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by amasad 8y ago
Even if I conceded that philosophy of science is not useful for scientist (I doubt that's the case) my comment was mainly concerned about the layman's understand of the world. While "Shutup and calculate" is useful for i
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by amasad 8y ago
I've never understood how some physicists disregard philosophy and do it with a straight face. How else are supposed to understand and make meaning of their findings? Take scientific realism for example. Roughly, whether our theories h
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by amasad 8y ago
Paywalled. Here is a readable link: https://outline.com/sbXxJr
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The LAPD Has a New Surveillance Formula, Powered by Palantir(injusticetoday.com)
1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 8y ago
Yeah my exact sense when I saw this. Is this a yearly thing?
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by amasad 8y ago
Two birds, one stone: make your hobby something active... I do powerlifting. Adding pounds on the bar week/week is the only metric I'm confident will keep going up ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
I should say, I think that highly contextualized events, like say, "YC founders", or "Xoogler Founders", etc are useful. I think because a) there's a shared context and more probably shared interests b) there's
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by amasad 8y ago
Great advice! However, from my experience, I've found that networking events to be a complete waste of time -- I could be especially bad at it -- but I've found that the better and more long term way to build a network is to work
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by amasad 8y ago
A lot of the benefits mentioned here are not eshell specific they also apply to `ansi-term` and `shell` just for the virtue of being in Emacs and being regular buffers.
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by amasad 8y ago
I agree with that. I think it's time for us, the tech industry, to start thinking about the ethical implications of the things we build before we release them. To make this salient for people: imagine this technology being deployed for
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by amasad 8y ago
Sometimes projects like this are spun up to merely retain executives/high performing employees. I've seen this happen before where employees at large tech companies are encouraged to start things inside the company instead of leav
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Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains (2012)(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 8y ago
Stewart Brand is a phenom. Not mentioned in this article but he started The Long Now Foundation ( http://longnow.org/ ) to "foster long term thinking". I've been a member for over a year and their seminars are
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by amasad 8y ago
Conclusion (emphasis is mine): In the past few years, many companies have experimented with prediction markets. In this paper, we analyze the largest such experiment we are aware of. We find that prices in Google’s markets closely approxi
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Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf](stat.berkeley.edu)
139 points by amasad 8y ago|19 comments
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by amasad 8y ago
Repl.it cofounder here. Part of what makes this project and others like it really cool is that kids on Repl.it are really interested doing things the hard way and learning from first principles. Here is another project by a 13-year-old that
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Neural Networks and Primes(repl.it)
68 points by amasad 8y ago|20 comments
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by amasad 8y ago
How does M&As work for non-profit? Like, obviously from this, a non-profit can acquire a for-profit but can a for-profit acquire a non-profit?
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Repl.it (W18) Is Hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer(repl.it)
1 points by amasad 8y ago
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China is about to start reading the brains of workers to improve productivity(m.scmp.com)
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by amasad 8y ago
Repl.it | San Francisco | Infrastructure Engineer | onsite | https://repl.it/site/jobs We're building a new kind of software platform. Our users go from learning how to code to deploying apps, getting users, and i
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by amasad 8y ago
He's actually already left as per his Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10156227307390011
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Repl.it (W18) Is Hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer(repl.it)
1 points by amasad 9y ago
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by amasad 9y ago
> It's what leads to proliferation of ads, surveillance and growth strategies like dumbing down software to the point of almost complete uselessness How did SaaS lead to all these things? Unless you're broadning the definition
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by amasad 9y ago
I would frame it as lots of interesting theoritcal and PoC things but very little applications that provides value for end-users.
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by amasad 9y ago
At the time Saddam was emboldened by the US and when he gassed the Kurds the CIA blamed Iran for it to cover it up for him. If anything that proves that we can't trust Western intelligence reports. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by amasad 9y ago
In this case he's applying probablity theory which is basically "reasoning under uncertainty". If you're interested in this check out a book called Superforcasters which is an elite team of forcasters that use similar me
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by amasad 9y ago
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled on smart people is to convince them that there are no conspiracies. ok On your point in Douma, the deal to evacuate was reached two weeks ago (about 10 days befoe the alleged attacks) https:/&#
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by amasad 9y ago
I'm just guessing but maybe you were flagged because of the way you argue. You're both strawmaning my argument and associating it with a conspiracy theory. Nobody would be against a good faith debate. My opinion is not as fringe a
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by amasad 9y ago
One only needs to apply basic game theory and skepticism to come to the conclusion that Assad has no incentives to gas citizens. He's winning the war! On the other hand who would benefit from a gas attack? Obviously, the "rebels&q

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