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by dataphyte 2y ago
So many (snooty) people treat audiobooks like a cheap substitute for reading, when in reality, reading is the cheap substitute for oral storytelling. Sure, you've got Infinite Jest where page structure and end notes are part of the aes
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by dataphyte 4y ago
US colleges foresee a future where they are under attack for being absurdly selective, what some are now calling being "highly rejective". I think they want to avoid being targeted by the fairness wonks anymore than they already a
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by dataphyte 5y ago
Bloom's 2-Sigma Problem: students getting one-on-one instruction perform 2 standard deviations better than those learning from ordinary instruction methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
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by dataphyte 9y ago
That's my thinking as well: just re-brand string theory as math. It's not as though string theory will be testable anytime soon, so the criteria of verification is just hurting the field.
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by dataphyte 9y ago
Why doesn't pure math get similarly attacked? Clearly math has generated lots of economic and scientific value, but it seems to me that there isn't much difference between string theory and, say, math work on the Monster Moonshine
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by dataphyte 10y ago
I recommend Torkel Franzén's Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. It is readable without sacrificing rigor. It is especially good at ensuring the reader doesn't come away infected with the pseudo-profoun
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by dataphyte 10y ago
Newton wasn't above abusing his position as head of the Royal Society to discredit Leibniz. Wolfram reminds me of Newton—a self-conscious genius, exceedingly jealous of his intellectual primacy. I think Wolfram even compares NKS to New
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by dataphyte 10y ago
“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?” -- Frank Herbert
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by dataphyte 11y ago
I hope this research evolves beyond the 'Cybernetics' buzzword. It seems like a meaningful term (control, regulation etc.) but when other disciplines take it up, it often seems to fade into vagueness. Psycho-cybernetics, socio-cyb
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by dataphyte 12y ago
Would have been more interested to know how the avg EEV household electricity consumption compares to offset gasoline usage (as energy). My understand is that the efficiency of power plants is so much higher than automobile combustion engin
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Black Swan Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dataphyte 13y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous attacks Stratfor, $1M stolen/donated, mail leaked(waronsociety.noblogs.org)
2 points by dataphyte 15y ago|0 comments
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by dataphyte 15y ago
I've heard numerous people reference the mythical pragmatism of programmers and hackers as a problem when idealism vs. self-interest is on the line, Kevin Mitnick being one of them (~"a caught hacker always rats etc.") Solution? It would be
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by dataphyte 15y ago
* calibre - ebook management and conversion
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by dataphyte 15y ago
all the classes have their own domains? GoDaddy is happy.