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by GuiA 6y ago
Agreed with you, but I think you don’t push enough on: > I then have the decision as the speaker whether to ask for questions or just slow down a bit or stop altogether and see if they naturally show their curiosity. Much like people d
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by GuiA 6y ago
As a computer scientist? Garbage. As a layperson? Magic, because that’s how these things are marketed by startups and journalists.
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by GuiA 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...
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by GuiA 6y ago
I recently took some college classes later in life (being dropped in with a bunch of 18 year olds at 30 is an interesting experience), and was blown away by the few ex military guys (roughly my age) in the classes. Of course it might be sel
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by GuiA 6y ago
> I think people innately want to learn whatever they need to know to accomplish their goals What if I told you that (morpheus.jpg) this has been common knowledge in pedagogical research for over half a century now, and that pretty muc
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by GuiA 6y ago
No, just read the article dude.
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by GuiA 6y ago
- try emailing the author directly, asking for a pdf/zip file in exchange for paypal payment. sometimes they can't because of their publisher, but they're often happy to. - download the content through whatever means are most
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by GuiA 6y ago
From the diffs: master -> changed to main/parent (depending on context) slave -> changed to child blacklist -> changed to blocklist black magic -> changed to magic white space -> changed to whitespace/empty space (d
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by GuiA 6y ago
By definition there has to be a first intergalactic civilization, if there is to be at least one. The universe is ~15B years old, and we expect it to keep forming stars (as good as any of a metric for “hospitable to life”) for another trill
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by GuiA 6y ago
> consumers allow the behaviour by largely being ignorant about their own nutrition. This idea that "consumers allow the behavior" is a very pernicious one - it's common in the context of global warming too ("if onl
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by GuiA 6y ago
This is likely a PPC build of Mac OS X, running on the iPad through QEMU.
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by GuiA 6y ago
> It's just someone writing on their blog some thoughts they had, so maybe we should treat it like that. I don’t disagree, we should all be kind. That said, this post gets voted to the top because it has (samaltman.com) next to it
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by GuiA 6y ago
Because they're getting further and further away from their maker/hacker roots, and are now fully in the investor/politician/executive role. Two very different kinds of thinking and seeing the world, and the former typic
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by GuiA 6y ago
Downloaded part 1 of your book last night and read it, as a fellow computer scientist and educator, very very solid work! I bought the book! Are you aware of anyone who made an interactive version (eg in the browser) of the boxes and balls
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by GuiA 6y ago
Title needs [2016]
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by GuiA 6y ago
Some message boards solve this issue by letting posters specify their location as a field in their profile (and displaying a flag under the username, etc.). Not advocating this for HN, just pointing out how that gets solved by other communi
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by GuiA 6y ago
Interesting, would love to read more if specific papers/authors come to your mind. I suspect there's a big gap between e.g. "noticing the audio latency when audio is played as a result of pressing a button" vs "audi
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by GuiA 6y ago
Very cool from a tech standpoint. From a product point of view, I find it interesting that the illustrations/concept videos for these things always show people interacting very closely to the wall - e.g. playing chess, sitting around a
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by GuiA 6y ago
There are hard limits at play. No matter what you do, you can't go from New York to London in less than ~20ms; add video/audio encoding, packet switching, decoding, etc. and it's easy to see why any latency under the 100ms ma
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by GuiA 6y ago
“Chaturbate is the best video chatting product” is a catchy line. Has anyone done a comparison post?
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by GuiA 6y ago
It might come and go, but I find it to be pretty consistent. There is, in my experience, a strong overlap between hackers/computer scientists and musicians; for one anecdotal example, Donald Knuth is an accomplished organ player. http
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by GuiA 6y ago
I was a broke grad student so can't speak much to restaurants, although I know my foodie friends have lots of favorites in New Orleans (I was in BR). I was just fortunate enough to make some local friends with cajun families, and the d
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by GuiA 6y ago
A friend really wanted me to play Destiny 2 with him. I was going to give it a shot during one of their free weekends, but didn't do it because my gaming laptop's hard drive is only 500GB, and I didn't want to delete half a d
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by GuiA 6y ago
San Francisco is an anomaly as far as food in the US is concerned. I'm French and have been living in SF for close to a decade (and Louisiana before that, so I've been spoiled when it comes to "american food" that doesn&
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by GuiA 6y ago
> you're going to continue to see a decline in the total fertility rate as women shift from casual seeking to relationship/nesting in their 30s and find the market for partners to be much smaller than they would've antici
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by GuiA 6y ago
+ a huge rise in fertility tourism, continued rise of single mothers https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/30412...
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by GuiA 6y ago
Look at sumo wrestlers for a striking example of muscle mass and high (subcutaneous) body fat.
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by GuiA 6y ago
This is the first time I’ve read the argument that it is our moral duty to give existence to all the humans in the set that is all possible DNA permutations that encode human beings, and I have to thank you for that. Might make for a good s
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by GuiA 6y ago
"Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.&qu
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by GuiA 6y ago
Online dating stands on its own in that it is a very front loaded experience in terms of getting to know another human - the judgement begins much before any interaction occurs. That is not the case in any sort of similar degree when you me

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