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by NumberSix 9y ago
The author incorrectly speculates that the title of the magazine -- Jacobite -- is a play on Jacobin: Jacobite – which is apparently still a real magazine and not a one-off gag making fun of Jacobin – summarizes their article Under-Theorizi
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Also see this recent article: https://work.qz.com/1125919/we-finally-have-proof-that-visio... This is the direct link to the research mentioned in the article: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/AreF
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by NumberSix 9y ago
This is a recent list of founders ousted by investors: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ousted-founders-ubers-travis... Briefly: Steve Jobs, Apple Travis Kalanick, Uber Jack Dorsey, Twitter Parker Conrad, Zene
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by NumberSix 9y ago
In principle, but... Venture capitalists for example are notorious for investing in startups and replacing the founder and/or CEO with "more experienced management" as the company grows. A well known prominent example is the
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by NumberSix 9y ago
I would not take excuses like this for rejecting a candidate, especially a highly qualified/skilled candidate , at face value. Despite the pervasive rhetoric about wanting the "best" or hiring only the "best," bot
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Trump is not the first President to use Twitter. Barack Obama had at least three twitter accounts: http://time.com/3882715/president-obama-now-has-his-own-twit... Obama in fact tweeted about various controversial topi
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by NumberSix 9y ago
President Trump's use of Twitter, a new communications technology, to communicate with the general public and world is no different than Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)'s use of the then new technology radio -- weekly addresses to
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by NumberSix 9y ago
This is the link to the Discover blog post text: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fire-in-the-mind/2013/04/2... The issue with Watson's original account is here in the Johnson's text: After negotia
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by NumberSix 9y ago
This is complicated issue. Specifically, The Double Helix, cited in the original HN post, does mention Rosalind Franklin but in a rather demeaning way that slights her contributions -- which came to be highly criticized in subsequent years
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by NumberSix 9y ago
People vary. I find it quite difficult to work effectively in an open office. Coffee shops are often better but not that great. I find either total silence or soft instrumental music is usually best for me. Some people seem to enjoy ope
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Watson's original account of the discovery of the double helix has been heavily criticized for downplaying the role of Rosalind Franklin's x-ray crystallography measurements of the structure of DNA in the discovery. https:/&
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by NumberSix 9y ago
There is no obvious connection between the methodologies peddled by "Uncle Bob" or the author of the piece and security breaches. They are not claiming to be computer security experts. How exactly are unit tests or code reviews
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Both "Uncle Bob" and the author are selling extremely complicated, cumbersome, expensive ways to develop software -- great for them as consultants if they can pull it off, not necessarily great for their customers. Giant near mon
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by NumberSix 9y ago
That is not necessarily true. Under some circumstances it can be true. For example, if a community builds more luxury apartments entirely in addition to existing apartments, then yes some well paid people will probably move out of the exi
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by NumberSix 9y ago
In Mountain View, home to Google, there are over 2000 luxury apartments and condos under construction. The situation is similar in several other Silicon Valley cities. This is a huge increase in apartment construction since 2010. It is a
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Ah! A Labor Shortage! But even as they forecast a brighter future for the working class, these economists also worry that the new age of tight labor markets and rising wages will create a different sort of challenge. As Alan B. Krueger, a
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by NumberSix 9y ago
The article ends with: It’s a system that polishes privilege, its byproduct a contempt for earned authority. Many of the people who started with this attitude had it ratified and encouraged by perhaps the most prestigious university in the
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Introduction to Automating Complex Data Analysis [video](youtube.com)
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by NumberSix 9y ago
IMHO the more likely explanation for these results is that the human visual system has built in mathematical, logical capabilities actually far beyond advanced college math. These are used to identify and track objects at a very early age.
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Google and many other tech companies and the investors that ultimately control them fear losing control of their business, in this case an extremely lucrative near-monopoly, to their employees, especially the technical employees. Thus they
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Why Should You Learn Mathematics?(wordpress.jmcgowan.com)
2 points by NumberSix 9y ago|0 comments
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Escaping the Distraction Economy: Seven Steps to Reduce Distractions(wordpress.jmcgowan.com)
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A Murder Over Mars: Did Johannes Kepler Poison Tycho Brahe?(wordpress.jmcgowan.com)
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Just a comment, whether a 0.1 percent false positive rate is "small" is a subjective value judgement. Would you drive across a bridge that had a 1 in 1000 (0.1 percent) chance of collapsing and killing you as you drove across it?
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by NumberSix 9y ago
I do not agree with the definition of "production quality software" in this post, which exclusively focuses on purported readability and extensibility by others. No. No. No. The difference is that production quality software needs
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Regarding fingerprints, in the wake of the Brandon Mayfield case which raised serious questions about the accuracy of fingerprint identification by the FBI, the National Academy of Sciences was asked to perform a scientific assessment. Ini
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Microsoft Layoffs and STEM Shortage Claims (2009-2017)(wordpress.jmcgowan.com)
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by NumberSix 9y ago
I disagree with a number of points in the article, but a particularly questionable claim, which is common in recent years, is that version control is new/modern: Version control. Twenty years ago, it made sense to write your code on yo
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by NumberSix 9y ago
What is striking to me is that the table of AP tests taken (2016) in the article clearly states: Calculus AB 302,532 Calculus BC 118,707 for a total of 421,239 students taking this demanding technical subject and exam in 2016 (one yea
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by NumberSix 9y ago
This is Feynman from the introduction to his Feynman Lectures on Physics: The question, of course, is how well this experiment has succeeded. My own point of view — which, however, does not seem to be shared by most of the people who worked

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