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by fabatka 8y ago
Can you substitute self control with shiny apps like this? I don't mean that there isn't anything that can help avoiding distractions, but (from my own experiences) I have doubts about the effectiveness of soft measures like this.
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by fabatka 8y ago
Yeah, but I would think that humans are generally bad in "intuitive statistics", e.g. when drawing conclusions based on their observations. Of course most of this may come from our inability to observe accurately/objectively
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by fabatka 9y ago
What I don't really understand about this is, why is anybody concerned with fake accounts and followers outside of ad companies? (Disregard now the possible public opinion influencing use of huge fake account networks, I can't eve
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by fabatka 9y ago
just a nitpick: The size of atoms is in the 10e-10 m order, the 10e-15 is around the size of nuclei
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by fabatka 9y ago
I completely agree. Also, with a pop-science-y title like this, how can anyone take the article seriously?
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by fabatka 9y ago
I think people would benefit a lot from learning just elementary evolutionary game theory. I think it really helps understand some of the mechanics of society (e.g. international politics). Perhaps it could be even interesting to say, high
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by fabatka 9y ago
I think college degree is highly overrated, and higher education is very inefficient overall. But it is like a prisoners' dilemma, where all of the to-be-students would be better off if say 70% of them didn't go to college, but no
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by fabatka 9y ago
Of course it doesn't justify the threats or anything that she got on twitter or facebook, but technically her tweet was racist to begin with. (Joking about people being racist just because of their skin color.) By the way I'm alwa
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by fabatka 9y ago
Hi! This is really great page, I love reading it. Just a few tips: The for loops in your code can be made more conscise: instead of for i in range(len(movies_with_overviews)): movie=movies_with_overviews[i] you can write fo
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by fabatka 9y ago
Regarding the speed of galaxies, there is the astrophysical concept of comoving observers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_distance I stumbled upon this, when I searched for the question: is there any point in t
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by fabatka 9y ago
The fact that it is a problem doesn't mean that this is the solution for it. I think quotas are just symptomatic treatment instead of treating the cause. Couldn't the market take care of racism? Nowadays if a company is dumb enoug