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by daoboy 3y ago
So do I still have to drink kombucha?
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by daoboy 3y ago
Thank you!
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by daoboy 3y ago
This is a very interesting topic, but I'm having trouble understanding this paper. Would someone be kind enough to offer a summary for dummies?
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by daoboy 3y ago
Not at all. The EFF does a lot of good work along those lines also. https://www.eff.org/issues/cell-tracking
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by daoboy 3y ago
Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Can anyone recommend a good article comparing environmental lifecycle costs of EV vs combustion engine that include lithium and cobalt mining?
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He's Going to Prison for Twitter Trolling. That's Not Justice(reason.com)
15 points by daoboy 3y ago|20 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this! There are several resources I wasn't familiar with, but the brutalist report stood out at a quick glance. I have a soft spot for austere web pages and that one is just right.
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Google Researchers Unveil Unique Form of Quantum Teleportation(scitechdaily.com)
4 points by daoboy 3y ago|0 comments
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I'm gonna make one of these for credit card numbers.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Whether or not the statistical methods used in psychology can be finessed to show a majority are statistically significant, the foundational paradigms are so weak it doesn't even matter. "If you deleted a whole bunch of papers fro
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by daoboy 3y ago
I hope you are right and I'm being ungenerous in my interpretation. If so I apologize.
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Edit: Misunderstanding that was cleared up. Thank you!
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Many of the "authoritative" sources the algorithm is drawing from have published incorrect information as recently as yesterday.
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by daoboy 3y ago
Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it. I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries" was just a meaningless bit of Monty Python absurd
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by daoboy 3y ago
The book Inventing Temperature by Hasok Chang is a wonderful account of how hard it has been to grapple with temperature scientifically. My favorite anecdote is the scientist who carried arround and shook a bottle for two weeks to distill t
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by daoboy 3y ago
The term "hallucinating" in this context is just another way we anthropomorphize machines. It is mostly harmless but I see the author's point that it can be misleading when trying to address specific issues. On the (rare) occ
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by daoboy 3y ago
These programs are an enormous waste of money. I took a geographic profiling course during undergrad expecting an interesting application of GIS and statistics. It turned out to be a lot of handwaving to come to the obvious conclusion that
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Ask HN: Experience with AI to learn a foreign language?
3 points by daoboy 3y ago|0 comments
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by daoboy 3y ago
Another update for the Jolly Roger's Cookbook
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by daoboy 3y ago
An attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe.