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Headless men – ancient Greek rumours(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by dash2 3y ago|0 comments
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by dash2 3y ago
Maybe, but here's an alternative interpretation. Google discovered a money spigot. At first the money spigot funded lots of smart people having fun. (But not making any more money.) Then, as tends to happen, the money spigot attracted
903.
by dash2 3y ago
So I looked at the original 2005 email and saw this: "Google is the opposite: it's like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD's, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground." Ah, that&#x27
904.
by dash2 3y ago
Can I buy this tech now in a mass-market car?
905.
Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners(diva-portal.org)
3 points by dash2 3y ago|0 comments
906.
by dash2 3y ago
Good luck!
907.
by dash2 3y ago
I didn't understand what it was meant to do. I think you should have a clear explanation of how to use it on the front page. For example, what job description should I be searching for? And when I do, what will it tell me? I tried sear
908.
by dash2 3y ago
I found the movement too frustrating, but perhaps my attention span is a bit low.
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by dash2 3y ago
If you want even older Norfolk stuff, there's the Paston Letters from the 15th century: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43348
910.
The Moscow Puzzles(archive.org)
3 points by dash2 3y ago|1 comments
911.
by dash2 3y ago
How easy is it to grow an atmosphere on Mars? Either for the whole planet, or say for some 1km x 1km bubbles?
912.
by dash2 3y ago
> It is a form of ideological cope to pretend that RT or CGTN has significantly more misinformation/propaganda than NYT or BBC Really? There's a lot of reasons to expect it to be true. The NYT and BBC, while imperfect, have gua
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by dash2 3y ago
If you're consuming RT you are choosing to believe that you are too smart to believe propaganda. Maybe so. More likely, you are the sucker in this transaction. Also, Wikipedia may have biases but it is weird to call it oligarch-control
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by dash2 3y ago
That's correct. I'm denying that Israel is committing genocide, because I think it isn't. 1) Hamas quotes 22K people killed. I don't know where your 30K figure comes from. Even if you believe the figures of Hamas, which
915.
by dash2 3y ago
I'd be interested to know what proportion of users of dataframes are working at different orders of magnitude. Most of my life I've had databases of like 1000. Now I have a big one of about 500K! So for me, speed is almost a non-i
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by dash2 3y ago
Have you tried the "grid" graphics package in R? It's the basis for ggplot. It's a bit of an unsung hero, the documentation is not great, but I think it is a very solid library.
917.
by dash2 3y ago
This is a great chance to ELI5: what is an OLAP query engine and why does it make polars fast?
918.
by dash2 3y ago
Reading C17 English is an investment, it gets easier with each new author. The payoff is freedom from historical provincialism. Only reading contemporary authors is like only knowing people from your home town. By the way, have you read Sir
919.
by dash2 3y ago
I thought it was reasonable, and my post gives the evidence to back it up.
920.
by dash2 3y ago
I'm glad you accept my point about inequality. For Gilens and Page, don't waste time reading TPM. Just read the original article. Notice that they correlate expressed preferences with policy, find it higher for rich people, and dr
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by dash2 3y ago
Inequality is not at record levels, it's decreased since around 2016 in the US and it has substantially decreased globally (see recent work by Milanovic). Israel is not "openly genocidal". I disagree that it is genocidal at
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by dash2 3y ago
No, he didn't say that. He just said that sermonizing didn't make good literature. Have you not had that experience?
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by dash2 3y ago
Your alternative to google is a list of websites?
924.
by dash2 3y ago
As a social scientist, I'd question that. I have seen so much bad social science done in the Lancet that I groan when I hear the name. YMMV, because doctors are in general pretty dumb about social science; maybe it is a great journal
925.
by dash2 3y ago
Right, statistical models are not sufficient for science. I agree. But they are necessary. So I recur to my original question.
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by dash2 3y ago
They're the small web, and it seems to be a very small manifesto. What exactly am I supposed to be signing in support of?
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by dash2 3y ago
How are people supposed to do science without running statistical models?
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by dash2 3y ago
This might work for CERN. But a great deal of science is done by small teams who don't have a professional programmer available. Basically all of the social sciences, for a start; a lot of genetics too.
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by dash2 3y ago
Ulp. As a scientist who is a hobby "programmer", this struck close to home. I've got one project[1] with a huge mess of functions calling each other. It started out with good intentions, but then gradually descended as I wrot
930.
by dash2 3y ago
I really enjoyed Find The Pig!

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