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by baxrob 6y ago
I want to suggest that you email Noam Chomsky in reply to his question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWWz4y1coU#t=34m58s
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Perfecting Behaviorism: Neural Nets as Subjects and Trainers (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by baxrob 6y ago|0 comments
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by baxrob 6y ago
Kurt Vonnegut
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by baxrob 6y ago
https://www.etymonline.com/word/misinformation
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by baxrob 6y ago
Maybe it's that ol' Software Crisis or thar Pleasantness Problem
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by baxrob 7y ago
http://xanadu.net https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
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by baxrob 7y ago
Related: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-radio-...
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by baxrob 7y ago
It'd be great to get any feedback on these. I've tested only on a Samsung 4S-mini. Some notes: - Inside, the apps are Cordova and ~1500 lines of vanilla ES5 and CSS - Behind that are some build/preprocess steps which basicall
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Show HN: Android canary products and diagnostic prototype(play.google.com)
2 points by baxrob 7y ago|1 comments
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by baxrob 7y ago
"Apple is also working on its first low-cost iPhone since the iPhone SE. That could come out as early as the first half of 2020, the people said. The device would look similar to the iPhone 8 and include a 4.7-inch screen." -- h
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by baxrob 7y ago
Note it changed hands last year and is replicated at archive.org and soundcloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Music_Archive https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive https://sou
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WEIRD stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.(edge.org)
1 points by baxrob 12y ago|0 comments
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by baxrob 13y ago
I may be alone on this, but I have difficulty distinguishing OP's argument from http://www.amazon.com/The-Quickening-Todays-Trends-Tomorrows...
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by baxrob 13y ago
er, http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/fileadmin/template/docum...
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"Write as if ..."(cs.utexas.edu)
1 points by baxrob 13y ago|1 comments
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To Die at 128
1 points by baxrob 14y ago|0 comments
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by baxrob 14y ago
> but teachers aren't psychiatrists or clinical psychologists and can't really be expected to be. rather to the contrary, i think. Or you haven't had occasion to attempt teaching enough? > There's been research to show that there i
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by baxrob 14y ago
My choice is Edsger Dijkstra's mother, a lesser known, but, according to him, profoundly gifted mathematician, who, incidentally, inspired him to some heights of his own, better known, maths reasoning. Here she is in his papers: http://ew
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by baxrob 14y ago
I'll never forget this exchange I had with a CS professor: Me: ... but, in the future, everyone will learn how to program. Neal: no, in the future, no one will need to know how to program. I suspect Neal was right, though I dislike the idea
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by baxrob 14y ago
though, brevity can be a blessing
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by baxrob 14y ago
"A preoccupation, in that sense, is a hell of a useful thing for a mind." Well said! Here's to more frequent talking into pages.
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by baxrob 14y ago
I googled it. Did you mean the first link? It looks well written and interesting from the first couple paragraphs.. The whole list? Yeah, I'm familiar with the topic. I think the article's author's central premise (to paraphrase: that
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by baxrob 14y ago
Dang, someone already posted it. Great piece on creating vs capturing value, open source, new economy, etc.
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by baxrob 14y ago
Sir, you have confused a term. /Consent/ is the opposite. Look it up.
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by baxrob 14y ago
No. This argument has been dismantled so many times by so many (yes, often "feminist") scholars ... it pains me a little to recapitulate. Gender is a construct. It is /tethered/, but not mapped, to sex. They are in no way identical, and
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by baxrob 14y ago
herval, a handful of numbers can't show anything conclusively. Volume one of Simone de B's epic "Second Sex" covers your points in depth. Worth reading - some of its 1953 English translation is online at : http://www.marxists.org/referenc
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by baxrob 14y ago
randomdata, the invisible hand doesn't seem to have developed such fine-motor control yet, and the media market has the special luxury of manipulating demand to suit its product ("hmm, would addressing real issues, encouraging honest dialo
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by baxrob 14y ago
Some candidates in these ten pages: http://thisisindexed.com/category/women/ ?
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by baxrob 14y ago
Thank you! Well said, arkitaip.
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by baxrob 14y ago
Unfortunately, the term "quota" has been uber-toxic in US politics for the past twenty+ years. So ... what is known as PC[1] (which I wish could just be called "common decency"[2], or "non-douche-ism") ... becomes an indispensable (if thin

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