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ampdepolymerase··on Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
You forget the other company he manages.
ampdepolymerase··on New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
The most effective thing you can do as a software engineer is to contribute to applied machine learning research and implementation in bio/chemoinfomatics. Solve protein folding, and entire classes of such diseases would be curable. DeepMind has given computational biology its ImageNet moment, but there is still a large amount of room to improve for production level use (beyond merely as a research tool). Truly talented ML engineers willing to work on biology are very rare.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived?
> Is it possible that some company with deep pockets forks Firefox and hires what it's left from its development team to further develop Firefox and improve its market share?

Brave.

ampdepolymerase··on Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
Are they including Gab users in the MAU count?
ampdepolymerase··on Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution
Epigenetics is very mainstream now. "Big data" was hyped once too, but now MapReduce and stream processing are common and boring.
ampdepolymerase··on WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRNA vaccine
The micelles are easily worth a biotech unicorn. Of course they aren't going to be public.
ampdepolymerase··on Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse
The Lisp evangelism team on HN will burn you for that comment :)
ampdepolymerase··on You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
Poetry doesn't play nice with PyTorch and many other ML libraries.
ampdepolymerase··on Coinbase Digital Asset Policy Proposal
Say no to this. We do not need another FINRA-like cartel.
ampdepolymerase··on Medicine Is Political
One reason is because medical and clinical training is tied to the outdated apprenticeship system. There is no Khan academy for medicine. Train doctors at scale like software engineers and this sort of problem will naturally go away. Decouple medical school admissions from residency. Residency is not that important if your focus is on research. The unfortunate state of things in the biomedical field is that without the magical M.D. title next to your name, you are not taken seriously as an subject domain expert.
ampdepolymerase··on x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (2018)
It's called a FPGA; a software defined microprocessor (most higher tier processors can be reprogram to a certain extent through microcode, but a FPGA is a specialised chip designed specifically for this). You can get ridiculously high performance for your specific application, but it will never excel at general purpose computing. Good enough for Forth, great for ML, DSP, and number crunching, bad for running random apps from GitHub.
ampdepolymerase··on The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
Would you prefer CS algorithms in papers to be written in English prose rather than pseudo code? Would you notice if your neural network diagram has its arrows reversed? I do not understand HN's superiority complex when it comes to notation. Every thread on music in this forum devolves to complaints about music notation rather than the essence of the art itself. It is disappointing.
ampdepolymerase··on Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
Previously they had physical access to the data centers and weren't locked out.
ampdepolymerase··on Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
Finally an honest comment about the nature of statecraft, governance and geopolitics. Bravo!
ampdepolymerase··on Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
HN engineers believe out of band admin control planes to be surveillance and backdoor firmware so they are disabled for privacy reasons.
ampdepolymerase··on What Java Modules Are About
Cargo is closer to NPM. It does not require SAT resolution. You can have conflicting major versions of the same dependency.
ampdepolymerase··on New horizons for SPJ
Not necessarily, young blood is always good. Having a single academic dominate the discussion is never good.
ampdepolymerase··on The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade
Most of such jobs pay peanuts (relatively speaking). Academia is something to consider as a hobby or after you retire.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
You need to sequence the plants otherwise you will waste too much time on tuning hyperparameters.
ampdepolymerase··on Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us
We had Clubhouse in the 80s? Are you sure?
ampdepolymerase··on Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic
Gamers complain a lot less about telemetry. Intrusive DRM and anticheat is a way of life for them.
ampdepolymerase··on Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic
Tim's on the low end of billionaires. Google can easily buy him out.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: What are the current state-of-the-art Lisp implementations doing?
They are posting on HN and lambda the ultimate so they can stay relevant.
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
Are there any companies using Imba in production aside from Scrimba?
ampdepolymerase··on Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
First party UI toolkit implies no bias. You are the one being biased by suggesting that open source/Linux-originated UI kits are somehow superior. The inability of the open source operating system ecosystem to deliver a coherent GUI is no fault of Microsoft or Apple. Ubuntu is going with Flutter, Google's answer to the GUI problem. The Linux foundation is to blame for the kernel not prioritising standardized systemland support for a consistent GUI. In commercial operating systems, the UI server/shell is not an after thought.
ampdepolymerase··on A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
The hardest part of CUDA is getting it installed and recognised by the linker without bricking the machine or throwing strange version conflict errors. Many machine learning engineers can attest to this.
ampdepolymerase··on Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
That is not a fair take. Windows has multiple first party UI toolkits, Win32 simply being one of the oldest and most well known. The Windows ecosystem places a greater emphasis on binary and dependency level backwards compatibility compared to Unix style systems.
ampdepolymerase··on Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
https://makepad.dev/
ampdepolymerase··on A future for SQL on the web
This could actually work for certificate attestation if baked directly into the browser.

https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency

ampdepolymerase··on Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once
Does your time not have value? The monthly tithes should more than pay for it.
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