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Hewitt is now kind of a crank. When Hofstadter came over for the Symsys thing in Stanford a few years back, Hewitt handed Hofstadter a little sheet of paper saying that mere contradiction allowed axiomatic systems to transcend Godel incompl
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I mean, unironically, yes. Prius is one of the most remarkable cars ever, even if actual car enthusiasts weren't very enthused.
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Is that kind of thing going to get an actual random sample of people in difficult economic situations?
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How many of these literature readers can't write? Not write well, can't write at all. How many can't take a video? Not take a good video, but take one at all. But you can use a computer without knowing how to create for it _a
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A computer is a machine of profound alienation from the actual ability to create and the ability to use, unlike anything someone who survives in the wild or farms would do. Many people will die having used computers for 10 hours a day but n
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Isn't the competition already mostly eradicated, except for Facebook? The other ad companies are orders of magnitude smaller.
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mercedes has about 1 disengagement per mile. zoox is a respectable third, actually, behind cruise/gm. https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2018/02/01/disengagem...
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Dude was fully employed as effectively-tenured (tenure track, theoretically) professor for a decade. The forcing out was for 100% political reasons. If he treated China as an Other, then it was with a decade's worth of experience livin
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Patterns in Litigation: IT Systems Failure (1976-2000) (2000) [pdf](brucefwebster.com)
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Of course the article isn't about the actual cloud in the actual data center. Pipkin is a code artist, this is essentially a philosophical musing, but of the continental kind, with importance given to phenomenology, with thought on met
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It's a critical review.
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It has already been 10 years. Bitcoin was released the same year as Android. Which one has had more impact?
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Something Awful and Metafilter still exist in remarkably unchanged form, although both are now facing existential funding issues. Lowtax's spine is gone, the Mefi peeps have a huge shortfall...
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But not the actual specialists. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/dont-blame-silico...
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It was in Carreyou's book
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even when she was mod at metafilter and writing books and things, she always presented herself 100% as a librarian, though. jessamyn.com starts off with "Hi, I'm Jessamyn./ I am a Vermont librarian." She owns librarian.n
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I borrowed books from her library once Seems librarianish
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the distribution of distributions that you find in textbooks is power law distributed (or pretty close, iirc). at the top of that power law distribution is, ironically, the gaussian.
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Korea has some of the highest rates of stomach cancer in the world. Who knows if it's just all the smoking...
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Kimchi itself is pretty commonly available. I think they're talking about 2-day-old kimchi
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The progenitor of types was Russell, who considered himself a philosopher.
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Review says that grass feeding makes the antibiotic growth effect different, but it's not a monotonic difference: makes some antibiotics better, some worse. https://www.livestockscience.com/article/S1871-1413(07)00
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Math education research is not math research: it's education research, which is among the worst among social science, which is among the worst of all sciences in evidentiary practices. There are almost no valid RCT's in educationa
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(or american born chinese, or british born chinese, etc etc. almost nobody can get a chinese citizenship, plenty of smart people get american citizenships)
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Chinese ethnicity doesn't mean Chinese (PRC) national. There's also Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc...
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bret's apparatus in dynamicland is literal pieces of paper embodying code, which, quote, "also are fully functional pieces of paper".
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is this a sarcastic post or not they link to the investor's advisory...
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I mean, the name and everything indicate a much, much stronger emphasis on failures. The design's definitely a ripoff, true
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http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

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