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by chaosfactor 12y ago
And you've just increased your attack surface.
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
Facebook to the right, Stallman to the left. When I write code, I use tools written by Stallman. When I communicate with friends and family, I use Facebook. There is no contradiction here: they are both useful, and useful is the yardstick b
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
There is a strong correlation between IQ and reaction time. A leading theory is that IQ is basically a measure of reaction time. On the other hand, IQ is steadily increasing on average. This may, however, reflect how as society develops bet
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
I am a long time IRC user and I have been hanging out in the digital nomads slack channel. I've also used Slack at a couple of jobs. Slack has nifty features like integration with tools, and inline gifs, etc. But the really nice thing
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
Read the abstract. Then the figures. Then the introduction. Then the conclusion. If you're still in the paper, read the whole thing.
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
This is called an exploding offer. It's not really real.
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
^ Agree. I think that pivoting the framing from a known known (look at these guys who have brain damage and are killing themselves) to a known unknown (have we really accounted for all the variance?) is risky, because you're then flirt
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
His argument that he keeps playing because he likes hitting people, is analogous to saying that I keep doing heroin because I like the high.
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
Where is the code?
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
This article makes reference to Terror Management Theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory ) and Ernest Becker's book The Denial of Death ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
Convert to tfidf space and search for the documents with the highest correlations (using, i.e., a clustering algorithm).
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
The technical details of the puzzle described in the article strike me as trivial.
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by chaosfactor 12y ago
Someone PLEASE make a startup that somehow enables people to stop suppressing thoughts of death related to heart disease, cancer, alzheimers,etc., and instead helps up mobilize a response. 3000 people die every 30 minutes. And yet we spent