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by fatdog 10y ago
This talk is a rare example of what I would call beautiful thinking. If I interpreted that correctly, implementing a turing machine in CGoL that runs CGoL was delightful.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Where is the line between assertiveness in an environment where people are so-called "equals," and harassment? People (men, women, etc) use leverage to achieve their goals, and most managers in tech aren't equipped to resolve
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by fatdog 10y ago
Maybe they just take it more personally when they have chosen to victimize their identity? A lot of white guys in startups recognize racial nepotism and can't call it out, so instead they go and start their own companies, or get politi
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by fatdog 10y ago
There could be a diversity effect in their data, given demographic changes as a consequence of immigration patterns, relationship to authority, and cultural attitudes toward alcohol.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Gladwell has written a predictable hatchet job of a perceived libertarian hero. Surprised that it was him, not surprised it was done in the NY-anything. More interesting question is: if one were going to orchestrate a pseudo-intellectual ta
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by fatdog 10y ago
Can't say for what/where, but, yes. Use it to super-scale work of human analysts who evaluate the quality of some stuff.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Work in software, key problem in my industry is a lack of leadership.
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by fatdog 10y ago
decision :: ([slides], hope, naivety, GSachsClient) -> greaterFool naivety = foldl hope slides map naivety GSachsClient ah who am I kidding, I could never get the hang of monads anyway.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Fascinating. Just reading about probabilistic data structures in general, and would like to know if there is an efficient general method for generating statistics about the FN rates. Are they related to ROC curves?
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by fatdog 10y ago
Can we train up a sentiment analyzer on the delta between the stories and comments this week vs. all others, and then apply it to discovering "political discussion?"
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by fatdog 10y ago
What is hilarious about "general problem solving skills," is that when you actually master something with instruction, the person who teaches it to you tends to tell you the reason something works in a specific way is because of t
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by fatdog 10y ago
What kind of mobile filesystem wipers and SIM wipers are available? I use Signal for txts, and while I believe it does not store plaintext txts on the SIM card (haven't analyzed it), SSDs strew cleartext data all over the place. Border
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by fatdog 10y ago
It's important to discuss. There is a lot of stuff out there that screams snakeoil about MCT and coconut oil products, and it can have the effect of both discouraging legit research and duping the dupable. If there were only a way to t
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by fatdog 10y ago
not to reply to own thread on theme, but want to also add ketogenic diet was also used for treating "epilepsy," now known as a general class of seizure disorders, which are related to many issues, among them brain lesions. I have
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by fatdog 10y ago
There is related work on dementia as well, wish I could find it. Something to do with increasing dietary ketones (using oils) to make up for glucose processing issues in people who were long term pre-diabetic. It was a dinner conversation,
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by fatdog 10y ago
Left needed a new boogyman because the old ones were getting stale. "alt right" is a perfect candidate. If you believe people who agree with some of the alt-rightist views must be held accountable for the standard racists who use
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by fatdog 10y ago
Great honeypot as well. If a malware analyst dumps one of their intelligence agency canary strings from one of their spyware packages, they can use it to track the discoverer. If I were a spook, I would totally be releasing reversing tools
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by fatdog 10y ago
Nice wysywyg security tool that will teach people concepts behind the interface. In my day we'd just use perl or python, but this opens up the field to beginners.
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by fatdog 10y ago
King of Mars. Called it.
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by fatdog 10y ago
It is a fascinating idea. Let's explore it: The app would let users signal need from a buyer so that workers in their social network could agree on the price to give them. If buyers managed to find the service somewhere else, users cou
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by fatdog 10y ago
Stoicism is fundamentally subversive to the Hobbesian leviathan that has been constructed from within the post-enlightenment university system. It is the foundation of western morality and ethics, (the Bible borrows heavily from it). Stoici
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by fatdog 10y ago
The new Prime Minister Theresa May does not hold any principles that would place limits on the powers of the government. She was a well known "champion of the snoopers charter," (wiki) when she was home secretary. There is a briti
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by fatdog 10y ago
It is in the interest of every state to discredit Wikileaks, hence Russia "letting slip," they were behind the DNC leaks right after the election. The intelligence community doesn't get an opinion. Arguably, any comment from
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by fatdog 10y ago
The thing nobody really talks about is that the agency in question is a "domestic" security intelligence agency. It has no foreign intelligence mandate (unless that's changed recently.) Reporters call it "Canada's C
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by fatdog 10y ago
I've had a lot of fancy bottles in a lot of fancy places, but all things equal, I've never tasted a good wine in poor company.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Funniest thing I ever heard about it was a girl from Cornwall saying "Ah, New Zealand, the thinking man's Australia."
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by fatdog 10y ago
Want diversity? Teach diverse people to start companies.
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by fatdog 10y ago
The entire public sector, and most organizations over 1000 people. Bureaucracy is what happens when your dunbar-number sized network overflows and starts to metastasize. When people say they work for a company that is collaborative and non-
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by fatdog 10y ago
People only use email to create a paper trail. It's not a discussion, as a medium it's a set of assertions and challenges. If you don't have a personal relationship with someone, questions aren't even honest questions, t
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by fatdog 10y ago
Good architecture is leadership based on transparent principles. The hardest thing for a lot of people to hear is, "you're not wrong, but the thing you're thinking about isn't the essential one." Architecture is abo

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