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Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates(theatlantic.com)
5 points by awl130 10y ago|1 comments
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by awl130 10y ago
unbelievable that he's manually inputting all the numbers. either import directly from yahoo / google finance or capital iq.
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by awl130 10y ago
how long until self driving cars in dallas?
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A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video](bloomberg.com)
128 points by awl130 10y ago|74 comments
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by awl130 10y ago
>China has made it a national priority to provide better standard of living to their people then the West. this is patently false. the official Chinese government line is that the current western standard of living is not scalable. their
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by awl130 10y ago
in a tree structure, isn't 24 just an arbitrary number based on which level of the tree you make your claim? if all of mathematics, for example, can be traced ultimately to the first mathematician ever, then the argument can be made t
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by awl130 10y ago
the test is fair if the goal of reducing racial bias is not to reduce crime but to achieve a more integrated society. in the long term, if such a policy contributes to a more integrated society, then more crime in the short term is deemed a
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Was There a Problem with the Rio Pool?(swimswam.com)
3 points by awl130 10y ago|0 comments
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by awl130 10y ago
It's true that Americans of European ancestry are not growing taller at the same rate as their European cohorts. This could be partially due to childhood obesity. A diet rich in sugars leads to early puberty and counter-intuitively, d
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by awl130 10y ago
his point is that there is no proof that the graffiti was done without authorization. neither is the window smashing. for all people know, he could have trashed his property himself, which is totally legal. or he could have given permissio
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by awl130 10y ago
that is a fantastic gauge and one i live by. for example film critics: if you do not appreciate most films that you watch, then you are in the wrong field.
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How Chris McCandless Died (2013)(newyorker.com)
2 points by awl130 10y ago|0 comments
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We are removing our Russian presence(privateinternetaccess.com)
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by awl130 10y ago
unless you are thai yourself? are we supposed to presume that everyone is not-thai on this site?
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by awl130 10y ago
in other words, we pick friends from the same ethnic group
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by awl130 10y ago
you spelled her last name wrong. also accommodations
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by awl130 10y ago
i thought this would be about studying. walking the campus of usc (univ of southern calif) i was struck by the shocking physical and psychological divide between the asian students, huddled in the library, versus the white students attendin
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by awl130 10y ago
I think part of it is that the founder comes from a very well-connected family and her connections to institutional capital (Draper is a family friend; Lucas) and ridiculously high-level advisors in business (Oracle's Ellison) and the
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by awl130 10y ago
through monetary incentives based on word count
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by awl130 11y ago
epigenome
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by awl130 11y ago
A title can be literal and be misleading. this is the role of connotation and context.
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AlphaGo spurs Korea to nominate three female STEM pros to National Assembly(koreatimes.co.kr)
3 points by awl130 11y ago|0 comments
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AI-written novel passes literary prize screening in Japan(the-japan-news.com)
9 points by awl130 11y ago|0 comments
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by awl130 11y ago
oh got it, good point. yeah there is low substitute effect
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by awl130 11y ago
it was high time that these ancient martial arts were shaken from their comfortable reverie. what were once based on actual fights centuries ago had devolved into pedantic adherence to ritual and form. it actually started way before the U
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by awl130 11y ago
you're confusing performance with the underlying intellectual property (e.g., the published song)
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by awl130 11y ago
do you think lee sedol should change his goal from trying to win all remaining three games to winning just one? in other words, sacrifice the next two games to learn about alphago and then try to win the final game.
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by awl130 11y ago
the first AI to replicate the success of: an oscar-winning movie; a pulitzer prize novel; a tony award winning musical-- will all at once devalue the IP value of all creative content worldwide by a measurable degree. it will be like watchi
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by awl130 11y ago
maybe he's defining a "winning move" as something with > 50% chance of winning
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by awl130 11y ago
+1

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