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jaddood

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High school student who just loves computers... :D
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jaddood··on How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
That's the whole point of the article. The author is saying the exact same thing. I think you misunderstood it.
jaddood··on The Awe of Mathematical Beauty
Great article! I always feel this way, but not many understand me!
jaddood··on Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node
Exactly. It looks like. You can't just blame authorities because they arrested him for investigation while the only thing you know is that it looks like he hasn't written them.
jaddood··on How to Study (2016)
I disagree almost completely with the article. From my experience, it is almost always an over complication of learning to study a lot at home and to take notes in a special way or whatever.

What you should do, in my opinion, is to focus almost exclusively on the ideas explained and try in any way to oppose them, when you find something you feel shouldn't be how it is, ask. The mere exploration of the concepts gives deep understanding of them and will require you almost no extra work at home. Often it will literally need no extra work at all. Also, when the teacher answers your question, you will get even deeper insight and so will the teacher (especially when it comes to higher levels of teaching) and most other students who care to learn. Jotting down notes is a nice way to force yourself to formulate the ideas yourself, if you don't already do so, but most often, these notes needn't and shouldn't be read. They should just be written down.

jaddood··on Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done
What about self-taught programmers that get all the materials from the Internet?
jaddood··on OcherBook: Open-source replacement Kobo firmware
Related: calibre https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
jaddood··on Metacademy: How to learn on your own
Simply: wonderful article
jaddood··on The end of smartphone innovation
I agree that the time of smartphone innovation is gone, and I'd argue it's been gone since years, but still breathing the last breaths.

On the other hand, I do not think AI is the next big thing. It is a good candidate to be so, but there should exist much better guesses we can make. You should have a product, not simply a way of doing something or a technology. You need to sell a product, so pure AI won't do anything.

But even if it doesn't do much by itself, it should play a big role in the coming S curve (as the article names it.)

Good article!

jaddood··on German Space Center has constructed the world’s largest artificial Sun
I don't think it's too difficult to be done by one person, though I am bot surr
jaddood··on Ask HN: Best books on AI?
Why not both?
jaddood··on Teach Yourself Computer Science
Great website! Thanks for sharing!
jaddood··on Show HN: Experimental chat written in Common Lisp
LISP has no syntactic sugar. It only shows you the important parts, and it does so purely: it shows them just as they are.
jaddood··on Show HN: Experimental chat written in Common Lisp
The writer has good taste
jaddood··on Principle of Sufficient Reason
It all depends on your ability to model things. In the case where that ability is perfect (which may not exist,) all the "macroscopic" elements of reality you recognize are as true as their "microscopic" elements. That is, if your model of a fluid is perfectly correct in respect to individual atoms, then proving something about atoms automatically proves it to a fluid. If you prove that atoms exist then fluids exist (if your model is perfect.) This problem is already tackled by science. In physics, models are known to be limited and target only a simplification of reality, and they become greatly wrong in special cases and thus unacceptable. For example, modelling a ball thrown in the air neglecting air resistance may be "correct" enough when it is a lead ball, but will become apparantly unacceptably "incorrect" when applied to a ping pong ball.
jaddood··on The quest to crystallize time
"Wasting their time"
jaddood··on Show HN: Finally a simple task manager for console
Taskwarrior is a powerful task manager, but it's in most cases excessively complicated while the features are not used. This one is simple enough for ordinary use.
jaddood··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
So basically it's the government using private institutions for space too now. Welcome! (Sarcastic)
jaddood··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
I think the American mindset in regards to the law and the state itself, especially that set forth by the founding fathers, is that the people are those who make laws and enforce them, so this mindset asks for a revolt to the state as a reply to such acts.
jaddood··on The dipole repeller
Actually, considering the effects of dark matter, it seems (at least to me) to be a great candidate for what you're talking about.
jaddood··on Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine
What happens to all this information if an earthquake happens, and that's probably even more of a concern when digging deeper. Don't you think?
jaddood··on This is what it will be like to protest in 2020
So... no one comments for privacy reasons or what? You have to know something: it is true that they are powerful and dangerous, but knowing that and fearing it, without having the greatest hope in change means you're even weaker, and they're even more powerful. Don't let them creep you out. They are creepy, but nowadays the only way out is to not be afraid and to just ditch it!
jaddood··on Why Many Cities Have No Money
So what's the main reason?
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