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by finolex1 9y ago
I share your skepticism as well, but I wouldn't be too dismissive of North Korean Cyber capabilities either. They do have a specialized cyber warfare unit, handpick and train their soldiers extremely intensively ( https://www
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It would be interesting to compare the utility of one large $100 million+ grant to an institution like MIT, Yale or Harvard that is already well-endowed, compared to a hundred different million dollar grants to institutions across the USA o
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Perhaps a lot of it has got to do with the personality of the founder: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/05/pinterest...
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For those interested in this topic, I can't recommend "The Last Mughal" by William Dalrymple enough. It chronicles the crumbling Mughal Empire in Delhi, the slow shift in the Indian-British relationship from one of equals to
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by finolex1 9y ago
I think we're all forgetting that the prime reason Wolfram has a blog IS to expound on his ideas, and showcase the versatile uses of his Mathematica software, in the same way Google, Microsoft or ordinary developers have their own blo
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Soul of a Molecular Machine: Venki Ramakrishnan (President, Royal Society)(edge.org)
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The Seed Vault Flooding Is Only the Start of Our Problems(bostonreview.net)
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by finolex1 9y ago
Looks like even science magazines have fallen prey to clickbait titles a la buzzfeed. Which is quite sad considering that it's actually a quality article.
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Quants and the quirks: Theory is changing traders’ behaviour. And vice versa(economist.com)
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It's highly debatable over whether lower profits will significantly reduce the incentive to invest, especially considering profits are already high (about 20%). A small drop won't make a significant difference for the lucrativenes
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Nowadays it is implicitly expected by most top universities that parents WILL pay for their children's education, and sometimes explicitly stated when it comes to applying for financial aid. I wouldn't expect any student to pay th
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The real metric to judge it' s effectiveness is by comparing its accuracy to an average human observer's responses. I doubt a human would do a lot better at estimating someone's age.
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Conventional life expectancy measures are calculated based on the death rates at each age of the residents in that place. Therefore the death rates of people at 80+ or 90+ years may be affected by their lifestyles 30-50 years ago, so it&#x2
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by finolex1 10y ago
The value of attending Harvard comes not from the education itself, but the signalling which indicates that you had the abilities or achievements to get accepted in the first place. If Harvard or Yale start publicly accepting that a proport
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As someone who has lived in Singapore for a couple of decades I think I'm well suited to answering this. There is plenty of criticism that goes on against the government both online and in real life. The only people who are charged wit
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Yes, there are elements of racial and class tension in Singapore, but not significantly more than any other major city on earth. The US certainly does not prop the government up, unless you mean propping it up by inaction or non-interventio
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Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post about this a while back, about the advantages of starting off with a language that is less mystified but harder to grasp like C/Scheme over one that might be more beginner friendly: https://www
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'Mental Canvas' – 3D Drawing and Illustration Tool by Yale CS/Arch Professor(creators.vice.com)
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