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by amoorthy 9y ago
Pretty cool how he took a very unusual career/personal route to become such an important figure in the programming world. Good reminder for a parent like me that getting your kids into a "top" school isn't a must to succ
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by amoorthy 9y ago
To be honest, I'm learning a lot from the comments on this thread. I appreciate climate change skeptics speaking up because I know it's not a popular position to take. I also appreciate where everyone has added highly credible cit
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by amoorthy 9y ago
So cool, thank you for posting. I shared with my nephew and he loved it. Made game theory really come alive for him. I also became a patron to the author. My first time ever doing so on Patreon. Way to go Nicky Case and please keep up these
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Thank you Powerofmene and Boothroid. I would not have guessed this about Elon. (I didn't even know the phrase "on the spectrum").
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I've been an unabashed fan of Elon Musk ever since I read the long series of essays on him at Wait But Why blog. So I am probably not objective in evaluating him. This blog post, while not deep in research, did make me pause and think
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A few points to keep in mind when reading any upcoming story about Elon Musk(observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Journals that accept papers that don't disclose funding sources progressively lose their credibility. (I am not a scientist and have never published a paper so I may be asking for things here that are unreasonable but they seem plausib
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I think the suggestion is simple: Disclose funding sources and % of funding total for any research. And if you don't disclose then no journal should accept your paper. Funding source does not by itself invalidate findings and corporati
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Hi folks - below is an article I read recently which opened my eyes to the risks of corporate funded research. Companies have long funded research to back their interests that can have serious ramifications on public safety and use of publi
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Interesting article. However I can't recall tube stations being much warmer than outside temperatures in winter (on non-windy days). If that's right then how is the heat dissipated better in winter? I don't live in London so
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Meeker's reports have, over the years, made several simple yet powerful conclusions such as when I first read the mismatch of % time spent by device vs. % of ad spend on device. I don't know if she was the first to observe this bu
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by amoorthy 9y ago
The challenge for the official is to sort the signatures easily to identify their constituents. Not so easy without zip+4 data (5-digit zip not always accurate on election districts).
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by amoorthy 9y ago
(Related to my company) I've spoken with a half dozen government officials in the US and they all said they do not consider petitions in policy making. The biggest problem they have is not knowing easily what fraction of the signers ar
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by amoorthy 9y ago
You might like this article: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but... .
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Good first approximation but I think there are some limitations. For example, basic Income advocates do not say that everyone (children, for example) get the cash. So your denominator of 360M is incorrect and should be reduced by at least 7
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by amoorthy 9y ago
A lot of people think this way, Zuck included, and that's what makes the decision in India so interesting and, at least for me, correct. FB does not categorically improve the quality of life for its users. FB provides connectivity to o
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I wasn't suggesting it's failing. The point I was replying to was if Free Basics is a "win-win" and I'm saying there's at least one large democratic nation that thought otherwise.
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Agree and upvoted. That said, sweeping statements can be useful if they point to a trend. In mature markets, there does appear to be a segment that is turned off by FB and it's not clear if these are being replaced by newer users. If t
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Um no. https://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-kil...
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Nice quote and fair candor. But maybe we similarly trivialized technology in the past and have suffered negative side-effects that could have been avoided with forethought? I'm not sure it's necessarily regulation but rather educa
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by amoorthy 9y ago
This is an opinion piece by a solid writer, and mathematician. This sentence caught my eye: "[obsession with tech] will lead us to become such godlets, augmenting ourselves step by step with technology in a process that will erase our
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I’d Rather Not Merge with Robots, Thank You(bloomberg.com)
1 points by amoorthy 9y ago|3 comments
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'Mummy' Is Transgender: A New Commercial Is the Talk of India(npr.org)
1 points by amoorthy 9y ago|0 comments
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Sales training for an engineer(curiousjuice.com)
2 points by amoorthy 14y ago|0 comments