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by alyx 9y ago
I find what might help those that quote statistics is to self-reflect and ask the question, how would you react if your father/mother/sister/son/daughter/etc was the victim? Would you care that statistically self-dr
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Thinking outside the quantum box(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by alyx 9y ago
Hard problem of conciousness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...
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by alyx 9y ago
For those interested in thoughts about consciousness, I highly recommend Bernardo Kastrup. He comes from a comp sci background but has several books and very well structured arguments for Idealism. His manner of delivering his insights I th
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by alyx 9y ago
When you buy an apple in the store, unless it is labeled as "new crop" it has already been in storage for up-to a year. http://www.foodrenegade.com/your-apples-year-old/
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by alyx 9y ago
And they used that same water canal to stack those huge blocks too? Seems like only half the “secret” revealed.
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by alyx 9y ago
Bernardo Kastrup - Why Materialism Is Baloney Has a lot of impact on current AI theory. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20543665-why-materialism...
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by alyx 9y ago
Fourth paragraph.
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by alyx 9y ago
SCOPE is for Cosmos what USQL is for Azure Data Lake Analytics There are a lot of similarities between Scope and USQL, but USQL is also a cleaner (and in some ways more rigid) implementation.
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by alyx 9y ago
Depends on the recession type.
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by alyx 9y ago
Or one with better ingredients.
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by alyx 9y ago
Maybe I didn't do a good job scanning the comments, but I'm surprised nobody (not even the article) mentions the NSF certification body. Taste is important but very subjective. I don't buy a water filter unless it shows up as
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by alyx 9y ago
You can upgrade up from 10S to 10Pro. Panos mentioned that at the end. It's a full fledged laptop.
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by alyx 10y ago
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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by alyx 10y ago
Because unlike the US government, WikiLeaks has a more accurate/transparent track record?
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by alyx 10y ago
After reading this article I was reminded of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question". http://multivax.com/last_question.html
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by alyx 10y ago
Luckily for you, Windows 10 will support Ubuntu Bash natively (as part of the anniversary update). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
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by alyx 10y ago
Through a combination of cognitive API sentiment analysis and entity recognition is also supported. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/text-anal...
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by alyx 10y ago
Similar offering suite from Microsoft, https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/
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by alyx 10y ago
Anybody know of any good self-help/research communities or forums? Search engines are filled with clickbait these days.
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by alyx 11y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, But I honestly don't understand the point of spending billions of dollars building light rail, when the solution seems much simpler. Roads? Check Busses? Check Busses are way more flexible than rail. T
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by alyx 11y ago
Can you be more specific about what you hate? I've been a .NET dev for over 10 years as well, and for all it's faults, VS is one of the best dev environments I've ever worked in.
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by alyx 11y ago
Anybody know of any good sources of MLS data for programmatic consumption (even if not free)?
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by alyx 11y ago
That would lead to analysis-paralysis pretty quickly. Just saying.
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by alyx 11y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but aren't antibiotics meant for humans, tested on us as well? I think the issue here is that antibiotics being given to animals were not studied for these scenarios. For instance, how they may impact milk and meat
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by alyx 11y ago
You mean Apple and Google.
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by alyx 11y ago
I'm interested to hear other people's experiences. I have a 100k trading portfolio and I have sold/bought nothing in the last week. Thoughts on who's doing all this downward trading?
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by alyx 11y ago
Apparently there is a subscription version of Hulu on the way, which will be ad-free.
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by alyx 11y ago
I get this whole skepticism thing, but Microsoft has been backing up BitLocker keys in OneDrive since at least Windows 8. I have personally used the feature several times to recover my drive keys. There's no evidence here that Microsof
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by alyx 11y ago
I highly recommend the Xbox One streaming feature that's coming with Windows 10. It allows you to play your Xbox games on your PC.

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