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foobaw··on Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
The steps are trivial to write out but executing this for someone inexperienced is not trivial. However, someone in the field, no doubt can do this, I'm sure.
foobaw··on New MacBook Air
What about large excel files with a bunch of pivot tables and v/xlookups?
foobaw··on South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
infection rate or deaths?
foobaw··on Launch HN: Datasaur (YC W20) – data labeling interface for NLP
Any plans to support image annotation (something similar to what CVAT does)?
foobaw··on Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace
There's something wrong with drawing..It's drawing above my cursor.
foobaw··on Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
SVP is a big deal in Google actually.
foobaw··on Dropbox Transfer
This is amazing, but I wonder if traditional enterprises would accept Dropbox to be secure. In the startup world, this will be great though.
foobaw··on World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1
He must watch a lot of games to really know who to pick. As someone that dabbled in DFS for the NFL, the #1 team each week always seem like either pure luck or just someone that submits tons of optimal entries.

Now, EPL is definitely different than the NFL but still amazing regardless.

foobaw··on Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?
I use Superhuman and I enjoy it.
foobaw··on Firefox Replay
I wonder how this is positioned compared to Bird Eats Bug and LogRocket/FullStory
foobaw··on PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
How rich will this make Honey employees? Especially the early ones?
foobaw··on Nine-year-old child to graduate university
Most people that attend IMO are prodigies but generally, sociable. I met many of them and they just love math.
foobaw··on Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
This is amazing - so much possible learning for aspiring producers.
foobaw··on WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
Is this another Theranos/Bad Blood kind of situation?
foobaw··on Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
Island Troll Tribes was one of my favorites. I wonder if this will also create a DotA 1 scene (though IceFrog will not work on it).
foobaw··on Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable
This is a really cool idea for simple PDFs and images but I don't think the OCR capability is state of the art.
foobaw··on Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)
My first ever CS assignment was to build a sudoku solver using MIPS. I remember reading this then and being inspired by the beauty of computer science!
foobaw··on ReadMe (YC W15) Raises 9M Series A from Accel and Y Combinator
Big reason why Readme really didn't work for us was because - we wanted one secured internal knowledge base and one external knowledge base but that was not easily supported. Also we needed integration with Zendesk because we wanted to re-direct customers to our KB but that was not easily done.
foobaw··on Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator
I'm waiting for the hype to die down - it's been sold out whenever I stopped by.
foobaw··on Levenshtein Distance
Another cool metric that's used commonly when measuring quality difference between two texts is a BLEU score (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEU)
foobaw··on Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M
Will Gusto ever expand to larger start-ups? (200~300 employees)
foobaw··on Deleted Tweets: Trump
was "mistaek" intentional?
foobaw··on iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
Used to work on phones on the Android side. I remember blowing the Qfuse was widely known internally to brick devices, but there was a team that specifically could reverse the brick - except it was a secret because the company didn't want the fact that it could be reverted to be known.
foobaw··on Sisense Acquires Periscope Data
Periscope is much cheaper.
foobaw··on Mail a Letter Online
I've been using https://www.mailform.io/. I see a lot more options on here. Which one is the best and why? To be honest, I just want the cheapest.
foobaw··on Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
Because we are not mice.
foobaw··on You probably don't need a single-page app
Sounds like something Stubhub did recently.
foobaw··on Doing more than 40 push-ups shows you’re 96% less likely to get a heart attack
I bet they could say the same about 20+ pull-ups (which is more difficult than 40 push-ups based on anecdotal evidence). Not too interesting of a study in that sense.
foobaw··on Time Travel (2006)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future Maybe someone from the future could update this for us.
foobaw··on NBC took Bob Costas off the Super Bowl for speaking out about concussions
Disastrous PR incoming. Did NBC not foresee this biting them back?
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