hellameta

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by hellameta 11y ago
successful then, i take it?
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by hellameta 11y ago
> Why would anyone get mad about that? My wife is a grown adult, she can pay for her own vacation. Farming is my vacation. All I can say is that you are incredibly lucky if this is a true statement.
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by hellameta 11y ago
I see your POV but simply don't think it's realistic. Not to mention the salaries you linked are, as far as I can tell, lower than most 'white collar' jobs. Most gardeners, plumbers, construction workers etc. are NOT art
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by hellameta 11y ago
I've made this point elsewhere. But I consider this the realistic view that comes from a good amount of experience and simply using my eyes. You say narrow - I say broad. For most people the 'job' they do is just a thing that
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by hellameta 11y ago
I'm not quite saying that it's not possible to derive pleasure and satisfaction from physically laborious work. I am saying that it's a very pretty picture that's far away from real life to claim that that's normal.
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by hellameta 11y ago
> I think I'd be a gardener too if it paid the same. this is exactly my point
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by hellameta 11y ago
The appeal of physical labor? People only do physical labor because they are either unlucky or simply lack the knowledge to choose another path. I don't expect that to be the popular perspective on "PC" hacker news but that i
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by hellameta 11y ago
I think he means basically this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-22/illustrated-guide-k...
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by hellameta 11y ago
No. It doesn't. It was my error. I just need to switch out Ramanujan so you don't trip up on the small stuff. The point stands.
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by hellameta 11y ago
Your PhD is obviously not in history. Academia itself would not exist if what you said was fundamentally true. The assertion to placate the layman with the response "still enough to educate yourself and attempt to contribute" is s
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by hellameta 11y ago
To clarify from source[1] TO BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE WEBSCOPE DATA, UNLESS SPECIFIED IN A PARTICULAR DATASET, YOU MUST: Be a faculty member, research employee or student from an accredited university Send the data request from an accredited
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by hellameta 11y ago
I don't understand this notion. I disagree that sending more messages before a response is a "universal trait of messaging" that signals social awkwardness and desperation. I communicate with many of my friends of FB Messenge
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by hellameta 11y ago
> which is why I'm so reluctant to do a startup, unless I think it's "the one." IYO indeed. That you have found your way of doing things is wonderful and also incredibly lucky. That you consider opportunity cost a uni
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by hellameta 11y ago
your main page would seriously benefit from several 1 line phrases in various languages that you can translate right there on the page. so basically what you show in (#2 Click to Translate) should be an embedded within the page itself. you
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by hellameta 11y ago
This is going to be so much more awesome as drones improve.
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by hellameta 11y ago
I'm quite sure I addressed that in 3/4 sentences in my post. He is no saint.
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by hellameta 11y ago
You should go deeper. That you believe people aren't evil from experience is not evidence that people do not do evil - it's evidence that nobody does evil knowingly/willingly etc. You can do 'evil' very easily if yo
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by hellameta 11y ago
Although it may give some positive press - the reality is that he was a young adult when he said it and he simply can't take it back. We don't need to pretend he's some kind of saint. This fake modesty is seriously nonsense.
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by hellameta 11y ago
Out of touch may be a tad bit harsh -- I see it as being not aligned. When you live in SV and make your 125k+ salary you're going to come up with a lot of pretty damn good useful things for yourself -- but not everybody else. I am from
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by hellameta 11y ago
There's some promising mesh projects. Stay strong!
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by hellameta 11y ago
Absolutely. You can know ultimately that you don't know what you're doing, but still be pretty sure of your heuristic and draw from skills and experiences (as you say). People do not follow and are not inspired by those that will
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by hellameta 11y ago
Word2Vec is exciting because of its result, not particularly its method. This paper is a pretty straight forward extension of word2vec by combining it's 'unsupervised' result with various labels to make it more useful. You ca
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by hellameta 11y ago
This is a wonderful post. For anyone who'd like to see a nice intro to decision trees insofar as how they apply to machine learning, this is a nice post as well: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-
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by hellameta 11y ago
I'm not sure whether I agree or not but thank you for sharing that article. Very interesting.
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by hellameta 11y ago
Exactly. This looks precise but is not accurate. As some other posts indicate there are many other correlations here. I would love to see the underlying data they use. Good effort but disappointing results.
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by hellameta 11y ago
I know you said "more or less" and I know I'm nitpicking - but the only way to actually inoculate against advertising is to be dead :)
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by hellameta 11y ago
I see this but there was another sentence you left out of your quote that I was leading to. I'm not criticizing the research - I'm positive I bring no new line of questioning. What I do want more information on is what happens if
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by hellameta 11y ago
I admit I'm not a researcher but this is seems shotty. First, the abstract does a better job - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/08/1505063112.shor... . Second, as some other have pointe
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by hellameta 11y ago
I think that my original comment wasn't specific enough and that we are in agreement. I do see it as a 'low order correction' but one that will (and has already) added a lot to the field. Richard Thaler puts it much better th
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by hellameta 11y ago
I agree with you but not with respect to Physics. I believe it is very likely that in 100 years we will think "Can you believe they didn't understand X" in things like psychology and all of the new emerging cross disciplinary

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