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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/memming; my proof: https://keybase.io/memming/sigs/Ry-gdNKWFJDaPe1z3lW7hHm33wvBGp2ep-r1j8e226M ]
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memming··on Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
I don't use Zotero any more, but from the receiving end, the BibTeX it exports is terrible. Lots of non-ascii chars, bizarre nested curly braces, wrong capitalization detection, etc. I dislike collaborating with colleagues who use Zotero because it takes so much time to clean up their BibTeX entries.
memming··on An Introduction to the Mathematics of Uncertainty (2010) [pdf]
Not Bayesian, that's Fuzzy!
memming··on The Path to Biological Numeracy
Awesome contents!!
memming··on An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
but my caps lock is my control key!
memming··on AI Scientists, Dr. Sebastian Seung and Dr. Daniel Lee Join Samsung Research
Maybe samsung is starting connectomics research.
memming··on Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
Inspection paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewal_theory#The_inspection_...
memming··on The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]
How one feels when what they created becomes an over-inflated bubble...
memming··on Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul
According to [2], there was 한베(Hanbae) which was developed in 1991.

[2] http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=axes2024&logNo=110... (in Korean)

memming··on Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul
There are several programming languages using Hangul which are way more readable (hence not esoteric): 씨앗 (1993), 약속, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

memming··on AES-GCM-SIV: Specification and Analysis [pdf]
Sadly hard to read...I was away from the crypto world for too long!
memming··on Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
Yup. Already many such reported cases emerged. Many students & academics...
memming··on Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
Bad news for all STEM field including high-tech and sciences. US may severely suffer in the long run.
memming··on Google Pixel: the Android iPhone you've been waiting for
Sounds like LG V20 works better for you. It has replaceable battery, SD slot, and higher price than the iPhone!
memming··on My Self-Hosted Life
We did it once again!
memming··on Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac
How much faster is it than competitors?
memming··on Adaptive Neural Compilation
and if they don't write them down, the compiled program might not work!
memming··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
I still remember my 8-digit ICQ# by heart.
memming··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
that was some powerful tool...
memming··on Stein's paradox in Statistics (1977) [pdf]
I have seen several mentions of James-Stein estimator being almost an empirical Bayesian estimator, but this article made it more clearer. Thanks for sharing.
memming··on Hepatitis virus-like particles as potential cancer treatment
bad link. did you mean to link to https://scienmag.com/hepatitis-virus-like-particles-as-poten...

not really a virus, nor a cancer treatment.

Just a delivery mechanism.

memming··on Marvin Minsky dies at 88
Wow, I didn't know that he invented confocal!
memming··on Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
This is great news for Julia and the scientific computing community in general. MATLAB doesn't scale, and python solutions are too scatter brained for me.
memming··on New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain
This method is computationally very intensive. Betti numbers are hard to estimate from data, statistically speaking.
memming··on Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
Nice. Very well organized.
memming··on Superscript: South Korea celebrates an ingenious writing system
Korean has so many vowels it's not even funny.
memming··on Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book
and also don't compute the inverse if you don't have to!
memming··on Encrypted database case #1
typo: "CFB mode is also use"
memming··on Objects of consciousness
No.
memming··on Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
It's amazing that they had just one set of machines to make all their chalk. I hope the South Korean version would be successful.
memming··on Show HN: QuickQwerty – Touch typing tutor
Nice. I like that you let people download easily.

One thought: the font for '1' and 'l' are too similar, and often confusing.

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