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aghillo··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··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
(3^3)3.3.5 ? Maybe…
aghillo··on 1Password Blue Ocean Strategy
Would you mind explaining your migration process from 1Password to Keychain? Was it fairly simple?
aghillo··on A History of Haggis
You could ruin your mashed potato by making clapshot :)
aghillo··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··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··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··on Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”
Point 9? That Google could (will?) just kill it at some point?
aghillo··on Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”
Intrigued. Why ‘shocking piece of technology’?
aghillo··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··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··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··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··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··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··on Applied Category Theory
That looks very interesting and could be source of interesting ideas. Thank you.
aghillo··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··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··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··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-...
aghillo··on Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers
That’s extremely interesting, thank you for posting the link.
aghillo··on Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers
Can we ever imagine dna sequencing been done like a remoter sensor? E.g. automated sampling for e(environmental) dna,in-situ sequencing (single and multi species targeting), results transmitted back wirelessly. A biodiversity IoT system?
aghillo··on Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge
It's specifically focused on the domain of Art and argues that Art is essentially a cooperative networked activity - a network of producers, suppliers, distributers, influencers etc who all contribute to a final piece of Art.
aghillo··on Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge
Howard Becker's Art Worlds book looks at this very issue - it's a very interesting read.
aghillo··on Stuff in Space
Not mine - but looks very interesting
aghillo··on Lambdoku – AWS Lambda with Heroku-like Experience
Has anyone characterised server less architectures? I'm interested in testing / exploring the limits with some predictive modelling work and implementing (mathematical) functions as FAAS? No doubt, it 'depends' (e.g. nature of data and its locality or otherwise) but interested to hear if anyone is looking at very fine-granularity server less systems?
aghillo··on Functional-navigational programming in Clojure with Specter
José Valim talks about current details and future plans for Elixir 1.3 here https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/elixir-lang-talk/DHF...
aghillo··on PyNES: Write NES Games in Python
Are you thinking of (a version of) Metaprogramming? As opposed to Transpiling.
aghillo··on High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas
Really simple example at http://lovingmaps.herokuapp.com/gent/

Tiles are on (ahem) dropbox at moment - but S3 / local server would be same. Tiles were generated with TileMill.

aghillo··on Show HN: First Draft (beta) – distraction-free writing for first drafts
Actually, I really like the simplicity of this - will give it a try! It would (of course) be nice to save locally thought.
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