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U.S. Probes Meeting Between Activision CEO and Option Buyer(wsj.com)
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by agonz253 5y ago
Why the assumption that only the implementation needs to change, especially when significant refactoring is involved? The interfaces themselves may need to change when striving for a better system design. This is also part of refactoring.
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by agonz253 5y ago
Those tests themselves may need to change if significant refactoring is involved. Doing so after the refactoring seems to defeat the purpose of using TDD in the first place?
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by agonz253 5y ago
John Ousterhout has a different take on this in "A Philosophy of Software Design": The problem with test-driven development is that it focuses attention on getting specific features working, rather than finding the best design. T
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by agonz253 5y ago
What's fraudulent about them is not their papers (there are none of any relevance to speak of) but their character. They are both self proclaimed misunderstood geniuses who have been denied Nobel prizes in spite of their revolutionary
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by agonz253 5y ago
One claims to have discovered a Theory Of Everything, putting forth a paper riddled with mathematical errors and with the caveat that it is a "work of entertainment". The other claims to have made a Nobel worthy discovery that rev
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When art transports us, where do we actually go?(psyche.co)
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DeepMind claims its AI weather forecasting model beats conventional models(venturebeat.com)
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by agonz253 5y ago
It doesn't help his cause that he continued to promote this study's findings even though he knew they didn't replicate. [0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-...
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by agonz253 5y ago
Two mathematical physicists took the time to go through his talk on it and pointed out serious flaws with it, which the author didn't address in his paper and has gone on to ignore. [1] https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.
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Reality is constructed by your brain(vox.com)
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JRR Tolkien: On Fairy Stories [pdf](heritagepodcast.com)
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by agonz253 6y ago
> “When I read Helmholtz for the first time, it seemed so odd that you were not at my side and today, this is not getting better. I find the work we do together very good, healing and also easier.” Note that this was written when they we
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by agonz253 6y ago
It was Marcel Grossman who introduced him to Riemman's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Grossmann There is no evidence that his wife provided any of the "mathematical muscle needed for GR", nor
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The Portal: Sir Roger Penrose(stitcher.com)
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John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir(arxiv.org)
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by agonz253 8y ago
> There are no startling discoveries to be made of facts, not open to the methods of science, yet accessible “from the armchair” through some blend of intuition, pure reason and conceptual analysis. A counterexample of this is the kind o
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Ketosis – advantaged or misunderstood state?(peterattiamd.com)
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Interpreting Kafka’s Metamorphosis in the Digital Age(wavefunction.fieldofscience.com)
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How to have difficult conversations: Introduce complexity(jamesjchoi.blogspot.com)
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Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science(the-tls.co.uk)
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by agonz253 8y ago
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/21/who-the-hell-...
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The Great Foreigner (1947)(newyorker.com)
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Why adding water improves the taste of scotch(washingtonpost.com)
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by agonz253 10y ago
Here's the original paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160719/ncomms12172/full/nc...
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Experiment suggests people may sense single photons(scientificamerican.com)
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by agonz253 13y ago
Dropping something the mass of a tennis ball into this pulsar(assuming 2 solar masses for it) would generate approximately the same amount of energy upon impact as that of 12 atomic bombs like the one tested in New Mexico, and it would reac
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by agonz253 13y ago
>This assumes that wealth is a zero-sum game, so it can be traded around but not created. >And it very much is. You may be confusing wealth with money, which is in fact a zero-sum game. Wealth, on the other hand, can be created and it