countersignaler

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by countersignaler 9y ago
But they don't quack. Tokens do not represent a share of anything, nor any right to present or future anything, nor do the companies selling them ever claim such. They are disconnected from the success or failure of the underlying vent
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A better arXiv(kenvanharen.com)
5 points by countersignaler 15y ago|1 comments
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by countersignaler 15y ago
I read a scientific american article (or blurb if i recall) about boids when I was a kid. I wanted to have boids so badly after reading it, I stayed up on school nights teaching myself java. Haven't stopped hacking since -- still stay up on
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by countersignaler 16y ago
http://science.io was featured on HN recently. Not github, but at least a place to discuss and sift research.
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by countersignaler 16y ago
This study draws conclusions about very coarse grain (month to month) multitasking, which I don't think is the common interpretation of the term. Multitasking to me is doing multiple things either simultaneously or within an hour time span
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by countersignaler 16y ago
Is it not the case that all Google profits are eventually taxed again as capital gains or income taxes?
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by countersignaler 16y ago
ummm, you can't use observational data to draw conclusions like these. period. you can use them to hint at causations and effects of changes, but you absolutely cannot make conclusive statements like those made in this paper. REALLY bad sci
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by countersignaler 16y ago
Obviously any kind of discrimination sucks, but I have a hard time getting worked up over age discrimination. It is not like sex or race where you are hampered from the start and never have a chance to show your potential. Everyone is young
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by countersignaler 16y ago
this is a statistical blog post written by someone who has no idea how to do statistics. and even when told how to do it properly by a commenter, fails to accept the simple and overwhelming conclusion. why is this on the front page?
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by countersignaler 16y ago
The real risk is that they accidentally "update" my files out of existence or revert them to some point way in the past in a way that can't be undone. The change might push to all my devices before I realized it. I periodically tar my dro
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by countersignaler 16y ago
> meaning half the country is working just to support the other half. What? That's not at all what it means.
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Warning: Your cell phone may be hazardous to your health(gq.com)
5 points by countersignaler 16y ago|0 comments
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by countersignaler 16y ago
This is exactly why, in hindsight, I am extremely thankful I did not go to an ivy. I would almost certainly be stuck in a well-paying, soul-sucking finance job. Whew.
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by countersignaler 16y ago
without controlling for the cost of living, this is pretty meaningless
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Love advice from a math app(kenvanharen.com)
9 points by countersignaler 16y ago|10 comments
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by countersignaler 16y ago
Just to reinforce, these are the top "most influential" algorithms in machine learning. Most are no longer state-of-the-art.