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by alimov 4y ago
This is correct
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by alimov 4y ago
What an ignorant statement. Do you think you are somehow better than the people contributing to the JS ecosystem? How does this kind of thinking benefit anyone at all?
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by alimov 4y ago
> Know your audience This point is something that I notice in a lot of meetings. Some of the engineers I work with are long winded and tend to over-explain concepts/issues to non-engineering folks. I try to send a direct message dur
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by alimov 4y ago
> Ford CEO Jim Farley has said the company needs "totally different talent." Wonder what kind of talent they believe they need (linked in the article opened a paywalled article:/)
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by alimov 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain
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by alimov 4y ago
This sounds like an interesting approach
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by alimov 4y ago
I hadn’t considered the reputation bit. I do think of that is a mechanism that would come into play then it would only be knowable by people that are frequently engaging on the platform. Do you think this would pose issues for new users (as
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by alimov 4y ago
> “Frankly, I'm so tired of the pervasive low-grade harassment and de facto exclusion of disenfranchised communities on HN…” Would you care to elaborate? I am genuinely interested, in part because of curiosity and also because I hav
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by alimov 4y ago
I completely agree
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by alimov 4y ago
> * The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. . Does this mean if so
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by alimov 4y ago
I’ve never heard of perma.cc before, but had a similar idea (likely more naive than however they are doing it) to save the content of a given url as an image and apply OCR, and keep both the image and the text saved. Got that working (somew
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by alimov 4y ago
Ah, that’s certainly less exciting. I hadn’t known that bit.
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by alimov 4y ago
Some years ago J.K Rowlings pseudonym was discovered via “Forensic Linguistics” (see: Smithsonian Magazine - “How Did Computers Uncover J.K. Rowling’s Pseudonym?”). I have never met anyone doing this kind of work as their day job or hobby,
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DeepStyle: User Style Embedding for Authorship Attribution of Short Texts(arxiv.org)
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by alimov 4y ago
Ok I understand
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I’m not very knowledgeable about this, but I was wondering if MIT (professor?) co-authorship precludes papers from coming to the wrong conclusions? Or is it we’ll know that when a co-author is from MIT that the paper is as rigorous and obj
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by alimov 4y ago
If it’s true then they made some great music as a team
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Yeah, the perseverance “muscle” must be trained
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by alimov 4y ago
> I feel like this basic intuition is behind every "links to cognitive abilities" study I've ever seen I’ve had this impression as well
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Thanks for sharing that, and I totally agree that the joy felt can be immense!
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That’s an interesting practice… I’m glad this is not the case in the states, aside from maybe applying for acting roles. I don’t know if it’s common practice nowadays but I remember there was a period of time when employers would request yo
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by alimov 4y ago
I haven’t read the book, but was wondering if you might be able to answer this: is the general theme that companies are able to do this legal thing of changing practices and use it maliciously? And while it might be a well known phenomenon,
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by alimov 4y ago
Saying nothing in so many words. > “If a CPU doesn't run the OS and software I need to run, it might as well be a GPU or …” > So this entire thread is kind of pointless with regard to many real-world use cases. Does this kind of
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by alimov 4y ago
I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority are a blob. There is a substantial overlap between users and advocates (shared interest in seeing <coin> “go to the moon”)… adding “researchers” here to lend some credibility to the blob
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by alimov 4y ago
Glad I saw this comment before checking out my cart full of guitars, drums, pianos, and a harmonica. Joking aside, would it be a stretch to say that learning to play an instrument well also grows confidence and develops a level of persever
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by alimov 4y ago
Since entropy seems to be a measure of our ignorance, then there maybe there is no point in discussing a perfect observer (of something that is boundless). Edit: > talking about a "perfect observer" that knows all there is t
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by alimov 4y ago
> The article describes it as a measure of hidden information in a system, which is a good description. But that's not a property of the system itself, it's a property of the observer, from whom the information is hidden. Was h
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by alimov 4y ago
maybe one more interesting detail worth noting: c) private equity firms are buying up insane amounts of real estate, being able to outbid regular home buyers and (don’t quote me on this b/c I’m not 100% sure) pay cash for the propertie
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by alimov 4y ago
Yes, it should be indicative of a problem. The fact that nurses are overworked, and underpaid is a big issue. > If there are people with the skills that are willing to travel, it seems that a system that maintained maximum capacity in al
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by alimov 4y ago
I believe they do a fair bit of recycling to recover various metals. I don’t think its all fixed up and resold (if any of it is fixed and resold at all)

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