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Surgical Safety Checklist(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by dmazin 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
Exactly what I was asking for! Thank you.
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Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k(m.signalvnoise.com)
4 points by dmazin 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 7y ago
Cool. Would be great if this allowed import of Chrome/Instapaper/Pocket bookmarks, since I have massive backlogs there.
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by dmazin 7y ago
Are there any other, maybe more consumer-friendly, anti-robocall tools?
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by dmazin 8y ago
Structure of Scientific Revolutions was incredibly revelatory for me. I did not even realize there was any backlash against Kuhn except that his work is sometimes co-opted by pseudo-scientists and that he was over-reliant on a previous work
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by dmazin 8y ago
I don't have a source handy but they tried this a few years ago -- the same exact thing. They failed because Russia has so many connections to the net. Let's hope they fail again.
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by dmazin 8y ago
It seems prudent to unionize and protect yourself while the business/sector is employee-friendly rather than have to unionize if the employer is taken over etc.
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by dmazin 8y ago
Can’t help but wonder if pointing out that mitochondria is the “powerhouse of the cell” is in reference to the meme.
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by dmazin 8y ago
Every time I return to Russia these fascinate me. They have many routes and will stop wherever you request. The general term is Share taxi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi
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by dmazin 8y ago
The most interesting tidbit from this article: paper sales are up, ebooks are down. “Publishers’ revenues from hardcover sales rose 3.5 percent in the first 10 months of this year, while revenue from digital books fell 3 percent in the same
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by dmazin 8y ago
To put this find in perspective, behavioral modernity -- a sign of which is the use of pigment -- is generally dated to about 50,000 years ago. Previous finds in Blombos Cave, 77,000-year-old ochre engravings (as opposed to drawings) showed
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by dmazin 8y ago
It's possible, but would be surprising. The earliest drawings of any kind are tens of thousands of years younger than this find.
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by dmazin 8y ago
You're missing the point a little bit. "Abstract drawing" is the best description of the markings, not an argument that there was a culture of abstract art back then. (In the original paper -- the linked-to writeup is pretty
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by dmazin 8y ago
Alexa, indoctrinate me!
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by dmazin 8y ago
Gordon Bell and Engelbart were surprisingly spot-on regarding connectivity. It seems that for the people who are canonically regarded as visionaries, massive connectivity through tiny devices was obvious. For Bill Gates, not so much. BYTE:
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by dmazin 8y ago
If you are interested in arts and culture, I couldn't recommend Cabinet higher. For example, this article on photography's possible influence on (and definite interaction with) the Impressionists: http://www.cabinetmaga
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by dmazin 8y ago
Curious if 37signals still does this during the summer.
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by dmazin 8y ago
I think this is less about the right to privacy and more about the right to be forgotten.
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The Media Archaeology Lab(mediaarchaeologylab.com)
2 points by dmazin 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 8y ago
Yup, I forgot where I read this, but I believe all Gmails are eligible for the model. Again, forgot where I saw this, but Google takes great precaution to protect your data from human inspection, but being used in the corpus is fair game.
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by dmazin 8y ago
But here we're letting AI handle the content. The issue is agency -- like the God of the margins, our agency being relegated to margins at the very least raises some questions for me!
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by dmazin 8y ago
The interesting thing is that autocorrect tries to fix many alternate spellings actually included by dictionaries (e.g. "judgement").
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by dmazin 8y ago
I think one problem is convenience. It's convenient to use this feature, so we find ourselves speaking spontaneously less and less -- and generating less new language.
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by dmazin 8y ago
Two big problems. One, AI mediation of language sees issues like bias amplification (AI learns our biases then suggests them back to us). Google itself wrote about this recently [1]. Two, spell check has a homogenizing effect on spelling [2
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by dmazin 8y ago
Yes. But let's extend that evolution -- if an AI can pretty much write a solid email, don't we basically become like a safety driver in a self-driving car? Not alluring.
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Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect(mondo2000.com)
5 points by dmazin 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmazin 8y ago
This is basically autocorrect on the level of phrases. If that's true, this will have an enormously homogenizing effect on the way we speak (spell check alone has caused an actual shrinkage of the English lexicon [1]). I wrote extensiv
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by dmazin 9y ago
Can someone post examples? Most of the Wikipedia links are dead.
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Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect(mondo2000.com)
1 points by dmazin 9y ago|0 comments

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