anatoly

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by anatoly 6y ago
No, it's you who failed to engage with the other commenter's arguments, or failed to understand them. They made the correct point that the famous "banned books week" also typically celebrated, and continues to celebrate,
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by anatoly 6y ago
Interesting; I learned about Toby Ord through a terrific interactive fiction (IF) game he wrote called All Things Devours [0], highly recommended (and very friendly to someone mostly unfamilair with IF as a genre, as I was). [0] http:&#x2F
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by anatoly 6y ago
There's this trend of using the words "leaders", "leadership", where I think 20 years ago we just said "managers", or maybe "upper management". It's unsettling to me. Is this another step on
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by anatoly 6y ago
This is amazing. Thank you!
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by anatoly 6y ago
Well, does the rest of the comment ring true to why you think you loathe SSC? I can't reach into your head. Maybe you just really dislike his punctuation. Or, more plausibly, think he has an insufferably smarmy tone. FWIW I've bee
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by anatoly 6y ago
As a psychiatrist, Scott Alexander meets new patients or potential patients who haven't heard his real name before all the time, probably almost every day. It's been his experience until now, despite his blog being rather popular
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by anatoly 6y ago
Committed culture warriors often seem to loathe SSC. From their perspective, it gives too much credence and attention to obviously evil ideas, and the author is in thrall to the worst elements of the Other Side (than the one the culture war
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by anatoly 7y ago
Sorry if it's a stupid question, but hypothetically, would we be able to engineer rather than find a harmless strain of coronavirus with the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2? If I understand correctly, antigens identify the virus by its S
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by anatoly 7y ago
https://climatecrocks.com/2013/06/07/the-1970s-ice-age-myth-...
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by anatoly 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair happened in 2002, before Paul's article in 2004.
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by anatoly 7y ago
Thank you so much for this post.
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by anatoly 7y ago
He doesn't have a reputation for harassing women, he has a reputation for weird off-putting behavior towards everyone, with many stories of being really bad at social etiquette towards men and women, not reading social cues, and gettin
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by anatoly 7y ago
I'm not sure. Possibly if you try ffmpeg's -a copy and such, it'll simply extract the AAC. Let me know if it works for you. I've always wanted mp3 in the past so I didn't mind the transcoding.
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by anatoly 7y ago
1. Download your own AAX files (using the Audible download manager or search around for some ways to do it w/o the download manager). 2. Find out your 'activation keys' using ffprobe and the inAudible-NG project, see instruct
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by anatoly 8y ago
http://archive.is/U0c83
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by anatoly 8y ago
If both mathjax and katex are open source, what is it that makes katex so much faster? Is there a hidden tradeoff?
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by anatoly 8y ago
That's very interesting. TIL. Thank you.
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by anatoly 8y ago
I don't agree with the GP about racism no longer being an issue. But if you're saying that racism is wholly responsible for the income gap, then what's your answer to exactly the same question applied to Asians vs white peopl
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by anatoly 8y ago
>It's not up to you. There is something resembling a consensus among black people and the very large number of people who agree with you about the problem of racism in America that using the word --- even to sing along to a hip-hop
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Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting(hollywoodreporter.com)
37 points by anatoly 8y ago|126 comments
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by anatoly 8y ago
You mostly got blowback in response, but as someone who also read almost all of these people (and listened a bit) I want to say that your descriptions resonated with me. I don't know if it's very important to distinguish who'
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by anatoly 8y ago
Interesting. I looked around - could the name have been AuroraUX? A page about it survives in Russian wikipedia (deleted in English back in 2012). It's said to have been based on DragonFly BSD, with new components written in Ada (!), b
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Book Review: Twelve Rules for Life(slatestarcodex.com)
136 points by anatoly 9y ago|72 comments
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by anatoly 9y ago
I advise installing Calibre and Apprentice Alf's DRM Removal plugin for it. Systematically preserve all your books by stripping the DRM and sleep more easily.
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by anatoly 9y ago
Deep learning. In fact, I want to start the year with a MOOC or a video course on deep learning. I went over the current offerings, and am hesitating between Andrew Ng's new Deep Learning course at Coursera in 5 parts, and self-studyin
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by anatoly 9y ago
блат (blaht) means "nepotism", but used in a much more widespread way, to refer not just to jobs obtained through relations and connections, but also buying things you normally can't get in stores, getting invitations to sele
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by anatoly 9y ago
It seems to test mostly careful attention, pattern-matching, and very basic knowledge of arithmetics and geometry. With that, it's tougher than it sounds.
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Computer Programming Aptitude Test(kent.ac.uk)
3 points by anatoly 9y ago|1 comments
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by anatoly 9y ago
>a computational model of social belief systems. Can you give more details (accessible to programmers rather than social scientists) how that'd work, what do you actually model and aim to find out? Sounds pretty interesting.
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by anatoly 9y ago
My advice is to not try Penrose's book. The vast majority of its contents will be utterly incomprehensible to someone without a PhD level background in physics. Technically it is self-contained and nothing beyond high school knowledge

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