But I bet hes fine with the idea of using machine learning.
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…coupled with genetic programming, no doubt…
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How many tries does he imagine there are in a planet-wide ocean over hundreds of millions or billions of years? Only a million? And do we know all the possible useful proteins there are in 150 links? Getting to a specific protein is difficult. Getting some working protein is a lot easier.
He might be a good programmer but he’s not a very good AI researcher/engineer if he doesn’t know enough math to get into infinities and calculus and metaphysics and relativity to understand the implications of deep time and even a limited universe. The Drake equation has a shitload of variables. Maybe it is really uncommon for a stable environment of deep time to exist.
When one does though it seems to pay off in bounty.
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i’m kind of obsessed with this keyboard. i just have a hard time imagining forking over three-hundred-ish dollars for it.
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For $300, I hope they also include labels for the keys. Less cool looking, but useful.
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who even knows what those vertical thumb keys are for!?!
it’s a dream…
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The real fun is when you realize the keyboard’s in Dvorak, except when one of the unlabelled buttons is pressed, at which point it toggles…
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My work keyboard has mostly unlabeled keys (I just haven’t got around to doing the rest of them yet). Anything to discourage others from touching my stuff.
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i like it! the mix of labeled and unlabeled keys is nice. i find myself cheating at touch typing till the letters are gone. and plastic printing technology seems to outlive keyboard lifespan at this point.
i only hope, seeing the windows key and context menu button, your computer is a mac. ;)
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Not entirely intentional but at the very least the number key row helps me get oriented if I get lost (which does happen from time to time). I also don’t have the right size replacement space bar. A mechanical keyboard enthusiast colleague sent me the clear caps which all work great other than the space bar.
That would be wonderful if that was the case but it’s a Dell crapbox (it’s actually a pretty decent machine but I’m very anti-Dell after several duds in the past).
Maybe I should bring my old school Mac Pro USB keyboard to work. It’s not mechanical but I love typing on it. I use it on my Mac at home.
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I like how you think.
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Wait until you see how much the keycaps cost if you go to the artisanal keycaps.
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If you can solder decently, the knockoff kits aren’t too bad.
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it’s been about 25 years, and i don’t know it was ever decent. true story: after discovering software, i was like all like “you can take your mechanical frustrations and good riddance.”
not that software doesnt have its own frustrations, but i like that if i drop code on the floor it doesn’t break.
it would be a neat project though. it’s cool to be able to point to stuff and say, i made that. warts and all.
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Sometimes it might be nice if it would. Then instead of all that struggle to fix it you’d just need a convenient ‘accident’. “Oops, it broke, guess we’ll have to rewrite it.”
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That still happened sometimes in the punch card days I guess, although they had safeguards.
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Aw, darn it, I left that usb drive in my pocket when I did the laundry…
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I had a professor in college that told a story about coming back from lunch and regularly discovering that his card deck no longer worked. He was puzzled as to how it was happening until he caught his coworker picking their teeth with one of his cards one day…
With the wide availability of services like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, &c. It’s hard to imaging anyone losing code, but it does seem to happen.
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You have to remember to use it and be consistent in which repository you are using.
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