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   by alokrai 8y ago

   The fact that the Greek state is incompetent or corrupt was not unknown before the crisis. The banks granted loans to Greece knowing that the Greek state was incapable of paying back because they were certain that ECB (or EU) would guarante
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   by alokrai 8y ago

   Dogmas and ideologies of large organizations are almost as dangerous as their malice. Many of EU & IMF bureaucrats genuinely believed that they were helping the Greek economy recover while they were actually engaged in destroying it.
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   by alokrai 8y ago

   Richard Feynman on Brazil: 1. “That evening I went for a walk in town, and came upon a small crowd of people standing around a great big rectangular hole in the road—it had been “dug for sewer pipes, or something—and there, sitting exactly
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   Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World(quantamagazine.org)

   5 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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   AI safety via debate(arxiv.org)

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   Most worker ants are slackers(sciencemag.org)

   3 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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   Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf](scottaaronson.com)

   173 points by alokrai 8y ago|22 comments
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   D-Wave quantum computer used to explore a spin glass(arstechnica.com)

   2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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   Blockchain Economics(Trilemma: correctness, decentralization, cost efficiency) [pdf](scholar.princeton.edu)

   1 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable∗ [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|2 comments
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    The Theory of Interstellar Trade(fermatslibrary.com)

    107 points by alokrai 8y ago|180 comments
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    Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra [pdf](web.stanford.edu)

    4 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Haskell Programming from First Principles(haskellbook.com)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies (2014) [pdf](haskell.cs.yale.edu)

    129 points by alokrai 8y ago|10 comments
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    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies – EdX Introductory Course(edx.org)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    by alokrai 8y ago

    1. It is very interesting to note that Freeman Dyson considers Von Neumann to be a frog rather than a bird. Considering Neumann's wide ranging, and prodigious work, I always thought of him as a superman who could survey the entire land
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    ArsDigita University (ADU): MOOCs in 2000, Before Coursera and Edx(aduni.org)

    1 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    by alokrai 8y ago

    I wonder why AIMA far more popular. As a beginner to AI, I was recommended to read AIMA but I found AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, to be far more approachable. Now, I use AIMA as a very useful reference but for a beginner, AIMA is
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    Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, 2nd Edition(cs.ubc.ca)

    3 points by alokrai 8y ago|1 comments
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    The Computer and the Brain: Book by John von Neumann(archive.org)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Matters(people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

    11 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming(groups.csail.mit.edu)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Paul's Online Math Notes(tutorial.math.lamar.edu)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    How the Press Sensationalized Einstein’s Search for a Unified Field Theory(link.springer.com)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf](cs.yale.edu)

    334 points by alokrai 8y ago|83 comments
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    MITx: Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters Program(edx.org)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    WeWork in Talks with SoftBank to Double Valuation to as Much as $40B(wsj.com)

    1 points by alokrai 8y ago|1 comments
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    Waymo to Buy Up to 62,000 Chrysler Minivans for Ride-Hailing Service(nytimes.com)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|1 comments
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    Adversarial Attack on Graph Structured Data(arxiv.org)

    2 points by alokrai 8y ago|0 comments
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    by alokrai 8y ago

    WhatsApp had a subscriber model (99 cents per year). It was still very successful in India, a relatively poor country. I remember visiting villages in India, where people who are quite poor by western standards, still preferred using WhatsA