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by cirgue 8y ago
Ymmv, but my personal experience was great. It’s shorter than LSD and I got more out of it than any other recreational drug use. I would compare the psychological impact to spending an afternoon removing and cleaning all the books on your b
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by cirgue 8y ago
It’s a good experience, but a motivated student who’s good at charging through docs can do it on their own. Having to manage that for a class that’s intended to teach conceptual material would be a big time-sink.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Ethics are cool, but I think misses the point. A huge part of acting ethically is understanding on a fundamental level why that's important. For that, you have to have some decent history education and some framework for thinking about
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by cirgue 8y ago
It’s hard to coordinate large numbers of people without events. Organizing a party before Facebook was actually a lot of work compared to now, when all of the information you need is all in one place.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> WTF do I need an ORM for, if I understand enough to write an SQL command, and use a library for that DB that does parameterized queries? I am getting into frontend for a hobby project after spending a few years doing ML and applied sta
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by cirgue 8y ago
If I were building a self-driving car, I’d be pretty eager to provide a counterpoint to the GP to the point that I’d be willing to open an office in Boston.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Autonomous vehicles aren’t public spaces. They’re privately owned capital. I’m not making a value judgement here, but I am saying that other people do.
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by cirgue 8y ago
At the same time, the world moves on marginal changes, and many industries that depend on shipping are inherently low-margin anyway (think grocery stores). Business models that are barely viable now could be substantially viable with a ten
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by cirgue 8y ago
Charlotte and Raleigh are conspicuously absent.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Was it not a commonly held opinion with your friends/family in high school and college that television was a pretty rotten form of media? I don't think that this is a universal phenomenon, but it definitely exists.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Not at all a representative sample, but the majority of my friends and their families growing up watched very little television outside of the occasional sporting event. Those same people are now enthusiastic social media users.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> passive consumption over leisure This is the money quote for me. We somehow managed to convince an entire generation of people who were skeptical of the passive consumption of television that 'Hey wait, this other form of manufa
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by cirgue 8y ago
I would say it's even more basic than that: the 5 whys are a way to push people to gather information and talk to one another before making decisions about solutions. The point is not to achieve perfection, but to consistently not ma
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by cirgue 8y ago
I would suggest an alternate interpretation: China (and maybe Russia as well) don’t actually know what their GDP is either.
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by cirgue 8y ago
So I find this view really interesting because there is ultimately very little racism about dislike for the Chinese government. Most people’s misgivings have much more to do with the fact that a) no one wants to see fellow humans living in
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by cirgue 8y ago
Either way, hearing a mathematician explain why this is a non-discovery would still be interesting to pretty much anyone who doesn't study primes. Kudos on a cool visualization.
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by cirgue 8y ago
My personal favorite: Digital cash: Differs from the original only in that it is more easily separated from fools.
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by cirgue 8y ago
This makes me unreasonably happy. This is what the internet is as it's best: people fucking around.
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by cirgue 8y ago
-spending as much time out in the wilderness as possible with people who also enjoy being there and are somewhat committed to being better athletes. Surfing, kayaking, climbing, hiking, biking, whatever. - drinking beer with those same peop
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by cirgue 8y ago
> well-thought out mechanism to re-create in 1's and 0's how the human brain works and thinks, This is impressive technology, but it is emphatically not that. It is very much a cute statistical trick coupled with really excell
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by cirgue 8y ago
The question still holds, even if you replace it with the more accurate " Google Assistant Development Team adds the capability to mimic their user's voices?". That's a very realistic possibility.
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by cirgue 8y ago
One common theme of the tech industry is that excellent ideas get picked up by bullshit artists with time to waste and ink to spill and are then turned into something completely anathema to their original intent. Anecdotally, this seems to
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by cirgue 8y ago
You don't think this is more of a function of human greed and ambition rather than a consequence of liberal democracy? I seriously doubt that the use of personal data for political gain would be particularly less common under literally
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by cirgue 8y ago
- Better theories of social interaction patterns online. I don't even know if that body of knowledge is out there outside of facebook/google, but i wish I had a better concrete understanding of how people interact online. - Off-th
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by cirgue 8y ago
If you think the only important part of your children’s future is their ability to get hired, then you’re already setting them up for a life of misery and disappointment.
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by cirgue 8y ago
That’s because American universities don’t put your name on a list when you cheat. They expel you.
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by cirgue 8y ago
AI carries a set of connotations in popular imagination that a) don't comport with the actual capabilities of what we term 'AI' in the computer science world, and b) are being exploited by marketing teams at IBM and plenty of
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by cirgue 8y ago
And choosing a good loss function is not a small task either.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Luck favors the prepared. It also favors those who put themselves in positions to get lucky. Staying home all the time means you don't make connections and interact with people that you can help and who can help you. Thinking that
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Meanwhile, I haven’t seen any change in usage from those people I know who actively use Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp. Over the last three years, the percentage of my friends who are active on these platforms has dropped dramat

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