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by arafa 11y ago
The biggest objection I have to self-reported studies and the conclusions drawn from them in articles like this is that, according to research in books like Thinking, Fast and Slow, a lot of self-reported facts (including beliefs) are often
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by arafa 11y ago
I'll never forget our tour guide in Zimbabwe saying his last paycheck before dollarization was 4 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars. For a tour guide. So yeah, they might have bigger problems than Cecil the Lion.
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by arafa 11y ago
Specifically regarding this story, apparently some of the facts are in dispute. That the drone was hovering a few feet outside of the yard ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/new-drone-telemet... ) an
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by arafa 11y ago
I enjoy that they added the dataset for download this year, and some other changes. But the dataset's not available at the moment. And it's in .xls format when it should just be a csv.
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by arafa 11y ago
Tried DSC (even with the quad blades) for several months, had terrible shaves and switched to a Fusion and never looked back. I wanted to like them since they're cheap and the marketing was cool, but the product just didn't live
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by arafa 11y ago
As somebody who has typed in Dvorak continuously for the last 13 years, I agree one hundred percent with this post. I find that I type about the same (a little slower maybe) than in my QWERTY days, anywhere from 70-100 WPM on average. It&
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by arafa 11y ago
I'm a little disappointed in this article, in that upper face movements are generally (as far as I've read and seen) very reliable indicators of emotion. The only two common misconceptions I've read about are this, which is
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by arafa 12y ago
I am a Strange Loop elaborates on the ideas from GEB, while also being more personal (which GEB definitely isn't). Some people I knew thought it was repetitive, less enjoyable, and less artistic than GEB. In some ways I agree with th
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by arafa 12y ago
I went through this whole class when it was linked here a couple of months back and really enjoyed it. I'm a self-taught programmer that needed updates on some modern concepts and a refresher on some other stuff, plus a bit of help wi
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by arafa 12y ago
SPOT is based on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a method developed by Paul Ekman to read faces (familiar to fans of the show Lie to Me): http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_24533526/face-it-tsa... Whi