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by 0thgen 5y ago
I see this drive often: find the one true universal format, that can both provide documentation, while also providing an interactive 3D experience for a racing game, equipped with an internal web browser that also lets you listen to the rad
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by 0thgen 5y ago
what's worse: (a) a preview pane, or (b) a bloated editor (msWord) or mysterious web format (google docs) also, there's many WYSIWYG editors that do an awesome job (Typora, Zettlr, etc)
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by 0thgen 6y ago
The author writes about how describing humans as predictive engines will 'encourage us to reduce our fellow humans to mere pieces of machinery' ^ this is pretty much a fluff statement. it's basically a hand-wavey sliperry slo
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by 0thgen 6y ago
for anyone interested, chris olah has a good blog post providing further insight on this topic: https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/
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by 0thgen 6y ago
at first glance it seems like a donation based model isnt the most sustainable (or innovative) could be wrong though
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by 0thgen 6y ago
this is a great comment, and shows why the original author’s “opportunity cost” argument is a double-edged sword
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by 0thgen 6y ago
you're probably right
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by 0thgen 6y ago
I'm curious what the outcome would be if we ran a poll asking what people find easier. I find numpy's API more intuitive, but I could be a minority. I will say that the differences between python and R syntax are almost trivial; I
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by 0thgen 6y ago
very true; I found matplotlib very appealing because I didn't have to relearn anything coming from matlab
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by 0thgen 6y ago
i hope not; it seems like a really cool project. if microsoft were smart they'd support the development. how much longer will closed-source OS's beat out open-source ones? it seems like at some point the markets will adopt it as a
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by 0thgen 6y ago
Pointing out the limitations in data-driven arguments (that everyone should know & come to accept) doesn't actually move any particular position forward, since using data-driven arguments is agnostic to any particular position. So
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by 0thgen 6y ago
^ very much agree; plus, given that the electron API is very straightforward: the electron devs can fix the underlying memory and speed issues in the underlying code without needing to demand much change from app builders
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by 0thgen 7y ago
to follow up on gus_massa's point, it's not the "math" of an evolutionary thoery/agorithm that's being "proved" here; it's the assertion that it "proves" something about the environment
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by 0thgen 7y ago
if scientific theories lie on a spectrum of certainty, then "prove" is at the maximum end of that spectrum the "extreme skepticism" you claim the OP has seems more like a cautionary statement about avoiding the extreme a
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by 0thgen 7y ago
worth noting that this is why Andrew Yang is justifying a tax-funded Universal Basic Income proposal in the US: if corporate research makes money of citizen's data, then citizens should be compensated accordingly.
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by 0thgen 7y ago
Then I guess the debate should be what a professor's job should be: (a) reciting imperfect knowledge & theory to students without regard for whether it's accurate or digestible, or (b) maximizing students knowledge of the mate
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by 0thgen 7y ago
Doing everything you can to teach students material isn't the same as "hand holding". While much of the responsibility of learning should fall on the student, it's still the professor's job (imo) to present the mate
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by 0thgen 7y ago
It's very easy to provide opportunities for the best students to excel (eg, higher level courses, research opportunities). But if somebody enrolls Stats 101, it should be the goal of the professor to get every student to _learn_ Stats
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by 0thgen 7y ago
I can understand the author's sentiments, but at the same time, fear of grade inflation has let to administrators pressuring professors to have a "C" average <-- i think this pressure is a far worse problem than grade infl