aswanson

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811.
by aswanson 10y ago
Anecdotally, it's replicated by several individuals I've run into (it seems to be the exceptional person that can process incoming data that conflicts with their worldview) and pretty much every other commenter has had similar exp
812.
by aswanson 10y ago
"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds.
813.
by aswanson 10y ago
There was a paper published about how being presented with disconfirming evidence causes people to double down on their belief in a lie if it has an emotional connection with them.
814.
by aswanson 10y ago
Feelings don't care about your facts. It's actually amazing that a breed of primates made it this far when you consider how irrational we really are with regard to so many things: who we cede power to, how we judge truth and falsi
815.
by aswanson 10y ago
Agreed.
816.
by aswanson 10y ago
Because it wasn't fine before that. Most drivers take irrational risks, drive with zero margin, and are generally fucking stupid behind the wheel. The other half are even worse. Seriously, there needs to be far more restrictions and pu
817.
by aswanson 10y ago
That sounds to me like a loudmouth versus someone who thinks about what he's saying before saying it.
818.
by aswanson 10y ago
I was the winner of that in my class. They asked me how I won, and I said, "eh, it's nothing." 13 years ago, with no brain, head, arms, or legs, I beat out several million peers to fertilize The Egg. This is just the afterglo
819.
by aswanson 10y ago
Could emotion be modeled as a deviation (amplified or dampened) from an ideal rational response, given the information? Like a short circuit that allows sensation to override the rational processing?
820.
by aswanson 10y ago
There was a WSJ article awhile back that theil authored about Trump. His basic argument is that it's a vote against a political establishment that can't accomplish anything. I was as confused as you are about the seeming inconsist
821.
by aswanson 10y ago
Which raises the question: What _was_ the most significant scientific discovery during the Obama era? Can we even quantify it yet?
822.
by aswanson 10y ago
I always thought wimax was going to be the Comcas t killer. Don't understand why it never happened.
823.
by aswanson 10y ago
Seems one of the problems is that the funding sources are run by too many old people. They should be forced out every few years and not be allowed to make a career of it.
824.
by aswanson 10y ago
Wow, that sounds great for that area. What skill sets do you have, and what were they looking for?
825.
by aswanson 10y ago
That was a good way to teach you commutativity, though.
826.
by aswanson 10y ago
I'd agree with that. I don't believe in the efficient market hypothesis. The "market" given his limited information, professorship salary, and the compensation offered him to do other work clearly showed a large spread w
827.
by aswanson 10y ago
The market set a cost in payoff in terms of quality of life and remuneration for both roles. He made the rational choice for himself and his family. Also, there are former financial engineers like David Shaw that have taken their earnings t
828.
by aswanson 10y ago
Great objective perspective and advice.
829.
by aswanson 10y ago
Did you explicitly search for a quant job or did it happen opportunistically?
830.
by aswanson 10y ago
I honestly can't believe they and Broadcom continue this idiocy. Makes no sense whatsoever. A lot of small gigs I've worked used freescale parts, and don't have the leverage to get the datasheets. How absurd a situation.
831.
by aswanson 10y ago
Isnt there an associated penalty for consuming non-local resources first?
832.
by aswanson 10y ago
On top of that, it has a powerful, well-documented IDE and support community. It is what it is. I love to experiment with new stacks and paradigms but if I want to Get Shit Done, nine times out of 10 Im going with older tools.
833.
by aswanson 10y ago
I think he's saying the criticizing of stigmatizing Jews back then by the media and a political party would have been met with the same "shut up and stop being politically correct" dismissals that are echoed today in certain
834.
by aswanson 10y ago
I think everyone trolls, to a greater or lesser extent, and whether they admit it or not. It's a form of a prank/social response experiment when done in taste. The current political climate in the US, however, has brought out some
835.
by aswanson 10y ago
Visual Studios integration with so many other non-microsoft languages and packages is excellent. As a former msft hater, I have to agree with the parent.
836.
by aswanson 10y ago
I really wish I had time to contribute to this language. The community seems awesome.
837.
by aswanson 10y ago
Do you think our political biases themselves come from evolutionary survival schemas? e.g. right vs left, etc.
838.
by aswanson 10y ago
Hilarious that the grandparent states performance gained by deleting "I"from the training corpus and the child comment starts with that pronoun.
839.
by aswanson 10y ago
I avoid them also because the service is so poor. Even on a late weeknight, you can see 95 percent of the aisle closed and ridiculously long lines of people with full carts. Walmart does not treat their customers nor their employees well. T
840.
by aswanson 10y ago
why? and what is "time?"

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