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by dlkf 7y ago
There's a lot of comments of the form "I tried getting into Ruby and it never clicked" that I want to respond to. I think that if you're just writing a script to solve a math problem or automate a task, there isn't
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by dlkf 7y ago
The headline is a masterclass in weasel words. 1. First, it begs the question. By saying "X admits Y" we are assuming that Y is true. This is very different than writing "X says Y", or "X believes Y" etc etc
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I decided to expand upon this thought in a short blog post [0] because I think it's a good general lesson. [0] https://davefernig.com/2020/01/17/experimental-controls-as-o...
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Experimental Controls as Opportunity Cost(davefernig.com)
4 points by dlkf 7y ago|0 comments
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Also worth questioning whether the test was sufficiently far removed from the game itself that improved scores mean anything. Unfortunately the article is paywalled, but here's a quote from the abstract: > Students who played Alien
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> “We found replicated evidence across multiple experiments that playing our games for two hours causes improvements in executive function skills as compared to a control group that plays an unrelated game,” said Mayer. Christ what a low
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Yeah, the second world war had nothing to do with it.
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I never cease to be impressed by how effortlessly humanities academics are able to write hundreds of words while saying literally nothing at all. The entire essay could be replaced with "Google wants to measure things in Toronto."
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There is some irksome editorializing, namedropping of irrelevant "theorists", and some egregious use of anecdata, but for all its many flaws, this is fundamentally a compelling essay. The author cites legit data as well, and makes
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I remember reading this article the week it was published! I found the historical anecdotes about Parfit interesting, but I didn't become any more convinced of his ideas. The discussion of Bernard Williams and moral skepticism is part
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> I hypothesize that jargon is especially susceptible to this kind of misuse because an expert listener might infer a mutual understanding that does not exist. This feeling of verbal common ground can even be gamed. Many of us have don
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Lessons from the Cuckoo's Egg(davefernig.com)
30 points by dlkf 7y ago|7 comments
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I think that what Burlesona is suggesting is more nuanced (and effective) than the rule of three. We can easily imagine situations where code used twice warrants a refactor, and situations where code used three times does not. The rule of t
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by dlkf 7y ago
Reference and Existence - Saul Kripke These lectures were given in 1973 but they weren't properly published until 7 years ago. Kripke was probably the most influential philosopher of language of the second half of the past century. Ref
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"I Was wrong About Snake Oil"
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> I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there are even those that get catfished, so it's always worth trying something else out. 100%, well put
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Props for building this! The online dating market is a complete mess. It's basically an oligopoly, and has a pretty obvious misalignment of incentives. Novel ideas and competition are sorely needed. As regards all the brilliant psychol
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> The content available on Netflix is great Only if you are in the US
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> for those in the USA only Key distinction
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To be fair, I oversimplified the problem. Every film's rights are owned by someone, and the problem wouldn't be solved entirely by Netflix merely throwing money at it. But the fact remains that there are a lot of great films from
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To be clear: I love this business model. This is how I watch films for the most part. But while lots of films are available this way, just as many are not. And many of these are not some obscure indie film - they are acclaimed mid-to-high b
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> 1) obfuscate its surprisingly shallow library A thousand times, this. Netflix should take all the money they are spending on ML to solve a discovery problem that they don't even have , and instead buy up rights to flicks from the
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From the article: > I'd tell them that at the start, obviously. This isn't The Secret Rules For Getting Hired. > "I know you've never used Blender*," I'd say, "And this job doesn't require it. B
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"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all."
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This article is not only wrong, it's the opposite of the truth. Putting to one side the blatant false dichotomizing, let's look at the central argument: > Insisting on the glamour and fun of coding is the wrong way to acquaint
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It's awesome that you're doing this. The inclusion of more people with a CS background in education (and public service more generally) is a huge opportunity for our society. I think Iv makes some dynamite points: > we need but
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> I would rather live in a country where an individual can save and invest to become a billionaire. Steinbeck has a dynamite line about this. It's a goofy point at any rate because there is no evidence that you can realistically _sa
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Most places with high per-capita GDP (Canada, Scandinavia, England, Germany etc) have found that they can make meaningful, consistent, incremental progress on a lot of the problems Krein is trying to address through introducing a public sys
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> I don't think dissolving the company is on the table. Zing! Solid line but it misses the point. As with any other data, you can encrypt source code. It's perfectly easy to envision a setup where Gitlab employees in country X
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Lots of interesting numbers and anecdotes in the piece, but they fail to mention a simple explanation for why tipping still exists despite being discriminatory and inefficient: we're playing an asymmetric game. - Tipping is massively b

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