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Ideas Change History – Interview with Steven Pinker(quillette.com)
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Interesting article. It's not just a US vs European thing, however. According to this comparison document linked in the Wikipedia article [ https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/gurn/00275.pdf ] (dated 2007 so thing
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So, my understanding is as follows (let me know if it's wrong): * Yesterday's ruling was about ordering to allow the plate manufacturer to hand out plates before they go to Postnord * This ruling is about the plates that are alrea
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AFAIK, this is simply not true. If you talk to any retailer, shrink is the number one problem they mention by far, I was at NRF this January and saw this personally in my interviews with several grocery, pharmacy, and apparel retailers. A
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Rather than the usual he said/she said approach, do you have knowledge to back up your claim that "this isn't the reason"? In my job function I talked with many retailers. Also the crime increase post 2020 cannot be easi
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You're right that store workers cannot be expected to interfere. What I meant was that they are reluctant to take more draconian measures, e.g. armed guards at the store and calling police immediately.
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Retailers use the equation (inventory in db - what's on shelf) = shrink, which conflates many different types of problems in one. Shrink can happen with errors in dbs and cycle counts, but the large part is due to actual theft. However
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by Jun8 3y ago
This is hilarious! I saw that "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" is included in the initial training phrases, pure genius! Do people still remember this meme? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#%22Kennet
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Great and informative post, I haven't heard about Cleopatra Selene before. Some random thoughts inspired by this article & topic: * Ancient persons, like Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII), are good examples of problems related to how the m
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by Jun8 3y ago
“Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity)” - classic assumption!
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For similar large scale efforts to make ancient language texts available online with translations see: * CDLI, https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ , for cuneiform (tablets, seals, and other objects) * Perseus Digital Library,
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by Jun8 3y ago
So, if someone with Newton’s caliber gets suckered into losing a lot of money in a market bubble ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company , note that it was a slave trading company), what hope is there for the
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by Jun8 3y ago
US takes great pains to reduce power use, like the ones mentioned in the article but as you point out HVACs at offices work 24/7 at a very cold temperature, so much so that most people bring jackets to work. Cranking the cold up by 1
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“Joseph Fourier is now famous for the scientific equations that bear his name, but two centuries ago he was prominent in the world of Egyptologists.” In fact, as it’s related, it was at Fourier’s house that Champollion first saw the hierogl
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There’s a similar concept in the Islamic world called Abjad ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals ), ebced in Ottoman. The building dates of most public buildings (mosque, fountain, etc) are embedded in the te
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And, of course, speaking of Lesbia (traditionally identified as Clodia Metelli, otherwise known as Quadrantaria), one should mention her “sparrow” mentioned in Catullus 2: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-hi
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“Cavendish had been the author of The Black Arts in 1967, a book which I still rate as one of the best general introductions to Western occultism.” OMG, they had this book in our high school library and for some unknown reason I checked out
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Here's an interesting article on Eurisko written by Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rJLviHqJMTy8WQkow/recursion-...
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Eurisko Automated Discovery System(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ahh, another one of the old guard has moved on. Here are two excerpts from the book AI: The Tumultuous History Of The Search For Artificial Intelligence (a fantastic read of the early days of AI) to remember him by; "Lenat found out
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by Jun8 3y ago
Excerpt from her book Heartland . I think people should think about the following quote: “ There was no language for whatever I represented on campus. Scholarships and student organizations existed to boost kids from disadvantaged groups s
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Sad news, in 63 Up he was quite sick and said he probably wouldn’t make it to 70 . After Lynn Johnson he’s the second person to die in the group. If you haven’t watched the Up series I would recommend it, watching the growth of the peo
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by Jun8 3y ago
You may be right about rapes as cause of gene mixing in Austria but Janissaries were not Turkish so we’re not originally from Anatolia. They consisted of boys enslaved from mostly Eastern Europe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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On a similar vein, Kernighan’s Law: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Discussed on HN a few yea
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This is a titillating combination of remote (don’t know the person) and in-person (you can see them right there across the room. Something that’s impossible to recreate with Tender, etc. There are two fatal flaws to the system that’s desc
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Also helps that Tüfekçi got her undergraduate degrees at good universities in Turkey which means she had to go through and score well on the grueling university entrance exams.
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Not retro for me! I still fondly remember the ADM-3A I used at Purdue in for 3-4 years after 1995. I would buy a working one in a heartbeat but they are kind of expensive now. Kicking myself for not snagging one when they were being thrown
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For an excellent story on this theme you can read Ted Chiang’s “ The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemi... . I think it’s one his best.
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Phyton version of An Introduction to Statistical Learning is out(statlearning.com)
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I think the title is off: the theoretical limit of how high a mountain can be on a rocky planet of given size can be found by physical considerations. The geological and other factors come into play, too to make the practical limit much sma

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