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by abnry 6y ago
They said Trump had a 1 in 4 chance. That's very high. NYT had something like 1 in 20 chance for Trump.
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by abnry 6y ago
While numerically literate, I don't understand the details of the 538 or economist models. What I do know is that 538's model has had a great track record. It gave Trump one of the highest chances of winning in 2016. It did very w
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I can't shake the feeling that every discussion of IQ contains motivated reasoning: either someone doesn't want the idea of IQ to be relevant ("I can work hard enough") or because they do want the idea to be true ("
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I mean, do you have any knowledge of Christianity and its history? Not sure if you are sincere.
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I remain deeply religious, and there is something of a fear of death, but it is mostly related to the fear of the unknown. I believe I will see God face to face and that's kind of terrifying. I am honestly more afraid of pain than deat
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Oh wow, I took an intro to philosophy class with this guy. I started getting suspicious when he referred to himself as John and that he taught Camus. He's a good teacher. What I learned in that class has stuck with me. It was a disprop
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by abnry 6y ago
I am very sympathetic to this. I like the concept of a shell (there's a place for light scripting that doesn't involve python or perl or ruby), and appreciate what bash can do, but after encountering enough of the "gotchas&qu
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by abnry 6y ago
There's probably also the matter of competition. If something is considered significant and important, there won't be much low hanging fruit. If something is considered silly or insignificant, there are fewer people working on the
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There's a state college in almost every city that you can commute to. It's not disingenuous to talk about forking an extra $12k a year "for the experience".
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There is a lot of bias towards homeschoolers so the wild success stories often get touted to counteract the prejudice. I was homeschooled but agree that it isn't for everyone, mainly because not everyone has the resources. It decidedly
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I love this! Years ago I toyed with the idea of trying to map arbitrary files to some sort of 2d "hash" thumbnail image, as people are visually oriented and remember things visually. I wanted there to be some sort of continuity be
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Why would someone publicly post this letter, even with the redactions?
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If you think that's great, you'd love this website: [How Many People Paid 1 Dollar To See How Many People Paid 1 Dollar]( http://www.howmanypeoplepaid1dollartoseehowmanypeoplepaid1do... )
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I feel like the author wrote this with Eric Weinstein in mind.
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I mean, you don't always have to adopt the most cynical possibility.
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What a sitcom teaches almost never comes from the "moral" of a plot or subplot, but what it treats as benign and acceptable or what it consistently mocks in the background. For instance, in The Office, a character flashing her bre
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by abnry 6y ago
The confusion ultimately comes from a nebulous understanding of "flip". This is what we mean when we say our mirror image is flipped: We imagine the mirror represents an extension of our normal 3D world and rotate our body around
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by abnry 6y ago
Reminds me of Toki Pona, "The Language of Good". [1] The idea is that it consists of a small set of core words, and every other concept is expressed as compound compositions of those words. I've never learned it, but I find i
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The social part of social media and culture have a much bigger impact on social cooling than anything else, including mass personal data collection.
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There is value when you don't have the brain energy to try stuff out. Just watch and let it wash over you.
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Came here to recommend this book. This book is what inspired me to get into STEM.
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In my experience, the audio quality of OverDrive audiobooks is poor, almost to the extent that I can't listen to them. I don't know if it is because I never figured out the right setting (I don't think so) but I prefer Audibl
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by abnry 6y ago
With the member deals, Audible is cheap, and I treat audiobooks as a transient form of amusement and edutainment. They have a generous return policy. The membership is even better now with access to a library of audiobooks. The value I&#x27
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by abnry 6y ago
Glad he floats your boat, but I jokingly call him my audiobook nemesis, as he narrates many books I am interested in, and can't really listen to him anymore.
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A good thing is still a good thing. And for the vast majority of Americans, we aren't talking about starvation, or even homelessness.
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Found the Russell Paradox.
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I think part of the disconnect is that many people today assume that life will be, or should be, pain free. Life is hard. It's always been hard. It's hard today. I think the reason we want to believe otherwise is because of the tr
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That's the point. The cheap fluff today was expensive stuff yesteryear, if it existed at all.
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> I've come to realize I'm not very good at it and thats unlikely to change. Citation needed.
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This sounds like the usual free speech debate. There is a difference between the legal protection of free speech and a culture valuing free speech. Yes, legally farmers should br able to repair their tractors on their own, but the spirit o

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