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by etangent 10y ago
> "Terrain is transmuted into psychogeography" While I understand what the above sentence is saying, I would like to explore and interrogate the geopsychology of its author in order to understand what led her to formulate her s
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by etangent 10y ago
> What has "culture" to do with this? Behaviour is not the same as culture. Correct, but the comment I made about culture applies doubly so to behavior. Yes, you can change behavior. Yes, you can make people ashamed of doin
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by etangent 10y ago
> Make eco damaging behaviours "uncool" As 2016 had shown, we're well past the point where it was possible for a centralized (or even moderately stratified) entity to declare certain behaviors "uncool". Changing
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by etangent 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think we should be more lenient on old people than we are on young? Older people tend to be more connected than young ones, on average.
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by etangent 10y ago
>> It seems that the US culture derides analytical thinking in general, with many popular public figures flaunting their "inability to do math" as some sort of great achievement and sending out a loud and clear messages, lik
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by etangent 10y ago
1) Buy a $200 drone, fly it around for a day and record video output. 2) Write a web scraper and run it for a day on an AWS instance. 3) Download any of the publicly released data sets. There are lot of interesting ones out there, including
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by etangent 10y ago
Assuming the worst case scenario, the boycotts lead to two parallel conferences. Since when did open-source developers start worrying about forking? I personally would take parallel conferences over incessant conflict any day.
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by etangent 10y ago
At this point, it would be desirable if people started actively boycotting Nodevember. I understand that quite many individuals in the Node community may be in favor of the decision to exclude Crockford, but I also suspect that there is a s
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by etangent 10y ago
> In every place I've been, school, university, corporate jobs, the "critical thinkers" always got marginalised. In my experience, there is a specific experience threshold at which critical thinking switches from being an
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On the other hand, one would expect snakes to suppress the population of amphibians and some ground-nesting birds like nightjars and thus indirectly increase the population of mosquitoes. So clearly, one would have to also introduce somethi
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by etangent 10y ago
That's an excellent playlist there, thank you.
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One should be careful extrapolating this type of data to other individuals. For example, sleep on its own may not actually be the primary factor in weight-loss --- the weight gain during periods of lack of sleep may occur simply because you
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by etangent 10y ago
1. It is most likely that Watson is far less powerful than advertised. Given enough trials, a pigeon could probably detect some forms of cancer that a human expert can't. [1] 2. I too would prefer that more open-source work (and publis
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by etangent 10y ago
That's a really interesting and overlooked point. If correct (that is, if populist/proto-fascistic tendencies in modern Russia exist and have something in common with their equivalents in the West), it almost seems to overturn the
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by etangent 10y ago
> It seems you're more upset at what agriculture has become under capitalism and economies of scale And even then, it has to be pointed out that it is specifically the economy of scale that is irking the grandparent, not capitalism.
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by etangent 10y ago
> it is less clear about what the FP16 performance is Very curious about this as well. I got two GeForce 1080s as soon as they came out, and was very sad to discover that the stated advantage of Pascal architecture (speedup on FP16) is c
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by etangent 10y ago
Liquid cooling.
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by etangent 10y ago
> What many at the time didn't yet recognize was that there was no business model in digital cameras that would employ 100 thousand engineers, managers, factory workers, technicians, and staff I believe you meant to say "that t
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by etangent 10y ago
> We had one prototype that us engineers hated to death because the only difference between it and the rest was that it was a different colour, but ALL the players hailed it as the golden standard. Out of curiosity, which colour was it?
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by etangent 10y ago
"[before computing SVD], we normalized each entry according to the square root of the product of its row and column sums." Why didn't they use something that usually works better, like PMI?
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by etangent 10y ago
Umm, at a small startup you're lucky to even have a manager.
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by etangent 10y ago
> My experience is that you can easily just as well not know what your coworkers are doing when they sit right next to you That's typical of situations when you aren't really collaborating with those people, and that's fin
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by etangent 10y ago
There's a common attitude that goes something like, "It's the Internet age! What in the world could be stopping X from employing Y who lives in a place Z?!" Well, I worked at a place where most of the team was remote. It
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by etangent 10y ago
You can use a radar, a laser, or even a regular camera (which is what Teslas have I believe).
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by etangent 10y ago
Just don't be the d \ * whom people are wary about meeting in person for the fear of being used as a (usually unpleasant) character in any of the future writings.
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by etangent 10y ago
I don't know. I know some engineers who have spent months going back-and-forth over communication protocols while barely writing any code, yet somehow their job is considered to be quite core to software engineering. I don't reall
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by etangent 10y ago
What I don't understand though is why people (specifically on this forum) seem to hate these prompts so much. Sure, they're annoying, but I've always ignored them, and they never bothered me. Do you people automatically do wh
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by etangent 10y ago
You seem to be proving my point.
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by etangent 10y ago
How does that distinction matter? Wasn't it LinkedIn's goal from the very beginning to make one interact with people who are not one's friends ? (Otherwise how does one expand one's network if one merely interacts with
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by etangent 10y ago
ok, i get that it seems annoying, but why would it entail poor company performance?

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