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by Pils 9y ago
That is a fairly ridiculous argument. Many people try to portray the Sokal Hoax as a broad indictment of the wide field of everything that is considered "pomo," when really it is at most the indictment of a single journal. To sa
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Whenever this is posted, I think this should be posted as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_h... . I feel there is a conspiratorial aspect to the anti-pomo movement, some sort of vanguard
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by Pils 9y ago
As a skier, being able to identify weaker skiers is very important. Collisions are extremely dangerous, I assume even more so for surfing. Knowing to give certain people a wider berth is generally mutually beneficial.
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by Pils 9y ago
Well, the government already said you can be fired for being queer: https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/08/f... . I feel like outrage from the right for firing someone for something t
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by Pils 9y ago
One option that the company I currently work for does is to provide dinners in to-go that are either cold sandwiches or leftovers from lunch (which is free). That way, if one has to stay late, you aren't forced to have chips for dinne
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by Pils 10y ago
But that's because new companies can't compete with the incredible amount of VC funding Uber (and Lyft) have received. Down here in Austin, after Uber and Lyft left, about a half dozen different competitors popped up in about a m
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by Pils 10y ago
1Password's blog post responding to this incident: https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/02/23/three-layers-of-encryp...
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I mean, most of her claims she explicitly mentions having a paper trail. There is probably many legal reasons why she couldn't directly posted the private email and Slack conversations to her personal blog. However, no one is stoppin
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by Pils 10y ago
It's widely known that Facebook is worse than Google in terms of conversions. People go to search engines to find something, people go on to Facebook to browse Facebook. What Facebook offers over Adwords is fine-tuned demographic tar
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Japan’s Newest Technology Innovation: Priest Delivery(nytimes.com)
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by Pils 10y ago
Same with the artificial intelligence graph. "Deep" seems to be the most popular category of AI, even more popular than "artificial intelligence," up until 2014. Considering deep learning is a subset of machine learnin
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by Pils 10y ago
I know the work of Jared Diamond has some problems, but as a counterpoint: "While the case for the progressivist view seems overwhelming, it's hard to prove. How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better wh
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by Pils 11y ago
This seems really similar to Jürgen Habermas's Public Sphere idea (in a good way). One thing I would suggest is to make sure to stand on the shoulder of giants. There is a lot of academic work written on what worked and what didn&#x2
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Working through this right now as a directed reading with a professor and a couple of other students. Would definitely recommend this as a follow up to an intro PL course.
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by Pils 11y ago
I agree that the trend of using false pretenses to "catch" someone is a bad form of journalism, but I feel like your alternative is even worse. What information is gained by showing that a random professor is unscrupulous? In th