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by Jun8 9y ago
This is a good case of how two important ideas are being conflated to the detriment of the larger lesson to be learned, I think. As far as I can tell, Prosecutor Worthy is making two arguments: (1) Black (assume PoC approx. equals black in
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Excellent source for interesting startup names. My favorite ones that sound interesting and don't have an offensive meaning, from a cursory scan: Aquavit, Chalcedony, Girasol, Kakemono (a Japanese work bit may not be good because it br
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary(slate.com)
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Also this essay is relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html . This was the start of souring of Paul Graham's relationship with the CA political correctness, I guess (do a search on "paul graham sexist" an
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by Jun8 9y ago
I'd say the situation is even more complex than that, i.e. even trying it on at the store may be insufficient: I hypothesize that a non-small percentage of people, like me, have no good subjective function to assess apparel fit when th
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Hilarious! From the comments: "I think I count 0.90 fizz-accuracy, and 0.99 buzz-accuracy. So it's clearly harder to teach fizzing than buzzing." The real machine learning that takes place in an interview is to develop an exp
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The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear... ) is worth a read. A quote from this essa
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Google is making a computer vision kit for Raspberry Pi(theverge.com)
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The DIY CRISPR kit was crowdfunded 333% two years ago, here's an article discussing it ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr... ). You can still buy these $159 at Zayner's company, Odin
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Genetically Engineering Yourself Sounds Horrible – This Guy Is Doing It Anyway(gizmodo.com)
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If you are at all interested in poetry and its translation as well as AI (assumed since on HN) a great book to read is Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language wherein he offers 60+ translations of a play
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by Jun8 9y ago
I really like this. Mirrors Wittgenstein's "the meaning of a word is its use" maxim (see, e.g. http://www.maciejratajski.com/work/the-meaning-of-a-word-is-... ) in philosophy of language.
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This is an excellent idea. It’s definitely not 10k, my estimate would be <500. This could be a great open source project, if one does not exist already.
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As much as discussing "How do we reform Facebook" etc. is important, this is the real story here that people need to focus: the unrelenting negative feedback echo chambers fueled by social media but also very much by reputable
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Good discussion of the Dark Forest theory and other possible answers to the Fermi Paradox: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18127/dark-fo... BTW, if you haven't read the Three Body Problem buy
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by Jun8 9y ago
Quote along the same lines from _why that I really like: "When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability."
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Here's a WaPo summary on the legality of "the Russians" buying Facebook ads: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09... . Basically, it all hinges on if the ads mention
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http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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In a narrow technical sense you are right, the original Hagia Sophia was built ~500 years before the East-West Schism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism ) that split the Church. However, in the us
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* "Viking graffiti in its Muslim mosque which was once a Catholic church built for an emperor." - Catholic? It's called Hagia Sophia . The irony of this error is that a commonly cited reason for why the expected help from Eu
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Here ( https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla... ) is an article of a run in Hotz had with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last year. Although in the video he comes off as s
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George Hotz: I Can Make Your Car Drive Itself for Under $1,000(youtube.com)
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Brought to mind the parable of the hunter guide shaman: "The livelihood of an ancient indian tribe was buffalo hunting. If the hunters came back with a small amount of kill or, unimaginable, empty-handed, from their Springtime hunts, t
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And I'm halfway through Death's End (the third volume in the series). I didn't think this was possible but I can tell you that it gets much.
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The Canon, esp. Ancient Greek works used to hold much more sway over the intellectual psyche, which they no longer have, so much so that in the second half of 20th century it was suggested to rename Joyce's Ulysses Hamlet , to recre
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Great points. For a quick summary I suggest reading the highest rated answer to this Physics SE question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26291/why-did-th... . The keypoint that most people fail to real
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I felt compelled to make two points faced with a piece like this: 1. You may agree or disagree with Douthat's premise but the general tone of the article is almost hysterical and has the quality of a freshmen Op Ed piece in a college d

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