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by blackkettle 9y ago
> In adulthood, many prodigies become experts in their fields and leaders in their organizations. Yet “only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators,” laments the psychologist Ellen Winner. Why on eart
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by blackkettle 10y ago
This maybe also dovetails with deep mind (?) or openai (?) article yesterday talking about adapting and updating general models with limited data for significantly different tasks.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
The phone number validator on the signup page does not work correctly. Doesn't recognize or validate my valid Swiss phone number in any normal variation although it does correctly change the little flag to Switzerland.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
So basically this is the prequel to Children of Men?
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by blackkettle 10y ago
actually makes pretty good sense as a coping mechanism I guess. decreased memory function might help erase bad experiences, thereby decreasing stress - unless your job depends on abnormally high levels of recall... probably not a big issue
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by blackkettle 10y ago
I just saw this yesterday after being cajoled into it by my wife. I had very low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised at how misplaced they were. It was a lot more compelling than the rehashed installment from last year.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
we're just quibbling here... > You can argue that some ongoing tragedy of the commons also has externalities. sure, two of the preceding opinions [wikipedia, mit], argue that the tragedy of the commons is a specific type of negative
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by blackkettle 10y ago
> imposes a negative effect on an unrelated third party yes, and i'd argue that is certainly the case here. but the two are closely related. http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2011/08/negative-externalities-...
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by blackkettle 10y ago
In economics what you are describing is typically referred to as a Negative Externality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative ). It's hard to reframe these for the obvious reason that the parties inv
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by blackkettle 10y ago
tldr: It was never worth $740M to begin with.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
> You can also go to art school to make those social connections to the larger art world - the art world is nothing but a huge web of social ties. I found that part of it pretty dark and disgusting, really. I just wasn't willing to
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by blackkettle 10y ago
FogCreek uses their own in-house programming language? Is there more of a story there?
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by blackkettle 10y ago
Welcome to Psychohistory. Thanks Hari.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
Why do think any of those labels are critically important? They are entirely derived from human desire to understand, process, and define a taxonomy for language. There is absolutely no reason to think that they are inherently necessary to
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by blackkettle 10y ago
Could you explain a bit more why - in practice - you think Bazel is 'next generation' compared to Make? Every time I've encountered Bazel thus far in the wild I've found it an atrocious experience. I haven't yet fou
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by blackkettle 10y ago
Looks well put together, well documented. Quickstart tutorial was easy to follow. Why should I think about using this instead of (or in combination with?) the plethora of other similar offerings out there?
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by blackkettle 10y ago
The subredditsimulator subreddit does this for both articles and comments and is restricted to bots. It is still mostly inane garbage but the content and gems have improved steadily over the past year or so. Interesting experiment in any c
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by blackkettle 10y ago
I think these two are the 'real' crux of the matter: * Almost everyone believes that they are right and that their values will make things better, even people who strongly disagree with each other. * Almost everyone believes that
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by blackkettle 10y ago
it's absurd in any practical sense. but it's a great story to keep the rank and file mostly satisfied most of the time. politics in the end is a part of life; it should not dominate or overshadow goal oriented work, but it is a n
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by blackkettle 10y ago
I don't get the thought process that locks this possibility out. Imagine you are a simulated entity inside simulated universe - v100000 of Eve Online. There are rules that you can see and access, and those you cannot. Both are in som
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by blackkettle 10y ago
The books are interesting, but I think that the reason that a lot of people actually 'swear by them' is because they give 'smart people' a very nice excuse for any failings they might see in themselves.
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by blackkettle 10y ago
You have to use a decent acoustic model - not the one in the demo. If you do I think it works 'pretty well' as a proof of concept. That said I'm not recommending Sphinx as a recognition framework, it is way behind the times
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by blackkettle 10y ago
actually somebody even cross-compiled pocketsphinx to javascript with emscripten for this purpose: https://syl22-00.github.io/pocketsphinx.js/live-demo.html this works pretty well - all in the browser, especially if yo
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by blackkettle 11y ago
IMHO, until they decide to provide proper HTML5 support - particularly access to the getUserMedia and general WebRTC APIs - or at least allow 3rd party vendors like Google and Mozilla to do so by themselves, this is not a believable sentime
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by blackkettle 11y ago
It's the same Google ASR on the backend.
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by blackkettle 11y ago
This was rejected by the parliament last year: http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/10/swiss-parliament-opp... but is currently slated for a public referendum here in Switzerland in 2016: https://e
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by blackkettle 11y ago
I don't think he was arguing that the (possible) non-dealership model was broken, but that Tesla's current attempt to disrupt it is flawed, and that if they fail because of poor execution, that this could stifle future innovation
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by blackkettle 11y ago
The article and all the quoted studies do indicate that conscientiousness is probably the most important positive trait (which I guess will elicit a few irreverent 'no duh's), but it also points out there are some equally powerful
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by blackkettle 11y ago
Are there any examples using this in the wild? I couldn't find any 'Sites powered by Aurelia' page on the site. Would be interesting to see some full fledged sites (besides the project site).
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by blackkettle 11y ago
> Working with a Japanese company may seem like a good fit if you speak Japanese, but with the vastly contrasting work cultures and the fact you’re a foreigner in a Japanese world–you might want take a look at other options. If you hones

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