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by dzdt 8y ago
Related : a ladybug is not a bug. [1] Scientific nomenclature and common language often disagree! [1] https://theamericanscholar.org/a-bug-is-not-a-beetle/#.W5-t5...
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by dzdt 8y ago
Neither "abolish ICE" nor "sanctuary cities" are equivalent positions to "open borders". That's my point. I just searched again, and find only one example of a politician coming anywhere close to advocat
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by dzdt 8y ago
Who is clamoring for open borders? I don't know of any prominent examples of political figures who take that position, just examples where their opponents falsely characterise the position as "open borders".
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by dzdt 8y ago
Turning someone else's work in as your own? Lucky he didn't fail you on the spot!
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by dzdt 8y ago
I would feel much better about being a google user if they were standing up strongly for the original "do no evil" ethos. Where is Page indeed? It really seems like the ethical stance has faded away.
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by dzdt 8y ago
What do parents who understand the importance of child education do? (1) choose a better school district, i.e. buy or rent housing in a more expensive location -- not applicable to poor parents (2) read with their young kids; help older kid
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by dzdt 8y ago
There is a pretty high threshold before book learning provides any payoff. The minimum cutoff that some employers take seriously is 12 years of school or the equivalent. Lets guess the guy selling pens is at a grade level of half that. I
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by dzdt 8y ago
I agree the headline needs simplification, but think this goes to far. Original headline: Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects Suggested headline: Canna
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by dzdt 8y ago
Are there any weekend moderators these days? "Extremely rare Inverted Jenny stamp surfaces" would be a better HN title.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Some thoughts for a decade strategy: (1) the US will move to single payer health care. Besides the growing popular support for this, there is a coming crisis of corporate, municipal, and state pension funds which are unfunded to pay for th
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by dzdt 8y ago
Hi author. There is a typo in the section How To Calculate The Derivative . The first two images in that section label 0.1^2 as "input change" in the denominator. It should be 0.1, not squared.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Satellite imagery counting the cars, not people. [1] http://www.otusintel.com/insights/hedge-funds-gaining-tradin...
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by dzdt 8y ago
There was such a time for teeth. Read about George Washington's dentures. I like The Oatmeal's take embedded in their explorarion of the backfire effect. [1] But you can go on a google run; it was common for upper class gentle
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by dzdt 8y ago
Link is down. Terry Davis was a troubled individual but an impressive hacker.
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by dzdt 8y ago
"I live in an apartment, I can't charge one on the street." The electric car revolution is going to come at the same time as the self-driving revolution. That will change the calculus of parking significantly. No longer d
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The History of the Times New Roman Typeface(ft.com)
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by dzdt 8y ago
By telling the answer after each one they educated me on the difference between Arial and Helvetica. After a coin-flip guess on the first question I got 19/20 right. Now I know the difference.
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by dzdt 8y ago
It is interesting to me that they use years of education as a measure of intelligence. As an American I am more used to thinking of intelligence as an innate, almost fixed characteristic (IQ). In that view education increases knowledge an
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Cuyahoga River Fire(ohiohistorycentral.org)
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by dzdt 8y ago
See https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/QR/article/download/270/2... for a scholarly discussion of what is known of the history. It is reported the 15,903 copies of the original 1698/9 beard ta
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by dzdt 8y ago
I agree with you: data is not so much of a moat as a fixed expense for anyone wanting to join in. And for the big automakers or Uber, it is not such a big cost to pay. You did miss in your cost estimate scaling the compute costs of ML trai
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by dzdt 8y ago
The other self-driving efforts seem to believe that additional sensors are required, whereas Tesla is sticking to camera-only solutions. If Tesla is wrong in this, they are not well-positioned to follow as a second mover.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Once a self-driving car has a breakout success, everyone will quickly know what kind of sensor package it has, what kinds of compute hardware, and general features of the machine learning approach and tradeoffs like mapping vs on-the-fly in
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by dzdt 8y ago
Consider the smartphone revolution. Apple came out with a revolutionary design in the iphone. The Android team was already up and working in that area and were able to pivot quickly to mimic the iphone. Both Apple and Android became huge
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by dzdt 8y ago
Its amazing to me that the distribution of first time motherhood age is bimodal . Are we really at the point where the college track is so far seperated? I would have expected enough in-between variations to keep the distribution single-
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by dzdt 8y ago
Mobile view includes only one picture; desktop view two. Pretty slim either way considering.
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by dzdt 8y ago
But CPU+FPGA will forever be a tiny niche, right? I don't see any path where mainstream programs get a boost from FPGA.
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by dzdt 8y ago
If you ever bought real estate in the U.S. you probably paid title insurance. This is insurance that covers the value of the loan in the case faulty or fradulent documents are found making the chain of ownership invalid. It costs like 1&#x
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by dzdt 8y ago
The insidious bit about patents licensed to device makers or big content generators is the consumer never sees a bill. The devices or professionally produced content cost more to cover the fee, but the users never see it. There never is a
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by dzdt 8y ago
Downvoted : link is about ISIS which is in no way a relevant comparison.

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