Hey dang, is there a moderately strict guideline that says that Show HN articles should have source code? This post is somewhat interesting, but you can imagine marketers abusing the format.
DeepMind actually solved harder problems than most of the ones mentioned. All the proteins mentioned in the article (except for the chaperones) are 100 amino-acid and shorter, the therapeutic ones are even shorter, dozen(s) of AA. Thus, great preview of what is to come, though its from (2017). C&EN is truly the quantamagazine of biochem...
Thanks!! i have tried chasing that lead.. (found only childrens songs on youtube so I thought it might be based on a childrens song.. your posts above those were awesome but guess not the same style haha)
Also there was a deckhand on that ship called Henrik Wallgren[0], guess it could be the same person wonder how likely you think that is..
Hey could you help me track down this probably Norwegian folk like song? Most likely its a oneoff song by some band but many on that thread have been keft hanging for years...
I think there is a kind of blind spot, if not contradiction, in the essay. It could be a good kind of paradox like the immovable object vs irresistible force thing.. it’s the paradox of lisp, of bel, of Julia, of mit style hacking.. they MIGHT aspire to be good jokes but as far as I can see they are at best, some kind of inside joke.. it’s a special kind of lame.. maybe we shouldn’t ask whether jokes can be ambitious but whether ambitions can be truly hysterically funny
I think you almost hit the nail on the head.. it’s like a paraphrase of that saying about genius vs talent.. the difference between good work and great work is.. good work takes resources, but properly great work surprises us with how little it takes..
Grad student here. I recently did the obvious NDSolve thing but Mathematica kept beachballing, and after heating up my computer tremendously returned an empty set. Turns out, my problem was really simple and I could solve it by hand.
I’d like to make a similar argument for traditional mass media.. Readers don’t get to have nuanced discussions with content producers (journalist,editors,etc). This leads to not necessarily prosocial tendencies exhibited in, eg, the NYT doxxing of SSC or Vice not doing Naomi Wu a solid. Perhaps this is what Taleb may ascribe to a lack of skin in game? In the social web there is however the possibility of getting burned by the mob, so hmmmm.