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New comment by waveforms in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

waveforms — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:09:38 +0000

This highlights to me the compounding of knowledge networked AI experts working with human experts will bring.

"But I wonder if someday there will be a representation that is more easily interpretable like language but is able to capture high dimensional complex functions in a standard and concise way"

Perhaps we can train AI experts to show us what parameters they found most useful in contrast to what human experts used. That could be a start at filling in the human knowledge gaps.

New comment by waveforms in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

waveforms — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:53:00 +0000

This seems to be a negative form of American exceptionalism. If Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Vietnam can do it, what is it about the USA that makes you think the USA cannot do it. At the very least we could bring experts from other countries in to demonstrate, teach, etc.

Manufacturing in the USA is slowly improving.

"The Manufacturing PMI® registered 52.7 percent in March, a 0.3-percentage point increase compared to the reading of 52.4 percent in February. The overall economy continued in expansion for the 17th month in a row."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/manufacturing-pmi-a...

New comment by waveforms in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

waveforms — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:18:13 +0000

I agree and lets not label something as dangerous or expensive if it can be made to be affordable and safe. "As of 2026, 59 nuclear power plants are operational in mainland China, second globally to the United States, which has 94." "There are over 28 further plants under construction with a total power of 32.3 GW, ranked first for the 18th consecutive year"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

New comment by waveforms in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

waveforms — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:45:31 +0000

The time to negotiate that would have been before this announcement. Carney has doomed Canada's auto industry because he is negotiating with his emotions.

New comment by waveforms in "Engineered Addictions"

waveforms — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:46:11 +0000

yes, go ahead and have ads but any income over server fees can be shared with open source projects.

New comment by waveforms in "Engineered Addictions"

waveforms — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:44:07 +0000

it is. There are many websites and applications that I use, like wikipedia and linux / kde that could help if they picked an application like Mastodon and promoted it on their site. I only use social media about once a month so I am far from expert but an ad supported open source facebook clone that stayed non profit by sending its profits to other open source sites would be ideal.

New comment by waveforms in "Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash"

waveforms — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:25:14 +0000

I was just today looking to see who owns Flex and Air. There is Apache Flex but it does not look like it is widely used. And it looks like Air was sold to Harman an audio electronics subsidiary of Samsung.

It would be cool if there was a browser that had a full set of components that would allow fast construction of internal dashboards, CRUD apps, etc. via new html tags. if not that then maybe a custom browser with flex enabled for internal use only. The security and performance would have to be improved but seems like a really fast way to prototype and build internal only sites.

New comment by waveforms in "Matt's Script Archive (1995)"

waveforms — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:09:26 +0000

wow, thanks Matt. You and Lincoln Stein (Bioperl founder if I remember correctly) got me started with my first website.

New comment by waveforms in "How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer"

waveforms — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:56:41 +0000

This recent research from China suggest another possibility..that it acts as an ACE2 blocker.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.164665v1....

New comment by waveforms in "Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep"

waveforms — Sun, 31 May 2020 16:34:42 +0000

The late Dr. Gerald M. Edelman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) had a fascinating theory he called "Neural Darwinism" that relied upon "reentrant mapping" he insisted was not feedback. He had a lab that formulated his ideas into software and a robot called Darwin 4. Does anyone here know what happened to that software? Is it described in detail anywhere? The following is an unflattering but useful discussion of Edelman's robot https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/my-testy-en...

New comment by waveforms in "Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files"

waveforms — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 23:39:17 +0000

#!/usr/local/bin/jq -rf

New comment by waveforms in "Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area"

waveforms — Sun, 19 May 2019 00:48:20 +0000

This is why I rarely post on the internet. So easy to misunderstand tone. I seems as if you are mis-understanding my original post. I was only hoping for the best for Harlanji based upon my personal experience. BTW, I was delivering furniture that first year.

New comment by waveforms in "Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area"

waveforms — Sat, 18 May 2019 22:52:28 +0000

Yes, I did this for about three months when I first moved to California. I was flat broke and it gave me a chance to stay dry and save up money.

New comment by waveforms in "Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area"

waveforms — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:44:20 +0000

I was just at the Mountain View Walmart last night and I noticed a lot of campers in the parking lot. Maybe that could be an option for you?

New comment by waveforms in "How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle"

waveforms — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:27:05 +0000

This made me curious how long a photon lives.

"according to the photons frame of reference, Heeck found that its lifetime would be a rather short three years; however, from our frame of reference, light would live about one billion billion (10^18) years"

https://futurism.com/science-explained-long-can-photons-live...

New comment by waveforms in "Concepts to help developers master JavaScript"

waveforms — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:16:04 +0000

I have to mention Dmitry Soshnikov's "JavaScript. The Core" webpage. The concepts explained in version one published in 2010 helped me land several contracts. Now I see he has "JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition". Thank you Dmitry!

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/javascript-the-core-2n...

New comment by waveforms in "Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative"

waveforms — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:26:06 +0000

According to this website [1] jQuery is still used by over 70% of websites. I have built production sites in extjs, Dojo, Angular, React etc. but nothing beats the fun of throwing up a quick website in jQuery and Bootstrap. Its even more fun with es6 now! I am looking forward to where jQuery and other DOM manipulation libraries go in the future. [1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all