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adampkon Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?

Spatial computing.

If all of reality is able to be piped into Unity (structure of static environment, motion of sensors, dynamic object poses) you can build Reality Apps the same as you can build video games.

You can give people spidey-senses or "the force". Everything will have a UX.

adampkon Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence

I always thought biology would be easier to learn if instead of entity names based on old languages they were instead verbose descriptions

i.e. Mitochondria->PowerHouseOfTheCell

adampkon Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

I surprisingly really enjoyed it. Well written and it pulled back the veil on a lot of concepts that I thought were too complex for me to understand/enjoy.

adampkon 'Speed friending' events

I know we are talking far away from something that can be proven with data, but I can't imagine that friendship ever wasn't a function of time an effort.

adampkon Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing

Even though Mr. Kan has since retracted this statement after Atrium failed I think it still stands:

"First time founders are obsessed with product.

Second time founders are obsessed with distribution."

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1059989657218248704?lan...

adampkon Unity patents ECS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw&t=1455s

"In this 2017 GDC session, Blizzard's Timothy Ford explains how Overwatch uses the Entity Component System (ECS) architecture to create a rich variety of layered gameplay."

(My favorite resource to explain ECS + NetCode)

adampkon Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround

Totally get it! :)

adampkon SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

hahaha

adampkon Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround

Very great response to maybe not the most polite version of a good question, love the energy!

adampkon SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

I am struggling to understand the comments here that seem to not think that what SpaceX has done isn't more than the natural rate of progress.

adampkon SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

Do you mean you don't understand why American's would think that America has done incredible things, or do you not believe America has done incredible things?

adampkon Image color replacement with numerical optimization

Really appreciate the response thank you, great article!

So is "T" and "N" conventionally used in numerical optimization as the transform "variables" (like X and Y are in calculus)?

adampkon Image color replacement with numerical optimization

Sorry for the noob question but reading through this I can't make sense of why this is the desired transformation:

"Desired transformation: σ(σ(IT)N)"

What is I, T, and N?

adampkon Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company

User Illusion made the point that your consciousness can only ingest 40 bits/s. So the reason language is "slow" is because there is no reason to deliver information at a higher rate than people can ingest it.

https://www.amazon.com/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-P...

adampkon Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

I think that is a fair assessment but what about compared to their peers? Could you say the level of excellence from 2011 to 2021 Apple has deteriorated at a higher rate than Facebook, Microsoft, or Google?

adampkon What's Accenture? (2020)

Do you mind elaborating on this? Are you assuming that the client has the know-how to be able to choose the right resource to execute on the project (if the project scope has actually been defined)?

adampkon The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations

Do you mean to say that the neurons in the brain are operating in a higher-dimensional space than 3?

adampkon When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

Honest question, does this mean you will be doing a self-imposed lockdown for 5 years until you see the long term effects of vaccination?

adampkon Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

I guess I am in the minority but I appreciate the scrollamated site.

I am slow at picking up information and find visual aids super helpful. An image with all the information on it is really busy and doesn't get through to me very well. But if I can "layer on" information at my desired pace of scrolling, it is a lot easier for me to ingest information than maybe a lot of different images where I have to break and rebuild my mental model each time, or a single image where all the information appears and I need to parse it myself.

For a slow thinker, this type of "at your own pace" visual guides is pretty nice.

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Yes, with caveats. You do not have the right to scream "fire" in a crowded theater. Continuing to incite insurrectionists seems to be screaming "fire". But should a private company be the judge of what is this line?

Not sure if that is the current interpretation of "with caveats" means

adampkon Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?

I am not sure that it does. Honestly responding with "I haven't tried that before" seems to be harder than it sounds.

I would trust a master to take the appropriate amount of time to do a research spike or to bring in the right people in and understand how to get going.

adampkon Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?

An opinion from a Product Manager: When you truly "trust" the engineer. You know their opinions are honest and well thought out. They do not have junior dev energy of saying "two days!" optimistically and not old beard energy of "it can't be done, you won't be able to launch it".

"Master" really is a great word for it, you have complete faith in the individuals word.

adampkon SpaCy v3.0 Nightly

The documentation is accessible and the examples are informative. Most approachable NLP toolset I have seen.

adampkon Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js

Yes I meant moving through a world-scale environment and bringing asset data for rendering only as needed.

Thank you, again great!

adampkon Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js

Really interesting work! Not sure if you are familiar with recent developments in Unity3D development but this reminds me of the new approach with "tiles" and "subscenes". Were you inspired by developments in game engine asset streaming?

adampkon Lambda School lays off 19 employees

What language do you believe should be used?

adampkon Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Optimization-Operations-Fin...

seems to be "the" numerical optimization textbook

adampkon Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

The Three Body Problem

Changed the scale I perceive existence