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Open Pro is the "Most Open". I love it!

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rory_h_ron Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

I like to imagine this is for the 80s AI hype and another one will come out in 40 years for ChatGPT.

Learn about the life and death of the manufacturing startup Fast Radius, famous on reddit as "the holy grail of shit-SPACs".

rory_h_ron What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur

That $10M wasn't wasted for me as an Asana/Jira user because they forced Asana and Jira to get better.

rory_h_ron Well, Actually – Physics Answers

Good physicists know what level of abstraction to use for any particular question. Too high and you gloss over what's interesting and too deep and you miss the forest for the trees. This is why the the Feynman Lectures are invaluable resources even if you already know the material.

rory_h_ron Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations

There's nothing wrong with understanding rotation matrices as rotations, it's just that in their application it's not the right mental model. Ideally you'll understand both representations and switch between them as needed.

rory_h_ron Windows98 Running in the Browser

Windows98 with the best version of Solitaire. Those were the days.

rory_h_ron Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”

A lot of the classic papers by Maxwell, Newton, Faraday etc. are available online. They look great but you can only imagine what a pain typesetting these used to be.

See, for example this paper by Maxwell from 1865: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstl.1865...

rory_h_ron Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

Bill Watterson, of Calvin and Hobbes fame, gave advice that I've found helpful over the years, "To create your own life's meaning is not easy but it's still allowed and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

https://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonist...

rory_h_ron Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

Everyone is dunking on Disney but Twitter actually owns all your Content.

rory_h_ron Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns

John Martinis taught me physics and analog electronics! He was a great teacher: friendly, smart, and a top notch scientist to boot. All the better for UCSB that he'll have more time to be on campus.

rory_h_ron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Spark, Hadoop

Website: roryhr.com

Email: rorhr + @ + gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/roryhr/resume

Data scientist and engineer looking to move to Colorado. Open to remote but would prefer onsite.