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by bra-ket 6y ago
CNN is trying to force Fox News off air. Twitter deletes people who have opinions different than theirs. Apple is trying to delete a free speech platform. Google already did. Biden and Democrats in charge are cheering it on. Fascism is here
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by bra-ket 6y ago
74M
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by bra-ket 6y ago
arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07393.pdf
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I'd argue it further isolates users in those liberal echo-chambers from hearing a different opinion. Given the heavy left leaning media bias it leads to free speech being free as long as it doesn't disagree with the 'party li
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by bra-ket 6y ago
or http://sci-hub.ren
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by bra-ket 6y ago
It’s https://sci-hub.do/ or https://sci-hub.ren (that .tech and .org domains are different organizations) To be sure try searching for some random paywalled academic paper on their site
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by bra-ket 6y ago
Long overdue but going to donate to Sci-hub today, first time since I started using in 2014, it’s an invaluable resource for independent research.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
a good example would be Trump' alleged 'suckers and losers' comment regarding fallen soldiers. This was a rumor started by The Atlantic article citing 'anonymous sources' which spread and re-broadcasted by all news
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by bra-ket 6y ago
safe spaces, gender studies, wokeness certificates, virtue signaling workshops, degrees in conformity & groupthink. read William Dereshevitz' "Excellent Sheep", it's the best book on the subject.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
woah, that's a mouthful. My grandpa fought fascists and I never heard any of these fancy words from him.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
never noticed that option, it's not a default though, thanks for the tip.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
when all mainstream news are heavily biased in favor of one political party and spread blatant misinformation, you need an alternative as a counterbalance and source of truth. the fact people don't even notice, or choose to ignore the
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by bra-ket 6y ago
that 'high standard' apparently allows them to present rumors from anonymous sources as facts as long as it fits a certain political agenda. The burden of evidence no longer applies neither with NYT not any other heavily biased li
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by bra-ket 6y ago
it's not that Fox News became "moderate" , they became just another left-wing propaganda hub like CNN and WaPo , except for very few commentators like Tucker and Ingraham. Their elections coverage was a disaster as well. I th
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If you are trying to find a job, read this(dandkim.com)
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by bra-ket 6y ago
that's not true though, he explicitly said: "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I don’t see how is this worse than BLM riots burning and looting our cities for months. Double standard?
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I still think mainstream news have a larger role in this, social media are followers. People share news stories as if they are true, with context often omitted, manipulated or outright fabricated. But people still trust their news. CNN, NY
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by bra-ket 6y ago
thanks for mentioning, just googled "neo-davidsonian semantics" and stumbled upon this very interesting seminar on syntax-semantic interface: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/courses/incsem-12/
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by bra-ket 6y ago
technical take-home task is mostly time wasted for the candidate, working for hours just to be ghosted again and again, you will be selecting for people who have nothing better to do. I'd skip that (and leetcode) entirely and during in
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by bra-ket 6y ago
thanks , this is relevant to Rosch's prototype theory I've been reading on recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory , and also Gärdenfors' conceptual spaces, which is more modern and has s
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by bra-ket 6y ago
I'm a simple engineer, I like content, frames are superfluous and distracting, with that web page being a perfect illustration.
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by bra-ket 6y ago
nah, it's still big and dumb model with no idea what it's doing, deepfake 2.0. It looks like a variation on plain old image search engine, unreliable at that, as compared to exact matching. But it has obvious application in desig
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Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time(youtube.com)
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by bra-ket 6y ago
what are some good resources to learn Prolog
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Amazon.science(amazon.science)
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Speed up requests: Asyncio for Requests in Python(blogs.nlmatics.com)
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by bra-ket 6y ago
one can always follow Einstein' path, get a job and doodle your equations in your spare time.
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The Mathematics of Human Thought(maa.org)
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I got a Sherp. The GREATEST off-road vehicle on the planet(youtube.com)
4 points by bra-ket 6y ago|0 comments

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