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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Strange article. It's basically a list of nice things going for PHP, but you can write that for literally any tech in any context — like, I could argue that you should build web sites with the Unity game engine or raw Python by listing
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Vue, ...), Python, Unity and Godot Résumé/CV: koljapluemer.com Email: contact [at] koljapluemer.com Interested in working
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Your comment made me laugh, but to actually answer: It matters from a Chesterton's Fence perspective: We know that the hippos were not brought for any good reason, inevitability, etc.
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Fan favorite of the HN crowd I know, but hardly the correct line to draw. Here is one of the hundreds of papers analyzing mislabeling in genetics (notice how affected papers are usually not withdrawn): https://link.springer.com&#
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
There is a funny kind of bias here: Fields and subfields who actually retract papers are more likely to win the this negative award of "most heavily citing retracted studies" — contrast that psychology, where things are almost n
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Can you expand how that would help with this problem? In my understanding the tools used to write a paper are completely hidden and non-consequential once a paper is published, no?
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
I blame rent-seeking academic "publishers" for the lack of these features. There are multiple high-impact features to be built in this regard, many of which would take an experienced dev around an afternoon to build, if a proper
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
That's a good point. I know no site where it takes less clicks to access the current in-group drama. Thinking about it, know I want a "Current Drama" button where the "I'm feeling lucky" button used to be on gS
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
It kind of does, though? The point of such indicators is to make predictions about the real world. "If you're 5'6'', this mattress is a good fit" or "People taller than 6ft will be 2.4 times more likely to
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Can't find the one I actually had in mind right now, but here is one where they run various cognitive tests on high-IQ-value individuals, with performance regularly dipping below population average: 10.1007/s12207-021-09417-x
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
The section Unlike height, no one knows what IQ is actually measuring , buried deep in the article, is really all that's needed. "Height" is a well-behaved non-changing property that is meaningful, "IQ" is none of
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Who ever measured the "correlation" between intelligence and IQ and how? ...given that intelligence is not only abstract, but also not defined consistently?
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Being good at something, executing something well, beating a challenge is extremely satisfying. Nobody said this is some kind of hack for dollars and bling.
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Literally the point of Ericsson. The "D" in "DP" is not just there for decoration. Examples like driving or touch typing are among the most-mentioned examples in the literature for skills where people just go to "
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
I mean, do you know what the biggest record jump in 100m running was? ...Usain Bolt beating his own record. I used to think that genetics must surely play a bigger and bigger role the more a skill is built around pure body function (manag
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Trying to innovate digital language learning by building actual learning games , not just gamified apps. Currently experimenting with a game build around the old classroom method of Total Physical Response — you can see a very early protot
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Finally, we curbed the ability of the most fucked subclass of workers to edge their way towards a livable wage by mildly abusing existing systems of trust. Instead, we can now reduce them to a number and use massive data analyses to squeeze
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Pretty neat! Some unsorted Feedback: - some recommendations where to start apart from "knowledge" would probably help. "Choose any word" kind of prompts are cool, but also overwhelming - the contrast for "Node Infor
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Interesting! Didn't expect that. Also useful statistic with the 30%, makes sense I guess. Getting off-topic at this point I guess, but I think national bans can go both ways (and everything in between). I suppose (alcohol) Prohibition
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
I think that may be a moot point if you move from an individual level to a societal level. Like, the positive effects that their success in baseball has on the Dominican Republic would likely also be there if they would commit that hard to
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Do you have support for that claim? Large, large parts of the Islamic world are not westernized at all — I would be very surprised if rural Yemeni housewives or Socotran shepherds ever drink, or for that matter 99% of people in pre-touris
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
The other being the myriad of influencing factors you can never really isolate. Say you do the setup from the quote, then one group would also be in a special situation where researchers told them to do this thing, and they would tell their
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Also the curse of paradigm. Making tools libre as a matter of course and mailing people checks for bug finds just rings different than today's dominant paradigm of landing pages, conversion rates, social media tie-ins and for-profit no
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Yeah I don't understand how this can be a patent. For example Skinner's Learning Machine as well as any automatic implementation of Pimsleur's method, both described in the SIXTIES, would fall under this (according to my read
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
That's a cool take, thank you! I think it's something that I already knew in my heart, but I think by putting it like this you killed some shipping anxiety and perfectionism tendency in me. Thanks :)
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Don't even have to look that far. Scriptio Continua , writing without spaces, was all the rage in Greek and Latin, and the idea of using all those fancy separators like spaces and full stops only caught on in Europe from 800-1400. [0]
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Show HN: I'm building a chunking-based music practice tool(github.com)
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by blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Hi, late to the party, but cool project. Very intrigued by the kind of learning that AI is starting to enable. Any chance of supporting Arabic anytime soon? :D Two minor pieces of feedback: Your landing page could use a favicon (makes it lo
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by blackbrokkoli 3y ago
Genuinely curious, how would you scrutinize a categorization tool that includes both causes and effects in its key? I'm only tangentially following the whole autism/Asperger's/ADD/ADHD development, and I'm grow
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by blackbrokkoli 3y ago
Wouldn't go that far. Rural exodus is pretty universal in the West, even in countries that have all these under control.

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