be great! (a Google search shows me all sorts of solutions for ISPs, but not for application hosting).
pors | 14 years ago | on: Emacs + Evil = ecumenicalism (evil-mode is a VIM emulation package for Emacs)
Down vote? No sense of humor, you gotta work on that!
pors | 14 years ago | on: Emacs + Evil = ecumenicalism (evil-mode is a VIM emulation package for Emacs)
Site seems down. In the meantime check this out: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300
pors | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?
How bad is it for the acquiring party if they get a bad reputation by fishing for information and walking away afterwards? If they are planning more acquisitions in the future they would never make such a bold move.
I would:
- review the NDA, and make sure your lawyers are happy with it
- disclose as much information you feel comfortable with
- if they want more, ask for a term sheet (with a number in it, and all details about a possible earn-out etc.!)
There is no pressure on your side as you are not looking for an exit yet, but I assume there is a price for everything so just keep moving the proces.
PS If you haven't yet, read all M&A articles here: http://mba-mondays.pandamian.com/tableofcontents/
pors | 14 years ago | on: Building Single Page Apps for desktop, mobile and tablet with ASP.NET MVC4
The rest of the title is: ...with ASP.NET MVC 4
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