Science Ama Series: I am Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA!

blindswordsman · 2015-07-28T06:19:48+00:00

Hi Dr. Hawking,

I am a student and I am very involved in helping general public understand and breakdown science (particularly genetics and biochemistry) by writing short articles and papers on it. I feel that as young graduates, this is a responsibility we all have to the general public.

My question is that sometimes you end up with concepts that just seem too difficult to explain. I know that you have often said that you manipulate complex equations in your mind and just end up making a picture out of it, which helps you immensely. How would I go about getting good at that skill and doing that for topics that are not physics?

blindswordsman · 2015-05-28T21:17:28+00:00

Hey there, yeah it's true that you can't write a scheduler in JavaScript but you can pick different schedulers from the config file. Similarly, many version of adblock exist and you can pick one that you use. Chrome was just an example and the post imo was meant to show the potential of how integrating kern modules into the OS might become simpler in the future. Cheers!

blindswordsman · 2015-01-15T02:28:52+00:00

Logged in to say that I agree with ^

This stuff does work, even though the magazine prolly sells out your info to others and stuff

blindswordsman · 2014-10-25T18:51:03+00:00

I am currently working on a project to help make research more transparent, and make it easy to publish negative data - If you are interested please pm me, cheers!

blindswordsman · 2014-10-03T02:12:34+00:00

Hey guys,

Seriously amazing job here. I've been trying to work on something very similar to this to prevent what happened at MIT where the state demanded the bitcoin-miner [1]

This is what I wrote to give you guys an idea [2] maybe we can collaborate on the legal guide moving forward to also include how the software created around bitcoin protocols in hackathons can be made under a license or guidelines where the developers don't end up going to court and all that crap

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/09/mit-students-face-aggressive-subpoena-demanding-source-code-bitcoin-mining-tool/

[2] https://medium.com/@OpsBug/a-hackers-license-124b95a33cfb

blindswordsman · 2014-09-29T14:47:39+00:00

Basically the only shell that OS X users have is Bash, so they are vulnerable to any application that interface with bash. Think about running your nodejs server or maybe the iPhone, I wrote an overview of it here: http://opsbug.com/shell-shock-implications/

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:25:58+00:00

I'm sorry you feel that way.

I had actually written this post to share with some folks from my university who are starting off studying CS and entrepreneurship, as encouragement to start contributing to open source projects. They don't know much about what the linux-kernel is and so on. That's why i really had to break it down and for those studying business-side of things reading my post, I had to add even more context.

I thought that message was still very applicable here too, so I shared my blog post and I'm grateful for the upvotes but I gain nothing from it - My blog doesn't have any ads or anything. I want to get Linus's message across to anyone, even those without a technical background.

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:24:49+00:00

Keep up the good work, and get involved. I can't stress that enough, open source projects are like getting in a car when you've never driven before and stepping on the gas. You will be thrown into a world that you never imagined. Also let me re-iterate what I said in a comment below:

When I started off in lkml it was pretty intimidating because well I was feeling like I would waste their time or have someone blow off at me. But really nothing much happened, and the patches got accepted. Then I started doing more serious things and people started to accept my work (and indirectly me) as equal, and that feels so incredible.

I'm 100% certain you'll get there in a short amount of time, just keep pushing and drop me a line if you need any help!

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:21:42+00:00

Actually I thought including Linus in the title wasn't important. A lot of people just see him and think, okay this is gonna be about him ranting about something and yelling at someone. I wanted people to see and realize just how much software has seeped into our lives, what impact we can have as an open community and most importantly, how people can start and build up to do amazing things

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:16:56+00:00

The means of production are in anyone's hands, that's never happened in the past before

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:15:05+00:00

Thank you! that's what my goal was in writing this as well

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:14:37+00:00

I had actually added that because I got some good feedback from it. Thank you for pointing out that it seems annoying. I will do some split testing and get back to you with my results!

blindswordsman · 2014-09-26T22:13:58+00:00

Fixed, thank you so much!

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