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by dhs 16y ago
I've researched this for my children, and there seemed to be significant differences. The amount of superstition in the Steiner teachings put me off big time ("Beware of right angles and potatoes!"). Montessori makes far fewer wild assumpti
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by dhs 16y ago
I'm a parent, and I'm interested in improvement, not latent billionairism. So to me, such studies are useful, even without broader claims.
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by dhs 16y ago
I can assure you that at least some parents do know what Tumblr is.
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by dhs 16y ago
This describes my experience quite well.
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by dhs 16y ago
There were some comments a couple days ago which might be helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173482
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by dhs 16y ago
Making use of EdgeRank gives me more control than just hiding people. Whenever I'd like to see more of somebody, I go to their page, make a couple of comments, and pronto, their posts enter my stream, squeezing out posts of people I didn't
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by dhs 16y ago
If programming languages were cars... http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html
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by dhs 16y ago
Ah, thanks (@darren et al., too). There's always another subtlety to learn...
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by dhs 16y ago
I don't get it (maybe because English is not my native language). I've always thought that "I consider X" means that someone does express an opinion, and not a fact. Am I missing something?
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by dhs 16y ago
Shix, it's too late to edit... but you're right. Got carried away writing this, and didn't think far enough - sorry!
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by dhs 16y ago
"Porn", here, means that you see a bed with a fat black bar which says CENSORED and blocks your view on what's going on. IIRC, that black bar is shaking , though.
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by dhs 16y ago
Ooooh nOOOOooo! Don't click that link! Please! NOOOOOOOO! It's 1987, in the wee hours of some morning. I'm tired and frustrated, staring at the green-on-black screen of a 640k XT running Leisure Suit Larry, my first-ever video game (on my f
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by dhs 16y ago
Wait, what? I used to shave - twice! - while waiting for AltaVista to load its homepage full of crappy colorful ads. Then I switched to a plain white Google page that took like a second to come up. And you're telling me that I wasn't using
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by dhs 16y ago
If I'm told by a machine that "X will miss you", I do consider that disingenuous. There's a programmer using a program, trying to get an emotional reaction from me by the entirely speculative claim that another human being - probably emotio
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by dhs 16y ago
Excuse me, but I'd really like to see your evidence of how the computational theory of mind is "widely accepted".
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WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy: Truth's Consequences(time.com)
14 points by dhs 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 16y ago
It also runs on a Mac II vx, with System 7 and 32mb of RAM.
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by dhs 16y ago
How odd...Firefox 3.6.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 here, and it works fine.
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by dhs 16y ago
Yes, it's very much a matter of perspective, which is why I find it so fascinating. Babbage is clearly a candidate, as is Konrad Zuse [1], who built the first functional Turing-complete machine, and designed the first Turing-complete progra
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China's New Drones Raise Eyebrows(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dhs 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 16y ago
This works great for me! The "MTV" function covers a need I didn't even know I had. Thanks a lot, and rock on!
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by dhs 16y ago
... saw a spade for a spade I haven't seen that one in a while :-)
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by dhs 16y ago
From what I understand, the biggest argument is that higher granularity gets more information to the market faster, so it will move in the right direction faster. However, this seems to me to be a fairly low-granularity model itself; there
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by dhs 16y ago
There's recursive storytelling and poetry (the kind of stories/poems where, at the end, you find yourself looking at the beginning again). It's also possible to describe certain processes which occur as part of some mental disorders as recu
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by dhs 16y ago
Indonesia, one of the poorest and most religious countries, is also one of the least violent (#57; USA: #24).
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by dhs 16y ago
Just delete "all the way".
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by dhs 16y ago
Also, while the man is out at war, the woman usually won't be procreating with anyone else until the man dies. There is some counter-evidence to this claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_john_letter "Dear John," the letter began. "I
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by dhs 16y ago
The belief in "free will" in a strict sense indeed strikes me an irrational and unscientific, since it seems to imply "freedom from cause" - free will can cause things, and nothing causes free will, since if something would cause free will,
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by dhs 16y ago
Germany has 80 m, and hand-counting works well. It does seem to be easy to parallelize.
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by dhs 16y ago
YMMV, but I often get more interested in a new topic by reading a skeptical comment. I remain skeptical about skeptical comments.

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