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by bschne 7y ago
Is there a notion in linguistics of languages being more "modular", i.e. tacking on details like this through additional words, versus having more and more specific words to cover these cases? Coming from my native German, I am ve
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by bschne 7y ago
For another completely insane but kind of fun way to abuse an office application, see "On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint" [1]. (Gwern has a whole list of accidentally/surprisingly turing-complete things at [2]) 1. htt
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by bschne 7y ago
I think "Nosedive" goes into similar territory and might even be the better fit, since success in this kind of show and GoFundMe campaigns could be considered a proxy for popularity and/or "good" presentation.
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by bschne 7y ago
I think what they mean is not that we should not rely on innovation once it has been achieved and is actually working, but that we shouldn't bet our future on forcing very specific innovation in a certain area/metric as that will
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3B1B is one of those content creators that consistently puts me in awe at how much stuff is out there today that is both very informative and very well produced.
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by bschne 7y ago
Slightly OT, but does anyone have a digital copy of the original paper cited in the article? Would love to read it but I can't find a PDF or a doi to search for on Scihub. Brickman; Campbell (1971). Hedonic relativism and planning the
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by bschne 7y ago
Caterina Fake talked about this on Tim Ferris' podcast [1] and Gimlet's "Without Fail" together right, they applied for a government start-up grant when building the MMO and didn't get it. However they had accidenta
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by bschne 7y ago
> The ideal level of demand and price lies at a fleet of some 3,000 automated taxis, which results in a price of 56 rappen (about half of 1 euro) per kilometre driven. This roughly corresponds to the current per kilometre costs of a conv
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by bschne 7y ago
Let's try, then. My understanding of "intuition" is having some subjective feeling of knowledge about aspects of a situation or being able to predict what is likely to happen in the near future automatically, i.e. without con
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I'm not up to date on the relevant research, but isn't most learned or innate intuition just a set of fuzzy rules based on observation (be it visual or other sensory perception; or pre-defined behaviour in the case of innate intui
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The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
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Intent – Chrome extension to show you how you spend time online(browsewithintent.com)
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Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics(settheory.net)
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by bschne 7y ago
Here's how one of the biggest online electronics retailers in Switzerland handles storage / logistics for their smaller items [1]. As is the case with your amazon example, putting the items in the storage containers and picking th
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by bschne 7y ago
Airtable ( https://airtable.com ) might be a good option, it's more like a general purpose organizational tool somewhere between spreadsheets and a database. It would allow you to start really simple, with not much more than
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Show HN: DOIHub – Chrome Extension to Redirect DOI Links to Sci-Hub(github.com)
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by bschne 8y ago
I also the second approach a lot and it's helped my focus immensely. Sketching things out in comments and detailing / changing as you go along first helps curb that initial perfectionism of feeling like you need to write the right
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by bschne 8y ago
Do you have any pointers to good books / lecture videos / introductions to start with for these?
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by bschne 8y ago
I've been following this somewhat because I learned about Tock, a Chicago startup founded by one of the Co-Founders/Owners of the Alinea restaurant. [1] Their founder Nick Kokonas is quite interesting and seems to have a bit of an
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by bschne 8y ago
Goodhart‘s Law - „When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure“ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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by bschne 8y ago
Borges is amazing! I just recently finished reading "Fictions" (a collection of short stories) and was blown away by all the references and topics he manages to cover in sometimes just a few pages. Sometimes I kept googling author
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by bschne 8y ago
Previously posted two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104044
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Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs(theregister.co.uk)
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by bschne 8y ago
I feel like the translation overstates the fine-grainedness of the consent a bit, it's more along the lines of "Swiss Media Panel is a consent-based [i.e. the user has consented to having the application running on their device] a
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by bschne 8y ago
I agree that the law should probably be changed, but for slightly different reasons. They are clearly informed that the app will track information regarding their online activities, device usage behavior and applications they use. I think t
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by bschne 8y ago
I recently came across a similar market research effort in Switzerland [1] after I noticed the VPN symbol in the status bar on a relative's iPhone when showing them something. I asked about why they (not very tech-savy otherwise) were
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by bschne 8y ago
If anyone is in London, one of these is also on display in the "Mathematics" Gallery at the Science Museum - along with some other very interesting devices.
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+1 for Dynalist! I have always struggled with the balance between structure (e.g. trello boards, spreadsheets, ...) and keeping enough freedom to easily jot down new stuff and discarding or expanding it as I go (the other end of the spectru
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by bschne 8y ago
I use MS outlook at work and you can actually open incoming emails, edit the subject line and save it, used this a few times as a quick way to tag my emails on what needs to be done with them, e.g.: - [FOLLOW UP] Lorem ipsum dolor... - [ASK
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Ask HN: What books offer a good introduction to your field for laypeople
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