if you read kernighan's book (he was there man) about the history of unix or whatever, it's quite a lovely read and talks a lot about the motivations and origins of unix, and hopefully some new unix tools for even the experienced unixbeard. anyway, if you read that book, it's quite clear that quite a bit of effort was made at bell labs for technology related to printing and typesetting. I think it is from this for example ken thompson was famous for being like "I'm going to rewrite this firmware" in the afternoon, and knowing nothing of the architecutre or anything, had a firmware by that evening. I mean that's pretty sick speed.
>Functional + universal data structure + homoiconic = power
>It everything used TSV or tabular data, But is not the case. With lisp you can always be sure.
basic unix kit is built around line-separated lines which are field-separated and you even get to choose your own separators and not get locked into tab. You can use this kitset, a common one, or other different kit. But with this kitset, yes, everything is indeed a table
It's possible to build the platform you describe but not possible to make significant progress. Joe User won't visit that site, boring! They'll visit the exciting dramasite for all the sweet gossip.
These site - twitter, facebook, etc... they aren't dividing humans per se by way of intent. They are black mirrors to human nature. The algorithms say, "human, what entices your attention?" "Drama!" "Fights" "Polarizing topics that people 50/50 disagree/agree on" . And so the algorithms delivered what the humans attention recommends - polarizing topics. And so we are now more polarized.
Because this is rooted in human nature, and you can't change human nature, the solution is something needs to be legislated. You can't ban free speech. You can't ban how long people spend online, also freedom, any more than you can ban gambling or alcohol or drug addiction. So then it comes down to something like recommendation algorithm ethics (hah! can you imagine? But why is that not a thing?!? we have an intense AI ethics community but that other AI that is the recommendation AIs that powers sites, it's all crickets as far as rules and ethics). Well, we all know why, money. But "medical ethics" while being a field is also legislated as to unethical medical practices lead to severe consequences, perhaps a "tech ethics" type field would help improve such algorithms, or "tethics" for short. Congress grilled Mark Cuckerburg for all the suicides his tech stack causing, I figure if we're talking literal deaths here maybe have a bit more regulation>?
The bay area is godawful in terms of expense, traffic, regulations "WHERES YOUR LOICENSE". Prop 13 means the new home buyer has 10-100x higher property taxes than their old home neighbor. Permitting madness means that in the santa cruz mountains, any construction is on essentially a permanent freeze. Even driving an old car, generally considered to be an "antique" if older than 25 years in the other 49 states, why in California there is no set time, it is a set year, 1976. So, according to classically rabidly insane california logic, in the year 3000, a 1,000 year old car would be "new" and not "antique"
the saving grace: whereas lane splitting (driving a motorcycle between two cars) is illegal in 49 states and grey-area in DC, it is outright totally legal in California.
Thusly those with interest and probably low anxiety and medium-high deathwish are exempted from traffic
Well that's part of the romance scam game, you don't want to seem too needy. The best romance scammers will play a little bit of "hard to get" and a little bit of "good cop bad cop" if you know what I mean. The aloofness that you describe here was not an accident.
One of the most romantic dalliances I ever did have was on the soft sand on the beaches of Italy, moonlight, red wine, the sand felt like velvet and silk rolled into one. I just think back on it and think to myself "let me brag about how great it was on the internet" 10/10 you missed out.
Just to add to this, I don't think we even need a physical button to trigger a photo. There should just be one big touchpad and screen like the tesla car. Speaking of, why does the tesla car have a steering wheel and gas pedal at all? these would be better served with the humble touchscreen. programmatic interfaces and such, a software update can completely revamp your gas peda.. i mean gasscreen
This way, with limited input, as I fumble with my camera my hamfists won't randomly press buttons, just as I fumble with my car hamfoot won't randomly press pedals. It's like all those little buttons and bobs were put there just to annoy me, it's awful.
Oh, and all these things needs to be "smart" everything "smart". Internet of things, wi-fi, bluetooth, redtooth, cloud connectivity. For the camera, the car, the dishwasher, the spoon, all of it. The internet of spoons. Touchscreen spoons.
When I was a war pilot this was common practice. Shut off radio. You'd know they were going to mess with you in creative and twisted ways. So much simpler to put it on mute. Usually works best in situations where radio silence is also a mission parameter
Yes. On my personal webistite I talk a lot about making forum posts -- things like typoes in what you enter into textboxes on websites, and also I had a bad habit if clicking "submit" to comments early so only a partial comment would go through. I had a blog that talked about these things and various solutions. Well lo and behold a small startup looking for a CTO comes in and decides to bring me in, actually turned out tha
Well the rightful answer is "it's complicated"
DNA wise yes there are 3 billion bases and they sample about a million of them, so 1/3000 bases.
THing is about the bases
1. most of them are the same in everyone
2. the ones that are different tend to be correlated with each other locally and thus captured by their 1Mb assay
so
3. you can infer all the stuff they didn't sequence with pretty high confidence. Not a "in theory" but more like "has been a typical thing to do in the statistical genetics field for at least a decade"
4. outside of the genome there is the epigenome which may or may not be relevant, it undergoes very specific resets short after fertilization
also worth noting
5. bioinformatics is an imperfect and algorithm based science. Reads are aligned according to error and difference profiles (i.e. string mismatches and the most and least types of mismatches). So unless things are finely calibrated, a level of analysis most bioinformatics don't do, deeply study their read alignment penalties for particular data sets, even a robust bug-free read aligner correctly applying penalties will have bad alignments, false positives, false negatives
anyways I for one hope the futurepopele will clone me from the bytestream
